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Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude (1971) more movies like this

directed by Hal Ashby
featuring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner

A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks ...

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Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby (1968) more movies like this

directed by Roman Polanski
featuring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans

In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and ...

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Where's Poppa?

Where's Poppa? (1970) more movies like this

directed by Carl Reiner
featuring George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish VanDevere, Barnard Hughes

Director Carl Reiner, most closely associated with the homey values of situation comedies, shocked, surprised, and (in some cases) delighted his admirers with the jet-black comedy Where's Poppa?. George Segal plays Gordon Hocheiser, a New York attorney whose love life is constantly being sabotaged by his senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who constantly ...

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Every Which Way But Loose

Every Which Way But Loose (1978) more movies like this

directed by James Fargo
featuring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo, Ruth Gordon

Clint Eastwood's first comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles. Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a bare-knuckle boxer who travels from fight to fight in a beat-up truck, accompanied by his "pal" Clyde, a orangutan with a mean right hook, and his human buddy Orville (Geoffrey Lewis). During a stopover, Philo meets and falls in ...

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My Bodyguard

My Bodyguard (1980) more movies like this

directed by Tony Bill
featuring Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Ruth Gordon, John Houseman, Martin Mull

This quietly compelling film explores the hardships and anxieties of high school with intelligence, sensitivity, warmth and humor. Chris Makepeace stars as a shy, bookish student who has recently moved to Chicago and begun a new school. There he finds himself the target of a group of punks led by Matt Dillon (ideally cast as the weasel-like bully) ...

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Any Which Way You Can

Any Which Way You Can (1980) more movies like this

directed by Buddy Van Horn
featuring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon, William Smith, Harry Guardino

This sequel to Every Which Way But Loose finds Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) on the road, orangutan companion Clyde in tow, as he makes his way as a bare-knuckle fighter. The action begins with Philo punching out a new victim while Clyde relieves himself on the seat of a police car, setting the tone for the rest of the story. From there, Philo ...

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Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic (1943) more movies like this

directed by Lloyd Bacon
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop

Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left-wing politics, courtesy (no doubt) of scenarist John Howard Lawson, who based his screenplay on a novel by maritime specialist Guy Gilpatric. While running war goods to America's Russian allies, a merchant marine ship captained by Raymond Massey ...

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Inside Daisy Clover

Inside Daisy Clover (1965) more movies like this

directed by Robert Mulligan
featuring Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon

Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) goes from teenage girl to movie star practically overnight when her demented mother enters her voice in a talent-search contest. From a broken-down carnival on the Santa Monica Pier, in no time at all she is attending glamorous Hollywood parties. But Daisy soon learns that misery and pain go hand-in-hand with fame and ...

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The Trouble with Spies

The Trouble with Spies (1987) more movies like this

directed by Burt Kennedy
featuring Donald Sutherland, Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Hordern

Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is an inept international secret agent sent by the U.S. to the island of Ibiza in this uneven spy comedy. His mission is to secure the secret recipe for a truth serum to use on enemy agents. Appleton miraculously avoids being killed on several occasions as suspicions point to various hotel guests. Hotel owner ...

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Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969) more movies like this

directed by Lee H. Katzin
featuring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock

Mrs. Marrable (Geraldine Page) is a bereaved widow who takes to hiring housekeepers then kills them for their money in this shadowy macabre drama. When Miss Tinsley (Mildred Dunnick) disappears, her former employer Alice (Ruth Gordon) investigates. Posing as a maid, she gains employment with the murderous Mrs. Marrable. Her nephew Mike (Robert ...

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Maxie

Maxie (1985) more movies like this

directed by Paul Aaron
featuring Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes, Valerie Curtin

In this comedy, an ordinary woman finds herself sharing both her home and her body with a ghost who has a pronounced wild streak. Jan (Glenn Close) and Nick (Mandy Patinkin) are a couple moving into an apartment in an old Victorian house in San Francisco. Jan is a straight-laced secretary working for a Catholic bishop, while Nick deals in used ...

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Mugsy's Girls (1985) more movies like this

directed by Kevin Brodie
featuring Ruth Gordon, Laura Branigan, Joanna Dierek, Rebecca Forstadt

Six sorority sisters are desperate for rent money, so, encouraged and trained by their den mother, they enter a mud-wrestling tournament in Las Vegas. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Two-Faced Woman (1941) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Ruth Gordon, Robert Sterling, Roland Young

Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood product had been cut off due to World War II), M.G.M.'s Two-Faced Woman succeeded in making Garbo angry enough to announce her retirement from the screen. Two-Faced Woman was Garbo's final screen appearance, as the legendary ...

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Lord Love a Duck (1966) more movies like this

directed by George Axelrod
featuring Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon

An intelligent, eccentric high school senior devotes his life to indulging the every whim of the beautiful girl he adores in this quirky, dark-humored comedy. Roddy McDowall plays Alan Musgrave, an odd duck who immediately falls for the school's new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld). Using his quick wits, he helps her win acceptance ...

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The Prince of Central Park (1977) more movies like this

directed by Harvey Hart
featuring Ruth Gordon

The Prince of Central Park is 11-year-old Jay Jay (T. J. Hargrave). An orphan from Hell's Kitchen who has been shunted from one foster home to another, Jay Jay is conditioned to despise, or at the very least distrust, all adults and authority figures. Running off to Central Park, Jay Jay and his kid sister Laurie (Lisa Richard) set up housekeeping ...

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