Movies with Piper Laurie
Movies found: 17, viewing from 1 to 17
The Faculty
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Jon Stewart, Christopher McDonald, Elijah Wood, Salma Hayek, Bebe Neuwirth, Famke Janssen, Daniel von Bargen
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect the teaching staff of being aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims.
The Bunker
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Hopkins, James Naughton, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Martin Jarvis, Michael Lonsdale
Directors: George Schaefer
Country: USA, France
Year: 1981
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Hesher
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Bates, John Carroll Lynch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Allan Graf, Audrey Wasilewski, Piper Laurie, Rainn Wilson
Directors: Spencer Susser
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Hesher is a loner. He hates the world and everyone in it. He has long greasy hair and homemade tattoos. He is malnourished and smokes a lot of cigarettes. He likes fire and blowing things up. He lives in his van, until he meets TJ.
No Room for the Groom
Genres: Comedy
Starring: David Janssen, Piper Laurie, Jack Kelly, Lillian Bronson, Tony Curtis, Lee Aaker, Spring Byington
Directors: Douglas Sirk
Country: USA
Year: 1952
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative Mama and the flock of mostly obnoxious relatives with whom she's filled the house.
The Hustler
Genres: Romance, Drama, Sport
Starring: Vincent Gardenia, Paul Newman, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie, Myron McCormick, Stefan Gierasch, Murray Hamilton
Directors: Robert Rossen
Country: USA
Year: 1961
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
"Fast" Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. Now broke and without his long-time manager, Felson faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and his game. It isn't until he hits rock bottom that he agrees to join up with ruthless and cutthroat manager Bert Gordon. Gordon agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. But Felson soon realizes that making it to the top could cost him his soul, and perhaps his girlfriend. Will he decide that this is ...
Rainbow
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Michael Parks, Martin Balsam, Don Murray, Ben Frank, Jack Carter, Piper Laurie, Donna Pescow
Directors: Jackie Cooper
Country: USA
Year: 1978
The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the Movie Studio system that held her back while her mother was forever pushing her to excel.
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Robert Duvall, Shirley MacLaine, Piper Laurie, Sandra Bullock, Richard Harris, Marty Belafsky, Ed Amatrudo
Directors: Randa Haines
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.
The Crossing Guard
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Richard C. Sarafian, Anjelica Huston, Richard Bradford, Kari Wuhrer, Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Piper Laurie
Directors: Sean Penn
Country: USA
Year: 1995
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiralling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At he end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other.
Son of Ali Baba
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Robert Barrat, Piper Laurie, Victor Jory, William Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Hugh O'Brian, Susan Cabot
Directors: Kurt Neumann
Country: USA
Year: 1952
In medieval Persia, Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a roisterer by night. The morning after a rowdy banquet, Kiki, an escaped slave, takes shelter under Kashma's roof. Word comes that the wicked Caliph is looking for her; but Kashma, by this time in love, flees with her to his father's palace. Alas, there's more to Kiki than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
The Prince Who Was a Thief
Genres: Adventure
Starring: Jeff Corey, Marvin Miller, Piper Laurie, Hayden Rorke, Tony Curtis, Everett Sloane, Donald Randolph
Directors: Rudolph Maté
Country: USA
Year: 1951
This was made by Universal as part of the grooming process aimed atturningTony Curtis from contract player into a star ,allowing him to build up anaudience over the years.It is just as well he was a busy actor and otherproduct came along to obscure just how very bad this is.Curtis is the eponymous Prince ;earmarked for assassination while still ababy he is spared by the soft hearted would be assassin who raises him ashis own sonAs an adult Curtis becomes involved in a nonsensical plot to recover apriceless pearl and in so doing rescue his native city from attack byheartless enemies.Along the way he falls in love with the schemingprincess,not ...
Eulogy
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Kelly Preston, Ray Romano, Zooey Deschanel, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Glenne Headly
Directors: Michael Clancy
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Year: 2004
When three generations of a dysfunctional family gather in Rhode Island to bury the family patriarch, members of the Collins clan are at each other's throats in no time. Son Daniel is a secret porn actor, and daughter Lucy is a lesbian. Lucy totes along her lover Judy to the outrage of Lucy's aggressively neurotic sister Alice, whose hysterical overreaction to the pair's marriage plans ought to tell everyone something. Rounding out the delightful crowd are dim brother Skip, whose unfailingly rude twin sons offer caustic commentary on their elders' infantile predilections; matriarchal widow Charlotte, who becomes so justifiably distraught at t...
The Mississippi Gambler
Genres: Adventure, Romance
Starring: John McIntire, Piper Laurie, Paul Cavanagh, William Reynolds, Tyrone Power, Robert Warwick, Julie Adams
Directors: Rudolph Maté
Country: USA
Year: 1953
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
Intensity
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Starring: John C. McGinley, Katie Stuart, Piper Laurie, Alf Humphreys, Blu Mankuma, Babs Chula, Molly Parker
Directors: Yves Simoneau
Country: USA
Year: 1997
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley. Chyna feels a great sense of responsibility for this girl, and she travels deeper into her nightmare.
The Dead Girl
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Starring: James Franco, Christopher Allen Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Rose Byrne, Piper Laurie, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Davison
Directors: Karen Moncrieff
Country: USA
Year: 2006
In Los Angeles, a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.
Carrie
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Starring: John Travolta, Amy Irving, Sydney Lassick, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Stefan Gierasch, Sissy Spacek
Directors: Brian De Palma
Country: USA
Year: 1976
Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn't realise is that Carrie is ... gifted, and you really don't want to get her angry.
Hounddog
Genres: Drama, Music
Starring: David Morse, Dakota Fanning, Piper Laurie, Robin Wright Penn, Cody Hanford, Afemo Omilami, Ryan Pelton
Directors: Deborah Kampmeier
Country: USA
Year: 2007
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Return to Oz
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie, Brian Henson, Jean Marsh, Matt Clark, Tim Rose, Mak Wilson
Directors: Walter Murch
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1985
Dorothy Gale has recently come back to Kansas from the land of Oz is now almost back to perfect Heath since the Incident of the Tornedo, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head, she talks frequently about it and cannot get any sleep at night. Her Aunt Elm worries about her Heath/Well being, thinking that her Niece suffers Dislusional Depression and Acute Insomina, decides to take Dorothy to see a Special Doctor in another Town. While the Doctor tend to treat Little Dorothy with Electro shock Treatment and take away those nasty dreams from her head. Dorothy is rescued by a mysterious girl who leads her back to the land of oz f...