Woody Allen — Playwright (38)
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) [Movie] TMDB
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
director: Woody Allen actor: Dan Aykroyd / Helen Hunt …
other title: La maledizione dello scorpione di giada / A Maldição do Escorpião de Jade …
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
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Alice (1990) [Movie] TMDB
Alice
director: Woody Allen actor: Mia Farrow / William Hurt …
other title: Simplesmente Alice
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.
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Melinda and Melinda (2004) [Movie] TMDB
Melinda and Melinda
director: Woody Allen actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor / Will Ferrell …
other title: Melinda e Melinda / Melinda og Melinda …
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
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Don't Drink the Water (1994) [Movie] TMDB
Don't Drink the Water
director: Woody Allen actor: Ed Herlihy / Josef Sommer …
other title: Nuits de Chine / Los USA en zona rusa
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
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Anything Else (2003) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Anything Else
director: Woody Allen actor: Jason Biggs / Christina Ricci …
other title: Igual a Tudo na Vida / Anything else, la vie et tout le reste …
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
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September (1987) [Movie] TMDB
September
director: Woody Allen actor: Mia Farrow / Dianne Wiest …
other title: Settembre / Setembro …
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her husband Lloyd, Lane's stepfather. Lane is close to two neighbors: Peter, and Howard. Howard is in love with Lane, Lane is in love with Peter, and Peter is in love with Stephanie.
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Another Woman (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Another Woman
director: Woody Allen actor: Gena Rowlands / Mia Farrow …
other title: Un'altra donna / En anden kvinde …
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
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Bananas (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bananas
director: Woody Allen actor: Woody Allen / Louise Lasser …
other title: Il dittatore dello stato libero di Bananas / Mig og revolutionen
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.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Crimes and Misdemeanors
director: Woody Allen actor: Woody Allen / Martin Landau …
other title: Crimini e misfatti / Små og store synder …
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
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Broadway Danny Rose (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Broadway Danny Rose
director: Woody Allen actor: Woody Allen / Mia Farrow …
other title: O Agente da Broadway
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hannah and Her Sisters
director: Woody Allen actor: Mia Farrow / Barbara Hershey …
other title: Hannah e le sue sorelle / Hannah og hendes søstre …
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.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
director: Woody Allen actor: Woody Allen / John Carradine …
other title: Tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere sul sesso ma non avete mai osato chiedere / Min yndlingsperversion …
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
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Whatever Works (2009) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Whatever Works
director: Woody Allen actor: Larry David / Evan Rachel Wood …
other title: Basta che funzioni / Mig og Melody …
Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works."
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Play It Again, Sam (1972) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Play It Again, Sam
director: Herbert Ross actor: Woody Allen / Diane Keaton …
other title: Provaci ancora Sam / Mig og Bogart …
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.