Cast: Frances Sternhagen

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frances Sternhagen. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Misery

1990 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Kathy Bates · James Caan · Frances Sternhagen · Richard Farnsworth

Plot Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically...

7.5

38K votes

7.5

38K votes

Fedora

1978 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast William Holden · Marthe Keller · Hildegard Knef · José Ferrer

Plot Billy Wilder's knowing, deliberately old-fashioned homage to a bygone age of filmmaking, it stars William Holden as producer Barry Detweiler. In flashbacks, the producer recalls his efforts to coax aging...

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Cheers (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction James Burrows · Glen Charles · Andy Ackerman · John Ratzenberger

Cast Ted Danson · Rhea Perlman · John Ratzenberger · George Wendt

Plot TV Series (1982-1993). 11 Seasons. 276 episodes. Cheers is a bar in Boston owned by Sam Malone, a former Boston Red Sox pitcher, whose drinking problem ended his career. Helping...

6.9

36K votes

6.9

36K votes

Outland

1981 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Sean Connery · Peter Boyle · Frances Sternhagen · Steven Berkoff

Plot Sometime in the future, an upstanding federal marshal arrives at a space colony located on one of Jupiter's moons. Alarmed by the strange and violent behavior of the miners who...

6.7

20K votes

6.7

20K votes

Up the Down Staircase

1967 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Sandy Dennis · Eileen Heckart · Jean Stapleton · Patrick Bedford

Plot Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

The Mist

2007 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Frank Darabont

Cast Thomas Jane · Marcia Gay Harden · Laurie Holden · André Braugher

Plot David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first...

6.4

33K votes

6.4

33K votes

Sex and the City (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction Darren Star · Michael Patrick King · Allen Coulter · Michael Engler

Cast Sarah Jessica Parker · Kim Cattrall · Kristin Davis · Cynthia Nixon

Plot TV Series (1998-2004). 6 Seasons. 94 Episodes. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon star in SEX AND THE CITY - The critically acclaimed, award-winning series that...

6.3

54K votes

6.3

54K votes

The Hospital

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast George C. Scott · Diana Rigg · Barnard Hughes · Nancy Marchand

Plot Herbert Block (George C. Scott) is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him. He...

6.2

302 votes

6.2

302 votes

Dolphin Tale

2011 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Charles Martin Smith

Cast Nathan Gamble · Harry Connick Jr. · Ashley Judd · Kris Kristofferson

Plot A lonely and friendless boy finds and untangles a hurt dolphin that is caught in a crab trap. He becomes very attached to the dolphin when the tail must be...

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

Tales from the Crypt: None But the Lonely Heart (TV)

1992 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Tom Hanks

Cast Treat Williams · Frances Sternhagen · Henry Gibson · Tom Hanks

Plot A handsome young man conquers wealthy elderly widows in order to murder them and keep their fortune. However they will take revenge from beyond the grave.

5.8

41 votes

5.8

41 votes

Starting Over

1979 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Burt Reynolds · Jill Clayburgh · Candice Bergen · Charles Durning

Plot His life racked by divorce, Phil Potter learns what it's like to be single, self-sufficient, and lonely once again. When a blind date grows into a serious affair, the romance...

5.8

289 votes

5.8

289 votes

See You in the Morning

1989 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

5.6

151 votes

5.6

151 votes

Raising Cain

1992 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast John Lithgow · Lolita Davidovich · Steven Bauer · Frances Sternhagen

Plot The oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware of what - or who - is really going on...

5.4

2K votes

5.4

2K votes

Two People

1973 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Peter Fonda · Lindsay Wagner · Estelle Parsons · Alan Fudge

Plot The story focuses on the brief relationship shared by a Vietnam War deserter and a fashion model. Deirdre McCluskey (Lindsay Wagner) is a Manhattan-based fashion model who has completed an...

5.2

46 votes

5.2

46 votes

Bright Lights, Big City

1988 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction James Bridges

Cast Michael J. Fox · Phoebe Cates · Jason Robards · Swoosie Kurtz

Plot Jamie Conway is a disillusioned young writer living in New York City who turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

5.1

533 votes

5.1

533 votes

Golden Years (TV Miniseries)

1991 · Movie · 232 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gornick

Cast Keith Szarabajka · Felicity Huffman · Ed Lauter · R.D. Call

Plot Following an explosion in a secret laboratory in which elderly janitor Harlan Williams (Keith Szarabajka) has been exposed to the chemicals released, he begins aging--but he is getting younger instead...

5.0

28 votes

5.0

28 votes

And So It Goes

2014 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Michael Douglas · Diane Keaton · Sterling Jerins · Frances Sternhagen

Plot A self-centered realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he's suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at...

4.8

2K votes

4.8

2K votes

Communion

1989 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Philippe Mora

Cast Christopher Walken · Lindsay Crouse · Frances Sternhagen · Andreas Katsulas

Plot Adaptation of the Whitley Strieber's non-fiction account of his encouters with "nonhuman beings". On December 26th, 1985, Whitley Strieber had a dream. Weeks later, he discovered his family had the...

4.6

836 votes

4.6

836 votes

Romantic Comedy

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Dudley Moore · Mary Steenburgen · Frances Sternhagen · Janet Eilber

Plot When he was married, she was single . . . and when she was married he was single. They were victims of unsynchronized passion.

4.5

36 votes

4.5

36 votes

Sibling Rivalry

1990 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

4.2

837 votes

4.2

837 votes