Sidney Lumet – MovieLog

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:55:23 +0000

Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, was held siege by a bank robber determined to steal enough money for his wife (a trans woman) to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there’s actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city’s entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees’ safety.

Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did

Sidney Lumet

USA

IMDb

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Offence, The (1972)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:16 +0000

In Sidney Lumet’s harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson has been with the British Police Force for 20 years. In that time, the countless murders, rapes and other serious crimes he has had to investigate has left a terrible mark on him. His anger and aggression that had been suppressed for years finally surfaces when interviewing a suspect, Baxter, whom Johnson is convinced is the man that has been carrying out a series of brutal attacks on young girls. Throughout the interview Johnson brutally beats Baxter and during this ordeal he inadvertently reveals that the state of his own mind is probably no better than that of the offenders who committed the crimes that disgusted Johnson originally.

Offence, The

Something Like the Truth

After 20 years what Detective-Sergeant Johnson has seen and done is destroying him.

Sidney Lumet

UK, USA

IMDb

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Deadly Affair, The (1966)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:07 +0000

A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee’s suicide.

Deadly Affair, The

Sidney Lumet

6.8

IMDb

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Network (1976)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:23 +0000

In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks’ nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.

Network

Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale!

Sidney Lumet

USA

8.2

IMDb

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Deathtrap (1982)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:22:41 +0000

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student’s script.

Deathtrap

Join us for an evening of lively fun…and deadly games. [UK Theatrical]

Sidney Lumet

USA

6.9

IMDb

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12 Angry Men (1957)

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:40:08 +0000

A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.

12 Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men

Life Is In Their Hands — Death Is On Their Minds!

Sidney Lumet

USA

8.9

IMDb

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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:40:07 +0000

Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

Loyalty. It’s all relative.

Sidney Lumet

USA, UK

7.4

IMDb

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Guilty As Sin (1993)

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 12:19:00 +0000

A man accused of murdering his wife approaches a hotshot female criminal attorney to take his case. The man is a self-professed womaniser, and his alleged motive would be the large sum of money his wife left him. The attorney begins to have second thoughts about representing him when he starts making it look like they’re having an affair and tells her things she can’t reveal because of lawyer/client privilege, so she starts her own investigation of him, which threatens her career and the safety of her friends and herself.

Sidney Lumet

Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden, Dana Ivey

USA

5.4

IMDb

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Equus (1977)

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:01:34 +0000

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire…

I am yours and you are mine”

Sidney Lumet

Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews

USA, UK

7.1

IMDb

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