Brian De Palma’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Brian De Palma has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Carrie.
Recurring themes

House of Games
1987
Crime · Thriller

A Kiss Before Dying
1991
Mystery · Thriller

The Number 23
2007
Thriller · Mystery

Disclosure
1994
Thriller · Drama

Perfect Stranger
2007
Thriller · Crime

Manhunter
1986
Crime · Horror

The Spanish Prisoner
1997
Drama · Mystery

The Raven
2012
Crime · Thriller

Carrie
1976 · Movie · Director
Top 1%MGM+ · Included

The Untouchables
1987 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

Carlito's Way
1993 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Starz · Included

Dressed to Kill
1980 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 12%Prime Video · Included

Blow Out
1981 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 14%MGM+ · Included

Sisters
1973 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 25%Max · Included
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller

Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Nancy Allen, Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow

When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavetes

Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry
Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Robert De Niro, Jennifer Salt, Allen Garfield

An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.
Dir. Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow · With Brian De Palma
When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle

A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote
Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Jonathan Warden, Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. Determined to solve the crime, he quickly learns that his search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue, and danger.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith

A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Izzy Diaz, Rob Devaney, Ty Jones
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth

In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Søren Malling, Paprika Steen