Rod Lurie

The Senior

37 years ago, Mike was kicked off his collegiate football team for an altercation. Now at 59, he still carries that burden. However, after reuniting with his old teammates, and burying the hatchet with the one he fought, he decides to go back to school to get his degree and try out for the team to redeem his past.

Release Date: 2025-03-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Outpost

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

Release Date: 2020-06-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1056

Black Butterfly

Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.

Release Date: 2017-05-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 533

Killing Reagan

Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling book, the film begins in the final months leading up to the 1980 presidential election, and explores the challenges Reagan faced to define himself as a leader. Meanwhile, an aimless and deranged Hinckley is unraveling, leading to the fateful day in March 1981 when these disparate figures collided.

Release Date: 2016-10-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 29

American Odyssey

In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.

Release Date: 2015-04-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 56

A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington

A survey of movies about politics, with clips from several films and interviews with filmmakers and actors.

Release Date: 2012-10-05

Character: Self - Host

Vote Count: 1

Hell on Wheels

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

Release Date: 2011-11-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 421

Straw Dogs

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.

Release Date: 2011-09-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Logger

Vote Count: 573

Nothing But the Truth

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Release Date: 2008-12-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 490

What Doesn't Kill You

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

Release Date: 2008-12-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 194

Heckler

HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.

Release Date: 2007-11-04

Character: Self

Vote Count: 49

Resurrecting the Champ

Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

Release Date: 2007-06-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Toby Eagleburger

Vote Count: 241

I'm Paige Wilson

Events in the life of Paige Wilson, a pretty, bright 27-year-old congressional aide in Washington, D.C. This is an unaired television pilot for a potential series that would have been in The CW's 2007-2008 season of programming if it was picked up.

Release Date: 2007-06-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Commander in Chief

Mackenzie Allen has a lot on her plate -- she has twin teenagers, a 6-year-old at home and an ambitious husband at the office, and she is about to become the first female president of the United States. Before that happens, however; Mackenzie, who serves as vice president, has to decide whether or not to go against the dying wishes of the current president, who has asked her to step down and let someone "more appropriate" fill his shoes in the Oval Office. Not only does the president want her to resign, so does the entire party that elected her in the first place. But when the moment of truth arrives, Mackenzie isn't willing to be a mere footnote in history. Instead of allowing her detractors to keep her down, she decides to trust her instincts and accept the most powerful job in the world.

Release Date: 2005-09-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 34

Line of Fire

Welcome to the war between the FBI and organized crime. One side enforces the law as the other breaks it, but brains, brawn and intimidation are often the tools of both trades. The Richmond-based Malloy Crime Syndicate is run by Jonah Malloy, a charismatic but dangerous father figure. The Richmond FBI branch has its own dynamic leader in Special Agent-In-Charge Lisa Cohen. Like any business, they must justify operations and produce results while wrangling lieutenants who are as flawed as they are hard-working.

Release Date: 2003-12-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 5

The Angel of death

Based on the true story of Efren Saldivar, a California healthcare worker charged with the killing of dozens of elderly patients by injecting them with drugs that stopped their breathing.

Release Date: 2003-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Scenes of the Crime

A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.

Release Date: 2002-05-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 38

The Search for John Gissing

Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger.

Release Date: 2001-11-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 12

The Last Castle

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

Release Date: 2001-10-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1280

The Contender

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.

Release Date: 2000-10-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 243

West Pointer

A cocky plebe who graduated top of his class in high school must now learn to navigate and compete at a storied place where every student was also the best in class.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Deterrence

The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.

Release Date: 2000-03-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 33

Junket Whore

A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.

Release Date: 1998-10-12

Character: Self