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Playing By Heart (1998)

7.1/10
Director: Willard Carroll
Starring: Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Dennis Quaid

Over the next 8 days and nights seemingly unconnected people all in search of love, will find their lives twist, turn and intertwine in a most unexpec... Read more

Paulie (1998)

6.5/10
Director: John Roberts
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Tony Shalhoub

Tells the charming life story of Paulie the Parrot who was raised by a stuttering girl, spends time in a pawn shop, is bought by an elderly widow who... Read more

A Woman Under the Influence (1975)

8.2/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes

Unquestionably one of the greatest films of the 1970s, John Cassavetes' masterpiece centres on a dysfunctional Los Angeles family, and the perverse, h... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rapunzel (1983)

8.4/10
Director: Gilbert Cates
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Shelley Duvall, Gena Rowlands

From high atop a tower, a beautiful young woman lets down her hair - and let's in love. Faerie Tale Theatre creator Shelly Duvall is brilliant as the... Read more

Hope Floats (1998)

5.9/10
Director: Forest Whitaker
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr, Gena Rowlands

A romantic weeper about a young woman (Sandra Bullock) who, humiliated and heartbroken after finding out her best friend was having an affair with her... Read more

The Skeleton Key (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Iain Softley
Starring: Kate Hudson, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard

Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a hospice worker hired by Violet (Gena Rowlands) to come down to New Orleans and look after her dying husband (John Hurt).... Read more

Gloria (Blu-ray) (1980)

7.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen

John Cassavettes creates a powerful, tension-filled story about an ex-gun moll and showgirl on the run from the mob protecting the son of neighbours w... Read more

Opening Night (1977)

8.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Joan Blondell

An unstable, ageing Broadway actress starring in a new play reaches emotional breaking point when a devoted fan dies on the opening night. Superbly ac... Read more

Faces (1968)

7.7/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel

Cassavetes rivetting and personal study of a crumbling marriage with John Marley as a salesman who finds comfort in the arms of prostitute Gena Rowlan... Read more

A Child is Waiting (1963)

7.3/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Gena Rowlands, Judy Garland, Steven Hill

Featuring Judy Garland's last dramatic performance, here as a teacher at an institution for mentally-disabled children. She can't contain her own urge... Read more

Gloria (1980)

7.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen

John Cassavettes creates a powerful, tension-filled story about an ex-gun moll and showgirl on the run from the mob protecting the son of neighbours w... Read more

Tony Rome (1967)

6.6/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Jill St John, Gena Rowlands, Sue Lyon

When the beautiful daughter of a prominent businessman is found drunk and unconscious in a hotel room, private detective Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is... Read more

Persepolis (2007)

8.1/10
Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: (Voices of) , Catherine Deneuve, Iggy Pop, Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn

Based on her autobiographical graphic novels, Marjane Satrapi and co-screenwriter Vincent Paronnaud directed this Oscar-nominated, black-and-white ani... Read more

Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

7.7/10
Director: David Miller
Starring: Carroll O'Connor, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau

Kirk Douglas is a cowboy on a collision course with the modern world! Set in the 1960s, the action follows Jack Burns (Douglas) as he gets himself thr... Read more

Something to Talk About (1995)

5.7/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Robert Duvall, Dennis Quaid, Julia Roberts, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick

From the writer of 'Thelma And Louise' and the director of 'My Life as a Dog' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' comes this acclaimed movie in which Ju... Read more

Hysterical Blindness (2002)

6.5/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Uma Thurman, Gena Rowlands, Juliette Lewis, Justin Chambers, Ben Gazzara

It's 1987 in Bayonne, New Jersey. The bars are full and smoky, and two old friends, Debby and Beth, are out looking for a good time. With her hair tea... Read more

Once Around (1990)

6.5/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Danny Aiello, Gena Rowlands, Holly Hunter, Laura San Giacomo, Richard Dreyfuss

Director Lasse Hallstrom's ('My Life as a Dog') U.S. debut film is this superb off-beat romantic comedy about a repressed young woman (Holly Hunter) s... Read more

John Cassavetes: Five Films - Shadows / Faces / A Woman Under the Influence / The Killing of a Chinese Bookie / Opening Night / A Constant Forge (2013)

7.5/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Hugh Hurd, Lelia Goldoni, Anthony Ray

John Cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of American independent film, but that doesn’t begin to get at the generosity of his art... Read more

Night On Earth (1991)

7.8/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni, B...

A five-part slice-of-life; each story unravelling at the same time in L.A., New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki; all set in a taxi, and all spotlightin... Read more

The Brink's Job (1978)

6.5/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Goorwitz, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, Paul Sorvi...

From director William Friedkin ('The French Connection') comes this brilliant portrayal of one of the most famous and daring armed robberies in United... Read more

The Incredible Mrs Ritchie (2003)

6.6/10
Director: Paul Johansson
Starring: Gena Rowlands, David Schofield, Kevin Zegers, James Caan, Cameron Daddo, Brenda...

Charlie Proud (Kevin Zegers) is on a path to delinqency when his school principal gives him an ultimatum. Go to work for elderly widow Evelyn Ritchie... Read more

The Mighty (1998)

7.3/10
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Sharon Stone, Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, Gi...

This wonderful, sensitive family comedy/drama focuses on the friendship between two young outcasts who bond together and become, in their hearts and i... Read more

Taking Lives (2004)

6.2/10
Director: D J Caruso
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo,...

Tough psychological thriller stars Angelina Jolie as an FBI profiler summoned to help out Canadian law enforcement in Montreal, in their pursuit of a... Read more

Broken English (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Josh Hamilton, Parker Posey, Tim Guinee, Peter Bogdanovich, Justi...

Parker Posey is Nora, a 30-something New York hotel worker who feels life is going nowhere. An unexpected romance with a charming Frenchman turns her... Read more

Another Woman (1988)

7.4/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Betty Buckley, Blythe Danner, David Ogden Stiers, Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, H...

When an accomplished philosophy professor turns fifty, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of herself and embarks on a personal odyssey of sel... Read more

The Notebook ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

7.9/10
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Joan Allen, Sam Shepard, James Marsden, Ryan Goslin...

A man (James Garner) reads from a faded notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) he regularly visits at her nursing home. Though her memory has faded, she... Read more

The Notebook (2004)

7.9/10
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Kevin...

A man (James Garner) reads from a faded notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) he regularly visits at her nursing home. Though her memory has faded, she... Read more

Edge of Outside: The Story of the Independent Filmmaking Movement (2006)

6.8/10
Starring: Robert Townsend, Edward Burns, Seymour Cassel, Peter Bogdanovich, Erich Von Stro...

Exploring independent filmmakers from the early silent days of Buster Keaton and DW Griffith, to modern outsiders like Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorses... Read more

Two Minute Warning (1976)

6.1/10
Director: Larry Peerce
Starring: Beau Bridges, Brock Peters, Charlton Heston, David Janssen, Gena Rowlands, John...

Gripping suspense thriller about a sniper who sets his sights on a sell-out crowd at a championship American football game at the Los Angeles Memorial... 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

Paris, Je T'aime (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Oliver Schmitz, Olivier Assayas, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Wes Craven, Sylvain Chomet, etc , Gerard Depardieu
Starring: Leila Bekhti, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellitto, Willem Dafoe,...

A grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance from a stunningly varied array of international directors from the Coen Brothers to Alfonso C... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Volume 1 (1982)

8.4/10
Director: Jeremy Kagan, Lamont Johnson, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Peter Medak, Roger Vadim, Tony Bill, Howard Storm, Emile Ardolino, Eric Idle, Gilbert Cates, Graeme Clifford, Ivan Passer, James Frawley
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Barbara Hershey, Beatrice Straight, Bernadette Peters, Beverly...

With lavish special effects, unique scripting and an outstanding cast of actors and directors, this terrific series, created and executive produced by... Read more