Movies with Shirley Knight
Movies found: 15, viewing from 1 to 15
Elevator
Genres: Thriller
Starring: Devin Ratray, Shirley Knight, John Getz, Anita Briem, Waleed Zuaiter, Joey Slotnick, Herbert Russell
Directors: Stig Svendsen
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers are trapped in a Wall Street elevator, and one of them has a bomb. They will do anything to survive.
Listen to Your Heart
Genres: Romance, Drama, Music
Starring: Shirley Knight, Cybill Shepherd, Ernie Sabella, Aisha Kabia, Alexia Rasmussen, Kent Moran, Frank Watson
Directors: Kent Moran, Luke Moran
Country: USA
Year: 2010
A struggling New York City songwriter (Kent Moran) becomes enamored with a wealthy hearing-impaired girl from Greenwich, Connecticut (Alexia Rasmussen) who tragically cannot hear the music she inspires him to write. After falling in love against the wishes of her controlling mother, Ariana becomes torn between hanging onto the shelter her controlling mother (Cybill Shepherd) provides and fighting for a love that, if given the chance, might just change her life.
Sexual Life
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Kevin Corrigan, Anne Heche, James LeGros, Elizabeth Banks, Shirley Knight, Fionnula Flanagan, Azura Skye
Directors: Ken Kwapis
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
Color of Night
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Starring: Lesley Ann Warren, Bruce Willis, Jeff Corey, Shirley Knight, Brad Dourif, Kevin J. O'Connor, Lance Henriksen
Directors: Richard Rush
Country: USA
Year: 1994
Psychologist Bill Capa gives up his practise when he unintentially pushes a patient to committ suicide. In an effort to come to terms with this tragedy he visits an old colleague, Bob Moore, who is subsequently murdered. The quest to catch the killer centres around a group of Moores psychologically disturbed patients, however equally as important is an affair which develops between Capa and the mysterious Rose. This relationship, at first a diversion, becomes central to the plot as the film progresses.
Diabolique
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Shirley Knight, Sharon Stone, Donal Logue, Spalding Gray, O'Neal Compton
Directors: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Country: USA
Year: 1996
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental state is not helped when their victim is seen, apparently alive and well by one of the pupils.
If These Walls Could Talk
Genres: Drama
Starring: Kevin Cooney, Shirley Knight, Catherine Keener, Lorna Scott, Jason London, Aaron Lustig, Demi Moore
Directors: Nancy Savoca, Cher
Country: USA
Year: 1996
A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy and takes drastic measures to get one. In 1974 a family housewife with four children discovers that she's pregnant and decides she can't handle another child to raise. In 1996, a pregnant college student decides on an abortion, but doesn't realize the means to go through to get one.
The Rain People
Genres: Drama
Starring: Robert Duvall, James Caan, Shirley Knight, Tom Aldredge, Andrew Duncan, Sally Gracie, Marya Zimmet
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Country: USA
Year: 1969
Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight), a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery list worth of responsibilities that add up to a life with a husband she loves. In a motel room where Natalie stops to rest during the day, she sits motionless on the bed, and experiences the exuberance of complete freedom and the queasy feelings of new beginnings. Natalie continues on with her journey and picks up a young hitch-hiker -Killer (James Caan), an attractive brain-damaged football player. It ...
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Winona Ryder, Shirley Knight, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Tim Guinee, Robin Wright Penn, Ryan McDonald
Directors: Rebecca Miller
Country: USA
Year: 2009
At fifty, Pippa Lee positively glows with female serenity, the devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, proud mother of successful twins and a lovely and adored friend and neighbor. But, when her husband spontaneously decides that they should leave New York for a retirement home as a "pre-emptive strike against decrepitude," and has an affair with someone even younger than she is, Pippa finds her beatific persona unraveling in alarming ways. The truth is, the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of the wild side. She has finally found love and security in a family of her own. And now, that ...
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (Ghost Cat)
Genres: Drama
Starring: Shirley Knight, Ellen Page, Mark Rendall, Shawn Roberts, Tom Barnett, Michael Ontkean, Lori Hallier
Directors: Don McBrearty
Country: Canada
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
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?
Grandma's Boy
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Jonah Hill, Linda Cardellini, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Joel Moore
Directors: Nicholaus Goossen
Country: USA
Year: 2006
When his roommate spends the rent money on Filipino hookers. Alex, a 35 year video game tester has to find a new place to live. After a "encounter" with his friends mom, Alex is forced to move in with his grandmother. Trying to save face with his younger co-workers, Alex says that he is living "with three hot babes" (meaning his grandmother and her two roommates).
Angel Eyes
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Monet Mazur, Shirley Knight, Terrence Howard, Peter MacNeill, James Caviezel, Jeremy Sisto
Directors: Luis Mandoki
Country: USA
Year: 2001
Two emotionally scarred people, Sharon Pogue and Steve 'Catch' Lambert meet and slowly fall in love. Sharon is a Chicago police officer who grew up in a dysfunctional home. Her father would at times get violent with her mother and while he would never touch her, the psychological damage was done. She is haunted not only by her family environment but that she is now shunned by her father after she reported him to the police. For Catch, a tragic accident he blames on himself has resulted in him blocking out the past. He lives alone in an unfurnished apartment refusing to acknowledge the tragedy in his past. As they get to know and trust one ano...
The Salton Sea
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Shirley Knight, Anthony LaPaglia, Peter Sarsgaard, Val Kilmer, Glenn Plummer
Directors: D.J. Caruso
Country: USA
Year: 2002
After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dealer Pooh-Bear.
Flight from Ashiya
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Starring: Shirley Knight, Richard Widmark, Yul Brynner, Suzy Parker, George Chakiris, Joe Di Reda, Mitsuhiro Sugiyama
Directors: Michael Anderson
Country: USA, Japan
Year: 1964
Plunge into hell with the most fearless breed of men on earth!
As Good as It Gets
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Skeet Ulrich, Greg Kinnear, Jack Nicholson, Shirley Knight, Helen Hunt, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lupe Ontiveros
Directors: James L. Brooks
Country: USA
Year: 1997
The trials and tribulations of a compulsive writer, Melvin Udall. After his homosexual neighbor is brutally beaten, he is entrusted to the care of the neighbor's dog, with a difficult relationship with a waitress to add on top of that. What develops is a weekend trip/triangle between these three individuals, and together they learn the true meaning of "the sunny side of life".
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Starring: Allen Covert, Shirley Knight, Peter Gerety, Bobby Cannavale, Erick Avari, Keir O'Donnell, Kevin James
Directors: Steve Carr
Country: USA
Year: 2009
A single, albeit overweight, parent, Paul Blart lives a middle-classed lifestyle with his daughter, Maya, in New Jersey. After being mocked at in school, and having been unsuccessful to get employment with the local police services, he gets hired at a Mall as a security guard. He is attracted to a mall employee, Amy, but his attempts to woo her are foiled by a pen salesman. His continuing efforts to date Amy are hilarious as he must first adapt himself to cell phones and text messaging, which he attempts to do with his pal, Vijay's daughter's cell-phone. Things get complicated after he is instructed to train a new security guard - who has an ...