Cast: Gena Rowlands
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gena Rowlands. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 67
Opening Night
1977 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · Ben Gazzara · John Cassavetes · Joan Blondell
Plot A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
A Woman Under the Influence
1974 · Movie · 155 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · Peter Falk · Katherine Cassavetes · Fred Draper
Plot John Cassavetes's A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative...
7.7
5K votes
7.7
5K votes
Faces
1968 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast John Marley · Gena Rowlands · Lynn Carlin · Fred Draper
Plot Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet,...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
Night on Earth
1991 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Jim Jarmusch
Cast Winona Ryder · Giancarlo Esposito · Gena Rowlands · Armin Mueller-Stahl
Plot An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
7.5
11K votes
7.5
11K votes
Another Woman
1988 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Woody Allen
Cast Gena Rowlands · Gene Hackman · Mia Farrow · Ian Holm
Plot Brilliant philosophy lecturer Marion Post has asked for sabbatical leave to write a book. One day she discovers that while working in her studio she can hear the psychoanalysis sessions...
7.4
7K votes
7.4
7K votes
Lonely are the Brave
1962 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction David Miller
Cast Kirk Douglas · Gena Rowlands · Walter Matthau · Michael Kane
Plot In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Love Streams
1984 · Movie · 141 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · John Cassavetes · Diahnne Abbott · Seymour Cassel
Plot A quirky character drama about a writer and his sister who struggle to find love despite their personal problems.
7.4
864 votes
7.4
864 votes
A Constant Forge
2000 · Documentary · 200 min. · United States
Direction Charles Kiselyak
Cast Gena Rowlands · Peter Falk · Ben Gazzara · Seymour Cassel
Plot A look at the life, times, and art of independent film pioneer John Cassavetes through interviews with his family, friends, and admirers of his work.
7.4
80 votes
7.4
80 votes
The Notebook
2004 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Nick Cassavetes
Cast Ryan Gosling · Rachel McAdams · James Garner · Sam Shepard
Plot The movie (based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks) follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), who meet one evening at a carnival...
7.3
82K votes
7.3
82K votes
Minnie and Moskowitz
1971 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · Seymour Cassel · Val Avery · Timothy Carey
Plot Minnie breaks up with her married boyfriend and becomes disillusioned. However, she begins to learn that there is hope for love and romance in a desperate world when she meets...
7.2
884 votes
7.2
884 votes
Cinéastes de notre temps: John Cassavetes (TV)
1969 · Documentary · 60 min. · France
Direction Hubert Knapp · André S. Labarthe
Cast John Cassavetes · Jerry Howard · Gena Rowlands
7.1
24 votes
7.1
24 votes
A Child is Waiting
1963 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Burt Lancaster · Judy Garland · Gena Rowlands · Steven Hill
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Gloria
1980 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction John Cassavetes
Cast Gena Rowlands · Buck Henry · John Adames · Julie Carmen
Plot Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was feeding information to the FBI. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, Phil, escapes...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Paris, je t'aime
2006 · Movie · 119 min. · France
Direction Olivier Assayas · Frédéric Auburtin · Gérard Depardieu · Gurinder Chadha
Cast Natalie Portman · Fanny Ardant · Elijah Wood · Nick Nolte
Plot In Paris, love is everywhere: in its bars and cafés, under the Eiffel Tower, and even in the Metro running beneath its streets. In Paris, je t'aime, prepare to see...
6.8
20K votes
6.8
20K votes
Columbo: Playback (TV)
1975 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Bernard L. Kowalski
Cast Peter Falk · Oskar Werner · Gena Rowlands · Robert Brown
Plot A gadget-happy inventor murders his mother-in-law; Lt. Columbo is on the case.
6.7
285 votes
6.7
285 votes
An Early Frost (TV)
1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction John Erman
Cast Gena Rowlands · Ben Gazzara · Sylvia Sidney · Aidan Quinn
Plot A young lawyer hasn't told his parents about his homosexuality. Now he must tell them--at a time when the diagnosis was still a death sentence--that he has AIDS.
6.4
36 votes
6.4
36 votes
Edge of Outside
2006 · Documentary · 65 min. · United States
Direction Shannon Davis
Cast Edward Burns · Paul Auster · Arthur Penn · John Sayles
6.4
76 votes
6.4
76 votes
Playing by Heart
1999 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Willard Carroll
Cast Gillian Anderson · Ellen Burstyn · Sean Connery · Anthony Edwards
Plot Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about...
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
The Neon Bible
1995 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Davies
Cast Gena Rowlands · Denis Leary · Diana Scarwid · Jacob Tierney
Plot 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...
6.3
229 votes
6.3
229 votes
Tempest
1982 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Paul Mazursky
Cast John Cassavetes · Gena Rowlands · Vittorio Gassman · Susan Sarandon
Plot A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek...
6.2
186 votes
6.2
186 votes