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Two for the Seesaw (1962)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine

Based on the two-character play by William Gibson. Robert Mitchum plays an Omaha businessman, newly arrived in New York. Though unhappily married, Mit... Read more

The Matchmaker (1958)

7/10
Director: Joseph Anthony
Starring: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford

In this early adaptation of Thornton Wilder's hit Broadway play, we meet matchmaker Dolly Levi (Shirley Booth), who is always good at arranging things... Read more

The Evening Star (1996)

5.8/10
Director: Robert Harling
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis

The sequel to 'Terms of Endearment' brings back it's main stars as it follows the further loves, problems and adventures of the Greenaway family. Base... Read more

The Apartment (1960)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

This Oscar-winning Best Picture stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine as they wheel and deal over a New York apartment in a comedy of morality. This... Read more

Postcards From The Edge (1990)

6.7/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid

Based on Carrie Fisher's best selling autobiographical novel and revolving around the caustic relationship between a mother and daughter and satirisin... Read more

Guarding Tess (1994)

6.2/10
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Richard Griffiths, Shirley MacLaine

Secret Service agent Nicolas Cage wants out of his current assignment - looking after the former First Lady (Shirley MacLaine) but she has other ideas... Read more

Terms of Endearment (1983)

7.4/10
Director: James L Brooks
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson

Winner of five Oscars including Best Picture, the story of the changing relationship between a mother and daughter over the years, mixes humour and he... Read more

Can Can (1960)

6.4/10
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan

1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every night in her c... Read more

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

7.1/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine

The trouble with Harry is that he is dead. The trouble with his peers is that each one thinks they did it! The sharp Alfred Hitchcock humour and spect... Read more

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)

7.1/10
Director: Randa Haines
Starring: Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine

A grand movie about two older men now living in Florida: a boozy Irish ex-sea captain (Richard Harris) and a retired Cuban barber (Robert Duvall). The... Read more

Bernie (2011)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Black

Director Richard Linklater's darkly comic docudrama, based on a true story, details the unusual friendship between a likable Texas mortician and a wea... Read more

Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970)

7/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fabregas

Clint Eastwood and Shirley Maclaine make a good team in this entertaining comic Western about drifter Eastwood coming to the aid of nun Maclaine in th... Read more

The West Side Waltz (1995)

5.9/10
Director: Ernest Thompson
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Kathy Bates

This comedy-drama is about the bonds uniting three disparate women, neighbours on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Director Thompson's adaptation of his 1... Read more

Mrs Winterbourne (1996)

6.2/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser

Rescued from a train crash, pregnant and destitute Ricki Lake is mistaken for the wealthy Winterbourne clan's new bride and soon assimilates herself i... Read more

Irma La Douce (1963)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi

Jack Lemmon plays a bumbling Paris gendarme who is fired for raiding the red light district (where his chief is a customer) and becomes an equally bum... Read more

Two Mules For Sister Sara (Blu-Ray) (1970)

7/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fabregas

When gunslinger Hogan (Clint Eastwood) discovers a group of men attempting to rape a young nun, Sara (Shirley MacLaine), he shoots them dead and rescu... Read more

Hollywood Singing and Dancing - A Musical History (2008)

7.7/10
Starring: Shirley Jones, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds

A celebration of song and dance in the movies, beginning with the first musicals in the Busby Berkeley era through to the Oscar-winning fare of 'Chica... Read more

Steel Magnolias (1989)

7.2/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Sam Shepard, Shirley MacLaine

Adapted from the acclaimed stage play about a group of 'Strong Women' or 'Steel Magnolias' in a small southern town. The magnificent cast includes Shi... Read more

The Norman Gunston Show: Volume 2 (1993)

8.3/10
Director: Simon Francis
Starring: Garry McDonald, Shirley MacLaine, Julian Clary, Sally Struthers

Friend to the famous, suck to the stars, pick of the powerful... The definitive Norman Gunston collection. Featuring the best and brightest interviews... Read more

Carolina (2004)

5/10
Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Randy Quaid

Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris ('Antonia's Line', 'Mrs Dalloway') directs this romantic comedy about a young woman (Julia Stiles) raised in an eccentr... Read more

Coco Chanel (2008)

7/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Shirley MacLaine, Alice Cambournac, Brigitte Boucher

Academy Award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine stars as Coco Chanel in this critically acclaimed TV movie that charts the rise of one of the most infl... Read more

A Change of Seasons (1980)

5.2/10
Director: Richard Lang
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek, Mary Beth Hurt, Shirley MacLaine

Karen Evans (Shirley Maclaine) is the long-suffering wife of her college professor husband Adam (Anthony Hopkins). However, when Adam admits he has be... Read more

Gambit (1966)

7.1/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Herbert Lom, Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Roger C Carmel

Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine star in this fast-paced, witty thriller as a suave British cat burglar and a wacky Eurasian dancer team up to rob a... Read more

Some Came Running (1958)

7.5/10
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Martha Hyer, Shirley MacLaine

After a round of partying he can’t remember, World War II veteran Dave Hirsh is placed on a bus headed for the last place he’d choose: Parkman, Indian... Read more

Bewitched (2005)

4.8/10
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman

In an updated version of the classic '60s series, Nicole Kidman is a real witch who ends up getting cast as the new Samantha. Will Ferrell is Jack Wya... Read more

Out on a Limb (1987)

7.1/10
Director: Robert Butler
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Charles Dance, John Heard, Anne Jackson, Jerry Orbach

Shirley MacLaine plays herself in this mini-series based on her autobiographical best seller, which delves into her new age beliefs and its effects on... Read more

The Sheepman (1958)

6.9/10
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Edgar Buchanan, Glenn Ford, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Shirley MacLaine

If there's one word in Powder Valley's cattle country that makes the locals' jaws clench and trigger-fingers twitch, here it is: sheep. But easygoing... Read more

The Children's Hour (1961)

7.8/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter, Kar...

Daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman's celebrated play of suspected lesbianism in a girls' school. William Wyler (who also made the 1936 version, "The... Read more

Rumour Has It... (2005)

Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Mena Suvari, Ri...

Sarah (Jennifer Aniston) is the black sheep in the family, confused about her stalling journalistic career and her impending marriage to boyfriend Mar... Read more

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Blu-ray) (2013)

7.3/10
Director: Ben Stiller
Starring: Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Wiig

Ben Stiller directs and stars in this reimagining of the classic James Thurber story of a daydreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing in... Read more

Being There (1979)

8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Ri...

Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

7.3/10
Director: Ben Stiller
Starring: Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Wiig

Ben Stiller directs and stars in this reimagining of the classic James Thurber story of a daydreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing in... Read more

Downton Abbey: The London Season (Christmas Special 2013) (2013)

8.7/10
Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Giamat...

Or: Christmas Special 2013. It's summer and as part of Rose's 'coming out' she is to be presented at Buckingham Palace. The family are in London, prep... Read more

Joan of Arc (Sobieski) (1999)

6.7/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Peter O'Toole, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Strauss, Jacqueline Biss...

She was a visionary, a warrior, a heroine and a martyr, all before the age of 20. Leelee Sobieski stars as the French peasant girl whose devine vision... Read more

The Turning Point (1977)

6.9/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerrit...

Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft are estranged friends and dancers at the end of their careers, but they are brought back together by MacLaine's dau... Read more

In Her Shoes (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine, Toni Collette, Mark Feuerstein, Brooke Smith, Ri...

Sisters Maggie (Cameron Diaz) and Rose (Toni Collette) couldn't be more different. Maggie is irresponsible and free-spirited, always leaning on her s... Read more

What A Way To Go! (1964)

7/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Robert Cu...

This exuberant '60s comedy stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May, a woman who, despite her best efforts to marry for love, always winds up with a man w... Read more

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

6.6/10
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Alain Delon, George C Scott, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif, Rex Har...

An all-star cast highlights this Terrence Rattigan ("The Browning Version") drama that follows a Phantom II Rolls Royce on a series of adventures thro... Read more

Sweet Charity (1968)

7/10
Director: Bob Fosse
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Ricardo...

Neil Simon adapted the story from Federico Fellini's 'Nights of Cabiria'. Shirley Maclaine is a prostitute who falls in love with a naive young man wh... Read more

Closing the Ring (2007)

6.6/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Pete Postlethwaite, Neve C...

An epic, yet intimate romantic drama that spans fifty years from wartime Europe, to present day small-town USA. As a crusty old woman (Shirley MacLain... Read more

Broadway: The Golden Age (2004)

8.4/10
Director: Rick McKay
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera, Ben Gazzara, Shirley MacLaine, Carol Burnett, Car...

Filmmaker Rick McKay's tribute to the Broadway legends of the past was made with no crew and no budget. With just his digital camera, McKay interview... Read more