Woody Allen

Woody Allen films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 49 films on Boxlist

Known for Midnight in Paris, Annie Hall and Love and Death.

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Directed by Woody Allen

  1. Annie Hall

    Annie Hall

    1977 · Film

    7.8/10 · TMDB

    New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

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  2. Manhattan

    Manhattan

    1979 · Film

    7.8/10 · TMDB

    Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

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  3. Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

    1986 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

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  4. Crimes and Misdemeanors

    Crimes and Misdemeanors

    1989 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

  5. Love and Death

    Love and Death

    1975 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    Boris is a simple Russian villager who pines from afar for his beautiful cousin Sonja. Forced against his will into joining the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Boris accidentally becomes a military hero. But when his...

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  6. Midnight in Paris

    Midnight in Paris

    2011 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

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  7. Zelig

    Zelig

    1983 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of...

  8. The Purple Rose of Cairo

    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    1985 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising...

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  9. Deconstructing Harry

    Deconstructing Harry

    1997 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated...

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  10. Match Point

    Match Point

    2005 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that...

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  11. Broadway Danny Rose

    Broadway Danny Rose

    1984 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli...

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  12. Whatever Works

    Whatever Works

    2009 · Film

    7.2/10 · TMDB

    Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into...

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  13. Bullets Over Broadway

    Bullets Over Broadway

    1994 · Film

    7.2/10 · TMDB

    After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a...

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  14. Take the Money and Run

    Take the Money and Run

    1969 · Film

    7.2/10 · TMDB

    Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

  15. Radio Days

    Radio Days

    1987 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and...

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  16. Husbands and Wives

    Husbands and Wives

    1992 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on...

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  17. Stardust Memories

    Stardust Memories

    1980 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

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  18. Blue Jasmine

    Blue Jasmine

    2013 · Film

    7.0/10 · TMDB

    After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and...

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  19. Sweet and Lowdown

    Sweet and Lowdown

    1999 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.

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  20. Interiors

    Interiors

    1978 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful...

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  21. Shadows and Fog

    Shadows and Fog

    1991 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

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  22. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    2008 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

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  23. Mighty Aphrodite

    Mighty Aphrodite

    1995 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda...

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  24. Scoop

    Scoop

    2006 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

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  25. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

    The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

    2001 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they...

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  26. Hollywood Ending

    Hollywood Ending

    2002 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is...

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  27. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

    A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

    1982 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.

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  28. Café Society

    Café Society

    2016 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

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  29. Magic in the Moonlight

    Magic in the Moonlight

    2014 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

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  30. Irrational Man

    Irrational Man

    2015 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

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  31. A Rainy Day in New York

    A Rainy Day in New York

    2019 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

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  32. Small Time Crooks

    Small Time Crooks

    2000 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

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  33. Everyone Says I Love You

    Everyone Says I Love You

    1996 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

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  34. Wonder Wheel

    Wonder Wheel

    2017 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s...

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  35. New York Stories

    New York Stories

    1989 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her...

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  36. Alice

    Alice

    1990 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her...

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  37. Coup de Chance

    Coup de Chance

    2023 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    Two young people's bond leads to marital infidelity and ultimately crime. Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and...

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  38. Rifkin's Festival

    Rifkin's Festival

    2020 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie...

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  39. Melinda and Melinda

    Melinda and Melinda

    2004 · Film

    6.3/10 · TMDB

    While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her...

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  40. Cassandra's Dream

    Cassandra's Dream

    2007 · Film

    6.2/10 · TMDB

    The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

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  41. Anything Else

    Anything Else

    2003 · Film

    6.2/10 · TMDB

    Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda...

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  42. Celebrity

    Celebrity

    1998 · Film

    6.0/10 · TMDB

    The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he...

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  43. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    2010 · Film

    5.9/10 · TMDB

    Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment...

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  44. To Rome with Love

    To Rome with Love

    2012 · Film

    5.8/10 · TMDB

    Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an...

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