Direction: David Greene

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by David Greene. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Roots (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 573 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Erman · David Greene · Gilbert Moses

Cast Todd Bridges · Robert Reed · John Amos · Madge Sinclair

Synopsis From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

After the Promise (TV)

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Mark Harmon · Diana Scarwid · Rosemary Dunsmore · Donnelly Rhodes

Synopsis In a small Californian town in the 1930s. After the tragic loss of his wife carpenter Elmer Jackson finds that he will loose his sons. Despite his efforts, he is barred from seeing them when the authorities send the boys...

6.8

61 votes

6.8

61 votes

Direction David Greene

Cast Barry Morse · Joan Hackett · Don Durant · Muriel Landers

Synopsis Sadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.

6.7

60 votes

6.7

60 votes

Rich Man, Poor Man (TV Miniseries)

1976 · Series · 720 min. · United States

Direction David Greene · Boris Sagal

Cast Peter Strauss · Nick Nolte · Susan Blakely · Ed Asner

Synopsis Adapted from the mammoth novel by Irwin Shaw, the miniseries covers the years from WWII to the 1960s, detailing the vacillating fortunes of the immigrant Jordache brothers. "Rich Man" Rudy Jordache (Peter Strauss) is determined to use his hard-earned education...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

The Persuaders! (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Basil Dearden · David Greene

Cast Tony Curtis · Roger Moore · Laurence Naismith · Juliet Harmer

Synopsis English Lord Brett Sinclair and American Danny Wilde are both wealthy playboys, they are teamed together by Judge Fullton to investigate crimes which the police can't solve. These two men are complete opposites, but become great friends through their adventures...

6.5

228 votes

6.5

228 votes

Inherit the Wind (TV)

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jason Robards · Darren McGavin · John Harkins

Synopsis Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

The Guardian (TV)

1984 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Martin Sheen · Louis Gossett Jr. · Arthur Hill · Tandy Cronyn

Synopsis The Guardian is set in an upper-class New York apartment building, recently plagued by a series of break-ins and murders. The tenants eagerly enlist the services of former military officer John Mack (Louis Gossett Jr.) as the building's head of...

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

Direction Gordon Davidson · David Greene

Cast Ben Gazzara · Lorne Greene · Frances Lee McCain · Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.

6.0

64 votes

6.0

64 votes

Godspell

1973 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Victor Garber · Katie Hanley · David Haskell · Merrell Jackson

Synopsis An adaption of the musical, in a modern-day song-and-dance recreation of the Gospel of St. Matthew.

5.9

58 votes

5.9

58 votes

Direction David Greene

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Lynn Redgrave · Bruce A. Young · Amy Steel

Synopsis An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion. Television version of the classic thriller played in 1962 by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

5.9

37 votes

5.9

37 votes

The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV)

1975 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Greene

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Kate Nelligan · Tony Curtis · Trevor Howard

Synopsis A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned,...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Lost Girl (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 45 min. · Canada

Direction M.A. Lovretta · John Fawcett · Steve DiMarco · Robert Lieberman

Cast Anna Silk · Kristen Holden-Ried · Ksenia Solo · Richard Howland

Synopsis TV Series (2010-Present). Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo...

5.8

593 votes

5.8

593 votes

12 Monkeys (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 46 min. · United States

Direction Travis Fickett · Terry Matalas · David Grossman · Magnus Martens

Cast Aaron Stanford · Amanda Schull · Kirk Acevedo · Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2018). 4 Seasons. 47 Episodes. Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

Bella Mafia (TV)

1997 · Movie · 165 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Nastassja Kinski · Jennifer Tilly · Illeana Douglas

Synopsis When Sofia marries into a Mafia family, she doesn't know what she's getting into. When her husband, all her brothers-in-law, and her father-in-law are murdered by a rival family, Sofia, her mother-in-law and her sisters-in-law swear to get revenge upon...

5.5

532 votes

5.5

532 votes

Gray Lady Down

1978 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Charlton Heston · David Carradine · Stacy Keach · Ned Beatty

Synopsis The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.

5.4

633 votes

5.4

633 votes

The Shuttered Room

1967 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Greene

Cast Gig Young · Carol Lynley · Oliver Reed · Flora Robson

Synopsis A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.

5.3

120 votes

5.3

120 votes

Hard Country

1981 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

5.0

33 votes

5.0

33 votes

Children of the Dust (TV Miniseries)

1995 · Series · 175 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Sidney Poitier · Michael Moriarty · Joanna Going · Hart Bochner

Synopsis Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'....

4.9

35 votes

4.9

35 votes

Madame Sin

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

4.8

29 votes

4.8

29 votes

Direction David Greene

Cast Charles Bronson · Angela Featherstone · Barbara Williams · Diane Ladd

Synopsis The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case.

4.4

49 votes

4.4

49 votes