A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy [1982]
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: Six characters in search of love
Plot Outline:
A wacky inventor and his wife invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in the 1900s countryside.
Alice [1990]
Genre: Romance / Drama / Fantasy / Comedy
Plot Outline: A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
Plot Synopsis:
Alice Tate (Mia Farrow) is a rich Manhattan wife who spends her days shopping, getting pedicures, going to the salon, working out with her personal trainer, and seeing her chiropractor.
Annie Hall [1977]
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: A nervous romance.
Plot Outline:
Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic.
Movie Synopsis:
Often considered the crown jewel in a highly acclaimed and prolific film career, ANNIE HALL is Woody Allen's only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Anything Else [2003]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: In any relationship, one person always does the heavy lifting
Plot Outline:
A contemporary romantic comedy set in New York city about the relationship between an older guy and his younger protege. The older guy guides the younger through a messy and hilarious love story.
Bananas [1971]
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Broadway Danny Rose [1984]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Plot Outline:
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.
Plot Synopsis:
A group of Borscht Belt comedians gathers at the Carnegie Deli to reminisce and tell anecdotes about showbiz legend Danny Rose.
Bullets Over Broadway [1994]
Genre: Comedy / Crime
Tagline: A killer comedy!
Plot Outline:
In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.
Casino Royale [1967]
Genre: Comedy / Action / Adventure
Tagline: CASINO ROYALE . . . the greatest JAMES BOND! 007 show on earth ! [Australian Daybill Movie Poster]
Plot Outline:
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond (David Niven) comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Celebrity [1998]
Genre: Comedy
Tagline: A funny look at people who will do anything to get famous... or stay famous.
Plot Synopsis:
When a reporter (Kenneth Branagh) is assigned to the celebrity beat, he anticipates a little excitement. But he never expected this _ Quickly, he finds himself on a collision course with four of the most outrageous people he's ever met: a sensuous starlet (Melanie Griffith), an out-of-control movie star (Leonardo DiCaprio), an aspiring actress (Winona Ryder) and a sexy supermodel (Charlize Theron). Together they're going to take him for an unforgettable walk on the wild side of fame and fortune.
Crimes and Misdemeanors [1989]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: A film about humanity.
Plot Outline:
An opthamologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion [2001]
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Mystery
Tagline: Love stings
Plot Outline:
An insurance investigator and an efficency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.
Woody Allen's funny, frantic THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION is part screwball romantic comedy, part 1940s noir detective story, and part ingenious heist film.
Deconstructing Harry [1977]
Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Harry Block wrote a bestseller about his best friends. Now, his best friends are about to become his worst enemies.
Plot Outline:
Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.
Dont Drink the Water [1994]
Genre: Comedy
Plot Summary:
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international...
Plot Synopsis:
The Hollanders, a family of Americans on vacation in Eastern Europe during the 1960s, get into trouble after Walter (director Allen) takes a photo of a sunset near a sensitive military area.
Everyone Says I Love You [1996]
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Plot Outline:
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged. more
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask [1972]
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Tagline: If you want to know how this man made a movie out of this book... "Everything you always wanted to know about sex* - *But Were Afraid to Ask" you'll have to see the movie!
Plot Summary:
Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben.
Hannah And Her Sisters [1986]
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Plot Outline: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Plot Synopsis:
Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City.
Husbands and Wives [1992]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their marriage.
Plot Synopsis:
Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce that they are separating.
Love and Death [1975]
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / War
Tagline: The Comedy Sensation of the Year!
Plot Outline:
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Manhattan [1979]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.
Movie Synopsis:
Woody Allen finished his first decade of filmmaking, the 1970s, with one of his greatest and most deliberately artistic films, the love song to his home city MANHATTAN.
Manhattan Murder Mystery [1993]
Genre: Comedy / Mystery / Crime
Plot Outline: A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Plot Synopsis:
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton join forces again in this charming riff on such murder mystery classics as REAR WINDOW, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, and THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI.
Melinda and Melinda [2004]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.
Plot Outline:
Two alternating stories about Melinda's (Mitchell) attempts to straighten out her life.
Movie Synopsis:
Woody Allen mixes the tragic with the comic in MELINDA AND MELINDA, a delightful, intelligent look at two versions of the same story.
Mighty Aphrodite [1995]
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding his real parents because they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus.
New York Stories [1989]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: One City. Three Stories Tall.
Plot Summary:
Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her separated parents to reconciliate; third, by Allen, is a witty piece of comedy about the impossibility of getting rid of the son's role.
Play it Again Sam [1972]
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: If you're going to take advice - take it from the best.
Plot Outline:
A neurotic film critic tries to get over his wife leaving him by dating again, much by the help of a married couple and his alter ego, Humphrey Bogart.
The Purple Rose of Cairo [1985]
Genre: Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
Tagline: She's finally met the man of her dreams. He's not real but you can't have everything.
Movie Synopsis:
The film that Woody Allen has said is his favorite of all that he's made, THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO unites the competing tendencies in his work towards realism (be it comic, as in ANNIE HALL, or dramatic, as in INTERIORS) and comedic fantasy (such as SLEEPER or BANANAS). Cecilia (Mia Farrow) lives in New Jersey during the Great Depression, which appropriately describes her mood: she works a dead-end job as a waitress that supports her and her abusive, deadbeat husband Monk (Danny Aiello). Her only release is at the cinema, where she repeatedly goes to see a trite romantic adventure called "The Purple Rose of Cairo."
Radio Days [1986]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Plot Outline: A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
Plot Synopsis:
RADIO DAYS is Woody Allen's charming, nostalgic, very funny love letter to growing up in 1940s Brooklyn during the golden age of radio.
Shadows And Fog [1992]
Genre: Comedy / Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline:
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Sleeper [1989]
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: A love story about two people who hate each other. 200 years in the future.
Plot Outline:
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
Plot Synopsis:
The sci-fi satire SLEEPER is often hailed as the best of Woody Allen's early comedies, which relied mostly on slapstick and quick verbal asides, but still had more than their share of comic intelligence.
Small Time Crooks [2000]
Genre: Comedy / Crime
Tagline: Explodes with big-time laughter.
Plot Outline:
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Movie Synopsis:
Woody Allen returns to his slapstick days with this comic romp, which centers on a small-time hood, Ray Winkler, who just can't catch a break.
Stardust Memories [1980]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Plot Outline: While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Plot Synopsis:
Marking perhaps his first public consideration of himself as an artist, Woody Allen's STARDUST MEMORIES is also a bold narrative exercise that recalls the European cinema that Allen admires.
Take The Money and Run [1969]
Genre: Comedy / Crime
Tagline: crime lives!
Plot Summary:
This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell.
Although it followed his WHAT'S UP TIGER LILY (which was mostly just a humorous redubbing of a Japanese spy film), TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN was truly Woody Allen's directorial debut.
Whats Up Tiger Lily [1966]
Genre: Crime / Comedy / Adventure / Thriller
Tagline: WOODY ALLEN STRIKES BACK!
Plot Outline:
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
Zelig [1983]
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: "Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
Plot Synopsis:
Perhaps the most unique film of his career, Woody Allen's ZELIG not only stands as a technical triumph for a director not often associated with the technological aspect of filmmaking, but also utilizes a documentary aesthetic that Allen has not often used before or since.
