Known for Directing
James Gray (born April 14, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. Since his feature debut Little Odessa in 1994, he has made seven other features, including We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008), The Immigrant (2013), The Lost City of Z (2016), Ad Astra (2019), and Armageddon Time (2022). Five of his films have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
April 14, 1969 (age 57)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
50 films, 5 shows


Paper Tiger
2026 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences.


Armageddon Time
2022 · 1h 54m
country: United States
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.


Le Nozze di Figaro
2019 · 3h
country: Unknown
In this new "Marriage of Figaro", Jérémie Rhorer revisits this composer and US film director James Gray makes his first foray into opera. This opera is recorded for broadcast by Louise Narboni.


Ad Astra
2019 · 2h 3m
country: Brazil
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.


The Lost City of Z
2017 · 2h 21m
country: United States
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.


The Immigrant
2013 · 1h 57m
country: United States
1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.


Two Lovers
2008 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.


We Own the Night
2007 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.


The Yards
2000 · 1h 55m
country: United States
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.


Little Odessa
1994 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.


Cowboys and Angels
1991 · 12m
country: United States
This is James Gray's student film from the University of Southern California. A private investigator who is hired to bring a man's 16-year-old runaway daughter back home has second thoughts about his job when he sees the man beat his daughter.