Biography
Oren Moverman (Hebrew: אורן מוברמן; born July 4, 1966) is an Israeli American, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, film director, and Emmy Award-winning film producer. He has directed the films The Messenger, Rampart, Time Out of Mind, and The Dinner. He also directed the Paramount+ documentary series "Willie Nelson & Family" with Thom Zimny. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oren Moverman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Köln 75
2025
Executive Producer
Behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t happen, and how one formidable German...

Wisdom of Happiness
2024
Executive Producer
A deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at nearly ninety year of age, offers practical advice for navigating...

The Listener
2024
Producer
Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeli...

The American Society of Magical Negroes
2024
Executive Producer
A young man, Aren, is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white p...

Passages
2023
Thanks
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young sc...

Paint Her Red
2023
as Narrator (voice)
The film, which will premiere at Taormina Film Festival, is based on an original screenplay Thorne wrote, directed and stars in. The short features Ju...

Incomplete
2023
Producer
A man shares a letter expressing his longing for someone he has never met. He reflects on his loneliness and questions whether he needs another person...

A Thousand and One
2023
Executive Producer
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Te...

June Zero
2022
Producer
Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.

Why Is We Americans?
2022
Producer
The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics.

Passing
2021
Executive Producer
In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.

Bad Hair
2021
Executive Producer
In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career ma...

Human Capital
2020
Producer, Screenplay
Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change thei...

Bad Education
2019
Producer
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to de...

Skin
2019
Producer
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life,...

Diane
2019
Producer
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her...

Wildlife
2018
Producer
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled fores...

Monsters and Men
2018
Executive Producer
After capturing an illegal act of police violence on his cellphone, a Brooklyn street hustler sets off a series of events that alter the lives of a lo...

Puzzle
2018
Screenplay
After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has foun...

The Tale
2018
Producer
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to sur...

The Dinner
2017
Screenplay, Director
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As...

The Ticket
2016
Producer
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.

Junction 48
2016
Executive Producer, Screenplay
Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in...

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
Producer
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.

Love & Mercy
2015
Screenplay, Executive Producer
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the s...

Time Out of Mind
2014
Director, Screenplay, Story
Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect...

The Quiet Ones
2014
Screenplay
A professor and his students perform a dangerous experiment that causes a young woman to lose her sanity.

She's Lost Control
2014
Executive Producer
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.

Rampart
2011
Screenplay, Director
The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own...

Miral
2010
Thanks
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

The Messenger
2009
Director, Writer
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is pa...

Married Life
2008
Screenplay
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too mu...

I'm Not There
2007
Screenplay
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...

Face
2002
Writer
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to c...

Jesus' Son
2000
Associate Producer, Screenplay
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
N/A
Director, Screenplay
Felix Kersten, a renowned, apolitical medical masseuse, becomes the personal doctor of one of the most powerful and feared men in Nazi Germany: the ch...
Raised Eyebrows
N/A
Screenplay, Producer, Director
Based on Steve Stoliar’s memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House.

Harmonia
N/A
Producer
Set in the 1980s, Rita is entranced by the mesmeric leader and renounces her family to embrace the world of the enigmatic Harmonia commune. Her daught...
Untitled William S. Burroughs Project
N/A
Producer, Screenplay
The story of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs, who found himself caught in an unusual love triangle with his muse, Joan Vollmer, and an Ame...

Borges and Me
N/A
Writer
Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative, 23-yea...
Ages of the Moon
N/A
Screenplay, Producer
A movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon.