Películas dramáticas de Shirley Knight
Películas de Shirley Knight filtradas por género
🎭 Leanne Cross
🎭 Mrs. Colvins
6
2015
THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive graphic novelist he's hired. The story involves the search ...
🎭 Marie
6
2013
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years. ...
🎭 Ilene Rochlin
6.2
2011
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially ...
🎭 Grandma Sam
7.2
2010
Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from h ...
🎭 Dot Nadeau
5.9
2009
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown. ...
🎭 Elanora Davis
6
2006
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence. ...
🎭 Lea
3.7
2006
A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault. ...
🎭 Aunt Jet
🎭 Mrs. Ashboro
5.4
2003
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When stra ...
🎭 Necie Kelleher
6.1
2002
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother. ...
🎭 Nancy Plummer
6.6
2002
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved ...
🎭 Ann
5
2001
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice. ...
🎭 Jewel Ramsey
6.5
2001
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents. ...
🎭 Donna Minkowitz
6.7
2000
Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family. ...
🎭 Harriet Winslow
5.5
1998
Succesful business woman gives up her career and raises the son of her deceased sister. His natural father who was unaware of his son's existence finds this out after eight years. Prompted by a w ...
🎭 Gram (Miss Caroline)
8.3
1998
Una joven negra, Shelby, se enamora de un músico de jazz blanco llamado Meade. Desgraciadamente, los padres de éste no la aceptan por ser negra. Pese a que los parientes de Shelby no tienen pro ...
🎭 Beverly Connelly
7.4
1997
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is hospitalized, Melvin finds his li ...
🎭 Doris Knight
6
1997
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot lik ...
🎭 Irma
2
1996
An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed. ...
🎭 Joan Hart
10
1996
Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor. ...
🎭 Esther
5.5
1996
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing. ...
🎭 Mary Donnelly
6.6
1996
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take co ...
🎭 Jolene Maggart
7.1
1996
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth. ...
🎭 Sally Ann
0
1996
A young boy goes to spend the summer with his aunts in the South. He finds himself drawn to Jessica, who the other aunts describe as "slow," and he eventually discovers there's more to Jessica an ...
🎭 Peggy Buckey
7
1995
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the ch ...
🎭 Mom
4.9
1995
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place. ...
🎭 Betty
6.3
1995
A divorced doctor finds himself in real trouble living with his daughter alone now. But fortunately a guardian angel is watching over the lives of both of them. ...
🎭 Mona Dickens
4.8
1994
A stressed out writer's getaway is complicated by advances from a lascivious 17-year-old relative. ...
🎭 Esther
6.6
1994
Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a ...
🎭 Sylvia
6.2
1994
A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam. ...
🎭 Aunt Fergie
0
1994
A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself. ...
🎭 Bess Warden
5.3
1993
A girl is beaten and raped by someone from the school, but he doesn't go to prison because there is no proof about it. Now, the girl's mother tries to reveal the truth... ...
🎭 Katie Leonard
5.8
1991
Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son, Jonathan, leaves for school, stopping first to meet his father for b ...
🎭 Edna Reinecker
0
1984
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is ultimately fou ...
🎭 Carla
0
1982
In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary days. ...
🎭 Ann
5.5
1981
Parental disapproval of two teenagers wrapped up in a passionate love affair causes a confusion of arson, death and insanity. ...
🎭 Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
7
1980
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who ...
🎭 Hannah Meredith
5.1
1979
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivali ...
🎭 Barbara Harlich
5.8
1979
Two teens become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship. ...
🎭 Genna Kudirka
6
1978
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged wit ...
🎭 Anneliese Graes
6.2
1976
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. ...
🎭 Joan Aldrin
0
1976
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitali ...
🎭 Phyllis Lenahan
0
1975
A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy. ...
🎭 Eliza Birdwell
0
1975
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves. ...
🎭 Georgie Elgin
0
1974
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere. ...
🎭 Beatrice
4.8
1971
El matrimonio insatisfactorio de una mujer la lleva a una apasionada aventura con un rico amante extramatrimonial. ...
🎭 Natalie Ravenna
6.7
1969
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions. ...
🎭 Polo
5.9
1968
Petulia, una joven de San Francisco de clase acomodada, se casó hace seis meses con David Danner, un joven que, a veces, tiene un comportamiento violento. Tras una velada, cae rendida ante un m ...
🎭 Angie Peterson
0
1968
A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters. ...
🎭 Joanne Tregaskis
8.3
1968
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to g ...
🎭 Peggy Leydon
🎭 Polly
5.6
1966
Los avatares de ocho mujeres de posición acomodada, compañeras de universidad, desde que se gradúan a mediados de los años 30, hasta los prolegómenos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una de ell ...
🎭 Erica Hayden
5.4
1962
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite. ...
🎭 Heavenly Finley
6.8
1962
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into troub ...
🎭 Terry Ames
6.1
1962
A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst. ...
🎭 Reenie Flood
6.7
1960
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make end ...
🎭 Grace Kennedy
5.8
1960
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugg ...
🎭 Sister Maria
4
1959
A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general. ...