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Ordinary People

Ordinary People (1980) more movies like this

directed by Robert Redford
featuring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Michigan. Despite intensive therapy sessions with his ...

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Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) more movies like this

directed by Sergio Leone
featuring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld

Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s ...

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The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove (1997) more movies like this

directed by Iain Softley
featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott, Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Rampling

Based on the 1902 Henry James novel of the same name, The Wings of the Dove is set in 1910. After the death of her mother, Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter) has become a ward of her wealthy Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling), who is paying her dissipated father (Michael Gambon) to stay out of Kate's life. Maude wants Kate not to repeat Kate's mother's ...

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The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale (1990) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern

In this dystopian fable, a librarian wife and mother becomes the childbearing pawn of a Christian theocracy. In the near future, as war rages across the fictional North American Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99 percent of the female population sterile, Kate (Natasha Richardson) sees her husband killed and her daughter kidnapped ...

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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth (2000) more movies like this

directed by Terence Davies
featuring Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Elizabeth McGovern

Adapted for the screen from Edith Wharton's much-loved novel of the same name, House of Mirth follows the fortunes -- or lack thereof -- of Lily Bart, an ambitious but financially imperiled young woman looking for a rich husband in early 20th century New York. The story opens as Lily (Gillian Anderson) takes tea at the apartment of Lawrence Selden ...

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She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby (1988) more movies like this

directed by John Hughes
featuring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, Isabel Lorca, William Windom

An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this romantic comedy from writer, director, and producer John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin), Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern). After an abortive attempt at ...

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Summer of Ben Tyler

Summer of Ben Tyler (1996) more movies like this

A man who acts upon his conscience opens a Pandora's box of racism and intolerance in this made-for-TV drama. Temple Rayburn (James Woods) is an attorney who lives and works in a small Southern community in the 1940s. When Rayburn and his wife Celia (Elizabeth McGovern) encounter a young man named Ben Tyler (Charles Mattocks) -- an African ...

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Ragtime

Ragtime (1981) more movies like this

directed by Milos Forman
featuring James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, James Olson, Mandy Patinkin, Howard E. Rollins, Jr.

E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime was a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical Emma Goldman. Both characters are all but eliminated in the film version, which only concentrates ...

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The Bedroom Window

The Bedroom Window (1987) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Hanson
featuring Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Frederick Coffin, Wallace Shawn

In director/writer Curtis Hanson's 1987 chiller The Bedroom Window, architect Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) experiences a most disorienting turn of events when his French lover, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) - the wife of his boss - walks over to the titular window in-between lovemaking sessions and witnesses a mysterious man strangling a helpless ...

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Buffalo Soldiers

Buffalo Soldiers (2003) more movies like this

directed by Gregor Jordan
featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Elizabeth McGovern, Gabriel Mann

Australian director Gregor Jordan makes his sophomore effort with this tale about crooked U.S. soldiers based in Germany during the waning days of the cold war. Special Fourth Class soldier Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) guards against the Soviets while on duty, and rips off the U.S. military while off duty. Handsome, calculating, and thoroughly amoral, ...

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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) more movies like this

directed by Patrick Lau
featuring Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth McGovern, Martin Shaw

Baroness Orczy's frequently filmed adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel has been the subject of two different British TV series, the second of which aired nearly half a century after the first. Debuting on BBC1 on January 24, 1999, the "new" Scarlet Pimpernel was, like its predecessor, set during the dark days of the French Revolution. The ...

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Lovesick (1983) more movies like this

directed by Marshall Brickman
featuring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, John Huston, Wallace Shawn

A flat script robs Lovesick of its potential drama, incipient but never fully realized when Saul (Dudley Moore), a married psychiatrist, becomes romantically obsessed with Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients. Chloe has already devastated one psychoanalyst, and although the venerable Freud himself (Alec Guinness) appears to counsel Saul ...

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The Flamingo Rising (2001) more movies like this

directed by Martha Coolidge
featuring William Hurt, Elizabeth McGovern, Brian Benben

Based on the novel by Larry Baker, this bittersweet comedy-drama focuses on Hubert T. Lee (Brian Benben), an eccentric man with big dreams, who, along with his wife Edna (Elizabeth McGovern) and adopted children Louise Janine (Olivia Oguma) and Abraham Jacob (Christopher Larkin), relocates to Northern Florida in the mid-'60s. When Hubert is able ...

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Racing with the Moon (1984) more movies like this

directed by Richard Benjamin
featuring Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen, Rutanya Alda

Sean Penn graduated to full stardom with the 1984 drama Racing with the Moon, even though the film itself hardly set new box office records. Set in the early years of World War II, the film stars Penn as a small-town teen-aged hotshot, six weeks away from being shipped out to fight overseas. In the meantime, Penn begins to date Elizabeth McGovern, ...

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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) more movies like this

directed by Frederic Raphael, Ken Russell, Tony Richardson
featuring Elizabeth McGovern, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Molly Ringwald, Peter Weller

Originally aired on HBO, Women and Men: Stories of Seduction is a short-film anthology that brings to life three famous short stories. Mary McCarthy's "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" stars Elizabeth McGovern and Beau Bridges. The second, Dorothy Parker's "Dusk Before Fireworks," features Peter Weller and Molly Ringwald. The third, "Hills ...

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A Shock to the System (1990) more movies like this

directed by Jan Egleson
featuring Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert, Swoosie Kurtz, Will Patton

Shock to the System is a black comedy about a middle-aged advertising executive (Michael Caine) who loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man (Peter Reigret). In frustration, Caine accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train--and he gets away with the death. Realizing that committing murder might be a little easier than he ...

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Johnny Handsome (1989) more movies like this

directed by Walter Hill
featuring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker

Small-time crook Mickey Rourke is mockingly named Johnny Handsome because of his grotesquely deformed face. While in stir on a robbery rap, Rourke is knifed by convicts in the employ of his former partner--and now bitter enemy--Lance Henriksen. While in the prison hospital, Rourke is cared for by a kindly doctor (Forrest Whitaker), who believes ...

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The Favor (1994) more movies like this

directed by Donald Petrie
featuring Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt, Ken Wahl

They say you can't miss what you never had, but one woman wants to put that idea to the test in this comedy. Kathy Whiting (Harley Jane Kozak) is a housewife and mother of two who enjoys a happy but unexciting relationship with her husband Peter (Bill Pullman), while her best friend Emily Embrey (Elizabeth McGovern) runs an art gallery and is ...

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Thursday the 12th (2000) more movies like this

directed by Charles Beeson
featuring Jon Glover, Ciarán Hinds, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ralph Ineson, Elizabeth McGovern

Originally telecast over Britain's ITV1 in 2000, the two-part mystery miniseries Thursday the 12th began with the discovery of an unidentified body on the estate of Marius Bannister (Ciaran Hinds), a wealthy dentist and politician. As an investigative TV reporter Julian Glover sifted through the particulars of the case, the viewer was introduced ...

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Me and Veronica (1992) more movies like this

directed by Don Scardino
featuring Elizabeth McGovern, Patricia Wettig, Michael O'Keefe, John Heard, Scott Renderer

A rebellious woman (Patricia Wettig) has continually made life hard for her younger sister (Elizabeth McGovern) by sleeping with her husband and wrecking her marriage. The older sister returns to her New Jersey hometown to cause more trouble before beginning a prison sentence. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Broken Glass (1996) more movies like this

directed by David Thacker
featuring Elizabeth McGovern, Henry Goodman, Mandy Patinkin, Margot Leicester

A Mobil Masterpiece Theater adaptation of the Arthur Miller play, the film is set in 1938 Brooklyn and involves unhappily married Jewish couple Mr. and Mrs. Gellburg. When Mrs. Gellburg suffers paralysis in her legs, Dr. Hyman (Mandy Patinkin) diagnoses her problem as psychologically stemming from her anxiety over both her failing marriage and the ...

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Daphne (2007) more movies like this

directed by Clare Beavan
featuring Geraldine Somerville, Elizabeth McGovern, Janet McTeer

As is well-known and frequently discussed, the gothically-inclined English woman of letters Daphne Du Maurier (Don't Look Now, Rebecca) also happened to be a lesbian, but virulently suppressed these inclinations given her beloved father's abhorrence to homosexual behavior - attitudes that Du Maurier imbibed and that gave her lifelong pangs of ...

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