Daniel Petrie Movies

An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great...

A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains....

Based on the short story by Ben Hecht.

The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a...

Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard...

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and self-reflection.

A Southern sheriff brings into his home a black juvenile delinquent, who is the son of the man who saved his life during the Korean War.

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a...

An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.