Bob Balaban Movies

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thora Birch

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robin Williams

An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caroline Aaron

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Voight

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Roy Scheider

Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside...

Genre: Action

Cast: Don Johnson

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jim Carrey

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maggie Smith

David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Michael Higgins

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique...

Genre: Action

Cast: Brad Pitt

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native...

Genre: Horror

Cast: William Hurt

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jodie Foster

Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael J. Fox

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Giamatti

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Balaban

In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Spacey

A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Crudup

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michael Moriarty

The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Catherine O'Hara

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads:...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Franco

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christopher Guest

When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kevin Bacon

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sally Field

A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruce Davison

A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kristen Wiig

The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toni Collette

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jared Gilman

Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world.

Genre: Horror

Cast: David Carradine

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape...

Genre: War

Cast: George Clooney

Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patty Duke

In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Turturro

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Fiennes

A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melanie Mayron

A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy García

Director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell the story of '60s-era folk musicians, who,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Balaban

A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Greg Kinnear

When 25-year-old New Yorker Eric Traber gets fired from his job and kicked out of his apartment, he fears the worst. But his best friend, Ziggy,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Balaban

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Perry

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael J. Fox

Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lee Horsley

A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sally Field

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hank Azaria

A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Josh Charles

A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George C. Scott

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Selma Blair

Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fran Kranz

A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a...

Genre: War

Cast: Alan Arkin

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Bryan Cranston

A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Wilson

Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zach Woods

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Treat Williams

With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Nichols

Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Robbins

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steven Spielberg

A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steven Spielberg

Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jackie Chan

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

Genre: Crime

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman

A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nora Ephron

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After...

Genre: Action

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

Documentary featuring the contentious news surrounding the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), including its Oscar win for feature film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jerome Hellman

A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.

Genre: Action

Cast: Frank Pellegrino

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Austin Pendleton

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”),...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Balaban

A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Julianne Moore

The librarian of the town of New Penzance introduces six animated segments illustrating Suzy's favorite books.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Balaban

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Benicio del Toro

Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mandy Moore

Some people will do anything to find the location.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Cannavale

Narrator Bob Balaban briefly profiles Murray, Willis, Norton, and Anderson. There's some lovely behind-the-scenes clips here, and a few laughs.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Balaban

The legend of Tex, who never lost a gunfight.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Balaban

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Mia Farrow

A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Altman

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christopher Plummer

With some apprehension, Jared (Richard Ellis) flew across the country to move in with his boyfriend, Owen (writer-director Owen Thiele). On top of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Owen Thiele

The true story behind the Prince of the City.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Leuci

A documentary about the life of Carl Laemmle, early cinema pioneer and founder of Universal Studios, documenting his life in Hollywood and his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Willie Garson

Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard P. Rogers

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Bates

A short film sequel to the six-episode web miniseries “Thank You and Sorry.”

Genre:

Cast: Jack Antonoff

After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marg Helgenberger

Paris, 1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colourful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Vanessa Paradis

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Balaban

A quartet of elderly best friends decide to live life to the fullest by taking a wild trip to the Super Bowl LI to see their hero Tom Brady play.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lily Tomlin

Billy Bottomsly, a struggling artist, is plagiarised by a Hollywood mogul. He involves his "typecast" friends in a star-jacking retribution plan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bob Balaban

People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Emanuel Azenberg

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jason Schwartzman

Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embodiment of integrity, rocks his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gabriel Byrne

Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Scali

Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa....

Genre: Action

Cast: Billy Crystal

An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zach Galligan

Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Duchovny