Cast: Anne Bancroft

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


The Elephant Man

1980 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction David Lynch

Cast Anthony Hopkins · John Hurt · Anne Bancroft · John Gielgud

Plot John Merrick (John Hurt) is a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the...

8.1

41K votes

8.1

41K votes

The Miracle Worker

1962 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Anne Bancroft · Patty Duke · Andrew Prine · Inga Swenson

Plot Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation,...

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

The Graduate

1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Anne Bancroft · Katharine Ross · William Daniels

Plot In the mid-1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by his wealthy family, friends, and associates just days after receiving his degree. Seduced...

7.5

48K votes

7.5

48K votes

7 Women

1966 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Anne Bancroft · Margaret Leighton · Sue Lyon · Flora Robson

Plot China, 1935. Seven women staffing an isolated Christian mission fight to survive a bandit attack. John Ford's last movie.

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Torch Song Trilogy

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Paul Bogart

Cast Anne Bancroft · Matthew Broderick · Harvey Fierstein · Brian Kerwin

Plot The story, based on the same-named Broadway play by Harvey Fierstein, spans nine years in the life of gay New Yorker, Arnold Beckoff, a flamboyant female impersonator. It is the...

7.2

507 votes

7.2

507 votes

New York Confidential

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Russell Rouse

Cast Broderick Crawford · Richard Conte · Anne Bancroft · Marilyn Maxwell

Plot Nick Magellan works for the corrupt businessman Charlie Lupo, who presides over an influential crime syndicate in Manhattan, New York. New York senators belong to the realm of this syndicate....

6.9

71 votes

6.9

71 votes

84 Charing Cross Road

1987 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Anne Bancroft · Anthony Hopkins · Judi Dench · Jean De Baer

Plot True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Jesus of Nazareth (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 371 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Robert Powell · Anne Bancroft · James Mason · Rod Steiger

Plot Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

Nightfall

1956 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Aldo Ray · Brian Keith · Anne Bancroft · Jocelyn Brando

Plot There is money missing from a bank job, an attractive model, an insurance investigator, and two extremely dangerous thugs. James Vanning (Aldo Ray) portrays an innocent man on the run,...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

'night, Mother

1986 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Tom Moore

Cast Sissy Spacek · Anne Bancroft · Ed Berke · Carol Robbins

Plot What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is...

6.8

265 votes

6.8

265 votes

The Raid

1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Van Heflin · Anne Bancroft · Richard Boone · Lee Marvin

Plot A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont.

6.6

210 votes

6.6

210 votes

The Pumpkin Eater

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Anne Bancroft · Peter Finch · James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes...

6.6

245 votes

6.6

245 votes

Marco Polo (TV Miniseries)

1982 · Series · 270 min. · Italy

Direction Giuliano Montaldo

Cast Ken Marshall · Burt Lancaster · Denholm Elliott · Tony Vogel

Plot The life and experiences of the 13th-century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

6.6

269 votes

6.6

269 votes

The Turning Point

1977 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Anne Bancroft · Shirley MacLaine · Mikhail Baryshnikov · Tom Skerritt

Plot The story of two women whose lives are dedicated to ballet. Deedee left her promising dance career to become a wife and mother and now runs a ballet school in...

6.5

632 votes

6.5

632 votes

Don't Bother to Knock

1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

6.5

945 votes

6.5

945 votes

The Slender Thread

1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Sidney Poitier · Anne Bancroft · Telly Savalas · Steven Hill

Plot Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs...

6.4

105 votes

6.4

105 votes

The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue

1975 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

6.4

607 votes

6.4

607 votes

Great Expectations

1998 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Alfonso Cuarón

Cast Ethan Hawke · Gwyneth Paltrow · Anne Bancroft · Robert De Niro

Plot Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns...

Max

6.3

13K votes

6.3

13K votes

Agnes of God

1985 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Jane Fonda · Anne Bancroft · Meg Tilly · Anne Pitoniak

Plot When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novitiate, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Blazing Saddles

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Gene Wilder · Cleavon Little · Slim Pickens · Madeline Kahn

Plot To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes