Jodie Foster
The Mauritanian (2021)
The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held for fourteen years without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a United States military prison. The film was directed by Kevin Macdonald based on a screenplay written by M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani, ada...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Patsy Kelly•David Niven•Vincent Price•Dub Taylor
Hotel Artemis (2018)
Hotel Artemis is a 2018 American film written and directed by Drew Pearce, in his feature film directorial debut. It stars Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Charlie Day, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Dave Bautista, and Zachary Quinto. The plot follows Jean Thomas, a nurse who runs a secret hospital for criminals in f...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Celeste Holm•Dean Stockwell•Lois Hall•Julie Adams•Jay Silverheels•Vera Miles•Dennis Hopper•James Garner
Elysium (2013)
Elysium is a 2013 American dystopian science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Neill Blomkamp. It was Blomkamp's second directorial effort. The film stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster alongside Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, and William Fichtner. The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth and a luxuriou...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Richard Anderson•Christopher Plummer•Diane Baker•Pat Crowley•Warren Oates•Richard Harris
The Beaver (2011)
The Beaver is a 2011 psychological drama film directed by Jodie Foster and written by Kyle Killen. A co-production of United States and United Arab Emirates, it stars Mel Gibson, Foster, Anton Yelchin, and Jennifer Lawrence. Marking Gibson's and Foster's second collaboration since 1994's Maverick, it follows Walter Black, a depressed executive, who...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Julian Sands•Pat Hingle•Lois Nettleton•Sorrell Booke
Carnage (2011)
Carnage is a 2011 black comedy film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the Tony Award-winning 2006 play Le Dieu du carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The screenplay is by Reza and Polanski. The film is an international co-production of France, Germany, Poland, and Spain. It stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Re...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Ellen Burstyn•Kaye Ballard•Barbara Harris
Nim's Island (2008)
Nim's Island is a 2008 adventure film written and directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, and based on the children's story of the same name by Wendy Orr. A young girl alone on a remote island seeks help from an agoraphobic San Franciscan author. While the author attempts to overcome her agoraphobia to search for her, Nim tries to overcome he...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Woody Allen•Robert Pine•Martin Sheen•Harvey Keitel•Robert De Niro•Anthony Hopkins•Mia Farrow•Michael Douglas•John Hurt
The Brave One (2007)
The Brave One is a 2007 psychological thriller film directed by Neil Jordan and written by Roderick Taylor, Bruce A. Taylor and Cynthia Mort. The film stars Jodie Foster as Erica Bain, a New York City radio host whose partner is beaten to death by criminals. Terrified for her safety, she buys a pistol and undergoes a personality transformation, bec...
Starring: Scott Glenn•Jenny Slate•Tom Skerritt•Jodie Foster•Diane Ladd•Cybill Shepherd•Randy Quaid•Andrew Prine•Dick Van Patten•Kris Kristofferson
Inside Man (2006)
Inside Man is a 2006 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Russell Gewirtz. It centers on an elaborate bank heist on Wall Street over a 24-hour period. The film stars Denzel Washington as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPD's hostage negotiator, Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the mastermind who orchestrates the heist, and J...
Starring: James Woods•Jenny Slate•Rudy Diaz•Richard Hale•Valerie Curtin•Vic Tayback
Flightplan (2005)
Flightplan is a 2005 mystery psychological thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray. It stars Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt, a recently-widowed American aircraft engineer living in Berlin, who flies back to the U.S. with her daughter and her husband's body. She loses her daughter during the...
Starring: Alfred Lutter•Jenny Slate•Lily Tomlin•Richard Gere•Ruth Buzzi•Gary Busey•Albert Brooks•Jeff Goldblum•Denzel Washington•Mary Steenburgen
Panic Room (2002)
Panic Room is a 2002 American thriller film directed by David Fincher. The film stars Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart as a mother and daughter whose new home is invaded by burglars, played by Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakam. The script was written by David Koepp, whose screenplay was inspired by news coverage in 2000 about panic roo...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Scott Baio•Blair Brown•Robbie Robertson•David Morse
Anna and the King (1999)
Anna and the King is a 1999 American biographical period drama film directed by Andy Tennant and written by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes. Loosely based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam, which gives a fictionalized account of the diaries of Anna Leonowens, it stars Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-fat in the titular roles.
Starring: Jenny Slate•Joe Pesci
Contact (1997)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. It also ...
Starring: Harold Ramis•Nastassja Kinski•Jenny Slate•Dianne Wiest•Rob Lowe•Matthew Modine•Kelly McGillis
Maverick (1994)
Maverick is a 1994 American Western comedy film directed by Richard Donner, written by William Goldman, and starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner. Based on the 1957–1962 television series of the same name created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner, the film stars Gibson as Bret Maverick, a card player and con artist wh...
Starring: Grace Jones•Jenny Slate•Julian Sands
Nell (1994)
Nell is a 1994 American drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay written by William Nicholson. The film stars Jodie Foster as Nell Kellty, a young woman who has to face other people for the first time after being raised by her mother in an isolated cabin. Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, and Nick Searcy are featured...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Willem Dafoe•John Cusack
Sommersby (1993)
Sommersby is a 1993 American romantic-historical drama directed by Jon Amiel from a screenplay written by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, adapted from the historical account of the 16th century French peasant Martin Guerre. Based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre, the film stars Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, with Bill Pullman...
Starring: Greta Scacchi•Jenny Slate•Tim Robbins•John Turturro
Little Man Tate (1991)
Little Man Tate is a 1991 American drama film directed by Jodie Foster from a screenplay written by Scott Frank. The film stars Adam Hann-Byrd as Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to self-actualize in social and psychological settings that largely fail to accommodate his intelligence. It also stars Foster, Dianne Wiest, Harry ...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Forest Whitaker•Liam Neeson•Bill Pullman
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Shadows and Fog is a 1991 American black-and-white comedy film directed by Woody Allen and based on his one-act play Death (1975). It stars Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, David Ogden Stiers, Jodie Foster, Lily Tomlin, John Cusack, Madonna, and Kenneth Mars. It was filmed on a 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) set at Kaufman Astoria Stu...
Starring: Chow Yun-fat•Gabriel Byrne•Jenny Slate•Kathy Bates•Stephanie Faracy•Natasha Richardson•Sean Bean•Helena Kallianiotes
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of th...
Starring: Tony Sirico•Harry Connick, Jr.•John C. Reilly•Jenny Slate•Adam Hann-Byrd•Ted Levine•Frankie Faison•Anthony Heald•Kasi Lemmons
Catchfire (1990)
Catchfire is a 1990 American romantic action thriller film directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Jodie Foster, Hopper, Fred Ward and Vincent Price, with cameo appearances by several notable actors, including Charlie Sheen, Joe Pesci, Catherine Keener and Bob Dylan. The film was disowned by Hopper before release and he is therefore credited under t...
Starring: Brooke Smith•Matt Damon•Matthew McConaughey•Nicky Katt•Jenny Slate•Terrence Howard•Kate Winslet•Diego Luna•Dwight Yoakam•Peter Sarsgaard
The Accused (1988)
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan from a screenplay written by Tom Topor. The film is loosely based on the 1983 gang rape of Cheryl Araujo in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Set in Washington state, but filmed mainly in Vancouver, British Columbia, the film stars Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias, a young waitress, ...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Anton Yelchin
Stealing Home (1988)
Stealing Home is a 1988 American coming of age romantic drama film written and directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter. The film stars Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis, William McNamara, and Jodie Foster. The movie focuses on a failed baseball player, Billy Wyatt, who discovers that his childhood sweetheart, Katie C...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Erika Christensen•Kristen Stewart•Naveen Andrews
Five Corners (1987)
Five Corners is a 1987 American independent crime drama film, directed by Tony Bill, written by John Patrick Shanley, and stars Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, John Turturro, and Rodney Harvey. The film depicts 48 hours in the lives of a group of four young New Yorkers in the 1960s.
Starring: Jenny Slate•Lenny Venito•Diego Luna
Siesta (1987)
Siesta is a 1987 film directed by Mary Lambert and starring Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne and Jodie Foster. According to a 1987 article in The Los Angeles Times, the film "follows a daredevil through her final days leading up to a potentially fatal leap. Rife with Jungian imagery, the film is a post-modern fable of destiny and change, peopled with a ...
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor•Jenny Slate•Carmen Ejogo•Judith Scott•Forrest Landis•Marlene Lawston•Zachary Levi•Benedict Cumberbatch
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 comedy-drama film written and directed by Tony Richardson based on John Irving's 1981 novel of the same name. A co-production from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, it stars Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, also featuring Wilford Brimley, Amanda Plummer, Matthew Modine, and S...
Starring: Zoë Kravitz•Jenny Slate•Alice Braga•Anthony Simcoe•Morgan Griffin•Michael Carman
Carny (1980)
Carny is a 1980 American drama film about a waitress who joins a traveling carnival. It stars Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, and Robbie Robertson. It also includes an early role for Fred Ward.
Starring: Jenny Slate•Maddison Joyce•Peter Callan
Foxes (1980)
Foxes is a 1980 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, in his feature film directorial debut, and written by Gerald Ayres. The film stars Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, and Cherie Currie, in her acting debut. It revolves around a group of teenage girls coming of age in suburban Los Angeles toward the end...
Starring: Jenny Slate•Zachary Quinto•Sharlto Copley
Candleshoe (1977)
Candleshoe is a 1977 American children's adventure comedy film, directed by Norman Tokar in a screenplay by David Swift and Rosemary Anne Sisson, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and distributed by Buena Vista. Based on the Michael Innes novel Christmas at Candleshoe, the film stars Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, and Leo McKern.
Starring: Christoph Waltz•Tahar Rahim•Jenny Slate
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
Echoes of a Summer is a 1976 Canadian-American family drama film directed by Don Taylor, based on the play Isle of Children by Robert L. Joseph, who also adapted the screenplay. It stars Jodie Foster, Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Brad Savage, and Geraldine Fitzgerald. The film follows; Deirdre Striden (Foster), a perceptive 11-year-old girl with...
Starring: Riley Thomas Stewart•Shailene Woodley•Jenny Slate
Freaky Friday (1976)
Freaky Friday is a 1976 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Gary Nelson, with the screenplay written by Mary Rodgers based on her 1972 novel of the same name. The film stars Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in the lead roles. John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Dick Van Patten, Sorrell Booke and Charlene Tilton are featured in supporting roles. In the fil...
Starring: Dave Bautista•Wagner Moura•Sofia Boutella•Sterling K. Brown•Brian Tyree Henry•Jenny Slate•Dub Taylor•Celeste Holm
Taxi Driver (1976)
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological drama thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film follows T...
Starring: Charles Aidman•Vera Miles•Albert Salmi•Jenny Slate•Richard Anderson•Pat Crowley
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American comedy drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the Southwestern United States in search of a better life. Kris Kristofferson, Billy "Green" Bush, Diane Ladd, Valerie Curtin, Lelia Goldoni, Vic T...
Starring: Warren Oates•Charles Aidman•Jenny Slate•Pat Hingle•Ellen Burstyn•Robert Pine•Harvey Keitel•Robert De Niro
One Little Indian (1973)
One Little Indian is a 1973 American Western comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions starring James Garner and Vera Miles. The supporting cast includes Pat Hingle, John Doucette, Morgan Woodward, Andrew Prine, as well as a 10-year-old Jodie Foster. The plotline involves a cavalry soldier's misadventures with a camel and a little boy. The fi...
Starring: Michael Douglas•Peter Boyle•Grace Jones•Diane Ladd•Cybill Shepherd•Jenny Slate•Andrew Prine•Dick Van Patten•Kris Kristofferson•Clay O'Brien
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Tom Sawyer is the 1973 American musical film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1876 boyhood adventure story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Directed by Don Taylor, the film stars Johnny Whitaker as the title character, Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher, Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn, and Ho–Chunk tribesman Kunu Hank portrayed Injun Joe.
Starring: Rudy Diaz•Richard Hale•Jenny Slate
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Napoleon and Samantha is a 1972 American adventure drama film directed by Bernard McEveety and written by Stewart Raffill. Filmed in and around John Day, Oregon, it stars Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster in the title roles.
Starring: Valerie Curtin•Jenny Slate