Veronica Cartwright — Actor (23)
cover
Nightmares (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Nightmares
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Cristina Raines / Emilio Estevez …
other title: Incubi / Alpträume …
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
cover
Man Trouble (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Man Trouble
director: Bob Rafelson actor: Jack Nicholson / Ellen Barkin …
other title: La gatta e la volpe / Man Trouble - Auf den Hund gekommen …
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
cover
The Lottery (1996) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Lottery
director: Daniel Sackheim actor: Dan Cortese / Keri Russell …
other title: Il complotto / El último deseo …
Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, clandestine ritual that led to his mother's early death and his father's insanity.
cover
The Yellow Wallpaper (2011) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Yellow Wallpaper
director: Logan Thomas actor: Aric Cushing / Juliet Landau …
The Yellow Wallpaper (Motion Picture) is an "Origins Myth"... rather than a direct adaptation of the famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman story. Drawing from the original short story and a number of Gilmans' other gothic works (The Giant Wisteria, The Unwatched Door, etc.), The Yellow Wallpaper is an original narrative of events that unfold around the actual writing of "The Yellow Wallpaper" short story. After a devastating fire, Charlotte and John rent a countryside house and attempt to start life over, though Charlotte, upon seeing visions of her deceased daughter, retreats to the house's attic and pulls away from her husband and sister. Written by Max Visconti
cover
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Memory: The Origins of Alien
director: Alexandre O. Philippe actor: Ronald Shusett / Roger Christian …
other title: Memory - Über die Entstehung von Alien / Memory : The Origins of Alien
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.
cover
Goin' South (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Goin' South
director: Jack Nicholson actor: Jack Nicholson / Mary Steenburgen …
other title: Verso il sud / Med rebet om halsen …
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
cover
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
director: Ernest Tidyman actor: Powers Boothe / Ned Beatty …
other title: Das Guayana-Massaker
In the 1960s, Reverend Jim Jones began as an idealist helping minorities and working against racism. After a move to San Francisco and increased power and attention, Jones became focused on his belief in nuclear holocaust, declared himself a prophet, and founded the Peoples Temple. With a loyal following of over 1,000, who donated their entire life savings to him and to join his commune, he moves them to Guyana. When possible crimes come to the attention of the authorities, and once notified that some individuals are being held against their will, an investigation begins. Rather than face the charges, Jones commits suicide, and roughly 900 of his followers do the same.
cover
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
director: Bill Condon actor: Tony Todd / Kelly Rowan …
other title: Candyman 2 - L'inferno nello specchio / Candyman 2: A Vingança …
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
cover
Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985) [TV] IMDb TMDB
Robert Kennedy & His Times
actor: Brad Davis / Mitchell Ryan …
Robert Kennedy & His Times is a 1985 American television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The miniseries was released in three parts and depicts the life of Robert F. Kennedy.
cover
In the Bedroom (2001) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
In the Bedroom
director: Todd Field actor: Tom Wilkinson / Sissy Spacek …
other title: Entre Quatro Paredes / En la habitación
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
cover
Inserts (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Inserts
director: John Byrum actor: Richard Dreyfuss / Jessica Harper …
other title: Il pornografo / Nahaufnahmen …
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
cover
Kinsey (2004) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Kinsey
director: Bill Condon actor: Liam Neeson / Timothy Hutton …
other title: Kinsey - E ora parliamo di sesso... / Relatório Kinsey …
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.
cover
The Right Stuff (1983) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Right Stuff
director: Philip Kaufman actor: Sam Shepard / Scott Glenn …
other title: Uomini veri / Mænd af rette støbning …
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
cover
Scary Movie 2 (2001) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
Scary Movie 2
4.2 (8 ratings) director: Keenen Ivory Wayans actor: Anna Faris / Regina Hall …
other title: Scary Movie 2 - Um Susto de Filme
While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
cover
The Children's Hour (1961) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Children's Hour
director: William Wyler actor: Shirley MacLaine / Audrey Hepburn …
other title: Quelle due / Sladder …
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.
cover
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Skybridge
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
7.7 (12 ratings) director: Philip Kaufman actor: Donald Sutherland / Brooke Adams …
other title: Terrore dallo spazio profondo / Stjålne kroppe …
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.