Shirley Knight — Actor (27)
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The Uninvited (1996) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Uninvited
director: Larry Shaw actor: Sharon Lawrence / Beau Bridges …
other title: La casa delle luci / Stimmen aus dem Grab …
A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins experiencing paranormal phenomena. She finds it playful at first, but as it grows increasingly malevolent, she is unable to convince her husband of it, and she must contend with it to protect her family from its influence.
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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
director: Don McBrearty actor: Elliot Page / Kelti MacMillan …
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers point to the presence of Margaret, who died the same day as Mrs. Ashboro. But why has she come back to haunt them?
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
director: Delbert Mann actor: Robert Preston / Dorothy McGuire …
other title: Il buio in cima alle scale / Das Dunkle am Ende der Treppe …
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
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Bump in the Night (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bump in the Night
director: Karen Arthur actor: Meredith Baxter / Christopher Reeve …
other title: Cercate quel bambino / Stunden der Angst
Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son, Jonathan, leaves for school, stopping first to meet his father for breakfast. But Jonathan never meets his dad. Instead, he is picked up by Lawrence, a pedophile who has been watching him. Now Martha must overcome her alcoholism and her bitterness towards her ex-husband and use her old investigative skills to find her son before it's too late.
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Petulia (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Petulia
director: Richard Lester actor: Julie Christie / George C. Scott …
other title: Petúlia - Um Demônio de Mulher
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David, whose father is a powerful society figure. As Petulia and Archie's feelings for each other grow, they must decide what it is they truly want.
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The Outsider (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Outsider
director: Michael Ritchie actor: Darren McGavin / Sean Garrison …
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
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The Group (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Group
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Candice Bergen / Joan Hackett …
other title: Il gruppo / O Grupo …
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper-class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
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Juggernaut (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Juggernaut
director: Richard Lester actor: Richard Harris / Omar Sharif …
other title: Juggernaut - Inferno em Alto Mar / 18 Stunden bis zur Ewigkeit …
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
director: Irwin Allen actor: Michael Caine / Sally Field …
other title: L'inferno sommerso / Poseidons hemmelighed …
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
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A Promise to Carolyn (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Promise to Carolyn
director: Jerry London actor: Delta Burke / Swoosie Kurtz …
other title: Tre angeli all'inferno / En souvenir de Caroline
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.
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Our Idiot Brother (2011) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
Our Idiot Brother
director: Jesse Peretz actor: Paul Rudd / Elizabeth Banks …
other title: Quell'idiota di nostro fratello / O Idiota do Meu Irmão …
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
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White Cannibal Queen (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mondo cannibale
director: Jesús Franco actor: Al Cliver / Sabrina Siani …
other title: La dea cannibale / Mondo Cannibale 3: Die blonde Göttin der Kannibalen …
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.
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The Salton Sea (2002) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Salton Sea
director: D.J. Caruso actor: Val Kilmer / Vincent D'Onofrio …
other title: Salton Sea - Incubi e menzogne / A Sombra de um Homem …
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Sweet Bird of Youth
director: Richard Brooks actor: Paul Newman / Geraldine Page …
other title: La dolce ala della giovinezza / Corações na Penumbra …
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
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The Couch (1962) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Couch
director: Owen Crump actor: Grant Williams / Shirley Knight …
other title: Crimen a las 7 / ... immer Punkt 7
A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.