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Brian De Palma

09/11/1940 (83 years old) | Newark, USA | Director | Male

Brian Russell De Palma is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen (his wife from 1979 to 1983), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond (see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann and Pino Donaggio. De Palma is credited with fostering the careers of or outright discovering Robert De Niro, Jill Clayburgh, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Andy Garcia and Margot Kidder.

Brian De Palma Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	The Untouchables	317
2.	Carrie	316
3.	Mission: Impossible	232
4.	Scarface	122
5.	Dressed to Kill	56
6.	Carlito's Way	48
7.	Raising Cain	8
8.	Body Double	3
9.	The Black Dahlia	0
10.	Casualties of War	0

The Untouchables

Movie | United States | 06/02/1987 | Crime | Gangsters

Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.

7.8/10

82%

1,359

Carrie

Movie | United States | 11/03/1976 | Horror | Psychological horror

Carrie may be ostracized, but the shy teen has the ability to move objects with her mind. So when the high school \in crowd\ torments her with a sick joke at the prom, she lashes out with devastating -- and deadly -- power.

7.4/10

93%

364

Mission: Impossible

Movie | United States | 05/22/1996 | Action | Spies

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

7.2/10

66%

3,913

Scarface

Movie | United States | 12/08/1983 | Thriller | Gangsters

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

8.3/10

81%

3,827

Dressed to Kill

Movie | United States | 06/25/1980 | Thriller | sex

A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it.

7.1/10

84%

138

Carlito's Way

Movie | United States | 11/10/1993 | Drama | Gangsters

7.9/10

81%

391

Raising Cain

Movie | United States | 08/07/1992 | Thriller | Disapperance

When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more children disappear, she fears for her own child's safety.

5.9/10

58%

Body Double

Movie | United States | 10/25/1984 | Crime | sex

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers -- with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

6.8/10

77%

The Black Dahlia

Movie | Germany | 09/15/2006 | Crime | Murder

Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940's Los Angeles. When aspiring young actress Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films, and family madness as they pursue the killer.

5.6/10

32%

511

Casualties of War

Movie | United States | 08/18/1989 | War

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.

7.1/10

83%

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