Screenplay: Barry Levinson

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Barry Levinson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Sleepers

1996 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Kevin Bacon · Robert De Niro · Dustin Hoffman · Jason Patric

Plot This is a story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun- loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content within...

7.4

44K votes

7.4

44K votes

...And Justice for All

1979 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Al Pacino · Jack Warden · John Forsythe · Lee Strasberg

Plot Arthur Kirkland, an idealistic defense attorney in Baltimore, cares about his clients and visits his aging grandfather, who put him through law school, every week. Things aren't going well for...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

Diner

1982 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Steve Guttenberg · Mickey Rourke · Daniel Stern · Kevin Bacon

Plot DINER, the nostalgic, funny, highly personal memoir of the guys who "hung out" at the local diner in the Baltimore of 1959, and who are eagerly awaiting the world championship...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

The Internecine Project

1974 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast James Coburn · Lee Grant · Harry Andrews · Keenan Wynn

Plot Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very...

6.3

103 votes

6.3

103 votes

Avalon

1990 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Elizabeth Perkins · Aidan Quinn · Elijah Wood

Plot Sam Krichinsky came to America in 1914. Then he came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place he had seen in his entire life. Sam and his brothers married,...

6.2

497 votes

6.2

497 votes

Liberty Heights

1999 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Adrien Brody · Ben Foster · Orlando Jones · Bebe Neuwirth

Plot It is Baltimore in 1954 and everything is changing. In this year, school desegregation is happening for the first time, bringing black and white children from different neighborhoods into the...

6.2

645 votes

6.2

645 votes

Inside Moves

1980 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast John Savage · David Morse · Diana Scarwid · Amy Wright

Plot The story follows Rory (Savage), a man who has come to the end of his life only to begin life anew amongst the patrons of Max's, a bar in Oakland...

6.2

187 votes

6.2

187 votes

Silent Movie

1976 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

High Anxiety

1977 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Mel Brooks · Madeline Kahn · Cloris Leachman · Harvey Korman

Plot In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in...

5.8

884 votes

5.8

884 votes

Tin Men

1987 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Danny DeVito · Barbara Hershey · John Mahoney

Plot Bill "BB" Babowsky and Ernest Tilley might have been the best of friends -- if they hadn't become the best of enemies after an innocent fender-bender sets them on an...

5.4

365 votes

5.4

365 votes

Man of the Year

2006 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Robin Williams · Laura Linney · Christopher Walken · Jeff Goldblum

Plot On a lark, the host of a late-night political talk show (Robin Williams) decides to run for president. The thing is, he never expected to win.

5.3

2K votes

5.3

2K votes

Unfaithfully Yours

1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Howard Zieff

Cast Dudley Moore · Nastassja Kinski · Armand Assante · Albert Brooks

Plot Dudley Moore plays a composer who suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover. The whole movie sort of compares his expectations...

5.0

440 votes

5.0

440 votes

Best Friends

1982 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Burt Reynolds · Goldie Hawn · Jessica Tandy · Barnard Hughes

Plot When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find...

4.8

213 votes

4.8

213 votes

Toys

1992 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Robin Williams · Robin Wright · Michael Gambon · Joan Cusack

Plot From a distance, it looks as if a large, mischievous child scattered his building blocks across the green rolling hills. Over them, a guardian elephant trumpets a snowstorm. Inside is...

4.4

3K votes

4.4

3K votes

Jimmy Hollywood

1993 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

3.8

477 votes

3.8

477 votes

The Earth Day Special (TV)

1990 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Dwight Hemion · James Burrows · Gerry Cohen · Ted Haimes

Cast Dan Aykroyd · Candice Bergen · James Brolin · Chevy Chase

Plot The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour special featured an...

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Not rated

The Jury (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson · Jean de Segonzac · Ed Bianchi · Theodore Bogosian

Cast Adam Busch · Cote de Pablo · Jeff Hephner · Patrice O'Neal

Plot New York is the setting for this courtroom drama about a jury of 12 different men and women deliberating various capital crime cases while under the supervision of the courthouse...

Not rated

Not rated

Francis and the Godfather

2025 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Oscar Isaac · Jake Gyllenhaal · Elisabeth Moss · Elle Fanning

Plot Film about the making of Paramount’s classic film, The Godfather.

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M.O.N.Y. (TV)

2007 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Douglas J. Aguirre · S. Hamza Ahmad · Jackie Brown · Matt Bush

Plot An outspoken public advocate becomes the interim mayor of New York.

Not rated

Not rated