Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh later drew acclaim for formally inventive films made within the studio system. Soderbergh's directorial breakthrough, the indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), lifted him into the public spotlight as a notable presence in the film industry. At 26, Soderbergh became the youngest solo director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film garnered worldwide commercial success, as well as numerous accolades. His next five films, which included King of the Hill (1993), were commercially unsuccessful. He pivoted into more mainstream fare with the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), the biopic Erin Brockovich (2000) and the crime drama Traffic (2000). For Traffic, he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He found further popular and critical success with the Ocean's trilogy and film franchise (2001–18); Che (2008); The Informant! (2009); Contagion (2011); Haywire (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Side Effects (2013); Logan Lucky (2017); Unsane (2018); Let Them All Talk (2020); No Sudden Move (2021); and Kimi (2022). His film career spans a multitude of genres, but his specialties are psychological, crime and heist films. His films have grossed over US$2.2 billion worldwide and garnered fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning five. Soderbergh's films often revolve around familiar concepts which are regularly used for big-budget Hollywood movies, but he routinely employs an avant-garde arthouse approach. They center on themes of shifting personal identities, vengeance, sexuality, morality, and the human condition. His feature films are often distinctive in the realm of cinematography as a result of his having been influenced by avant-garde cinema, coupled with his use of unconventional film and camera formats. Many of Soderbergh's films are anchored by multi-dimensional storylines with plot twists, nonlinear storytelling, experimental sequencing, suspenseful soundscapes, and third-person vantage points. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Soderbergh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Black Bag

When his beloved wife is suspected of betraying the nation, an intelligence agent faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country.

Release Date: 2025-03-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Calladita

Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summers. The young woman works tirelessly and without a contract, under the promise of decent conditions at the end of the summer, if she remains obedient and discreet.

Release Date: 2024-05-17

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 24

Divinity

Two brothers crash into the decaying Earth to stop a capitalist from manufacturing an immortality serum, which is synthesized utilizing heinous methods and leaving an increasingly dire infertility rate in its wake.

Release Date: 2023-10-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 31

Magic Mike's Last Dance

Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse… and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he—and the roster of hot new dancers he’ll have to whip into shape—be able to pull it off?

Release Date: 2023-02-09

Department: Camera

Job: Director of Photography

Vote Count: 514

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

Release Date: 2022-10-09

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 27

Kimi

A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.

Release Date: 2022-02-10

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 890

The Exiles

Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have influenced a generation of artists. In 1989 she started to film the leaders of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests who escaped to political exile following the June 4 massacre. Though Choy never finished that project, she now travels with the old footage to Taiwan, Maryland, and Paris in order to share it with the dissidents who have never been able to return home.

Release Date: 2022-01-21

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

The Vandal

Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s desperate search intensifies.

Release Date: 2021-07-15

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 5

No Sudden Move

A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.

Release Date: 2021-06-24

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 703

Beats

Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they head out on one last night to an illegal rave before parting ways indefinitely.

Release Date: 2019-05-17

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 68

The King

A cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical time in the nation’s history. Set against the 2016 American election, The King takes a musical road trip across the country in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce.

Release Date: 2018-06-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 28

Logan Lucky

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Release Date: 2017-08-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3550

Magic Mike XXL

Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.

Release Date: 2015-07-01

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 1783

Citizenfour

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

Release Date: 2014-10-10

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1298

The One I Love

Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.

Release Date: 2014-08-08

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 702

Visitors

From the director of KOYAANISQATSI, an astonishing film that documents the drama of how we both live and witness what we experience. Shot in rich black and white Godfrey Reggio's latest film finds the full spectrum of emotion in human faces, gorgeous landscapes and even the behavior of an especially expressive gorilla.

Release Date: 2013-09-08

Department: Crew

Job: Presenter

Vote Count: 29

Behind the Candelabra

Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

Release Date: 2013-05-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 787

Side Effects

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Release Date: 2013-02-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3104

Magic Mike

Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.

Release Date: 2012-06-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2950

Haywire

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

Release Date: 2011-11-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1370

Contagion

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Release Date: 2011-09-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: John Neal (voice, uncredited)

Vote Count: 6127

His Way

A look at the professional, political and personal life of legendary movie producer Jerry Weintraub featuring interviews with friends, family and colleagues.

Release Date: 2011-03-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 13

And Everything Is Going Fine

From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.

Release Date: 2010-06-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 21

Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)

Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.

Release Date: 2010-05-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

The Informant!

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

Release Date: 2009-09-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 897

Solitary Man

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Release Date: 2009-09-07

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 319

Playground

Libby Spears goes undercover in southeast Asia to infiltrate the vast network of people involved in human trafficking (specifically, sex slaves), and discovers that not only are a significant number of its victims children, but also that the United States is one of the industry's biggest customers. When she returns home to learn more, she discovers the roles that the educational system and law enforcement have played in keeping the issue off the radar.

Release Date: 2009-09-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

The Girlfriend Experience

Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, "the girlfriend experience." With her successful business and a devoted, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea thinks she has it made... until a new client rocks her world.

Release Date: 2009-05-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 305

Che: Part Two

After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.

Release Date: 2008-12-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 625

Che: Part One

The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Release Date: 2008-09-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 751

Michael Clayton

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

Release Date: 2007-09-28

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1765

Ocean's Thirteen

Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.

Release Date: 2007-06-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6398

Wind Chill

Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.

Release Date: 2007-04-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 477

The Good German

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.

Release Date: 2006-12-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 314

Pu-239

A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.

Release Date: 2006-09-12

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 65

A Scanner Darkly

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

Release Date: 2006-07-07

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1774

Building No. 7

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

Release Date: 2006-07-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

Bubble

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.

Release Date: 2006-01-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 120

Rumor Has It...

Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper.

Release Date: 2005-12-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1163

Syriana

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

Release Date: 2005-11-23

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1369

Good Night, and Good Luck.

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Release Date: 2005-09-16

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1000

The Brothers Grimm

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

Release Date: 2005-08-26

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 2766

The Big Empty

The Big Empty is a 2005 short film starring Selma Blair about a woman with an unusual condition that baffles scientists and laymen alike. It was written, directed and produced by Lisa Chang and Newton Thomas Sigel. It is based on the short story The Specialist, by Alison Smith. It was executive produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh.

Release Date: 2005-07-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 9

The Jacket

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

Release Date: 2005-03-04

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1520

Ocean's Twelve

Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.

Release Date: 2004-12-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7333

Eros

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Release Date: 2004-12-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 122

Criminal

Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.

Release Date: 2004-09-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 133

Able Edwards

The story of the clone of a famous entertainment mogul created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic, virtual world, the clone relizes he has yet to live as his own man.

Release Date: 2004-03-15

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 3

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Release Date: 2002-12-31

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1153

Solaris

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Release Date: 2002-11-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1320

Far from Heaven

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Release Date: 2002-11-08

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 616

Welcome to Collinwood

Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

Release Date: 2002-10-04

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 218

Full Frontal

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

Release Date: 2002-08-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self (uncredited)

Vote Count: 99

Insomnia

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

Release Date: 2002-05-24

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 4801

Ocean's Eleven

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

Release Date: 2001-12-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited)

Vote Count: 11726

Tribute

Tribute is a feature rockumentary about music's strangest subculture: tribute bands. Tribute bands go to extraordinary lengths to re-create the experience of rock supergroups like Kiss, Journey, Judas Priest and Queen. Tribute follows the on- and off-stage struggles of tribute bands and their fans in their quest to live their rock dreams. Together they face band members quitting, soul-sucking day jobs, even bandmates who take the impersonation far too far.

Release Date: 2001-11-03

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 7

Who Is Bernard Tapie?

This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man who rises and falls spectacularly in French society and may be on the rise again; and, it's a look at Marina Zenovich's fascination with Tapie, behaving oddly in spite of her awareness that she's being irrational. Politicians, athletes, friends, companions, and journalists comment on Bernard's charm, his rise to prominence in sports and politics, and his subsequent trouble with the law. Zenovich becomes fixated on her need to interview Tapie, becoming virtually a stalker in her quest.

Release Date: 2001-09-08

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

Traffic

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Release Date: 2000-12-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2180

Erin Brockovich

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

Release Date: 2000-03-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3263

The Limey

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.

Release Date: 1999-10-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 433

Pleasantville

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Release Date: 1998-09-17

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1702

Out of Sight

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.

Release Date: 1998-06-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1283

Schizopolis

A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.

Release Date: 1997-04-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Fletcher Munson

Vote Count: 96

Nightwatch

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

Release Date: 1997-01-31

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 396

Gray's Anatomy

The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) he had developed.

Release Date: 1996-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 36

The Underneath

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.

Release Date: 1995-04-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 80

King of the Hill

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

Release Date: 1993-08-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 154

Kafka

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

Release Date: 1991-11-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 138

sex, lies, and videotape

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.

Release Date: 1989-08-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 922

Winston

A short film about a bike shop and sexual attraction Soderbergh made to attract investors for his first full length film Sex, Lies & Videotape.

Release Date: 1987-03-04

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 3

Yes - 9012 Live

The legendary YES line-up of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Trevor Rabin, Alan White and Tony Kaye performs in this landmark concert that's become a home video favorite, now on DVD for the first time! Some of the best from their 1985 tour - "Introduction," "Cinema," "Leave It," "Hold On," "I've Seen All Good People," "Changes," "Owner of a Lonely Heart," "It Can Happen," "City of Love," and "Starship Trooper."

Release Date: 1985-11-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

NEOOONOWWW

Described as a fairy tale for the young and young at heart, focused on the forging of a new culture in a world threatened by ecological collapse and unprecedented technological transformation

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Love, Brooklyn

Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.

Release Date: 2025-01-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.

Release Date: 2025-01-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

Presence

A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

Release Date: 2025-01-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 69

Heretic

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Release Date: 2024-10-31

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 1138

Memories of Love Returned

On April 24th, 2002 Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine's car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for the car's repair he stumbled upon a small photo studio and met photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, whose work spanned from the late 1950's up till 2006 when he passed away. This chance encounter turned into a 22 year journey documenting and exploring Kibaate's life and photography and the profound impact it had on Ntare's life and the lives of the entire community he documented.

Release Date: 2024-10-10

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Once Within a Time

Once Within a Time is an anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music. This multidisciplinary work shows us life on Earth as humanity clashes with the five fundamental elements—earth, air, water, fire, and money— headed towards a critical moment of choice between annihilation and redemption.

Release Date: 2023-10-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 5

Command Z

A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.

Release Date: 2023-07-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 1

Full Circle

An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.

Release Date: 2023-07-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 65

Accidentally Brave

With unexpected humor, Maddie Corman shares a story of perseverance and hope in the face of crisis in this film based on her renowned one-woman show.

Release Date: 2023-04-29

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Finding Magic Mike

Ten regular guys who have "lost their magic" are put through the paces of a Magic Mike Live bootcamp, baring their souls — and more — as they learn to perform sexy and daring dance routines with one being crowned the real Magic Mike. The winner will pocket a cash prize.

Release Date: 2022-02-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 7

Let Them All Talk

A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.

Release Date: 2020-12-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 254

Wireless

A 20 year old, self-obsessed college student is stranded off a snow covered Colorado road after he crashes his car — and his only hope of being rescued is his quickly dying phone.

Release Date: 2020-09-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 14

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends — to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.

Release Date: 2020-08-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 964

Leavenworth

This controversial true-crime series seeks to uncover the inner workings of the military justice system as former Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance faces 19 years at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth for the deaths of two local men in Afghanistan in July 2012.

Release Date: 2019-10-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 2

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was unflinching in his commitment to bringing some of the most memorable movies of the last half of the 20th century to the big screen.

Release Date: 2019-10-12

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

The Laundromat

When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

Release Date: 2019-09-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1213

The Report

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

Release Date: 2019-09-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1039

Perfect

A young man with a violent past enters a mysterious clinic where the patients wildly transform their bodies and minds using genetic engineering.

Release Date: 2019-05-17

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 39

Now Apocalypse

This surreal, coming-of-age comedy series follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford, and Severine, who are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame. Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or if he is just smoking too much weed.

Release Date: 2019-03-10

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 64

High Flying Bird

During an NBA lockout, a sports agent, Ray Burke, presents his rookie client, Erick Scott, with an intriguing and controversial business opportunity.

Release Date: 2019-01-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 239

Your Life as a Spy

You are a spy and you are lonely.

Release Date: 2019-01-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: (voice)

Vote Count: 1

Ocean's Eight

Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.

Release Date: 2018-06-07

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 8354

Unsane

A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

Release Date: 2018-03-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1523

Mosaic

Explore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while following popular children’s book author and illustrator Olivia Lake, whose literary success makes her a local celebrity in the tight-knit community.

Release Date: 2018-01-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 72

Godless

A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

Release Date: 2017-11-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 591

X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time

Documentary sequel that offers a close-up look into the personal lives of the legendary porn stars who've survived the test of time and influenced popular culture. Blends rare interviews with erotic clips and additional appearances by Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Soderbergh and a host of adult stars, directors and trendsetters.

Release Date: 2016-10-28

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 101

The Girlfriend Experience

Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

Release Date: 2016-04-10

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 37

Vote Count: 411

The Legend of the Palme d'Or

From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments relating to the award ceremony which closes the Cannes Film Festival. This film brings to light moving and personal stories, as surprising as they are varied, which all contribute to further enhancing the legend of the Palme d’Or.

Release Date: 2015-05-20

Character: Self

Vote Count: 6

21 Years: Richard Linklater

A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture; an analysis of his style and motivations, through the funny and moving testimonies of close friends and collaborators, actors and other filmmakers.

Release Date: 2014-11-07

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 35

Red Oaks

A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. David Myers, an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985, is both reeling from his father's heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members including an alluring art student named Skye and her corporate raider father Getty.

Release Date: 2014-08-28

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 26

Vote Count: 103

The Knick

Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and its staff, notably Dr. John Thackery, the hospital's brilliant chief surgeon who pushes medicine's boundaries, pioneering new procedures despite a severe drug addiction.

Release Date: 2014-08-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 444

And the Oscar Goes To...

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

Release Date: 2014-02-01

Character: Self (archive footage)

Vote Count: 52

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again. Seemingly destined for greatness, Hamlisch was accepted into New York’s Juilliard School as a 6-year-old musical prodigy and rapidly developed into a phenomenon. With instantly classic hits ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘Nobody Does It Better’ and scores for Hollywood films such as The Swimmer, The Sting and Sophie’s Choice and the Broadway juggernaut A Chorus Line; Hamlisch became the go-to composer for film and Broadway producers and a prominent presence on the international Concert Hall circuit. His streak was staggering, vast, unprecedented and glorious, by the age of 31 Hamlisch had won 4 Grammys, an Emmy, 3 Oscars, a Tony and a Pulitzer prize: success that burned so bright, it proved impossible to match.

Release Date: 2013-10-12

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Radioman

The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.

Release Date: 2012-12-07

Character: Self

Vote Count: 5

Stanley Kubrick in Focus

Spielberg, Soderbergh, Stone, Friedkin, Scorsese and others tell how Kubrick's directorial style influenced them and how his unique style was developed.

Release Date: 2012-11-30

Character: Self

Vote Count: 5

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

Documentary about the 1970 film, "End of The Road."

Release Date: 2012-10-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Side by Side

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

Release Date: 2012-08-19

Character: Self

Vote Count: 291

Gina Carano in Training

Release Date: 2012-05-01

Vote Count: 1

The Hunger Games

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.

Release Date: 2012-03-12

Department: Directing

Job: Second Unit Director

Vote Count: 22157

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac

I AIN'T SCARED OF YOU is a documentary tribute to Bernie Mac (1957-2008). From his stand-up in underground Chicago comedy clubs to the Big Screen in Hollywood, Bernie Mac's sharp tongue and heart of gold resonated with millions of fans throughout his career.This film revisits much of his work through exclusive recordings of early stand-up, featured scenes from his film and TV appearances, and interviews with his co-stars, including Samuel L. Jackson, Cameron Diaz, Chris Rock, and many more. Testimonials from friends and family offer colorful anecdotes about Bernie Mac, from his practical jokes to his strong appreciation for manicures, and paint a vivid picture of who he was as an actor-comedian, husband, father, and friend.

Release Date: 2012-02-19

Character: Self

Vote Count: 11

Julian

In school, 9-year old Julian gets into trouble for squealing a bully and therefore disturbing class.

Release Date: 2012-01-09

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 9

We Need to Talk About Kevin

After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

Release Date: 2011-09-28

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2840

Making Che

Behind the scenes of Steven Soderbergh’s Che

Release Date: 2010-01-19

Character: Self

Where the Wild Things Are

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

Release Date: 2009-10-16

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 1856

Porn: Business of Pleasure

CNBC takes a behind the scenes look at the Porn Industry and examines challenges facing the industry including censorship and the competition from free online porn. It also looks at the executive and production roles that are now being filled with women and interviews pornographic actress Jesse Jane.

Release Date: 2009-05-25

Character: Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience

Vote Count: 5

CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution

CHE was the first feature to use the Red camera, which Soderbergh embraced for its versatility and image quality. This short 2009 documentary looks at the evolution of the camera during the film’s production and at the many ways it has enhanced and altered the process of modern digital filmmaking.

Release Date: 2009-01-01

Character: Himself/Peter Andrews

I'm Not There

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Release Date: 2007-10-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 712

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½

A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pairs of actors in a scene in which a woman confronts her husband and ends their relationship. In "Take 2 1/2," Greaves starts with 1968 takes of one of these pairs of actors plus footage of the crew discussing the film's progress. Then, 35 years later, Greaves brings back to Central Park those actors and some of the original crew (plus others) to film a reunion of the characters Alice and Freddie. We watch scenes of these characters and discussions among the actors and crew. Greaves explores and dramatizes the dialectic in the creative process.

Release Date: 2005-01-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 12

Unscripted

Three young, struggling actors (played by three young, less-struggling actors) try to navigate the maze of agents, auditions and avarice that is Hollywood, frequently turning to their acting teacher for advice. As the title implies, the dialogue is mostly improvised, with situations based on the lives of the cast and creators.

Release Date: 2005-01-09

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 2

Equilibrium

New York, 1955. A stressed executive has recurring erotic dreams with a woman he cannot identify.

Release Date: 2004-09-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

Keane

A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriends a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the missing piece of the puzzle?

Release Date: 2004-09-03

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 70

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .

Release Date: 2004-08-01

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

K Street

An experimental fusion of reality and fiction--a fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. The series ventures inside the world of powerful political consultants--a world that few people ever experience first-hand. Produced on location in Washington, D.C., the largely improvised ten-episode series combines fictional characters with appearances by real-life political figures, all centered around the biggest political news of the week.

Release Date: 2003-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 7

Naqoyqatsi

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Release Date: 2002-09-02

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vote Count: 138

'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con

The costume design of the A-list cast's characters and how it shaped the heist film.

Release Date: 2002-05-07

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Waking Life

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Release Date: 2001-10-19

Character: Interviewed on Television

Vote Count: 877

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

Release Date: 2000-12-19

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

Stir of Echoes

After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.

Release Date: 1999-09-10

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 1234

Access All Areas

Release Date: 1985-11-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Sex, Lies & Videotape 2

During the COVID lockdown, Soderbergh wrote a sequel to his debut movie that focuses on the sisters Ann and Cynthia, and finds Cynthia trying to reconnect with her daughter, who is about to get married. However, despite getting Andie MacDowell and Laura San Giacomo to agree to reprise their roles, Soderbergh now thinks he will turn it into a novel instead, saying of his script, “It doesn’t feel as of-the-moment as it did.” — Variety

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Daytrippers

Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station wagon to go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other and meet many interesting people.

Release Date: 1997-03-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 87

Suture

Brothers Vincent and Clay meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look. But unknown to Clay, Vince is actually plotting to kill him with a car bomb and pass the corpse off as his own, planning to start a new life elsewhere with his father's inheritance. But Clay survives the blast and has his face, memory and identity restored in hospital... but are they the right ones?

Release Date: 1993-09-14

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 36

Ultraluminous

Sex worker revenge-thriller based on the Katherine Faw novel. To be directed by Frankie Shaw. Screenplay also written by Shaw.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

The Christophers

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Making of "Once Within a Time"

A documentary about the production of Godfrey Reggio's "Once Within a Time".

Character: Self

Independent Focus

In these insightful one-on-one interviews, the industry’s biggest and brightest join host Elvis Mitchell (film authoritarian and critic for The New York Times) in front of a live audience for an in-depth look at the art of filmmaking and a discussion about their latest and greatest works.

Release Date: 1998-09-09

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Independent's Day

Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.

Release Date: 1998-01-15

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Taff

Taff is a tabloid news magazine airing on the German television network, ProSieben.

Release Date: 1997-03-11

Character: self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Made in the USA

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Release Date: 1993-09-25

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Fallen Angels

A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.

Release Date: 1993-08-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 10

The Oscars

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.

Release Date: 1953-03-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 65