Glenn Close
Actor
Films to Rent
- World According to Garp, The (1982)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow…
- Dazzling adaptation of John Irving's novel about an eccentric's often ill–fated journey through life. Robin Williams is brilliant as Garp, with…
- Personal Best (1982)
- Dir. Robert Towne
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Glenn Close
- Excellent directorial debut for scriptwriter Towne (of CHINATOWN fame), that uses slow–motion photography to dynamise its story of two lesbian…
- Big Chill, The (1983)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt…
- Old college friends gather together for a weekend after the funeral of one of their peers, where they reconcile their current lives in the 1980's…
- Natural, The (1984)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger
- The classic novel by Bernard Malamud gets a typical Hollywood going over, with Robert Redford playing a young dreamer who aspires to baseball…
- Jagged Edge (1985)
- Dir. Richard Marquand
Feat. Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote…
- Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges star in this compelling courtroom thriller about a defence attorney who romances her client who is on trial for a brutal…
- Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Glenn Close, Michael Douglas
- Glenn Close and Michael Douglas star in this, the ultimate yuppie cautionary tale, about a married man who has a weekend fling that turns his life…
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Classic tale of an unscrupulous French countess who creates royal havoc by challenging her former lover to the sexual conquest of a virginal…
- Immediate Family (1989)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson…
- Earnest drama with strong cast brings together a couple who desperately want a child and a teenage mother and her boyfriend who discover unexpected…
- Hamlet (1990)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates…
- Mel Gibson pulls off a creditable lead performance as the melancholy Dane, certainly aided by the director's eye for detail, and top supporting…
- Reversal of Fortune (1990)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
- In his best performance, Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for portraying Claus Von Bulow, a European émigré who was accused of trying to poison his wife…
- Meeting Venus (1991)
- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup
- Glenn Close plays a Swedish diva (miming to our Dame Kiri) entangled in personal and political problems whilst leading in Wagner's Tannhauser.
- Sarah, Plain and Tall (Winter's End; Skylark) (1991-1999)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Glenn Close, Christopher Walken
- A beloved made–for–TV adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's famous children's novel. A widowed farmer places an ad for a wife, with a…
- House of the Spirits (1993)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close…
- Alternately ponderous and fascinating screen version of Isabel Allende's acclaimed saga charting the turbulent history of a South American family…
- Paper, The (1993)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall…
- Michael Keaton and Glenn Close clash ethics in the cut–throat world of the New York tabloids. A hectic morality play with pace, humour and…
- Serving in Silence (1994)
- Dir. Jeff Bleckner
Feat. Glenn Close, Judy Davis
- Glenn Close and Judy Davis star in this biopic of Margarethe Cammermeyer, an exemplary colonel of the US military who was forced to fight for her…
- Mary Reilly (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. John Malkovich, Julia Roberts, Michael Gambon…
- John Malkovich and Juila Roberts star in this alternative take on R.L. Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde story – the toil and double trouble is seen…
- 101 Dalmatians (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson…
- Ambitious live–action remake of Disney's own animated hit sends both dog and breeder into panic mode when fiendish designer Cruella De Vil…
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening…
- Tim Burton once again turns tacky into an art form, but this time with a monster budget to match the alien carnage.
This gleefully (though…
- Paradise Road (1997)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Cate Blanchett…
- A group of European woman, incl. Glenn Close and Frances McDormand, are captured in Singapore during WWII by the Japanese. They alleviate the…
- Cookie's Fortune (1998)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Glenn Close, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell…
- A satisfying, home–spun Southern patchwork, stuffed with little–biddy–town idiosyncracies and a slightly kooky plot surrounding the…
- Tarzan (1999)
- Dir. Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
Feat. Tony Goldwyn, Rosie O'Donnell, Minnie Driver…
- Sticking faithfully to Edgar Rice Burroughs' original story, Disney return to the top of the animated game.
No–nonsense, traditional…
- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (1999)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter…
- A quietly impressive portmanteau film, portraying the interior lives of five Los Angeles women in crisis, this was unfairly shelved after its…
- 102 Dalmatians (2000)
- Dir. Kevin Lima
Feat. Glenn Close, Gerard Depardieu
- 'Rehabilitated' dalmation–hater Cruella De Vil (Glenn Close) isn't long out of the clink before she's back to her old ways in this worthy…
- Safety of Objects, The (2001)
- Dir. Rose Troche
Feat. Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson…
- A multi–stranded drama set in a quietly unusual version of American suburbia where seamy dysfunction co–exists with surreal…
- Le Divorce (2003)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Leslie Caron…
- Neither romantic escapism nor French farce American–style, this comedy from ‘prestige’ partnership Merchant–Ivory can’t find shape…
- Lion in Winter, The (TV Mini-series) (2003)
- Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Glenn Close, Jonathan Rhys Meyers…
- A respectable telemovie version of James Goldman's stageplay about the battle for succession to the English throne between Henry II (Stewart) and his…
- Anything Else (2003)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci…
- Woody Allen returns to his home turf tracking the urban mores of various Manhattan–ites, in a fairly slight comic venture which follows the…
- Brush With Fate (2003)
- Dir. Brent Shields
Feat. Glenn Close, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Gibson…
- A cloistered prep school teacher (Close) reveals to a colleague (Gibson) that she is in possession of a lost painting – 'Girl in Hyancinth…
- Stepford Wives, The (2004)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken…
- Remade as a comedy, this glossy, satirical double–take on the spooky 70s thriller of the same name has man–eating TV executive Nicole…
- Heights (2004)
- Dir. Chris Terrio
Feat. Glenn Close, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford
- The collective aspirations and angst of a group of attractive New Yorkers, all loosely connected to the theatre and art world, collide in showers of…
- Chumscrubber, The (2005)
- Dir. Arie Posin
Feat. Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Glenn Close…
- A sadsack teenager (Bell) living in a sterile new suburb in Southern California discovers his best friend has committed suicide, an event which seems…
- Hoodwinked! (2005)
- Dir. Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leech
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, James Belushi…
- Postmodern childrens' animation loosely based on the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' follows the SHREK–model of rewiring fairytales with smug…
- Damages (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ted Danson…
- Complex, high–stakes, aggressively acted legal drama starring Glenn Close as a power–suited litigator tackling a major class action…
- Evening (2007)
- Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave…
- All–star, womanly melodrama unveils the secret life of an ailing matriarch (Redgrave), whose remembrance of an intense, tragic love fifty years…
- Albert Nobbs (2011)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson…
- A magnificent Glenn Close elevates this otherwise downbeat period drama of a woman who dresses as a man in order to eke out a living in…
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
- Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista…
- Marvel's latest extravaganza is an irresistible pop–culture–inflected comic romp that centres on a group of space criminals who must work…
- Girl With All the Gifts, The (2016)
- Dir. Colm McCarthy
Feat. Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine…
- Aimed especially at young adults, this British take on the zombie thriller features the unique presence of an exceptional young girl who is…
- Wilde Wedding, The (2017)
- Dir. Damian Harris
Feat. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Patrick Stewart…
- A retired film star prepares for her fourth wedding to a successful British novelist as tensions fly and hi–jinks ensue among the guests at the…
- What Happened To Monday (Seven Sisters) (2017)
- Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe
- By the director of DEAD SNOW and featuring a dynamic performance from Noomi Rapace as seven different characters.
A dystopian future government is…
- Crooked House (2017)
- Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Feat. Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Max Irons…
- Agatha Christie adaptation set in post–war London, where a hard up private detective is asked by a sultry woman from his past to solve the…
- Wife, The (2017)
- Dir. Björn Runge
Feat. Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater…
- An intelligent drama exploring the 40 year marriage between a Nobel Prize winning novelist and his wife, who has remained in the shadows as her own…