Starring Jodie Foster
12 Episodes
Few actors bring as much intensity or intelligence to the screen as Jodie Foster, a veteran who has spent nearly her entire life in front of the camera. Already a formidable screen presence at just twelve years old when she delivered her indelible breakthrough performance in TAXI DRIVER, she subsequently established herself as one of the most acclaimed performers of her generation, equally riveting in human dramas like NELL and genre blockbusters like PANIC ROOM, while making an assured transition to directing with films like LITTLE MAN TATE and THE BEAVER. At every step of the way, Foster has defied typecasting and redefined what a Hollywood career could look like, forging a body of work that is fiercely brainy, emotionally layered, and quietly radical in its refusal to play by anyone else’s rules.
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01:03Episode 1
Starring Jodie Foster Teaser
Episode 1
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1:52:09Episode 2
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Episode 2
Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1974 • United States
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred LutterMartin Scorsese and Ellen Burstyn draw on the classic women’s melodrama, the 1970s road movie, and the burgeoning feminist movement to create a tender portrait of a New Mexico housewife w...
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1:52:04Episode 3
Panic Room
Episode 3
Directed by David Fincher • 2002 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest WhitakerRelentlessly roving camera work heightens the sense of claustrophobic dread in this typically stylish tour de force of tension from director David Fincher. Newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Fo...
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1:30:57Episode 4
The Beaver
Episode 4
Directed by Jodie Foster • 2011 • United States, United Arab Emirates
Starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Jennifer LawrenceRegrettably overshadowed by offscreen drama on its release, the boldest directorial effort to date from Jodie Foster is a searing portrait of midlife crisis with one of the ...
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1:38:01Episode 5
Stealing Home
Episode 5
Directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter • 1988 • United States
Starring Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie FosterJodie Foster’s deeply affecting performance as a young woman whose life takes a tragic turn haunts this unabashedly heart-tugging coming-of-age melodrama. Washed-up minor-league ...
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1:53:56Episode 6
Taxi Driver
Episode 6
Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1976 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert BrooksScripted by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese, TAXI DRIVER is a powerful study of a dangerously fractured psyche, as well as a vividly grimy portrait of New York City in the 1970s....
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Sommersby
Episode 7
Directed by Jon Amiel • 1993 • United States, France
Starring Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Bill PullmanRichard Gere and Jodie Foster bring a stirring chemistry to this morally complex period drama, a beautifully crafted remake of the French art-house hit THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE (itself based...
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Nell
Episode 8
Directed by Michael Apted • 1994 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha RichardsonInspired by the true story of Poto and Cabengo—the American twins raised largely in isolation who were found to have developed their own language—this poignant drama soars thanks to an extraor...
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1:33:13Episode 9
Bugsy Malone
Episode 9
Directed by Alan Parker • 1976 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Scott BaioWelcome to Fat Sam’s speakeasy! A TAXI DRIVER–era Jodie Foster is among the gaggle of young ’uns who comprise the all-child cast of this delightful 1976 musical gangster comedy, in which the guns shoot whipped cream...
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1:39:31Episode 10
Little Man Tate
Episode 10
Directed by Jodie Foster • 1991 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne WiestGraced with the same intelligence and sensitivity that has defined her acting work, Jodie Foster’s highly assured directorial debut explores, with immense poignancy and humor, a subject near to he...
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1:25:42Episode 11
Shadows and Fog
Episode 11
Directed by Woody Allen • 1991 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, Jodie FosterLensed in atmospheric monochrome chiaroscuro, Woody Allen’s absurdist homage to German expressionism (with dashes of Kafka and Ingmar Bergman), is one of the writer-director’s most offbeat experiments....
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1:34:13Episode 12
Five Corners
Episode 12
Directed by Tony Bill • 1987 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, John Turturro, Tim RobbinsYouthful idealism collides with matter-of-fact violence in a working-class Bronx neighborhood in the early 1960s in this captivatingly offbeat urban mosaic featuring an extraordinary ensemble cast. A w...