James Schamus

Producer, Writer, Director

Birthdate: Sep 7, 1959

Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA

James Schamus is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for his collaborations with Taiwanese film director Ang Lee, including the films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman, Pushing Hands, The Ice Storm, the cult classic Marvel film Hulk, Taking Woodstock and Lust, Caution. He was the co-founder of the Good Machine production company and of Focus Features. He heads the New York-based production company Symbolic Exchange, and teaches at Columbia University.

James Schamus Movies

producer

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2025 |
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet
2025
R
1h 42m
Comedy, Romance
A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her. Plans evolve as Min's grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet.
2019 |
The Tomorrow Man
The Tomorrow Man
2019
PG-13
1h 34m
Drama, Romance
5.9
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love.
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2017 |
Alone in Berlin
Alone in Berlin
2017
R
1h 43m
Drama, History, War
6.5
After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.
2005 |
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain
2005
TV-MA
2h 14m
Drama, Romance
7.7
Two shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get married to their respective girlfriends.
1999 |
Ride with the Devil
Ride with the Devil
1999
R
2h 18m
Drama, Romance, War, Western
6.7
During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.
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1997 |
The Ice Storm
The Ice Storm
1997
R
1h 52m
Drama
7.3
In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning beyond their control.

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2022 |
The King’s Daughter
The King’s Daughter
2022
PG
1h 38m
Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
5.2
King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
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2000 |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
PG-13
2h
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
7.9
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

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2019 |
Adam
2019 |
Driveways
2017 |
Casting JonBenet
2009 |
Taking Woodstock
2007 |
Lust, Caution
2003 |
Hulk
2001 |
Tortilla Soup
2000 |
The Crouching Tiger Concerto
1996 |
She's the One
1996 |
Walking and Talking
1991 |
Pushing Hands
1994 |
Dark Waters (aka the Serpent's Tale)
1994 |
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
1994 |
Eat Drink Man Woman
1990 |
The Golden Boat

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2016 |
Indignation
Indignation
2016
R
1h 50m
Drama, Romance
6.7
In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.