Michael Mailer

Production

Michael Mailer

Known for

Production

Credits

32 titles

Michael Mailer has been a leading voice in independent cinema since graduating from Harvard University. His debut feature, "A Fool and His Money," starred Sandra Bullock and George Plimpton, launching a prolific career that has seen him write, produce, and direct more than 30 films. In 2004, he founded Michael Mailer Films, dedicated to producing both character-driven independent stories and larger, concept-based projects.

Known for

Blood and Bone poster
7.4

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

Blood and Bone

2009

The Ledge poster
6.2

A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

The Ledge

2011

Loverboy poster
5.0

A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

Loverboy

2005

Blind poster
6.1

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

Blind

2017

The Minute You Wake Up Dead poster
5.3

A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.

The Minute You Wake Up Dead

2022

Seduced and Abandoned poster
6.2

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.

Seduced and Abandoned

2013

Behind the camera

Blood and Bone poster
7.4

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

Blood and Bone

2009

The Ledge poster
6.2

A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

The Ledge

2011

Loverboy poster
5.0

A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

Loverboy

2005

Blind poster
6.1

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

Blind

2017

Blind poster
6.1

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

Blind

2017

The Minute You Wake Up Dead poster
5.3

A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.

The Minute You Wake Up Dead

2022

Seduced and Abandoned poster
6.2

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.

Seduced and Abandoned

2013

Black and White poster
4.6

Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

Black and White

1999

Heart of Champions poster
6.7

During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.

Heart of Champions

2021

A Fool and His Money poster
4.3

New York advertising executive Morris Codman seems to have it all - lots of talent and a beautiful girlfriend, Debbie. When he loses his job he decides to use his advertising expertise to create, package and market a shady product that will make him millions. Debbie tries to convince him that money isn't everything and she loves him just the way he is. Morris' bizarre antics in promoting his product surprisingly lead to a fortune, but can love survive his quest for the almighty dollar?

A Fool and His Money

1989

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NR

After a public scandal drives a disgraced former child star and his rising-actress fiancée out of New York, they retreat in search of stability. But as addiction, ambition, and buried trauma resurface, the fragile love holding them together begins to fracture.

Unrest

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The Lodger poster
5.7

Follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper – a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, the detective soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer incarcerated years ago. Could the wrong man be behind bars?

The Lodger

2009

Empire poster
6.2

Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top, Victor soon finds out that he's been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.

Empire

2002

Beginner's Guide to Sex poster
4.8

Plucky and innocent Laci Cox is hired to teach a rowdy and experienced group of hormonal high schoolers about sex. The only problems is... she's a virgin! Laci must lose her virginity before she loses her job.

Beginner's Guide to Sex

2015

Harvard Man poster
4.6

College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. Action and philosophy in young people's quest to discover their true identity.

Harvard Man

2001

A Little Game poster
6.5

Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10-year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in an irascible chess master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.

A Little Game

2014

Lost in Florence poster
4.7

Eric Lazard is a heartbroken former college football star who gets involved in a dangerous Florentine sport and a local woman, Stephanie, while visiting his cousin Anna, who lives in Italy and teaches the Italian language to foreigners.

Lost in Florence

2017

The Ballad of Davy Crockett poster
5.1

In 1815, an American Legend, whose wife has fallen deathly ill, leaving his young children to survive on their own, must fight his way back to them across the many perils found in the Savage Lands of the wild frontier.

The Ballad of Davy Crockett

2024

The Walk poster
5.8

In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.

The Walk

2022

Friends and Romans poster
7.2

A group of lifelong mob movie extras mount a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in their local Staten Island theater in order to finally get some speaking roles. But the theater is the secret hideout of a real-life gangster who fancies himself an actor, and whom the FBI are hunting for the recent murder of a Broadway producer. The Feds insert their own undercover agent to audition for the role of Cassius, seeking to determine who is the real gangster among a cast of make-believe criminals. All the while, the oblivious cast seek only to prove to themselves, their families, and friends that they are more than just extras.

Friends and Romans

2014

Showing Roots poster
5.6

Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.

Showing Roots

2016

An Imperfect Murder poster
3.4

Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, lies in a trunk in her living room.

An Imperfect Murder

2017

The Last Producer poster
4.7

An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.

The Last Producer

2000

Lost Junction poster
5.8

A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.

Lost Junction

2003

Kettle of Fish poster
4.7

A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.

Kettle of Fish

2006

Giving It Up poster
4.2

A womanizing New York adman attempts to identify the causes of, and find a remedy for, his so-called addiction to sex, in order to win the love of a woman he respects.

Giving It Up

1999

Cutman poster
NR

A retired boxer grapples with a terminal illness while reluctantly serving as an enforcer for low-level mobsters. Haunted by the memory of his deceased cutman, he suffers until a chance encounter with a troubled junkie and her daughter. He’s then embarks on a journey of redemption and retribution.

Cutman

2025

Cutman poster
NR

A retired boxer grapples with a terminal illness while reluctantly serving as an enforcer for low-level mobsters. Haunted by the memory of his deceased cutman, he suffers until a chance encounter with a troubled junkie and her daughter. He’s then embarks on a journey of redemption and retribution.

Cutman

2025

Cutman poster
NR

A retired boxer grapples with a terminal illness while reluctantly serving as an enforcer for low-level mobsters. Haunted by the memory of his deceased cutman, he suffers until a chance encounter with a troubled junkie and her daughter. He’s then embarks on a journey of redemption and retribution.

Cutman

2025

Little Audrey poster
NR

Based on a true story, an agnostic Jewish child psychologist is recruited to a Vatican investigation of a comatose girl believed to be a “victim soul,” only to find herself pulled into a case where alleged miracles defy reason — and challenge everything she believes.

Little Audrey

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Little Audrey poster
NR

Based on a true story, an agnostic Jewish child psychologist is recruited to a Vatican investigation of a comatose girl believed to be a “victim soul,” only to find herself pulled into a case where alleged miracles defy reason — and challenge everything she believes.

Little Audrey

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The Second Sun poster
5.5

Two lost souls meet one cold night in Post-war Manhattan. Before dawn deep rooted secrets will be revealed. And this man and woman, will believe in life, love, and most importantly miracles again. The human spirit can survive anything.

The Second Sun

2018