6 Movies Directed by Bob Fosse

Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-05-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

149 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

(3155 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Cast:

Writer:

Neil Simon (from the New York stage production book by)

Federico Fellini (based upon the screenplay by: "Nights of Cabiria")

Tullio Pinelli (based upon the screenplay by: "Nights of Cabiria")

Ennio Flaiano (based upon the screenplay by: "Nights of Cabiria")

Peter Stone (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.

Cabaret

Cabaret

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-02-13

Languages:

English, German, Hebrew, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (33951 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Cast:

Writer:

Joe Masteroff (based on the musical play "Cabaret" book by)

John Van Druten (based on the play by)

Christopher Isherwood (stories)

Jay Presson Allen (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, falls in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.

Lenny

Lenny

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-11-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (10592 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Cast:

Writer:

Julian Barry (play)

Julian Barry (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological humor.

All That Jazz

All That Jazz

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-12-20

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (17787 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Alan Aurthur

Bob Fosse

Fullplot:

Choreographing and picking dancers for his current show whilst editing his feature film about a stand-up comedian is getting to Joe Gideon. Without the chemical substances, he would not have the energy to keep up with his girlfriend, his ex-wife, and his special dancing daughter. They attempt to bring him back from the brink, but it's too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. He chain-smokes, uses drugs, sleeps with his dancers and overworks himself into open-heart surgery. Scenes from his past life start to encroach on the present and he becomes increasingly aware of his mortality.

Star 80

Star 80

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-11-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (4093 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Cast:

Writer:

Teresa Carpenter (article)

Bob Fosse

Fullplot:

Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy, who sees in Paul a wise, worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material, the magazine he sees as only a springboard to bigger and better things. Paul's dream does become a reality: not only does Dorothy eventually marry him, she becomes the August 1979 Playboy Playmate and ultimately Playboy Playmate of 1979, which does indeed lead to the start of an acting career. As Dorothy's star rises, Paul's life is one of a hanger-on as those in Dorothy's new circle, including Playboy publisher Hugh M. Hefner and movie director Aram Nicholas, don't much like Paul. Paul is unable to eke out a life of his own without using Dorothy's name, which she increasingly is reluctant to provide to her husband. Those that know the couple know their relationship cannot continue as is, and it's only a matter of how it will change or end is the question.

Liza with a Z

Liza with a Z

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-09-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

55 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (437 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Genres:

Music

Cast:

Writer:

Fred Ebb

Fullplot:

Liza Minnelli stars in a television concert directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. She performs such songs as the title number, "Liza with a 'Z'" and "Son of a Preacher Man". The concert concludes with a medley of songs from the film Cabaret (1972).

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