Steven Zaillian

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

Dir. David Fincher · With Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

Dir. Penny Marshall · With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, John Heard

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

Dir. Ridley Scott · With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin

After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

Dir. Richard Price, Steven Zaillian · With Riz Ahmed, John Turturro, Bill Camp

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

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

Dir. Bennett Miller · With Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman

A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

Dir. Steven Zaillian · With Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Joaquim de Almeida

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Dir. Steven Zaillian · With Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

Dir. Ridley Scott · With Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.

Dir. Steven Zaillian · With John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

Dir. Ridley Scott · With Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.

Dir. Steven Zaillian · With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins