Cast: Diana Scarwid

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


Wonderfalls (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Fuller · Todd Holland

Cast Caroline Dhavernas · Katie Finneran · Tyron Leitso · Tracie Thoms

Synopsis TV Series 82004). 13 Episodes. The show's premise is centered on Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas), a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye...

7.3

451 votes

7.3

451 votes

Rumble Fish

1983 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Matt Dillon · Mickey Rourke · Diane Lane · Dennis Hopper

Synopsis Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother (Mickey Rourke), The Motorcycle Boy, ran things as President of the Packers. Before disappearing two months earlier, Motorcycle Boy outlawed...

7.3

16K votes

7.3

16K votes

Pushing Daisies (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Fuller · Lawrence Trilling · Adam Kane · Peter O'Fallon

Cast Lee Pace · Anna Friel · Chi McBride · Jim Dale

Synopsis TV Series (2007-2009). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. Once upon a time, Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black, Get Shorty, The Addams Family) and Writer-Producer Bryan Fuller (Heroes, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me) created an unprecedented blend of romance, crime procedural and...

Max

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

After the Promise (TV)

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Mark Harmon · Diana Scarwid · Rosemary Dunsmore · Donnelly Rhodes

Synopsis In a small Californian town in the 1930s. After the tragic loss of his wife carpenter Elmer Jackson finds that he will loose his sons. Despite his efforts, he is barred from seeing them when the authorities send the boys...

6.8

61 votes

6.8

61 votes

Pretty Baby

1978 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Brooke Shields · Susan Sarandon · Keith Carradine · Frances Faye

Synopsis The inspiration for Malle’s first American film was E. J. Bellocq’s remarkable photographic record of New Orleans’ red-light district, Storyville, in the early years of the twentieth century. A fourteen-year-old (Shields) is cheer-fully sold into the trade by her mother...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Silkwood

1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Meryl Streep · Kurt Russell · Cher · Craig T. Nelson

Synopsis Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Neon Bible

1995 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Davies

Cast Gena Rowlands · Denis Leary · Diana Scarwid · Jacob Tierney

Synopsis THE NEON BIBLE, writer-director Terence Davies first literary adaptation, is based on John Kennedy Toole’s coming of age story set in the 1930s and 1940s Bible belt. Similar to Davies’s autobiographical TRILOGY, the film is a series of remembrances by...

6.3

229 votes

6.3

229 votes

Inside Moves

1980 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast John Savage · David Morse · Diana Scarwid · Amy Wright

Synopsis The story follows Rory (Savage), a man who has come to the end of his life only to begin life anew amongst the patrons of Max's, a bar in Oakland catering to people "on the cup." Rory learns that phyically...

6.2

187 votes

6.2

187 votes

Mommie Dearest

1981 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Faye Dunaway · Steve Forrest · Diana Scarwid · Mara Hobel

Synopsis Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her own to fill a void in her life. Yet, her...

6.2

771 votes

6.2

771 votes

Another Happy Day

2011 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Sam Levinson

Cast Ellen Barkin · Ellen Burstyn · Demi Moore · Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis Ellen Barkin stars in this darkly comic story of the emotional rollercoaster of a family gathering. Her estranged son (Michael Werner Deli) wedding, Lynn (Barking), women have always worn her emotions on her sleeve evening to deal with her long...

6.0

232 votes

6.0

232 votes

What Lies Beneath

2000 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Harrison Ford · Michelle Pfeiffer · Diana Scarwid · Joe Morton

Synopsis A housewife (Michelle Pfeiffer) married to a scientist (Harrison Ford) gets entangled in a murder mystery, when the ghost of a murdered student appears to her for help.

6.0

33K votes

6.0

33K votes

Party Monster

2003 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Fenton Bailey · Randy Barbato

Cast Macaulay Culkin · Seth Green · Manny Perez · Chloë Sevigny

Synopsis Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980's thru the 1990's, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig, a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted...

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

Extremities

1986 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Robert M. Young

Cast Farrah Fawcett · James Russo · Diana Scarwid · Alfre Woodard

Synopsis An intended rape victim manages to escape from her attacker but leaves her purse behind. Worried that he may visit her house and finish what he has started, she contacts the police but they are unable to help, saying that...

5.3

285 votes

5.3

285 votes

Truman (TV)

1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast Gary Sinise · Diana Scarwid · Tony Goldwyn · Lois Smith

Synopsis Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decission to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.

5.0

30 votes

5.0

30 votes

Direction William A. Graham

Cast Powers Boothe · Ned Beatty · Irene Cara · Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis Based upon the true story of Jim Jones, a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people, who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came...

4.9

28 votes

4.9

28 votes

Direction Kevin James Dobson

Cast Christina Ricci · Anna Chlumsky · Polly Draper · Brian Kerwin

Synopsis A city girl teams up with a tomboy to solve the mystery of Bear Mountain, Molly Morgan, and the buried treasure as well as learn about true friendships. Moving from the big city (LA) to a backwater town is always...

4.7

210 votes

4.7

210 votes

Heat

1986 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Dick Richards · Jerry Jameson

Cast Burt Reynolds · Karen Young · Peter MacNicol · Howard Hesseman

Synopsis Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.

4.4

111 votes

4.4

111 votes

Strange Invaders

1983 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Michael Laughlin

Cast Paul Le Mat · Nancy Allen · Diana Scarwid · Michael Lerner

Synopsis Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contacts...

4.3

66 votes

4.3

66 votes