Woody Allen Filmography

What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

Director - Writer - Actor


In his directorial debut, Woody Allen 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.


Take the Money and Run (1969)

Director - Writer - Actor


When he was a child, Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) wanted to play cello. Grown up and with no musical talent, he joins a street gang and ends up in prison for the first time. This will be only the first of many failure at his chosen profession, being a criminal.

Bananas (1971)

Director - Writer - Actor

Dumped by his political activist girlfriend Nancy (Louise Lasser), nebbish New Yorker Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.


Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Director - Writer - Actor

Seven segments related to one another only in that they all are about sex. They range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" in which a court fool (Woody Allen) gives an aphrodisiac to the Queen (Lynn Redgrave) and is, in the end, beheaded to "What Happens During Ejaculation?", in which we watch control central during a successful seduction.

Play It Again, Sam (1972)

Writer - Actor

In San Francisco, neurotic, and awkward film critic Allan Felix (Woody Allen) tries to get over his wife leaving him by dating again, much by the help of a married couple and the fantasy ghost of his film idol, Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy).


Sleeper (1973)

Director - Writer - Actor

A shy and awkward health food store owner in NYC's Greenwich Village, Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) is cryogenically frozen, and awakened 200 years in the future, but the world is not like he would have expected, and finds himself in the middle of a rebellion against the oppressive government.


Love and Death (1975)

Director - Writer - Actor

When Napoleon threatens to invade the Russian Empire, the coward Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) is forced to enlist to save his country. He actually captures a group of enemy officers, but the French Army is too strong and soon Napoleon reaches Moscow. He so formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Annie Hall (1977) 

Director - Writer - Actor

Comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) broke up with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) after a year of relationship, and he starts telling their story, trying to figure out if the problems he developed in his childhood may have been accomplices in the end of the story.

Interiors (1978)

Director - Writer

When Arthur (E. G. Marshall) decides to leave his wife Eve (Geraldine Page), their three adult daughters Joey (Mary Beth Hurt), Renata (Diane Keaton) and Flyn (Kristin Griffith) must suddenly face face up to the disintegration of the family and deal with the personal problems in their relationship with each other, their partners and their parents.

Manhattan (1979)

Director - Writer - Actor


The life of Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), a divorced writer of TV shows dating a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway), is further complicated when he meets Mary (Diane Keaton), the mistress of his married best friend Yale (Michael Murphy).



Stardust Memories (1980)

Director - Writer - Actor


While attending a retrospective of his work, Sandy Bates (Woody Allen), a successful filmmaker, recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.


A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

Director - Writer - Actor


Inventor Andrew Hobbs (Woody Allen) and his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen) invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in 1900s countryside.

Zelig (1983)

Director - Writer - Actor

A documentary telling the story of human chameleon Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen), a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920's due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him.

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Director - Writer - Actor

Danny Rose (Woody Allen) is a manager of artists, and although he's not very successful, he nevertheless goes out of his way to help his acts. So when Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), a singer who has a chance of making a comeback, asks Danny to help him with a problem, Danny helps him. The problem is that Lou is married but wants his mistress Tina (Mia Farrow) to be at his concerts. Danny agrees to be a beard in being Tina's date, but what he doesn't know is that Tina has casual mob ties, and when he is mistaken for Tina's lover, he becomes the target of the mob.

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Director - Writer

Trapped in a dead-end job and an abusive marriage, Cecelia (Mia Farrow) regularly seeks refuge in the local movie house. She spends much of her time at the local movie theater repeatedly seeing the same movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo. One day, a minor character in the movie, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), literally walks off the screen and joins Cecilia in exploring the world on the other side of the screen.

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Director - Writer - Actor

During a Thanksgiving Day party, we meet Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her husband Elliot (Michael Caine), who is in love with Lee (Barbara Hershey), Hannah's sister in a relationship with an old misanthrope painter (Max von Sydow), and Holly (Dianne Wiest), the other sister who is going through a deep crisis.

Radio Days (1987)

Director - Writer - Actor

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on the Rockaway family dealing with everyday issues, and the fictional life of Sally White (Mia Farrow) as she rises from cigarette girl to radio star.




September (1987)

Director - Writer

At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard (Denholm Elliott) falls in love with Lane (Mia Farrow), who's in a relationship with Peter (Sam Waterston), who's falling for Stephanie (Dianne Wiest), who's married with children.


Another Woman (1988)

Director - Writer

Facing a midlife crisis, a woman (Gena Rowlands) rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman (Mia Farrow) seeking that doctor's help.



New York Stories (1989)

Director - Writer - Actor


A middle-aged artist (Nick Nolte) obsessed with his pretty young assistant (Rosanna Arquette), a precocious 12 year old (Heather McComb) living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer (Woody Allen) with a possessive mother (Mae Questel) make up three Gotham tales.

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Director - Writer - Actor

In two separate stories of adultery, a New York doctor (Martin Landau) resorts to desperate measures to cover up his long-term adulterous affair, and an unhappily married documentary filmmaker (Woody Allen) fights an adulterous temptation while making his latest documentary on a TV producer (Alan Alda).

Alice (1990)

Director - Writer

Alice Tate (Mia Farrow), a spoiled Manhattan housewife mother of two, re-evaluates her life after visiting Dr. Yang (Keye Luke), an oriental herbalist.



Shadows and Fog (1991)

Director - Writer - Actor

With a serial strangler (Michael Kirby) on the loose, an insignificant bookkeeper (Woody Allen) wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Husbands and Wives (1992)

Director - Writer - Actor

When their best friends announce that they are separating, a professor (Woody Allen) and his wife (Mia Farrow) discover the faults in their own marriage.



Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Director - Writer - Actor

Larry (Woody Allen) and Carol (Diane Keaton), a middle aged couples, suspects foul play when their neighbor's (Jerry Adler) wife suddenly dies.




Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Director - Writer

In New York in 1920's, a struggling playwright (John Cusack) is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) in his latest drama in order to get it produced.



Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Director - Writer - Actor

When his adopted son turns out to be a genius, Lenny (Woody Allen) becomes obsessed with finding the boy's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds the real mother (Mira Sorvino), he is disappointed: not only she is a prostitute and porn star but quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met.


Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Director - Writer - Actor

A New York girl (Natasha Lyonne) sets her father (Woody Allen) up with a beautiful woman (Julia Roberts) in a troubled marriage while her step sister (Drew Barrymore) gets engaged.

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Director - Writer - Actor

Suffering from writer's block, Harry Block (Woody Allen) remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.



Celebrity (1998)

Director - Writer

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 has 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).


Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Director - Writer - Actor

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman (Samantha Morton).




Small Time Crooks (2000)

Director - Writer - Actor

A loser of a crook (Woody Allen) and his wife (Tracey Ullman) strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.




The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Director - Writer - Actor

An insurance investigator (Woody Allen) and an efficiency expert (Helen Hunt) who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist (Dan Aykroyd) with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.


Hollywood Ending (2002)

Director - Writer - Actor

Forced to work with his ex-wife (Téa Leoni), director Val Waxman (Woody Allen) develops a case of psychosomatic blindness, and tries to cover up his disability by directing the film blind.



Anything Else (2003)

Director - Writer - Actor

Aspiring New Yorker writer Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) learns a lesson the hard way when he falls in love with a beautiful but flighty girl, Amanda (Christina Ricci).



Melinda and Melinda (2004)

Director - Writer

A girl, Melinda (Radha Mitchell) arrives unannounced at a dinner party, and two alternative stories unfold, one comic and tragic.



Match Point (2005)

Director - Writer

At a turning point in his life, former tennis pro Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) falls for femme-fatale Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson) who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law (Matthew Goode).




Scoop (2006)

Director - Writer - Actor

Dead British journalist Joe Strombel (Ian McShane) appears to the American student of journalism Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) during a magic show and tells her that aristocrat Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman) is a serial killer. Dragging along Sid Waterman (Woody Allen), the magician, Sondra starts investigating and...


Cassandra's Dream (2007)

Director - Writer

The lives of Terry (Colin Farrell) and Ian (Ewan McGregor), two brothers with serious financial woes, change completely when the decide to kill a man (Phil Davis) to do a favour to their rich Uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson).




Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Director - Writer

Two American friends, conventional Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and open-minded Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) are spending the summer in Barcelona and become enamored with the same painter (Javier Bardem), unaware that his ex-wife (Penéleope Cruz) is about to re-enter the picture.


Whatever Works (2009)

Director - Writer


Middle-aged, bitter and grumpy Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) surprisingly enters a fulfilling relationship with Melodie Saint Ann Celestine (Evan Rachel Wood), a much younger and unsophisticated Southern girl.



You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

Director - Writer

After Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) leaves Helena (Gemma Jones) to pursue his lost youth, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller (Pauline Collins). Meanwhile their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) develops a crush on her boss (Antonio Banderas) and her husband (Josh Brolin) becomes moonstruck over a mystery woman (Freida Pinto).


Midnight in Paris (2011)

Director - Writer

While on a trip to Paris with his fincée (Rachel McAdams) and her family, romantic at heart screenwriter Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) finds himself mysteriously going back to the 20's where he meets his favourite writers, musicians and artists.


To Rome with Love (2012)

Director - Writer - Actor

The intertwining stories of a worker (Roberto Benigni) who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect (Alec Baldwin) who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple (Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandra Mastronardi) on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director (Woody Allen) who has a talent for discovering talented singers.


Blue Jasmine (2013)

Director - Writer

Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), a gorgeous classy woman, moves in San Francisco to her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins). There, she reflects on her life and tries to find a way to start a new life. Through flashbacks we see her past with her rich husband, Hal (Alec Baldwin).

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Director - Writer

Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) is a famous English magician who has dedicated his life to revealing fraudulent spiritualists. Persuaded by his friend, Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney), he plans to uncover a young spiritualist, Sophie (Emma Stone). However, the more time he spends with her, he starts believing she is not a charlatan, but a real psychic.


Irrational Man (2015)

Director - Writer

A tormented philosophy professor (Joaquin Phoenix) finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.




Café Society (2016)

Director - Writer - Actor

In the 1930s, a young Bronx native (Jesse Eisenberg) moves to Hollywood, where he falls in love with the secretary (Kristen Stewart) of his powerful uncle (Steve Carell), an agent to the stars. After returning to New York, he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.

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