Movies by Sam Mendes
As a director:
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Away We Go (2009)
Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Buoyed by the news that they are expecting their first baby, Burt and Verona embark on a journey to locate the perfect place on the planet to raise their child. But their quest inevitably…
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
The perfect couple living in the perfect house in a perfect suburb? Not quite. April (Kate Winslet) and Frank's (Leonardo DiCaprio) marriage unravels when a desperate plan to change…
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Jarhead (2005)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a fictionalized version of Marine Anthony Swofford, whose biting memoir about his real-life stint as a sniper in Operation Desert Storm serves as the inspiration for…
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Hit man Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), known in his 1930s Chicago world as The Angel of Death, is on the run after his wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and son are murdered. With his surviving son…
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American Beauty (1999)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
While struggling to endure his perfection-obsessed wife (Annette Bening), an unfulfilling job and a sullen teenage daughter (Thora Birch), suburbanite Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) falls deep…