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Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American...
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a 1982 film written and directed by Woody Allen.
The plot is loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. This movie is notable for being the first of thirteen movies that Allen would make starring...
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Annie Hall
Annie Hall a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002...
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Antz
Antz is a 1998 CGI film produced by DreamWorks. It is the first animated film, as well as the first CGI-animated film, by DreamWorks Animation and the second American computer-animated film after Toy Story. It features the voices of well-known...
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Anything Else
Anything Else is a 2003 romantic comedy film. The film was written and directed by Woody Allen, produced by his sister Letty Aronson, and stars Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Woody Allen, Erica Leerhsen, Adrian Grenier and Danny DeVito.
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Bananas
Bananas is a 1971 comedy film written by Mickey Rose and Woody Allen, directed by Allen, and starring himself and Louise Lasser. Parts of the plot were based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell. It was filmed on location in New York...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) is a black comedy written, directed by and co-starring Woody Allen, alongside Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston and Joanna Gleason. The film was met with critical...
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Deconstructing Harry
Deconstructing Harry is a film by Woody Allen released in 1997. The title of the film comes from the philosophy of Deconstruction, of which many elements are represented throughout the film. This film tells the story of a successful writer called...
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Don't Drink the Water
Don't Drink the Water is a 1994 television movie written and directed by Woody Allen, based on a play he wrote in the 1960s. This is the second filmed version of the play, after a a 1969 theatrical version, starring Jackie Gleason, left Allen...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) is Woody Allen's fourth film, consisting of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by Dr. David Reuben's book of the same name.
The film was an early smash for...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner. The movie was written and directed by Woody Allen and stars Mia...
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Hollywood Ending
Hollywood Ending is a 2002 American film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also plays the principal character. It tells the story of a once-famous film director who suffers hysterical blindness due to the intense pressure of directing.
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Husbands and Wives
Husbands and Wives is a 1992 American film directed and written by Woody Allen. The films stars Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson and Blythe Danner. It was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actress in...
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Love and Death
Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen. Starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Love and Death is a satirical take on Russian epic novels. Coming in between Sleeper and Annie Hall, Love and Death is in many respects an artistic...
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Manhattan
Manhattan is a 1979 romantic comedy film about Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer dating a 17-year-old high school girl (Mariel Hemingway). Isaac eventually falls in love with his best friend's mistress (Diane...
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) is a comedic murder mystery film directed by and starring Woody Allen and written by Marshall Brickman and Woody Allen. Although a commercial disappointment, it was a critical success, co-star Angelica Huston won a...
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Mighty Aphrodite
Mighty Aphrodite is a 1995 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The screenplay was inspired by the mythological tale of Pygmalion.
Throughout the film, a Greek chorus narrates and comments on the action, also Oedipus, Jocasta,...
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New York Stories
New York Stories is an anthology film which was released in the United States in March of 1989. The film consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. The first short is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by...
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Play It Again, Sam
This article is about the 1972 Woody Allen film. For other uses of the phrase, see Play it again, Sam.
Play It Again, Sam is a play and 1972 film written by and starring Woody Allen, originally entitled Aspirins for Three. The film was directed by...
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Scoop
Scoop is a 2006 romantic comedy/murder mystery written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, and Allen himself. Focus Features released the film, which was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "some sexual...
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Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog (1992) is a black and white film directed by Woody Allen and based on his one-act play Death. It stars Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, William H. Macy, Madonna, and Kenneth Mars. It was filmed on a 26,000-square-foot ...
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Sleeper
Sleeper (1973) is a futuristic science fiction comedy film, written by, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. It is loosely based on the H. G. Wells novel The Sleeper Awakes.
Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and health-food store owner living in...
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Small Time Crooks
Small Time Crooks is an American comedy film, released in 2000, starring Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman and Hugh Grant. Allen also wrote and directed the film.
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Ray and his friends want to lease an old restaurant so they can...
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Stardust Memories
Stardust Memories is a 1980 film written and directed by Woody Allen, who considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point. The film is shot in black-and-white, particularly reminiscent of Federico...
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Take the Money and Run
Take the Money and Run is a 1969 comedy film co-written by, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. It is a mockumentary, chronicling the life of Virgil Starkwell, a bungling petty thief. His entry into a life of crime at a young age, his crime spree...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a 2001 film directed, written by, and starring Woody Allen. The cast also features Dan Aykroyd, Elizabeth Berkley, Helen Hunt, John Schuck, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, and Charlize Theron. The plot concerns...
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The Front
The Front (1976), written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and featuring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, is a film about the blacklist during the age of live television. Because of the blacklist, a number of artists, writers, directors and...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
What's Up Tiger Lily?, a 1966 comedy film, is the first film directed by Woody Allen, who also wrote and appeared in it. Allen took International Secret Police: A Barrel of Gunpowder and International Secret Police: Key of Keys, two in a series of...
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Broadway Danny Rose
Broadway Danny Rose is a black and white 1984 Academy Award-nominated comedy written, directed by and starring Woody Allen. It was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
The plot concerns a hapless talent manager who, by...
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Picking Up the Pieces
Picking Up the Pieces is a 2000 film directed by Alfonso Arau and starring Woody Allen.
Allen plays Tex, a butcher who kills his unfaithful wife Candy, played by Sharon Stone. After cutting up the body, Tex buries most of her body parts in the...
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Casino Royale
Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre and is lightly based on Ian Fleming's first...
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Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story is a short film directed by Woody Allen in 1971. The film was a satirization of the Richard Nixon administration made in mockumentary style.
Allen plays Harvey Wallinger, a thinly disguised version of Henry...
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Scenes from a Mall
Scenes from a Mall is a 1991 satirical film directed by Paul Mazursky with a screenplay by Roger L. Simon and Mazursky, starring Bette Midler and Woody Allen. Woody Allen's character, Nick, is married to author Deborah, played by Midler. After years...
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What's New Pussycat?
What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. It was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced script. The...
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King Lear
King Lear is a 1987 filmic adaptation of the Shakespeare play of the same title, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The script is primarily by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy. The film's plot, centred around a late descendant of Shakespeare attempting to...
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Zelig
Zelig is a 1983 American mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen.
Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the film focuses on Leonard Zelig, a nondescript man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people who surround him. He is...
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Everyone Says I Love You
Everyone Says I Love You is a (1996) musical film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features many stars, including Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, and Natalie Portman.
Set in...
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Le Cirque: A Table In Heaven
Le Cirque: A Table In Heaven is an American documentary starring Sirio Maccioni, Woody Allen, Tony Bennett, Billy Joel, Donald Trump, Mario Maccioni, Marco Maccioni, Mauro Maccioni, Egidiana Maccioni, Soon Yi Previn, Bill Cosby, Joan Collins, Robert...
