Sydney Pollack

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton

In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Eiji Okada

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

Dir. Jan Harlan · With Tom Cruise, Barbara Kroner, Steven Marcus

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.

Dir. Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack · With Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, C.L. Franklin

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.

Dir. Roger Michell · With Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

Dir. Tony Gilroy · With George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Sally Field, Paul Newman, Bob Balaban

A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.

Dir. Danièle Thompson · With Cécile de France, Valérie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel

Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson

After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter Sabrina, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear

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

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin

After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton