Cast: Rachel Ward

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


Fortress (TV)

1985 · Movie · 85 min. · Australia

Direction Arch Nicholson

Cast Rachel Ward · Sean Garlick · Elaine Cusick · Laurie Moran

Synopsis "Fortress" explores a shocking concept which shows how easily a borderline between a victim and an attacker can be crossed. The children and the teacher, calm and peaceful by nature, when driven beyond their limits by the kidnappers, eventually respond...

6.3

52 votes

6.3

52 votes

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Carl Reiner

Cast Steve Martin · Rachel Ward · Carl Reiner · Reni Santoni

Synopsis Martin plays the role of Rigby Reardon, an inept private eye who comes to the aid of a wealthy and beautiful heiress. The film is cleverly interspliced with clips from classic detective films of the past.

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

On the Beach (TV Miniseries)

2000 · Series · 195 min. · Australia

Direction Russell Mulcahy

Cast Armand Assante · Rachel Ward · Bryan Brown · Jacqueline McKenzie

Synopsis Well, the world has finally managed to blow itself up. Only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. Only two months are left. One American sub located in...

5.8

89 votes

5.8

89 votes

After Dark, My Sweet

1990 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction James Foley

Cast Jason Patric · Rocky Giordani · Rachel Ward · Bruce Dern

Synopsis 1990 was a good year for gritty adaptations of the books of Jim Thompson. In addition to The Grifters, this disturbing yet highly entertaining melodrama represented a miniature revival for the novelist. Patric stars as Collie, a literally punch-drunk ex-boxer...

5.7

143 votes

5.7

143 votes

The Thorn Birds (TV Miniseries)

1983 · Series · 477 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Rachel Ward · Barbara Stanwyck · Christopher Plummer

Synopsis Adapted from the bestselling novel by Colleen McCullough, the production stars Richard Chamberlain as an ambitious Catholic priest named Ralph de Bricassart, whose life in Australia between 1920 and 1962 is one long torment as he pines for his lover,...

5.7

3K votes

5.7

3K votes

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1989 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bruce Robinson

Cast Richard E. Grant · Rachel Ward · Richard Wilson · Jacqueline Tong

Synopsis Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but...

5.7

151 votes

5.7

151 votes

Sharky's Machine

1981 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Burt Reynolds

Cast Burt Reynolds · Vittorio Gassman · Brian Keith · Charles Durning

Synopsis A demoted Atlanta vice cop (Reynolds) pursues a personal vendetta against a crime boss (Vittorio Gassman) after falling in love with a stunning beauty (Rachel Ward) from the mobster's stable of high-priced prostitutes.

5.3

370 votes

5.3

370 votes

Against all Odds

1984 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Rachel Ward · Jeff Bridges · James Woods · Richard Widmark

Synopsis An interesting love triangle evolves when recently cut quarterback Terry Brogan (Bridges) is asked by his nightclub owning/bookie buddy, Jack (Woods), to travel to Mexico and bring back Jack's sultry girlfriend, Jessie (Ward). Then Terry discovers that Jessie is the...

5.1

765 votes

5.1

765 votes

Night School / Terror Eyes

1981 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast Leonard Mann · Rachel Ward · Drew Snyder · Joseph R. Sicari

Synopsis A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.

4.8

111 votes

4.8

111 votes

Wide Sargasso Sea

1993 · Movie · 98 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Karina Lombard · Nathaniel Parker · Rachel Ward · Michael York

Synopsis A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and...

4.5

28 votes

4.5

28 votes

Double Jeopardy (TV)

1992 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Lawrence Schiller

Cast Rachel Ward · Bruce Boxleitner · Sela Ward · Sally Kirkland

Synopsis Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing....

4.3

58 votes

4.3

58 votes

Blackbeard (TV)

2006 · Movie · 169 min. · United States

Direction Kevin Connor

Cast Angus MacFadyen · Mark Umbers · Richard Chamberlain · Jessica Chastain

Synopsis Blackbeard tells the tale of this famed pirate's travails through the South Seas, beginning in 1717. Blackbeard begins with Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Mark Umbers) vowing to capture Blackbeard (Angus McFayden), captain of the Queen Anne, in order to...

4.2

255 votes

4.2

255 votes

Bobbie's Girl (TV)

2002 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Kagan

Cast Rachel Ward · Bernadette Peters · Jonathan Silverman · Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Synopsis In Ireland, two middle-aged lesbians Bobbie (Rachel Ward) and Bailey (Bernadette Peters) find their lives complicated when Bobbie have to take in her ten-year-old nephew Kenny (Thomas Brodie-Sangster).

4.2

46 votes

4.2

46 votes

4.2

40 votes

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

1992 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Glen

Cast Georges Corraface · Marlon Brando · Tom Selleck · Rachel Ward

Synopsis XV Century. Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus (George Corraface) has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by travelling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese,...

4.0

1K votes

4.0

1K votes

The Final Terror

1983 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Davis

Cast Daryl Hannah · Rachel Ward · John Friedrich · Adrian Zmed

Synopsis The movie takes place out in the backwoods where a group of rangers go camping. But when one of the group snaps, and leaves one by one some of the group disappears. It is left up to the rest of...

3.8

206 votes

3.8

206 votes

And Never Let Her Go (TV)

2001 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

Direction Peter Levin

Cast Mark Harmon · Rachel Ward · Kathryn Morris · Steven Eckholdt

Synopsis The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.

3.5

161 votes

3.5

161 votes

The Umbrella Woman

1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Australia

Direction Ken Cameron

Cast Rachel Ward · Bryan Brown · Steven Vidler · Sam Neill

Synopsis In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.

3.4

25 votes

3.4

25 votes

Love, Murder and Deceit (TV)

1997 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Mary Lambert

Cast Rachel Ward · Joshua Morrow · Terry O'Quinn · Al Wiggins

Synopsis A lonely trophy wife turns to her adult stepson for companionship after being denied freedom and an opportunity for a career of her own by her wealthy yet distant husband. Continually made to stay at home while her husband, Richard...

2.9

54 votes

2.9

54 votes

The Last Impresario

2013 · Documentary · 92 min. · Australia

Direction Gracie Otto

Cast Michael White · Gracie Otto · Naomi Watts · John Cleese

Synopsis Michael White might just be the most famous person you've never heard of. A notorious London theatre and film impresario, he produced over 300 shows and movies over the last 50 years. Bringing to the stage the risqué productions of...

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