Direction: Alexander Payne
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Alexander Payne. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Nebraska
2013 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Bruce Dern · Will Forte · Stacy Keach · Bob Odenkirk
Plot "NEBRASKA" is a father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and...
7.4
30K votes
7.4
30K votes
The Holdovers
2023 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Paul Giamatti · Dominic Sessa · Da'Vine Joy Randolph · Carrie Preston
Plot Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham -not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go...
7.3
10K votes
7.3
10K votes
Paris, je t'aime
2006 · Movie · 119 min. · France
Direction Olivier Assayas · Frédéric Auburtin · Gérard Depardieu · Gurinder Chadha
Cast Natalie Portman · Fanny Ardant · Elijah Wood · Nick Nolte
Plot In Paris, love is everywhere: in its bars and cafés, under the Eiffel Tower, and even in the Metro running beneath its streets. In Paris, je t'aime, prepare to see...
6.8
20K votes
6.8
20K votes
Sideways
2004 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Paul Giamatti · Thomas Haden Church · Virginia Madsen · Sandra Oh
Plot Writer-director Alexander Payne's fourth feature film (following CITIZEN RUTH, ELECTION and ABOUT SCHMIDT) starts with two old friends setting off on a wine-tasting road trip . . . only to...
6.7
43K votes
6.7
43K votes
The Descendants
2011 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast George Clooney · Shailene Woodley · Amara Miller · Nick Krause
Plot With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King (George Clooney), takes his two daughters -Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alexandra (Shailene Woodley)- on...
6.5
44K votes
6.5
44K votes
Election
1999 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Matthew Broderick · Reese Witherspoon · Chris Klein · Mark Harelik
Plot Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver Highs student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail Tracys obsessive overachieving by recruiting an...
6.5
7K votes
6.5
7K votes
Citizen Ruth
1996 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Laura Dern · Swoosie Kurtz · Kurtwood Smith · Mary Kay Place
Plot Ruth Stoops is a poor indigent drug-user (a huffer - inhaling glue and paint for a high) whose down and out existence is complicated once more by becoming pregnant (she...
6.4
436 votes
6.4
436 votes
About Schmidt
2002 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Jack Nicholson · Dermot Mulroney · Hope Davis · Kathy Bates
Plot Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced...
6.4
20K votes
6.4
20K votes
Hung (TV Series)
2009 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Dmitry Lipkin · Colette Burson · Alexander Payne · Daniel Attias
Cast Thomas Jane · Jane Adams · Anne Heche · Charlie Saxton
Plot TV Series (2009-2011). 3 Seasons. 30 Episodes. Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Downsizing
2017 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Matt Damon · Christoph Waltz · Hong Chau · Kristen Wiig
Plot A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.
5.3
9K votes
5.3
9K votes
Carmen (S)
1985 · Movie · 18 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Joe Marinelli · Khorshield MacHalle · Steve Freedman · Buddha Jon Parker
4.4
69 votes
4.4
69 votes
Inside Out III
1992 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Nigel Dick · Alexander Payne · Paul Rachman · Bernard Rose
Cast Deke Anderson · Linden Ashby · Collin Bernsen · Alison Brooks
Plot Playboy does to softcore sex films what HBO's Tales from the Crypt did for horror. Contains the stories: "Dogs Playing Poker"; "The Branding"; "The Portal"; "The Perfect Woman"; "Within Ten...
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Inside Out
1991 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Jeffrey Reiner · Lizzie Borden · Adam Friedman · Linda Hassani
Cast Varda Appleton · Gavin Atkins · Terrence Atkins · Parley Baer
Plot Playboy does to softcore sex films what HBO's Tales from the Crypt did for horror. Contains the stories: "Brush Strokes"; "Shrink Rap"; "Doubletalk"; "The Leda"; "My Secret Moments"; "Life Is...
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Tracy Flick Can't Win
2025 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Reese Witherspoon
Plot A sequel to the 1999 cult "Election", also directed by Alexander Payne.
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The Passion of Martin
1991 · Movie · 49 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Payne
Cast Charley Hayward · Lisa Zane · Lauren Tuerk · Joe Marinelli
Plot A lonely photographer gradually develops a rather unhealthy obsession for a young woman he met once by pure chance.
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