Date of birth: 1950-09-28
Place of birth: Schenectady, New York, USA
Known for: Directing
Also known as: John Thomas Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist.

1992-12-11
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotio

1990-11-16
Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn

1981-01-21
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitati

1987-08-28
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of

1978-08-03
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests becom

1993-01-29
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban

1984-09-07
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through th

1988-09-02
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning

2009-04-15
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local h

1992-04-03
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Acc

2012-11-01
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma

1997-07-27
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

1983-01-19
Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest c

2008-09-26
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversia

2012-11-16
With a debt collector hot on his trail, Harvard graduate Billy Schine enrolls in a clinical drug tri

2009-01-29
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off:

2002-06-21
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal

1986-11-10
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemica

2014-03-07
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has

1989-10-07
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form a

2006-06-11
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Gri

1992-11-18
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi

1985-01-24
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a stor

1986-11-07
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dan

2024-01-16
“In this conversation, recorded for the Criterion Collection in Los Angeles in 2023, filmmaker Grego

1980-04-11
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer

2009-05-19
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David

2007-09-10
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and again

1997-01-29
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll i

2016-08-12
A man uses an imaginary umbrella to protect himself against against life; until he is convinced to u

2000-10-01
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am

1994-06-17
Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar

1991-10-11
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most not

2021-10-21
Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrate

2004-09-06
The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the came

2015-07-20
Martin Scorsese and other contemporary filmmakers reveal the impact The Third Man had on their caree

2006-03-14
An impressive roster of celebrities -- including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones

2019-10-29
Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between compan

2011-12-16
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious

2020-05-19
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the se

1989-09-30

2021-02-19
Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the story

2003-01-01
Documentary featuring director Joe Dante, screenwriter John Sayles, producer Mike Finnell, stars Dee
2007-09-18
A documentary looking back on the making of the 1980 film 'Alligator', featuring an interview with s

2000-05-01
Diana Guzman, a troubled Brooklyn teenager, decides to channel her aggression by training to become

2021-05-05
Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he st

2022-10-08
A remarkable new epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable
2000-07-17
In this third entry of the ongoing HBO documentary series celebrating America's favorite pastime, th
Mary Jo, a single mother navigating the most pivotal day of her life, confronts a series of escalati