Alan J. Pakula

Alan J. Pakula

Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Best Director for All the President's Men (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice (1982). Pakula was also notable for directing his "paranoia trilogy": Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1976). Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan J. Pakula, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Alan J. Pakula
  • Popularity: 0.6338
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1928-04-07
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: アラン・J・パクラ, Aran J pakura, Алан Дж. Пакула, Alan Dzh. Pakula, 艾伦·杰伊·帕库拉, Ài lún·jié yī·pà kù lā, آلان جي باكولا, alan ji bakula, 앨런 J. 퍼쿨러, aelleon J. peokulleo, アラン ジェイ パクラ, Aran Jei pakura, آلان جيه باكولا, alan jih bakula
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Alan J. Pakula Movies

  • 1976
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    Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'

    Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'

    2 1976 HD

    Hoffman, Redford, Bernstein, Woodward, Pakula and Bradlee. Creators and creatures involved in one way or another with 'All the President's Men', whether being the novel or the movie, appear in this documentary to talk about the challenge of both medias and how one was successfully transformed into another.

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  • 1998
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    Fearful Symmetry

    Fearful Symmetry

    4.3 1998 HD

    A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

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  • 1961
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    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    3.5 1961 HD

    Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.

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  • 1971
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    'Klute' in New York

    'Klute' in New York

    6.4 1971 HD

    A closer look at the making of "Klute" (1971). The project follows the complex shooting on multiple locations in New York with major stars Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, under the direction of Alan J. Pakula. The two actors and the director share a little about their perspectives on the film and the experience of being part of it.

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  • 1985
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    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    5.6 1985 HD

    Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

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  • 2020
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    Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis

    Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis

    6.7 2020 HD

    Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still considered a superstar after 50 years of career. She fascinates filmmakers and audiences alike with her broad range of expression.

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  • 2020
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    Citizen Jane Fonda

    Citizen Jane Fonda

    7.8 2020 HD

    Very few Icons have at once embodied the Myths of their own country while revealing its contradictions: heiress of the Hollywood star system and muse of the French auteur Cinema, Academy Award winning actress and committed producer, feminist and aerobic queen, activist and fearless businesswoman… In a lifetime, Jane Fonda may have reconciled all the facets of America without renouncing her own integrity. Through her portrait, the film tells a social and political story while drawing the picture of a typically American phenomenon.

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  • 1971
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    Klute

    Klute

    6.747 1971 HD

    A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

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  • 1971
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    Klute

    Klute

    6.747 1971 HD

    A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

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  • 1962
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    To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    7.994 1962 HD

    Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

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  • 1976
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    All the President's Men

    All the President's Men

    7.656 1976 HD

    During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

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  • 1997
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    The Devil's Own

    The Devil's Own

    6.2 1997 HD

    Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.

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  • 1990
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    Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent

    6.801 1990 HD

    Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

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  • 1987
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    Orphans

    Orphans

    5.6 1987 HD

    Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.

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  • 1987
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    Orphans

    Orphans

    5.6 1987 HD

    Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.

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  • 1993
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    The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

    6.589 1993 HD

    A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

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  • 1993
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    The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

    6.589 1993 HD

    A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

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  • 1993
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    The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

    6.589 1993 HD

    A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

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  • 1978
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    Comes a Horseman

    Comes a Horseman

    6.1 1978 HD

    Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.

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  • 1992
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    Consenting Adults

    Consenting Adults

    5.404 1992 HD

    Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

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  • 1992
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    Consenting Adults

    Consenting Adults

    5.404 1992 HD

    Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

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  • 1982
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    Sophie's Choice

    Sophie's Choice

    7.323 1982 HD

    Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

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  • 1982
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    Sophie's Choice

    Sophie's Choice

    7.323 1982 HD

    Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

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  • 1973
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    Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

    Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

    5.9 1973 HD

    While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and secretive Lila. He falls in love with her, but she is resistant.

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  • 1963
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    Love with the Proper Stranger

    Love with the Proper Stranger

    6.794 1963 HD

    Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.

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  • 1974
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    The Parallax View

    The Parallax View

    6.8 1974 HD

    An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

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  • 1981
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    Rollover

    Rollover

    5.1 1981 HD

    The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse.

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  • 1969
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    The Sterile Cuckoo

    The Sterile Cuckoo

    5.4 1969 HD

    Uptight college freshman Jerry Payne finds a carefree friend in zany Pookie. After an awkward meeting on the bus, Pookie quickly works her way into Jerry's life. She makes an unannounced visit to Jerry's campus, and before long annoyance turns to affection, and friendship turns to romance. But with Pookie's increasingly neurotic behavior, how long can this love affair last?

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  • 1979
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    Starting Over

    Starting Over

    6.3 1979 HD

    After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

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  • 1986
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    Dream Lover

    Dream Lover

    4.1 1986 HD

    After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results.

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  • 1989
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    See You in the Morning

    See You in the Morning

    5.9 1989 HD

    Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.

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  • 1989
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    See You in the Morning

    See You in the Morning

    5.9 1989 HD

    Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.

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  • 1957
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    Fear Strikes Out

    Fear Strikes Out

    7.119 1957 HD

    True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

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  • 1969
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    The Sterile Cuckoo

    The Sterile Cuckoo

    5.4 1969 HD

    Uptight college freshman Jerry Payne finds a carefree friend in zany Pookie. After an awkward meeting on the bus, Pookie quickly works her way into Jerry's life. She makes an unannounced visit to Jerry's campus, and before long annoyance turns to affection, and friendship turns to romance. But with Pookie's increasingly neurotic behavior, how long can this love affair last?

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  • 1974
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    The Parallax View

    The Parallax View

    6.8 1974 HD

    An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

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  • 1968
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    The Stalking Moon

    The Stalking Moon

    5.9 1968 HD

    While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.

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  • 1986
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    Dream Lover

    Dream Lover

    4.1 1986 HD

    After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results.

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  • 1965
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    Baby the Rain Must Fall

    Baby the Rain Must Fall

    6.048 1965 HD

    Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his dependence on alcohol threaten to ruin his future.

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  • 1966
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    Inside Daisy Clover

    Inside Daisy Clover

    5.6 1966 HD

    A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

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  • 1990
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    Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent

    6.801 1990 HD

    Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

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  • 1989
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    See You in the Morning

    See You in the Morning

    5.9 1989 HD

    Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.

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  • 1967
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    Up the Down Staircase

    Up the Down Staircase

    7.1 1967 HD

    Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

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  • 1982
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    Sophie's Choice

    Sophie's Choice

    7.323 1982 HD

    Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

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  • 1979
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    Starting Over

    Starting Over

    6.3 1979 HD

    After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

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  • 1973
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    Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

    Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

    5.9 1973 HD

    While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and secretive Lila. He falls in love with her, but she is resistant.

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7.1 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.81 1968 HD

    The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

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