Cast: Gena Rowlands

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


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...

Max

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...

Max

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,...

Max

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.

Max

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

7.1

24 votes

A Child is Waiting

1963 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

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

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