Direction: Fred Schepisi
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Fred Schepisi. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 18
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978 · Movie · 120 min. · Australia
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Tommy Lewis · Freddy Reynolds · Ray Barrett · Jack Thompson
Synopsis The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
6.6
71 votes
6.6
71 votes
Last Orders
2001 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Michael Caine · Bob Hoskins · Tom Courtenay · David Hemmings
Synopsis It's a long life, so you need life-long friends. "Last Orders" is a funny and moving film about four old friends (Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, David Hemmings and Tom Courtenay) and, most of all, the man, Jack Dodds (Michael Caine),...
6.5
845 votes
6.5
845 votes
Empire Falls (TV Miniseries)
2005 · Series · 195 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Ed Harris · Paul Newman · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Helen Hunt
Synopsis Running the Empire Grill while attempting to deal with myriad life crises proves to be a tough job for Miles Roby (Ed Harris) in EMPIRE FALLS. Miles picked up the managerial reigns some 20 years ago, but has subsequently struggled...
6.4
585 votes
6.4
585 votes
Six Degrees of Separation
1993 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Will Smith · Stockard Channing · Donald Sutherland · Ian McKellen
Synopsis Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Manhattan's upper crust. The Kittredges are entertaining friends one evening when a young black man named...
6.3
3K votes
6.3
3K votes
The Devil's Playground
1976 · Movie · 107 min. · Australia
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Arthur Dignam · Nick Tate · Simon Burke · Charles McCallum
Synopsis The Devil's Playground deals with the repressive attitudes of a Catholic boarding school as a group of young boys struggle to come to terms with their own emotional and sexual identity.
6.2
55 votes
6.2
55 votes
A Cry in the Dark
1988 · Movie · 120 min. · Australia
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Meryl Streep · Sam Neill · Charles Tingwell · Kevin Miles
Synopsis Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who was convicted and then completely exonerated in the death of her infant daughter. While holidaying at Ayer's Rock with her husband Michael and their three children, Lindy said she saw a...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
The Russia House
1990 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Sean Connery · James Fox · John Mahoney
Synopsis "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac...
5.9
4K votes
5.9
4K votes
Fierce Creatures
1997 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Fred Schepisi · Robert Young
Cast John Cleese · Jamie Lee Curtis · Kevin Kline · Michael Palin
Synopsis In Fierce Creatures (1997), a quirky comedy, the new corporate owner of a struggling zoo demands that only fierce animals be exhibited to boost profits. The eccentric staff, including the zoo's director and a savvy publicist, hilariously navigate this absurd...
5.8
6K votes
5.8
6K votes
Roxanne
1987 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Steve Martin · Daryl Hannah · Shelley Duvall · Rick Rossovich
Synopsis Roxanne (Darryl Hannah) a beautiful astronomer in search of a comet, and Chris a hunky but inarticulate fire expert who has been hired to train C.D.'s team of well-meaning firemen. C.D. immediately falls in love with Roxanne but he is...
5.7
9K votes
5.7
9K votes
Words and Pictures
2013 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Clive Owen · Juliette Binoche · Keegan Connor Tracy · Bruce Davison
Synopsis A flamboyant English teacher (Clive Owen) and a new, stoic art teacher (Juliette Binoche) collide at an upscale prep school. A high-spirited courtship begins and she finds herself enjoying the battle. Another battle they begin has the students trying to...
5.7
1K votes
5.7
1K votes
Iceman
1984 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Timothy Hutton · Lindsay Crouse · John Lone · Josef Sommer
Synopsis An anthropologist who is part of an arctic exploration team discovers the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive. He must then decide what to do with the prehistoric man and he finds himself defending the creature from...
5.6
612 votes
5.6
612 votes
Plenty
1985 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Meryl Streep · Sam Neill · Ian McKellen · Charles Dance
Synopsis Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no matter who is hurt, or how.
5.2
271 votes
5.2
271 votes
The Eye of the Storm
2011 · Movie · 114 min. · Australia
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Charlotte Rampling · Geoffrey Rush · Judy Davis · Dustin Clare
Synopsis Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.
5.1
254 votes
5.1
254 votes
I.Q.
1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Meg Ryan · Tim Robbins · Walter Matthau · Lou Jacobi
Synopsis Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they...
4.8
4K votes
4.8
4K votes
It Runs in the Family
2003 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Michael Douglas · Cameron Douglas · Diana Douglas · Bernadette Peters
Synopsis The Grombergs are highly successful New York family -- except when it comes to communicating with each other. Three generations of a family, each in their own dysfunctional way, live their own separate lives but find a couple of moments...
4.7
914 votes
4.7
914 votes
Barbarosa
1982 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Willie Nelson · Gary Busey · Isela Vega · Gilbert Roland
Synopsis Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican...
4.7
40 votes
4.7
40 votes
Mr. Baseball
1992 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Tom Selleck · Ken Takakura · Aya Takanashi · Dennis Haysbert
Synopsis Although a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees, Jack Elliott is now on the down side of his baseball career. His batting average is low and one of his few claims to fame is that during the previous year,...
4.6
520 votes
4.6
520 votes
Burnt Piano
2026 · Movie · Australia
Direction Fred Schepisi
Cast Abbie Cornish · Geoffrey Rush · Ray Winstone · Isabelle Huppert
Synopsis Set in the late 1980s, the story revolves around a boutique bookstore owner who is infatuated with and would do anything to meet famed playwright Samuel Beckett, much to the chagrin of her father, a mediocre short story writer. Reluctantly...
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