Movies by Shelley Winters
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Kabukiman's Comedy Jam Vol. 1: Southern Fried Comedy (2004)
Cast: Shelley Winters, Sheila Kennedy, Albert T. Viola …
Directed by: Peter Wittman
Troma's compilation gathers three kitschy films in one volume: Preacherman has an ex-con, Amos Huxley, working a new gig as a man of the cloth, an alter ego he just can't pull off…
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Short: International Release #2 (2000)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Jane Campion
Aficionados of short films will relish the award-winning, cosmopolitan flicks contained in Warner Bros.' "Short Cinema Journal" series. The DVDs group the movies by category -- in this…
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On Cukor (2000)
Cast: Jean Simmons, Peter Bogdanovich, George Cukor …
Directed by: Robert Trachtenberg
From the PBS series "American Masters" comes this revealing, 90-minute documentary that examines the life of cinematic legend George Cukor, who helmed a string classic films that includes The…
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The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey …
Directed by: Jane Campion
Jane Campion's adaptation of Henry James's novel stars Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer, an American heiress visiting relatives in 1872 England who falls prey to the manipulations of…
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Heavy (1995)
Cast: Liv Tyler, Evan Dando, Joe Grifasi …
Directed by: James Mangold
To help his mother (Shelley Winters) keep her greasy spoon afloat, the overweight and timid Victor (Pruitt Taylor Vince) pitches in as a short-order cook. He's painfully self-conscious…
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Jury Duty (1995)
Cast: Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci …
Directed by: John Fortenberry
A luckless loser named Tommy Collins (Pauly Shore) finds himself homeless when his mom packs up the trailer and heads for Vegas. So, Tommy hits on the idea of serving as a juror in a long…
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Backfire (1995)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Telly Savalas, Edie Falco …
Directed by: A. Dean Bell
Lampooning the 1991 hit Backdraft, this wacky farce follows the efforts of Jeremy Jackson (Josh Mosby) to become the first man in an all-female firefighting unit and to discover who's…
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1991)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Sally Kirkland …
Directed by: Chuck Workman
Andy Warhol -- the sometimes-disputed "father of pop art"-- was an enigma, even to his closest friends and fellow artists, but this documentary from writer-director Chuck Workman strives to…
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An Unremarkable Life (1989)
Cast: Patricia Neal, Shelley Winters, Rochelle Oliver …
Directed by: Amin Q. Chaudhri
Frances and Evelyn McEllany (Patricia Neal and Shelley Winters), aging sisters who have spent most of their adult lives together, are forced to confront jealousy and painful emotions when one…
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The Delta Force (1986)
Cast: Chuck Norris, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn …
Directed by: Menahem Golan
When American tourists get skyjacked and held hostage in Beirut, an elite team of U.S. commandos -- with tough guys Col. Nick Alexander (Lee Marvin) and Maj. Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) as…
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Very Close Quarters (1986)
Cast: Frederick Allen, Ellen Barber, Theodore Bikel …
Directed by: Vladimir Rif
Writer-director Vladimir Rif steers this madcap Cold War-era sex comedy about a cramped Moscow apartment that doubles as a home to 31 strangers who are forced to become roommates by…
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Deja Vu (1985)
Cast: Jaclyn Smith, Nigel Terry, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Anthony B. Richmond
Jaclyn Smith is Maggie, the fiancée of a writer, Greg (Nigel Terry), who subscribes to the philosophy of reincarnation. Small wonder, then, that he's quick to believe that Maggie…
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Alice in Wonderland (1985)
Cast: Steve Allen, Sheila Allen, Robert Axelrod …
Directed by: Harry Harris
A veritable time warp of famous faces -- including Sammy Davis Jr., Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Sally Struthers, Scott Baio and Ringo Starr -- takes over this updated musical version of…
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Fanny Hill (1983)
Cast: Lisa Foster, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Gerry O'Hara
John Cleland's ribald novel comes floridly to life in director Gerry O'Hara's adaptation of the classic tale. As soon as buxom country lass Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) lands in…
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Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1982)
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jackie Vernon, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Red Buttons and Shelley Winters voice the characters in this charming animated tale about how Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer got his shiny nose and how he…
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S.O.B. (1981)
Cast: Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, William Holden …
Directed by: Blake Edwards
In director Blake Edwards's satire of the Hollywood film industry, squeaky-clean superstar Sally Miles (Julie Andrews) is the key to a fading director's (Richard Mulligan) sudden…
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Elvis (1979)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell …
Directed by: John Carpenter
Kurt Russell earned an Emmy nod for his portrayal of hip-swiveling rock god Elvis Presley in this made-for-television biopic that also earned nominations for its cinematography and makeup,…
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King of the Gypsies (1978)
Cast: Eric Roberts, Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Frank Pierson
Defiant Gypsy youth Dave Stepanowicz tries to turn his back on his legacy but can't escape it when his dying grandfather makes him the tribe's new leader. Trouble begins to brew as…
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The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Cast: Kay Lenz, Shelley Winters, Tony Bill …
Directed by: Robert Day
Humiliated and rejected by the stuck-up Alpha Nu Sigmas who accepted her more popular sister, Patty (Morgan Brittany), insecure Sarah (Kay Lenz) joins a less prestigious sorority and uses her…
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Pete's Dragon (1977)
Cast: Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Don Chaffey
One of Disney's last musical combinations of live-action and traditional animation spins the family-friendly tale of runaway orphan Pete (Sean Marshall) and his pet dragon, Elliott…
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The Tenant (1976)
Cast: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a timid file clerk who moves into a run-down apartment with a disturbing history: The previous occupant jumped to her death from the dismal room's…
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Cast: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene …
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
The bohemian paradise that was Greenwich Village in the 1950s comes alive in this nostalgic comedy by Paul Mazursky. Lenny Baker stars as Larry Lapinsky, a wanna-be actor who leaves Brooklyn…
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Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
Cast: Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian …
Directed by: David Worth
When her car breaks down in a small Southern town, an African-American jazz singer (Leslie Uggams) is at the mercy of a grotesque Elvis impersonator who holds her hostage and rapes her…
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Cleopatra Jones (1973)
Cast: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, BrendaSykes …
Directed by: Jack Starrett
Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) is a stylin' special agent who chases down drug lords the world over as she does her part to stop trafficking. When Jones destroys a Turkish poppy field…
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Blume in Love (1973)
Cast: Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
When lawyer Stephen Blume gets kicked out by his wife, Nina, for sleeping with his secretary, he has an epiphany: Nina is his romantic destiny. Despite the obvious hurdles, he sets about…
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The Devil's Daughter (1973)
Cast: Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery, Robert Foxworth …
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Teenager Diane Shaw (Belinda Montgomery) has no idea that the devil has purchased her soul, deliverable when she comes of age. When her mother dies and she's adopted by a family friend,…
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons …
Directed by: Ronald Neame
As the luxury liner Poseidon charts its course on New Year's Eve, disaster strikes when an undersea earthquake causes a titanic tidal wave and capsizes the vessel, leaving just 10…
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What's the Matter with Helen? / Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Agnes Moorehead …
Directed by: Curtis Harrington
What's The Matter With Helen?: Chased by threatening telephone calls, the mothers of two teenage murderers move to Hollywood and open a kids' dance school. But their idyllic new…
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Bloody Mama (1970)
Cast: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Shelley Winters stars in Roger Corman's Depression-era gangster drama as Ma Barker, who leads her family on a crime spree. Loosely based on the real Barker gang, Corman's film…
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Wild in the Streets (1968)
Cast: Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Diane Varsi …
Directed by: Barry Shear
A few years ago, suburban teen Max Flatow (Christopher Jones) was making bombs and LSD. Now he's a rock star using his fame to urge young people to vote at the behest of a senator (Hal…
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Outnumbered by a tribe of gun-toting Kiowa Indians, illiterate trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) reluctantly agrees to trade his furs for educated slave Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis). Bass and Lee…
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers …
Directed by: Melvin Frank
With her long-held secret about to emerge, winsome Carla Campbell (Gina Lollobrigida) is in a fix. It seems that during World War II, Carla slept with three U.S. soldiers (Phil Silvers, Peter…
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Alfie (1966)
Cast: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin …
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
English playboy Alfie (Michael Caine) is a charming Don Juan in the free-spirited 1960s with an insatiable appetite for women. He lives for sex and steers clear of emotional attachments,…
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Harper (1966)
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Paul Newman steps into the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe as Lew Harper, a "new type" of detective -- as he puts it. Lauren Bacall plays the wife of a missing…
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Cast: Max von Sydow, Michael Anderson Jr., Carroll Baker …
Directed by: George Stevens, David Lean, Jean Negulesco …
Swedish actor Max Von Sydow made his English-speaking debut in this gargantuan retelling of the life of Christ from Giant director George Stevens. The much-ballyhooed all-star cast includes…
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A Patch of Blue (1965)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Guy Green
Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier), a handsome, hard-working black man, befriends Selina (Elizabeth Hartman, who received an Oscar nod), a blind white girl, and he introduces her to a whole new…
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The Balcony (1963)
Cast: Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant …
Directed by: Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick helmed this adaptation of playwright Jean Genet's surrealistic political satire about customers who continue their fantasy role-playing in a brothel, oblivious to the…
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Wives and Lovers (1963)
Cast: Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: John Rich
Newly loaded after penning a best-seller, a once-struggling author (Van Johnson) convinces his wife (Janet Leigh) to move to a tony suburb. But while the couple's finances are robust,…
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Lolita (1962)
Cast: Peter Sellers, James Mason, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is uncontrollably attracted to jailbait teen Lolita (Sue Lyon) and knows no good can come of his pursuit. But, driven by passion and desire, he continues his…
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The Chapman Report (1962)
Cast: Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom …
Directed by: George Cukor
When distinguished psychologist George C. Chapman (Andrew Duggan) arrives in suburbia, he has one goal: To find volunteers for his survey about American women's sexual practices. Luckily…
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The Young Savages (1961)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
When three Italian teens are accused of stabbing a young Puerto Rican in East Harlem, an ambitious district attorney pushes for the death penalty, but wary assistant DA Hank Bell (Burt…
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: George Stevens
As the "Green Police" search for Jews on the streets of Amsterdam, a young girl named Anne (Millie Perkins), her parents Otto and Edith (Joseph Schildkraut and Gusti Huber) and another family…
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Robert Wise
David Burke, a former cop and ex-con, convinces bigoted Southerner Earl Slater to rob a bank with him. Burke also recruits Johnny Ingram, a gambling addict hopelessly in debt. But when Slater…
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish …
Directed by: Charles Laughton
Bogus "preacher" Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) learns cellmate Ben Harper (Peter Graves) has stashed stolen loot on his property. So after the demented Powell is released, he charms…
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The Big Knife (1955)
Cast: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Jack Palance stars as Charles Castle, a famous actor who's trying to leave show business so he can reconcile with his estranged wife -- so he refuses to sign a studio contract that would…
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I Am a Camera (1955)
Cast: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Henry Cornelius
With roughly the same plot and characters as Bob Fosse's Broadway and screen hit Cabaret (which earned Oscars for both Fosse and a young Liza Minelli), this nonmusical version of the…
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Executive Suite (1954)
Cast: Robert Wise, William Holden, June Allyson …
A company president dies, leaving his daughter Julia (Barbara Stanwyck) to choose a successor from five candidates. The motivations, strengths and flaws of each emerge as they vie for the…
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Saskatchewan (1954)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish …
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
After rising up against his superior, Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police leads his men and their cache of confiscated weapons to a safer spot in the…
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Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
In this classic drama, David Trask (Gary Merrill), the sole survivor of a plane crash, becomes obsessed with contacting the relatives of his doomed fellow passengers. The film follows…
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Untamed Frontier (1952)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady …
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
Powerful cattle baron Matt Denbow and his brood press their luck on the frontier by barring homesteaders from claiming government-granted access to the open range -- all this, while one of…
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: George Stevens
Dirt-poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) lands himself a factory job thanks to a well-to-do uncle's largesse and has a tryst with co-worker Alice (Shelley Winters) to combat his…
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Behave Yourself (1951)
Cast: Marvin Kaplan, Francis L. Sullivan, Sheldon Leonard …
A cute Welsh terrier follows Bill (Farley Granger) home one day, and he and his wife, Kate (Shelley Winters), decide to adopt the stray pooch. However, this dog has been trained to work for…
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Winchester '73 (1950)
Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea …
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Perhaps the pinnacle in the series of Anthony Mann/Jimmy Stewart Westerns, Winchester '73 stars Stewart as obsessed cowhand Lin McAdam. The trouble starts when McAdam wins a valuable…
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A Double Life (1947)
Cast: Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien …
Directed by: George Cukor
Ronald Colman portrays a veteran stage actor who, while playing Othello, falls victim to the actor's malady of mixing roles with reality -- a dangerous affliction in this case, as he…