Starring Jodie Foster

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.

Starring Jodie Foster
  • Starring Jodie Foster Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

    Episode 2

    Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1974 • United States
    Starring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter

    Martin 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...

  • Panic Room

    Episode 3

    Directed by David Fincher • 2002 • United States
    Starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker

    Relentlessly 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...

  • The Beaver

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jodie Foster • 2011 • United States, United Arab Emirates
    Starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Lawrence

    Regrettably 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 ...

  • Stealing Home

    Episode 5

    Directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter • 1988 • United States
    Starring Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster

    Jodie 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 ...

  • Taxi Driver

    Episode 6

    Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1976 • United States
    Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks

    Scripted 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....

  • Sommersby

    Episode 7

    Directed by Jon Amiel • 1993 • United States, France
    Starring Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Bill Pullman

    Richard 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...

  • Nell

    Episode 8

    Directed by Michael Apted • 1994 • United States
    Starring Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson

    Inspired 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...

  • Bugsy Malone

    Episode 9

    Directed by Alan Parker • 1976 • United States
    Starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio

    Welcome 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...

  • Little Man Tate

    Episode 10

    Directed by Jodie Foster • 1991 • United States
    Starring Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne Wiest

    Graced 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...

  • Shadows and Fog

    Episode 11

    Directed by Woody Allen • 1991 • United States
    Starring Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster

    Lensed 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....

  • Five Corners

    Episode 12

    Directed by Tony Bill • 1987 • United States
    Starring Jodie Foster, John Turturro, Tim Robbins

    Youthful 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...