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The Best Woody Allen Movies Ranked And Where to Watch them
If you're looking for the best Woody Allen movies of all time then here is a definitive list. We rank every movie directed by Woody Allen based on their popularity score from IMDB from best to worst. Click on the ‘see more’ button to find out where to watch them in Australia covering all streaming services. In April 2024 there are 38 films in this list.
List of the Best Movies Directed by Woody Allen In Order of Popularity
- Annie Hall
- Manhattan
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Love and Death
- The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Match Point
- Midnight in Paris
- Husbands and Wives
- Radio Days
- Broadway Danny Rose
- Blue Jasmine
- Interiors
- Deconstructing Harry
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Stardust Memories
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Whatever Works
- Bananas
- Shadows and Fog
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
- Cassandra's Dream
- Café Society
- Irrational Man
- Scoop
- September
- Magic in the Moonlight
- A Rainy Day in New York
- Alice
- Hollywood Ending
- Melinda and Melinda
- You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
- To Rome With Love
- Wonder Wheel
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
- Another Woman
- Anything Else
Stream the top 38 Movies directed by Woody Allen
Rated: PG
8.0/10
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Rated: R
7.8/10
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Rated: PG-13
7.8/10
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Rated: PG
7.7/10
Boris is a simple Russian villager who pines from afar for his beautiful cousin Sonja. Forced against his will into joining the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Boris accidentally becomes a military hero. But when his beloved Sonja comes to him with a dangerous patriotic scheme, Boris debates his desires and beliefs.
Rated: PG
7.7/10
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.
Rated: R
7.6/10
Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would take him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.
Rated: PG-13
7.6/10
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Rated: R
7.5/10
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
Rated: PG
7.4/10
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Rated: PG
7.4/10
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.
Rated: PG-13
7.3/10
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.
Rated: PG
7.3/10
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Flyn, a woman crippled by indecision; and Joey, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…
Rated: R
7.3/10
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Rated: PG
7.3/10
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Rated: PG
7.2/10
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Rated: PG-13
7.1/10
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Rated: PG-13
7.1/10
Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works."
Rated: PG-13
6.9/10
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Rated: PG-13
6.7/10
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
20. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Rated: M
6.7/10
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
21. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Rated: PG-13
6.7/10
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
Rated: PG-13
6.6/10
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
Rated: PG-13
6.6/10
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Rated: R
6.6/10
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Rated: PG-13
6.6/10
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Rated: PG
6.5/10
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her husband Lloyd, Lane's stepfather. Lane is close to two neighbors: Peter, and Howard. Howard is in love with Lane, Lane is in love with Peter, and Peter is in love with Stephanie.
Rated: PG-13
6.5/10
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Rated: PG-13
6.5/10
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
Rated: PG-13
6.5/10
Seven years after the abduction of his daughter Alice, Jacques leads a life suspended in waiting. The days pass by, between the routine of his work as a storekeeper and the emptiness of the family home. As a usual day ends, strange details disturb Jacques' daily life and gradually awaken his existence ...
Rated: PG-13
6.5/10
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
Rated: PG-13
6.4/10
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
32. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Rated: R
6.3/10
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
Rated: R
6.3/10
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
Rated: PG-13
6.2/10
Four peoples' lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s when an estranged daughter returns.
35. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
Rated: R
/10
Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" in which a court jester gives an aphrodisiac to the Queen and is, in the end, beheaded to "What Happens During Ejaculation?" in which we watch 'control central' during a successful seduction.
36. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Rated: PG
/10
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
Rated: PG
/10
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Rated: R
/10
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.