Gena Rowlands

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Lonely Are The Brave (1962): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau…; Kirk Douglas is on top form in this Dalton Trumbo–penned 'psychological' Western, playing an anti–establishment cowboy who purposefully…
Child is Waiting, A (1963): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands; At a school for disabled children music therapist Judy Garland butts heads with the conservative superintendent Burt Lancaster. Film is of note as…
Faces (1968): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin; A marriage in crisis lurches into a downward spiral of drunkeness and desperate affairs. The dishevelled honesty and stark camerawork may not suit…
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Seymour Cassel, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes…; John Cassavetes' most accessible film is an unlikely romance between a museum curator and a parking attendant set over four days and nights.…
Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973): Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…; Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands; Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands pull out the stops as a dysfunctional working– class couple. Though the drama (and running time) are left…
Two Minute Warning (1976): Dir. Larry Peerce
Feat. Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam…; Questionable Charlton Heston thriller set in a pro–football stadium, where a group of cops must take down a sniper in the crowd before he opens…
Opening Night (1977): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara; Intermittently fascinating, semi–improvised opus from Cassavetes (who also stars), about an aging actress (Gena Rowlands) who suffers a…
Brink's Job, The (1977): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands…; In 1950, the Brink’s security firm in Boston was robbed of nearly $3,000,000, in one of the US’ largest ever heists. This version of events…
Gloria (1980): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen; Rowlands is devastating as a gangster moll who runs from the Mob after taking protective custody of a neighbour's son, whose parents have fallen…
Tempest (1982): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon; Paradise is found and then lost for John Cassavetes who escapes mid–life crisis and flees to the Greek Isles with his daughter. Loosely based…
Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series) (1982-1985): Feat. Shelley Duvall, Robin Williams, Teri Garr…; Shelley Duvall curated this popular Cable TV series in eighties (which she also hosts and narrates), attracting an impressive roll call of Hollywood…
Love Streams (1984): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel; Rarely–seen film by indie iconoclast John Cassavetes, described by some as he at his self–indugent worst, but praised in other quarters…
Another Woman (1988): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, Ian Holm…; Gena Rowlands heads a cast of Woody Allen regulars in this absorbing Bergman–esque portrait of a successful professor who is forced to reflect…
Once Around (1991): Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands…; Richard Dreyfuss plays an abrasive, rich braggart who enters into an emotional tug–of–war with the family of fiancee Holly Hunter.
Crazy in Love (1992): Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands; Romantic complications ensue for three generations of women – especially Holly Hunter – whose worries about her 'perfect' husband's…
Something to Talk About (1995): Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall…; The screenwriter of THELMA AND LOUISE penned this tale of a happily married woman (Julia Roberts) whose life is turned on its head when she discovers…
Neon Bible, The (1995): Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Denis Leary; Dreamy, Big Band–infused coming–of–age, in which British lyricist Terence Davies transposes his woozy, nostalgia–lensed…
Unhook the Stars (1996): Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gerard Depardieu; Ageing widow Gena Rowlands forms an unlikely bond with a seven–year old neighbour and his abrasive mother in this absorbing drama, directed…
Paulie (1998): Dir. John Roberts
Feat. Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands; Another BABE–inspired talking–animal movie, this time recalling the worldly escapades of a wise–cracking exotic parrot.…
Hope Floats (1998): Dir. Forest Whittaker
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jnr., Gena Rowlands; It's back to the hometown for former prom–queen Sandra Bullock, jilted by her husband and best friend on a live TV talkshow. Here she heals the…
Playing by Heart (1999): Dir. Willard Carroll
Feat. Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson…; Ambitious multi–character film along the lines of SHORT CUTS, likewise set in the varying social strata of Los Angeles, but infused with…
Wild Iris (2001): Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Fred Ward…; Superior tele drama that cultivates a convincingly dysfunctional relationship between mother Gena Rowlands and daughter Laura Linney, returning home…
Hysterical Blindness (2002): Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Gena Rowlands; A red–maned Uma Thurman comes to terms with her 'Jersey Girl' existence in this noted telemovie from dir. Mira Nair (MONSOON…
Incredible Mrs Ritchie, The (2003): Dir. Paul Johansson
Feat. Gena Rowlands, James Caan, Kevin Zegers; Gena Rowlands stars as greenfingered Mrs Ritchie, a saintly widow who takes a dysfunctional teen rebel into her home with the hope of curbing his…
Broadway: The Golden Age (2003): Dir. Rick McKay
Feat. Bob Fosse, Carol Channing, Carol Burnett…; Comprehensive documentary about America's most celebrated indigenous art form, Broadway theatre, covering an entire century of New York theatre, and…
Taking Lives (2004): Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland…; Expert FBI 'profiler' Jolie is recruited onto a case in deepest Canada involving a serial killer who murders blonde–haired men then assumes…
Notebook, The (2004): Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner…; An old–fashioned weepie set in a coastal town in 1940's North Carolina, this nostalgic "woman's picture" finds a sure–footed romantic…
Skeleton Key (2005): Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Kate Hudson, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands…; A young woman (Hudson) gets a job caring for a troubled elderly stroke victim (Hurt) in a swampside manor in rural Louisiana, coming to realise there…
Paris, Je T'aime (Paris, I Love You) (2006): Dir. Olivier Assayas, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi…; A prestige line–up of actors and filmmakers converge in this grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance. With each vignette…
Broken English (2007): Dir. Zoe Cassavetes
Feat. Parker Posey, Drea De Matteo, Melvil Poupaud…; The usually zany Parker Posey searches for love in this supple, melancholic romantic comedy, here playing a Manhattan thirty–something as yet…
Parts Per Billion (2014): Dir. Brian Horiuchi
Feat. Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson…; The emotional reverberations of an imminent biological disaster are explored in this strained drama focused on three couples coping with the end of…

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Filmography (All Films)