Known for Production
Joel Bialys Michaels is a film producer and actor. His notable work includes The Changeling for which he won a Best Motion Picture and a Golden Reel Award. His other work includes Basic Instinct 2, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, Lolita, Stargate, Universal Soldier and The Philadelphia Experiment. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel B. Michaels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
24 films


The Amateur
2025 · 2h 3m
country: United States
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.


After the Wedding
2019 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel.


Basic Instinct 2
2006 · 1h 56m
country: Germany
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.


Half Light
2006 · 1h 50m
country: Germany
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.


Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003 · 1h 49m
country: Germany
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.


Lolita
1997 · 2h 17m
country: France
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.


Cutthroat Island
1995 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.


Last of the Dogmen
1995 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.


Stargate
1994 · 2h 1m
country: United States
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.


Three of Hearts
1993 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A lesbian hires a male escort to break the heart of the bisexual woman who has just dumped her.


Universal Soldier
1992 · 1h 43m
country: United States
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.


Courage
1986 · 2h 30m
country: United States
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.


Black Moon Rising
1986 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.


The Philadelphia Experiment
1984 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.


The Amateur
1981 · 1h 52m
country: Canada
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.


Tribute
1980 · 2h 1m
country: Canada
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.


The Changeling
1980 · 1h 47m
country: Canada
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.


The Silent Partner
1978 · 1h 42m
country: Canada
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.


Bittersweet Love
1976 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A pregnant woman and her husband discover they are half-brother and half-sister, thanks to his father and her mother.