Movies by Jodie Foster
As part of the cast:
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The Beaver (2011)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin …
Directed by: Jodie Foster
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going…
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Carnage (2011)
Cast: Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
In this comic drama from director Roman Polanski, two sets of parents meet in the aftermath of an incident in which one of their children bullied the other. As the evening progresses, the…
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Nim's Island (2008)
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin …
Directed by: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
When the young island-dwelling Nim (Abigail Breslin) loses contact with her scientist father (Gerard Butler) who's lost at sea, she reaches out to her favorite author (Jodie Foster) for…
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The Brave One (2007)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Jane Adams, Naveen Andrews …
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this dramatic thriller as Erica Bain, a New York City radio host who decides to take the law into her own hands after losing her fiancé in a brutal…
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Inside Man (2006)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster …
Directed by: Spike Lee
Dispatched to the scene of a bank robbery, detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) must match wits with a cunning thief (Clive Owen) who's always one step ahead of the cops. When a…
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Flightplan (2005)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean …
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Still reeling from her husband's unexpected death, Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is on a plane heading from Berlin to New York when her daughter vanishes. But the captain (Sean Bean) and the…
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Three Gorges: Biggest Dam in the World (2005)
Cast: Jodie Foster
Narrated by Jodie Foster, this remarkable program explores the construction of the biggest dam on earth, designed to tame China's Yangtze River. For centuries, the rising water of the…
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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker …
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Amelie's Audrey Tautou stars as Mathilde, a young Frenchwoman who vows to find out what happened to her missing fiancé (Gaspard Ulliel) during World War I. He appears to have died…
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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
Cast: Kathy Bates, Quentin Tarantino, Jodie Foster …
Directed by: Wendy Apple
While actors and directors certainly are instrumental in making a movie memorable and weaving story lines together, it's the film editor who strings the scenes into a seamless, artistic…
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Panic Room (2002)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker …
Directed by: David Fincher
A woman and her daughter are caught in a game of cat-and-mouse with three burglars in their New York City home, and are forced to retreat inside a vault. As the intruders try to breach the…
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone …
Directed by: Peter Care
When a gang of eighth-grade Catholic school students (including Kieran Culkin and Emile Hirsch) gets caught drawing an obscene comic book, they seek revenge for their punishment -- and a…
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Directors: Robert Zemeckis (2000)
Cast: Robert Zemeckis, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks …
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
The American Film Institute series "The Directors" provides one-hour glimpses into the careers of directors whose films have significantly influenced world cinema. This episode focuses on…
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Anna and the King (1999)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai …
Directed by: Andy Tennant
In this fact-based 19th-century tale, English widow Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster) travels to Asia to tutor the king of Siam's 58 children. Brimming with prejudice, Anna at first believes…
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Everest: The Death Zone (1998)
Cast: Jodie Foster
Directed by: David Breashears
PBS's "Nova" chronicles a scientific study of high-altitude physiology, gauging a group of Himalayan climbers' physical and mental changes as they set out to conquer Mount Everest…
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Contact (1997)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt …
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
When Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) hears a signal being broadcast from outer space, the race is on to interpret humanity's first contact with alien intelligence in this adaptation of…
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Maverick (1994)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner …
Directed by: Richard Donner
Director Richard Donner pumps new life into this big-screen remake of the classic Western television series, with Mel Gibson assuming the role of poker-playing grifter Bret Maverick. Maverick…
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Nell (1994)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson …
Directed by: Michael Apted
When Dr. Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) and Dr. Paula Olsen (Natasha Richardson) discover Nell (Jodie Foster), who lives alone in a remote backwoods area of North Carolina, they're…
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Sommersby (1993)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, James Earl Jones …
Directed by: Jon Amiel
This romantic drama stars Richard Gere as Confederate soldier Jack Sommersby, who goes home to his wife Laurel (Jodie Foster) after the war. But she assumed Jack had died, and became engaged…
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It Was a Wonderful Life (1993)
Cast: Jodie Foster
Directed by: Michele Ohayon
They're clean, educated, articulate and rarely receive public assistance. But following a divorce, job loss or a long illness, a growing number of middle-class women are forced to live…
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Shadows and Fog (1992)
Cast: Michael Kirby, Woody Allen, David Ogden Stiers …
Directed by: Woody Allen
Writer-director Woody Allen stars as nebbish Max Kleinman, whose neighbors wake him asking for help in nabbing a serial strangler. Kleinman agrees, but the vigilantes disappear. As he looks…
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this pulse-pounding adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal…
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Little Man Tate (1991)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd …
Directed by: Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster's directorial debut centers on Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd), a gifted 7-year-old whose prodigious talents land him in the middle of a battle between his working-class mom…
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Backtrack (1990)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell …
Directed by: Dennis Hopper, Alan Smithee
Jodie Foster stars as Anne Benton, an artist who witnesses a mob assassination and reports it to the police. But when the mob comes after Anne, she's forced to go on the lam, hotly…
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Stealing Home (1988)
Cast: Mark Harmon, Harold Ramis, Jodie Foster …
Directed by: Steve Kampmann, Will Aldis, William Porter …
Struggling with the reality that his days as a pro baseball player are over, Billy Wyatt (Mark Harmon) falls further into depression when he learns that his childhood friend and first love,…
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The Accused (1988)
Cast: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson …
Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan
Jodie Foster won an Oscar for her portrayal of Sarah Tobias in this fact-based drama. After being raped by three men in a local bar, Sarah, enraged at the light sentence her attackers…
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Five Corners (1987)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, John Turturro …
Directed by: Tony Bill
This award-winning film centers on the lives of the inhabitants of the Five Corners section of the Bronx in 1964. Jodie Foster stars as Linda, a young woman who turns to her ex-boyfriend…
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Mesmerized (1986)
Cast: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow
Directed by: Michael Laughlin
When 18-year-old Victoria (Jodie Foster) -- a beautiful girl who was raised in an orphanage -- catches the eye of middle-aged businessman Oliver Thompson (John Lithgow), her life seems to…
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The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Cast: Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Paul McCrane …
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Based on John Irving's sprawling novel, this 1984 film follows the eccentric Berry clan from New England to New York City to Vienna, Austria, where they run a hotel housing prostitutes…
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Svengali (1983)
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Ashley …
Directed by: Anthony Harvey
An aging musician becomes a powerful mentor to a young female rock singer in this made-for-cable drama. Determined to rise to the top and win a Grammy, rocker Zoe (Jodie Foster) may have…
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O'Hara's Wife (1982)
Cast: Edward Asner, Jodie Foster, Mariette Hartley …
Directed by: William Bartman
A notable cast of familiar faces graces this ghostly made-for-television drama about work-obsessed lawyer Bob O'Hara (Edward Asner) whose recently departed wife (Mariette Hartley)…
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Foxes (1980)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan …
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
Four attractive teenage girls growing up in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley in the late 1970s have more than their fair share of trouble and misadventure in this debut film from…
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Candleshoe (1977)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern …
Directed by: Norman Tokar
A savvy street urchin named Casey Brown (Jodie Foster) and an ex-con (Leo McKern) take advantage of an elderly woman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes), by having Casey pose as her estranged…
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese crafts a violently prophetic, gripping vision of urban decay and insanity in which mentally unstable Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a cab through the…
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Bugsy Malone (1976)
Cast: Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Florrie Dugger …
Directed by: Alan Parker
With a cast of child actors -- including Scott Baio as the titular Bugsy Malone and Jodie Foster as a speakeasy songbird -- director Alan Parker's audacious musical sends up…
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Freaky Friday (1976)
Cast: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin …
Directed by: Gary Nelson
Ellen Andrews (Barbara Harris) and her teenage daughter, Annabel (Jodie Foster), can barely stand each other. Ellen thinks her daughter is an incorrigible rebel, and Annabel thinks her mother…
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith …
Directed by: Nicholas Gessner
Rynn's (Jodie Foster) father's dying wish is for his daughter to continue to have autonomy even after he's gone. To prepare her, he trains the teen to live independently and…
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Echoes of a Summer / Mesmerized (1976)
Cast: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy …
Directed by: Michael Laughlin, Don Taylor
This double feature collects two early movies of Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster. In Echoes of a Summer, Foster stars as Deirdre, a dying 11-year-old girl who strikes up a…
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Harvey Keitel, Kris Kristofferson …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Ellen Burstyn won an Oscar playing Alice Hyatt, a destitute widow who must find the strength to go on for her young son (Alfred Lutter) in the face of loneliness and fear, in this classic…
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Classic Courtroom Movies: Mesmerized / Death Sentence / Dishonored Lady (1974)
Cast: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy …
Directed by: Michael Laughlin, E.W. Swackhamer, Robert Stevenson …
This collection includes three memorable courtroom dramas. In Mesmerized, an 18-year-old girl (Jodie Foster) trapped in an arranged marriage to a cruel middle-aged man (John Lithgow) is the…
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One Little Indian (1973)
Cast: James Garner, Vera Miles, Pat Hingle …
Directed by: Bernard McEveety
Charged with mutiny and desertion, cavalryman Clint Keyes (James Garner) goes on the run in the New Mexico desert, where he befriends Mark (Clay O'Brien), a white boy who's trying…
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Tom Sawyer (1973)
Cast: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Don Taylor
Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster and Johnny Whitaker ("Family Affair") star in this musical adaptation of Mark Twain's classic tale. Orphan Tom Sawyer (Whitaker) and his scrappy pal…
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Napoleon & Samantha (1972)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Will Geer, Arch Johnson …
Directed by: Bernard McEveety
To avoid being sent to an orphanage, 11-year-old Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker) and his pet lion, Major, set off on the adventure of a lifetime. Jodie Foster makes her film debut as Samantha,…
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Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Cast: Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy, Helena Kallianiotes …
Directed by: Jerrold Freedman
Famed sexpot Raquel Welch stars as K.C. Carr, a divorced mother of two with dreams of roller derby stardom. But skating glory doesn't come easy: Pressures in and out of the rink take…
As a director:
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The Beaver (2011)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin …
Directed by: Jodie Foster
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going…
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Home for the Holidays (1995)
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr. …
Directed by: Jodie Foster
Every year, Claudia (Holly Hunter) dreads her trip home for Thanksgiving. Between her parents (Charles Durning and Anne Bancroft), her sardonic brother (Robert Downey Jr.) and her…
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Little Man Tate (1991)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd …
Directed by: Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster's directorial debut centers on Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd), a gifted 7-year-old whose prodigious talents land him in the middle of a battle between his working-class mom…