Movies by Joel Schumacher
As part of the cast:
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Diane Vreelalnd: The Eye Has to Travel (2011)
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Lauren Hutton, Joel Schumacher …
Directed by: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
This intimate and loving portrait of the legendary arbiter of fashion, art and culture illustrates the many stages of Vreeland's remarkable life. Born in Paris in 1903, she was to become…
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Starz Inside: Bloodsucking Cinema (2007)
Cast: Uwe Boll, John Carpenter, Corey Haim …
Directed by: Barry Gray
The undead come out to play in this spine-tingling documentary about the history of vampire movies that originally aired as a Starz Inside special. Highlights include clips from genre…
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Stupidity (2003)
Cast: John Cleese, Bill Maher, Salma Hayek …
Directed by: Albert Nerenberg
In this cheeky documentary, filmmaker Albert Nerenberg conducts an inquiry into the origins of stupidity, exploring why humans increasingly choose to be ignorant despite information being…
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Directors: Joel Schumacher (1997)
Cast: Joel Schumacher, Kevin Bacon, Chris O'Donnell …
Part of the series profiling some of Hollywood's most powerful helmsmen, this 1997 documentary chronicles the career of Joel Shumacher, who entered the film industry as a costume…
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Car Wash (1976)
Cast: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Ivan Dixon …
Directed by: Michael Schultz
This fun-tastic follow-up to Cooly High is a hilarious day-in-the-life look at a ghetto car wash in Los Angeles. At Sully Boyar's car wash, a motley crew of city-dwelling youngsters soap…
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Trespass (2011)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
A husband and wife find themselves pushed to their absolute limit when they're held for ransom by brutal thugs who invade their home. As tensions escalate and shocking revelations…
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Twelve (2010)
Cast: Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
High school dropout White Mike (Chace Crawford) is living large as a dealer of weed and an Ecstasy-like pill called Twelve to rich teens in New York's Upper East Side. But Mike's…
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Blood Creek (2009)
Cast: Henry Cavill, Dominic Purcell, Emma Booth …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
When a family agrees to host an occult-obsessed Nazi scholar in their West Virginia farmhouse prior to World War II, they're transformed into his undead slaves and must kidnap local…
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The Number 23 (2007)
Cast: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher reunites with his Riddler (Jim Carrey) for this psychological thriller about an animal control officer obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be…
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The Phantom of the Opera: Special Edition (2004)
Cast: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Director Joel Schumacher brings Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary musical to the big screen. Gerard Butler stars as the disfigured, reclusive genius who roams beneath the Paris Opera and…
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Phone Booth (2003)
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
In this intense drama, which takes place in and around a single phone booth in New York City, slick New York publicist Stuart Shepard (Colin Farrell) picks up a ringing receiver in a phone…
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Veronica Guerin (2003)
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Brenda Fricker …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Based on a true story, director Joel Schumacher's brisk thriller stars Cate Blanchett as unrelenting Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose single-minded investigation of Dublin's…
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Bad Company (2002)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Veteran CIA agent Oakes (Anthony Hopkins) hooks up with street-smart bookie Hayes (Chris Rock), who's been asked to replace his murdered, Harvard-educated, twin brother spy on a…
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Tigerland (2000)
Cast: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Tom Guiry …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
The system wanted them to become soldiers. One soldier just wanted to be human. Action master Joel Schumacher turns his lens on a platoon of soldiers en route to "Tigerland" for simulated…
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8MM (1999)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
When a widow hires private eye Tom Welles to determine whether a snuff film in her late husband's possession was faked or real, Welles descends into an abyss of evil he can't shake…
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Flawless (1999)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Homophobe Walt Koontz (Robert De Niro) suffers a debilitating stroke and must take therapeutic singing lessons for his paralyzed larynx. But his teacher happens to be his neighbor, Rusty…
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Batman & Robin (1997)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Along with crime-fighting partner Robin (Chris O'Donnell) and new recruit Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), Batman (George Clooney) battles the dual threat of frosty genius Mr. Freeze…
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A Time to Kill (1996)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
When two white men brutally rape a young black girl in a small Mississippi town, the child's vengeful father (Samuel L. Jackson) fears their acquittal and takes the law into his own…
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Batman Forever (1995)
Cast: Val Kilmer, Chris O'Donnell, Jim Carrey …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
The top-grossing film of 1995, director Joel Schumacher's interpretation of Batman has new villains and a new sidekick as millionaire Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer) goes up against psychotic…
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The Client (1994)
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Brad Renfro, Tommy Lee Jones …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
After witnessing the suicide of a lawyer whose client is in the mob, 11-year-old Mark Sway (Brad Renfro) seeks the aid and protection of lawyer Reggie Love (Susan Sarandon), while federal…
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Falling Down (1993)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is having a very bad day: He's been fired from his job, gets stuck in a traffic jam and is forced to walk through the sizzling L.A. streets. As the…
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Dying Young (1991)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Julia Roberts plays a modern-day Florence Nightingale to a wealthy young recluse (Campbell Scott) afflicted with a rare form of leukemia. During the time they spend together, nurse and…
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Flatliners (1990)
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
In this star-studded supernatural thriller, a group of medical students (Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt and William Baldwin) use their acquired skills to try and…
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Cousins (1989)
Cast: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Larry (Ted Danson) and Maria (Isabella Rossellini) are "kissing cousins" -- part of an extended Polish-French family related by marriage. But when their respective spouses start sleeping…
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The Lost Boys: Special Edition (1987)
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
After his brother, Michael (Jason Patric), drinks blood and gets mixed up with a rough biker gang rumored to be a coven of vampires, Sam (Corey Haim) and his two vampire-hunter friends --…
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St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Best friends and recent Georgetown graduates struggle with the newfound responsibilities of life in the real world -- in between visits to their favorite bar, St. Elmo's -- in this…
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D.C. Cab (1983)
Cast: Max Gail, Adam Baldwin, Mr. T …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
An over-the-hill hippie manages a run-down cab company and its oddball drivers -- an aspiring pimp, a Rastafarian and a driver with no license. It's even money whether this motley crew…
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Virginia Hill: Mistress to the Mob (1974)
Cast: Dyan Cannon, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher's biopic chronicles the love affair between Hollywood socialite Virginia Hill (Dyan Cannon) and gangster Bugsy Siegel (Harvey Keitel). After falling for the mobster, Hill…