Frances McDormand
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Blood Simple (1984)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya…
- A humdinger debut from the Coen Brothers, who teasingly draw out the sinister activities of shady activities of shady rednecks before nailing things…
- Chattahoochee (1990)
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand
- Gary Oldman plays a Korean war veteran admitted to an asylum where he discovers gross malpractise and corruption.
- Darkman (1990)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels
- A superhero emerges from a scientist charred beyond recognition, but able to assume the identity of anyone he chooses. Fun all the way, with the…
- Hidden Agenda (1990)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif…
- Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
- Fargo (1996)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy
- The gifted Coen Brothers cross two of their previous treasures – RAISING ARIZONA and BLOOD SIMPLE for this lovingly mocking tale of insurance…
- 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…
- Madeline (1998)
- Dir. Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Feat. Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand
- Little Hatty Jones is quite marvellous as a cutey–rebel redhead boarding at a school of etiquette presided by groovy nun Frances McDormand in…
- Talk of Angels (1999)
- Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Frances McDormand
- Undeniably polished costume epic, sees Irish governess Polly Walker transplanted to the aristocratic Spanish household of Franco Nero during the…
- Wonder Boys (2000)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jnr., Tobey Maguire…
- A rumpled Michael Douglas plays an academic professor and successful author who's terminally unfinished second novel is symptomatic of midlife…
- Almost Famous (2000)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Kate Hudson…
- The best music drama yet committed to film (SPINAL TAP was a comedy), this is a vibrant and bracingly assured portrait of rock music fanaticism in…