Winona Ryder
Actor
- Lucas (1986)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen…
- Genuinely sympathetic account of the teenage love of 'dweeb' Corey Haim for an older schoolmate (Green), through infatuation, rejection and...…
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin…
- A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
- 1969 (1988)
- Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Keifer Sutherland and Winona Ryder lead a brat–pack of sensitive anti–war youths in the summer of '69.
- Heathers (1989)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
- 'Heathers' are an elite group of glamourous, stuck–up brat–girls who gradually meet their maker courtesy of a rebel Heather (Winona…
- Great Balls of Fire (1989)
- Dir. Jim McBride
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin…
- Brash, but seriously–intentioned biopic of early rock'n'roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis, who was equally famous for marrying his 13–year old…
- Mermaids (1990)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Cher, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci…
- Cher plays the sexpot mom of square daughter Winona Ryder who aspires to be a nun. Slight but affecting tale set in small town '60s America, with Bob…
- Edward Scissorhands (1991)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price
- This inspired contemporary fairy–tale posits Johnny Depp as a boy endowed with sharp appendages, a mixed blessing when it comes to fitting into…
- Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael (1991)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Frances Fisher…
- Fun vehicle for Winona Ryder. Her patented awkward teen is one of the townfolk who eagerly await the homecoming of their prized celebrity, Roxy…
- Night On Earth (1991)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Winona Ryder, Beatrice Dalle, Roberto Benigni
- An exotic excursion through five cities in five taxis; Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. The clever blend of pathos, humour and…
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves…
- Francis Ford Coppola's opulent and erotic update of the gothic legend. Gary Oldman's incarnation of the fanged one is most impressive here, as are…
- Age of Innocence, The (1993)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
- Scorsese's adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton is a extravagant period costumer that makes Merchant–Ivory look downright paltry. Stellar…
- 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…
- Reality Bites (1994)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller
- This 'Gen X' movie works as romantic comedy but falls short of its mandate to be a mouthpiece for contemporary youth. Redeemed by the…
- Little Women (1994)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes…
- Impeccable version of Louisa May Alcott's classic of American girlhood updates the warm–hearted saga of four sisters and their…
- How to Make an American Quilt (1996)
- Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn…
- Pleasurable, star–domed female–stitching movie has Winona Ryder sorting out her personal foibles with an ear for the mixed–fortuned…
- Crucible, The (1996)
- Dir. Nicholas Hytner
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield
- A theatrical yet wrenchingly emotional treatment of Arthur Miller's classic play about the horrific witch–hunt hysteria that swept through…
- Looking for Richard (1996)
- Dir. Al Pacino
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder…
- Al Pacino's pet project, and his directing debut, explores the American actor's paradoxical obsessions with Shakespeare, debunking some of the…
- Boys (1996)
- Dir. Stacy Cochran
Feat. Lukas Haas, Winona Ryder
- Downbeat, murky tale of adolescent intrigues has high scholar Lukas Haas becoming entangled in the mysterious past of accident victim Winona Ryder.
- Alien Resurrection (1997)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman
- Sigourney is back from the dead in part four of the continuing Alien saga, this time in the hands of the French DELICATESSEN helmer who sneaks in as…
- Celebrity (1999)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Melanie Griffith…
- Assembling another largish retinue of actors eager to 'do a Woody', Allen swings his long–lens round onto the world of celebrity…
- Girl, Interrupted (1999)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie
- Winona Ryder flies over the cuckoo's nest as the confused middle–class waif of Susanna Kaysen's 60s counterculture memoir, who's persuaded by…
- Autumn in New York (2000)
- Dir. Joan Chen
Feat. Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia
- Silver–maned Richard Gere may be an accomplished womaniser, but amid the golden–hued atmosphere of the Big Apple he can't help falling…
- Lost Souls (2000)
- Dir. Janusz Kaminski
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt…
- Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin are the souls in question of this devil thriller, in which, in his 33rd year, the Anti–Christ has his previously…
- Mr. Deeds (2002)
- Dir. Steven Brill
Feat. Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro
- Spoofy remake of Frank Capra’s MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN with Adam Sandler playing a smalltime pizza–man who inherits $40 billion and sets…
- S1m0ne (Simone) (2002)
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince…
- Another ‘future shock’ escapade from the creator of THE TRUMAN SHOW and GATTACA that this time taps a comic vein to convey the effect that a…
- Scanner Darkly, A (2006)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jnr., Woody Harrelson…
- Richard Linklater’s latest ‘rotoscope’ animation adapts Philip K. Dick's sci–fi novel into a dystopian proxy for the near future, where…
- Darwin Awards, The (2007)
- Dir. Finn Taylor
Feat. Winona Ryder, Joseph Fiennes, David Arquette…
- Entertaining comedy with the ever–on–the–up Winona Ryder, loosely based around the infamous awards of the same name that celebrate…
- Ten, The (2007)
- Dir. David Wain
Feat. Paul Rudd, Liev Schreiber, Gretchen Mol…
- Off–the–wall and often outrageous star–studded comedy from the dir. of the cult classic WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER that devises a…
- Sex and Death 101 (2008)
- Dir. Daniel Waters
Feat. Winona Ryder, Simon Baker
- Reunites the director of HEATHERS with Ryder, its unforgettable teen star, in a neatly smart–alec, if gimmicky, adult scenario comedy.
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- Last Word, The (2008)
- Dir. Geoffrey Haley
Feat. Wes Bentley, Winona Ryder, Ray Romano
- Quirky black comedy centered on a man who makes a living writing suicide notes for the depressed, and has his life is turned upside down when he…
- Informers, The (2008)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger…
- Another tale of hedonism in the eighties from screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis (AMERICAN PSYCHO), following a group of lost causes who fill their…
- Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The (2009)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Robin Wright, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin…
- Drama boasting a formidable performance from Robin Wright Penn as the beautiful, middle–aged Pippa Lee, who finds herself living in a…
- Black Swan (2010)
- Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Feat. Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel…
- Natalie Portman plays a ballerina losing her grip on reality, not to mention the lead role in a prestigious production of Swan Lake, in this…
- Dilemma, The (2011)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder…
- Thorny comedy, verging on melodrama, with Vaughn discovering his best friend's wife is being unfaithful.
- Frankenweenie (2012)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short…
- Based on his own 1984 short film, Tim Burton returns to stop–motion animation with this endearing tale of a curious boy who reanimates his dead…
- Iceman, The (2012)
- Dir. Ariel Vromen
Feat. Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans…
- Michael Shannon embodies cold faced killer Richard Kuklinski in this oddly sympathetic portrait of the notorious contract killer, who was as infamous…
- Letter, The (2012)
- Dir. Jay Anania
Feat. Winona Ryder, James Franco, Josh Hamilton
- Discordant effort by James Franco's NYU professor has Winona Ryder as a playwright suffering paranoid hallucinations as she attempts to stage a new…
- Homefront (2013)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder…
- From a script by Sylvester Stallone, this Southern–fried serving of violent moralism recalls the dime–a–dozen action movies of the…
- Show Me a Hero (TV Mini-Series) (2015)
- Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Oscar Isaac, Peter Riegert, Alfred Molina…
- Extraordinary true story of the political fight to build public housing in white middle–class neighbourhoods in 1980's New York. From the…
- Experimenter (2015)
- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Taryn Manning…
- Compelling account of pioneering social psychologist Stanley Milgram and his controversial behaviour experiments in the 1960's that tested people's…
- Stranger Things (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard…
- A web television series phenomenon that pays hefty homage to the tropes and aesthetics of sci–fi adventure and horror film of the 1980s and the…
- Destination Wedding (2018)
- Dir. Victor Levin
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach
- Two hopelessly mismatched wedding guests develop a mutual affection while contending with their own spiteful feelings about the wedding, the guests,…
- Plot Against America, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Dir. Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan…
- Created by David Simon (THE WIRE) and Ed Burns, this HBO mini–series adapts Philip Roth's 2004 prescient novel of the same name imagining an…