MRQE Ranks: The Films of Woody Allen

1

Manhattan (1979)

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan contin... [MORE]

2

Annie Hall (1977)

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy... [MORE]

3

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia ... [MORE]

4

Husbands and Wives (1992)

Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack, Juliette Lewis

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: One of Woody Allen's most seemingly biographical films, Husbands and Wives opens with upper-middle class Manhattan couple Sally (Judy Davis) and Ja... [MORE]

5

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Cast: Woody Allen, Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes a... [MORE]

6

Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Cast: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Viterelli

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Bullets Over Broadway is a Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height of the Roaring Twentie... [MORE]

7

Antz (1998)

Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson

Synopsis: DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice o... [MORE]

8

Sleeper (1973)

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Don Keefer, Don McLiam

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: In 1973, health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operat... [MORE]

9

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn, Chris Messina, Christopher Evan Welch, Zak Orth, Carrie Preston, Pablo Schreiber, Julio Perillan, Abel Folk

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona stars Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson as best friends Vicky and Cristina. As the movie op... [MORE]

10

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: There's a real murder and a real mystery in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, but these plot pegs are used mainly to allow Allen to explore m... [MORE]

11

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Cast: Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved "standard" songs such as "Just You, Just Me" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me," this musical comedy by Woo... [MORE]

12

Match Point (2005)

Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Matthew Goode, Emily Mortimer, Brian Cox

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: A clandestine love affair sends one man's charmed life into a tailspin in this dark, disturbing drama written and directed by Woody Allen, his firs... [MORE]

13

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Cast: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Caroline Aaron, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, "I'm a guy who can'... [MORE]

14

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Cast: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Anthony LaPaglia, Uma Thurman, James Urbaniak

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen immerses himself in the world of vintage jazz in this period mock-biography of a musician gifted in his art but a sad student in life. ... [MORE]

15

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Cast: Woody Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, Mira Sorvino, F. Murray Abraham, Claire Bloom

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: A dissatisfied Manhattan sportswriter finds more than he expected when he searches for the biological mother of his adopted child in Woody Allen's ... [MORE]

17

Small Time Crooks (2000)

Cast: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Michael Rapaport, Tony Darrow, Jon Lovitz

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Thirty-one years after Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen returns to a life of crime in this broad comedy. Allen plays Ray Winkler, a low-brow con... [MORE]

18

Cassandra's Dream (2007)

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Hayley Atwell, Sally Hawkins, Tom Wilkinson

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Director Woody Allen continued to work in the dark mold of his 2005 thriller Match Point with this suspenseful tale of two brothers (Colin Farrell ... [MORE]

19

Scoop (2006)

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, Woody Allen, Charles Dance

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Both laughs and thrills are on the masthead in this comedy drama about a would-be reporter written and directed by Woody Allen. Sondra Pransky (Sca... [MORE]

20

Melinda and Melinda (2004)

Cast: Radha Mitchell, Wallace Shawn, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloe Sevigny

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Sh... [MORE]

21

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Cast: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron, David Ogden Stiers

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Writer and director Woody Allen returns to the Manhattan of the past with this romantic comedy set in 1940, the era of fedora hats and gumshoe dete... [MORE]

22

Hollywood Ending (2002)

Cast: Woody Allen, Tea Leoni, Debra Messing, Treat Williams, George Hamilton

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck auteur gets one more chance at the big time -- provided his neuroses don't swallow him whole -- in Woody Allen's 33rd feature re... [MORE]

23

Celebrity (1998)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kenneth Branagh, Hank Azaria, Judy Davis, Melanie Griffith

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Black-and-white Sven Nykvist cinematography highlights this Woody Allen comedy about fame and obscurity among Manhattan celebs. Journalist Lee Simo... [MORE]

24

Anything Else (2003)

Cast: Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Woody Allen, Danny DeVito, Stockard Channing

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic comedy written and dir... [MORE]

25

Whatever Works (2009)

Cast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Begley Jr., Patricia Clarkson

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen writes and directs this "blackish comedy" about an eccentric upper-class New Yorker (Larry David) who abandons his comfortable lifestyl... [MORE]

26

Love and Death (1975)

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Despo Diamantidou, Edmond Ardisson

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen's Love and Death is purportedly a satire of all things Russian, from Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky novels to Sergei Eisenstein fil... [MORE]

27

New York Stories (1989)

Cast: Woody Allen, Nick Nolte, Mia Farrow, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick O'Neal

Director: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each exploring a different... [MORE]

28

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Cast: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen blurs the the boundaries between the real and unreal in this unique comic fantasy. The scene is a small town in the mid-1930s. Trapped ... [MORE]

29

Radio Days (1987)

Cast: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Michael Tucker, Julie Kavner, Leah Carrey

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered ... [MORE]

30

Bananas (1971)

Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Jacobo Morales, Natividad Abascal

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follo... [MORE]