Best of Lesli Linka Glatter
by brijeshmarand | created - 9 months ago | updated - 9 months ago | PublicLesli Linka Glatter, the accomplished American film and television director, celebrated her 70th birthday on July 26, 2023. Known for her exceptional directorial skills, she has helmed numerous critically acclaimed TV shows, including 'Homeland', 'Mad Men', and 'Twin Peaks'. Glatter's work has earned her accolades, including multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Which of Lesli Linka Glatter's remarkable directorial projects in film, TV series, or miniseries do you believe is the best?
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1. House M.D. (2004–2012)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery
Using a crack team of doctors and his wits, an antisocial maverick doctor specializing in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way.
Stars: Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer
Votes: 513,791
3 Episodes (Season 4-6)
2. Homeland (2011–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis, Rupert Friend
Votes: 361,019
25 Episodes (Season 2-8)
3. True Blood (2008–2014)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.
Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten
Votes: 260,146
3 Episodes (Season 3-5)
4. Mad Men (2007–2015)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama
A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.
Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
Votes: 260,623
6 Episodes (Season 1-4)
5. Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 215,497
4 Episodes (Season 1-2)
6. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A famous "psychic" outs himself as a fake, and starts working as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation so he can find "Red John", the madman who killed his wife and daughter.
Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman
Votes: 200,683
3 Episodes (Season 1-2)
7. Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Four friends band together against an anonymous foe who threatens to reveal their darkest secrets, while also investigating the disappearance of their best friend.
Stars: Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell
Votes: 178,398
3 Episodes (Season 1-2)
8. Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama
A high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year.
Stars: Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, James Franco, Samm Levine
Votes: 153,289
2 Episodes (Season 1)
9. Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Drama
A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.
Stars: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Keiko Agena, Scott Patterson
Votes: 148,171
5 Episodes (Season 1-2)
10. Lie to Me (2009–2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
About Cal Lightman, the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to expose the truth behind the lies.
Stars: Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Brendan Hines, Monica Raymund
Votes: 127,887
2 Episodes (Season 1-2)
11. The Newsroom (2012–2014)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, bringing unexpected results for its existing news anchor.
Stars: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill
Votes: 124,723
2 Episodes (Season 1-2)
12. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.
Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, Dann Florek
Votes: 125,059
2 Episodes (Season 1, 3)
13. Ray Donovan (2013–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Ray Donovan, a professional "fixer" for the rich and famous in Los Angeles, can make anyone's problems disappear except those created by his own family.
Stars: Liev Schreiber, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Pooch Hall
Votes: 93,561
2 Episodes (Season 1, 3)
14. The West Wing (1999–2006)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama
Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.
Stars: Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, John Spencer
Votes: 85,603
8 Episodes (Season 4-7)
15. ER (1994–2009)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Romance
The doctors who work in the ER at the County General Hospital in Chicago grapple with ups and downs in their personal and professional lives while trying to give apt medical care to their patients.
Stars: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Eriq La Salle
Votes: 67,761
13 Episodes (Season 2, 4-7, 10-13, 15)
16. Now and Then (1995)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four 12-year-old girls grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Thora Birch
Votes: 32,436 | Gross: $27.40M
17. Love & Death (2023)
TV-MA | 54 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Two churchgoing couples enjoy small town family life in Texas - until somebody picks up an axe.
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Lily Rabe, Patrick Fugit
Votes: 37,201
5 Episodes
18. NYPD Blue (1993–2005)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detectives from NYPD's 15th Precinct investigate homicides within their precinct.
Stars: Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits, Gordon Clapp, James McDaniel
Votes: 16,343
2 Episodes (Season 1)
19. Six (2017–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, History
Navy SEAL Team Six attempt to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan when they discover an American citizen working with the enemy.
Stars: Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, Juan Pablo Raba, Edwin Hodge
Votes: 13,869
2 Episodes (Season 1)
20. The Chicago Code (2011)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Detective Jarek Wysocki, one of Chicago's toughest cops, struggles to clean up the town's violence and corruption.
Stars: Jason Clarke, Jennifer Beals, Matt Lauria, Devin Kelley
Votes: 8,481
2 Episodes (Season 1)
21. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Truly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and directors made guest appearances.
Stars: Charles Durning, Douglas Seale, Sharon Spelman, Louis Giambalvo
Votes: 6,420
2 Episodes (Season 1-2)
22. Brooklyn South (1997–1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A realistic and gritty police drama centering on the lives of a group of close knit police officers and crime victims at a seedy police station in Brooklyn, New York City.
Stars: Jon Tenney, Michael DeLuise, Gary Basaraba, Titus Welliver
Votes: 2,344
2 Episodes (Season 1)
23. On the Air (1992)
30 min | Comedy
In the 1950s, a group of television performers attempt to put together a live variety program and often find disastrous results.
Stars: Ian Buchanan, Nancye Ferguson, Miguel Ferrer, Gary Grossman
Votes: 1,038
2 Episodes (Season 1)
24. Law & Order True Crime (2017)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Behind the murders of a Hollywood movie executive and his former beauty queen wife by their sons.
Stars: Edie Falco, Miles Gaston Villanueva, Gus Halper, Chris Bauer
Votes: 2,743
2 Episodes
25. Revelations (2005)
248 min | Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
Just before the start of the Apocalypse, a physicist and a nun race against the clock to see if the end of the world can be averted.
Stars: Bill Pullman, Natascha McElhone, Michael Massee, Mark Rendall
Votes: 1,568
2 Episodes
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