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Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition (2002) more movies like this

directed by Sam Mendes
featuring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci

The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter David Self. Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, a morally conflicted Depression-era hit man committing murder in the name of his employer, John Rooney (Paul Newman). A kindly, aging Irish crime boss ...

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Backdraft

Backdraft (1991) more movies like this

directed by Ron Howard
featuring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh

The sons of a Chicago fireman who gave his life in the performance of his duties, firefighting brothers Kurt Russell and William Baldwin carry their lifelong sibling rivalry into their work. Russell is convinced that Baldwin hasn't got what it takes to remain in the fire department. Baldwin is transferred to a "safe" assignment, assisting arson ...

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In the Cut

In the Cut (2003) more movies like this

directed by Jane Campion
featuring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kevin Bacon, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh

Jane Campion directs the erotic thriller In the Cut, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Susanna Moore. Set in New York City during the summertime, the film is centered on Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a middle-class English teacher in the midst of researching a book project about colloquial language. One night she accidentally witnesses a ...

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) more movies like this

directed by Amy Heckerling
featuring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston

Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the teen sex comedy), and kick-started the careers of many future stars. The center of this ensemble film is Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton. She is a young, innocent high-school student who, as ...

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The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) more movies like this

directed by Joel Coen
featuring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen concocted this stylish screwball comedic amalgam of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks. Tim Robbins stars as Norville Barnes, a dull-wit from Muncie, Indiana who wrangles a job with the big Hudsucker Industries. He has a singular idea for a new children's toy that he wants to present to corporate executive Sidney J. Mussberger ...

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Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne (1995) more movies like this

directed by Taylor Hackford
featuring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn

A daughter who has come to imagine the worst about her mother learns the facts are quite different -- and more shocking than she ever imagined -- in this adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) has spent nearly a quarter of a century looking after a mean-spirited woman named Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) on a ...

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Single White Female

Single White Female (1992) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky

In this psychological thriller, a needy young woman finds fulfillment by trying to literally become her successful roommate. Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam (Steven Weber) proves unfaithful, Allison ...

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Love Letter

Love Letter (1998) more movies like this

directed by Dan Curtis
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Estelle Parsons

In this romantic fantasy based on the short story by Jack Finney, Scotty Corrigan (Campbell Scott) is a young man who is engaged to be married, but is having second thoughts about his upcoming wedding. Scotty buys an antique desk and -- hidden in a secret compartment -- he finds a letter from a woman named Elizabeth Whitcomb (Jennifer Jason Leigh) ...

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The Jacket

The Jacket (2005) more movies like this

directed by John Maybury
featuring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh

A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gulf when he was shot in the head; pronounced dead by a field surgeon, Starks somehow returned to life, ...

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A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres (1997) more movies like this

directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
featuring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards, Jr., Jennifer Jason Leigh, Colin Firth

A feminist farm belt version of William Shakespeare's King Lear, this film is based on Jane Smiley's novel about an aging farmer and his three daughters. The Lear-like farmer, Larry Cook (Jason Robards), decides to divide up his thousand-acre farm among his three daughters, but he disinherits his youngest, Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), an ...

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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) more movies like this

directed by Alan Rudolph
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs. Parker, in Hollywood to cowrite the 1937 feature A Star ...

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Bastard out of Carolina (1996) more movies like this

directed by Anjelica Huston
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Jena Malone, Glenne Headly, Lyle Lovett

Accomplished actress Anjelica Huston, daughter of John Huston, made her directorial debut with this absorbing, often wrenching story of child abuse in the 1950s American South. Based on a novel by Dorothy Allison, the film (narrated by Laura Dern) tells the tale of Bone (Jena Malone), a poor white girl so named because she was born right after her ...

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Georgia (1995) more movies like this

directed by Ulu Grosbard
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine, Max Perlich, John Doe

An unflinching drama of frustrated ambition and troubled siblings, Georgia examines the relationship between a self-destructive, would-be rock singer and her sister, a successful folk musician. Sadie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is the younger, more troubled sister, a wild child with a taste for reckless behavior, from her dangerous romances to her ...

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eXistenZ (1999) more movies like this

directed by David Cronenberg
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, Don McKellar

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, who has long been fascinated by the ways new technology shapes and manipulates the human beings who believe they are its masters, is in familiar territory with eXistenZ, a futuristic thriller which combines elements of science fiction, horror and action-adventure. What is eXistenZ? According to the glossary ...

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Rush (1991) more movies like this

directed by Lili Fini Zanuck
featuring Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Max Perlich, Gregg Allman

Based on a gritty, semi-autobiographical novel by author Kim Wozencraft, this crime thriller was adapted for the screen by noir novelist Pete Dexter and marked the directorial debut of producer Lili Fini Zanuck. Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Kristen Cates, a rookie police officer recruited to partner with Jim Raynor (Jason Patric), an undercover ...

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Washington Square (1997) more movies like this

directed by Agnieszka Holland
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith, Judith Ivey

This film is the second effort to bring to the screen the 1880 Henry James novel of the same title (the first was The Heiress in 1949). Set in 1850 among the aristocracy of New York, Washington Square examines the inhibitions of Catherine Sloper (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the only child of wealthy Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney). Catherine is ...

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Short Cuts (1993) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Anne Archer, Matthew Modine, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls into a coma. Meanwhile, Andy (Lyle Lovett), a baker ...

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Kansas City (1996) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney

The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at his childhood hometown. The film's intricate story is triggered by petty thief Johnny O'Hara (Dermot Mulroney), who aims for a big score by trying to ...

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The Big Picture (1989) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Guest
featuring Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean

Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated inside joke complete with un-billed celebrity cameos. In this first feature-film directorial effort by actor/writer Christopher Guest, Kevin Bacon plays a "boy wonder" director whose willingness to compromise his ideals allows ...

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The Quickie (2001) more movies like this

directed by Sergei Bodrov
featuring Vladimir Mashkov, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dean Stockwell

A gangster finds his professional, family, and romantic lives all taking unexpected turns in this offbeat suspense drama. Oleg (Vladimir Mashkov) is a kingpin in the Russian Mafia who has decided to get out of the business and move to the United States, buying a posh estate in Southern California as a retirement home. Oleg's mother, Anna (Lesley ...

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The Anniversary Party (2001) more movies like this

directed by Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh
featuring Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jane Adams, Mina Badie, Jennifer Beals

In this Dogma 95 -inspired first feature for acclaimed performers Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, the two star as Joe and Sally Therrian, a couple who have recently reconciled after a yearlong separation, and who decide to throw a sixth anniversary party in their honor. They invite a bevy of Hollywood types, including Skye Davidson ...

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Miami Blues (1990) more movies like this

directed by George Armitage
featuring Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nora Dunn, Charles Napier

Based on the late Charles Willeford's series of hard-boiled crime novels featuring Miami cop Hoke Moseley, the Jonathan Demme-produced Miami Blues opens with the prison release of Frederick Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a deranged killer who has barely de-boarded his plane before he's killed a Hare Krishna in the airport. Checking into his hotel, ...

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Crooked Hearts (1991) more movies like this

directed by David Brisbin, Michael Bortman
featuring Vincent D'Onofrio, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Berg, Peter Coyote, Noah Wyle

Adapted from the Robert Boswell novel, the film focuses on a very troubled family beset from all sides by conflict, arguments and scandal. The father (Peter Coyote) brings his wife (Cindy Pickett) and two sons (Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Berg) to Washington State to begin a new life, but finds that the same problems have followed them. John Bush, ...

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The Hitcher (1986) more movies like this

directed by Robert Harmon
featuring Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn

Pretty boy actor C. Thomas Howell stars in this dark, violent suspense film about the strange psychological bond between a traveling serial killer and one of his intended victims. Driving cross-country from Chicago to San Diego, Jim (Howell) narrowly avoids an accident when he falls asleep at the wheel. He picks up a hitchhiker to help stay awake, ...

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Eyes of a Stranger (1981) more movies like this

directed by Ken Wiederhorn
featuring Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti, Peter Dupre, Gwen Lewis

In this slasher film, Lauren Tewes stars as a TV anchorwoman whose deaf, dumb and blind teen sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is the next target of a killer. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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