Cast: Shelley Winters

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


The Night of the Hunter

1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Charles Laughton

Cast Robert Mitchum · Billy Chapin · Sally Ann Bruce · Shelley Winters

Plot A schizophrenic preacher (Robert Mitchum) - possibly the devil himself - relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at...

8.1

30K votes

8.1

30K votes

Winchester '73

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Shelley Winters · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally

Plot In the Old West, cowboy Lin McAdam wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest - which the runner-up contestant instantly steals. This leads to a rousing...

7.8

6K votes

7.8

6K votes

A Place in the Sun

1951 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Montgomery Clift · Elizabeth Taylor · Shelley Winters · Anne Revere

Plot George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), takes a job in his uncle's factory. Despite his family relationship to the owner, the rich...

7.6

7K votes

7.6

7K votes

Lolita

1962 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast James Mason · Sue Lyon · Shelley Winters · Peter Sellers

Plot Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town...

7.6

23K votes

7.6

23K votes

The Tenant

1976 · Movie · 126 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Roman Polanski · Isabelle Adjani · Melvyn Douglas · Shelley Winters

Plot Meek clerk Trelkovsky takes over a Parisian flat from a woman who has committed suicide. He meets Stella, one of the woman's friends, and begins a tentative relationship with her,...

7.5

13K votes

7.5

13K votes

An Average Little Man

1977 · Movie · 122 min. · Italy

7.5

656 votes

7.5

656 votes

A Patch of Blue

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Guy Green

Cast Elizabeth Hartman · Sidney Poitier · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford

Plot A young blind woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts...

7.3

207 votes

7.3

207 votes

The Diary of Anne Frank

1959 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Millie Perkins · Joseph Schildkraut · Shelley Winters · Richard Beymer

Plot Based on Anne Frank's diary, and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland, Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding, because of...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1976 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Paul Mazursky

Cast Lenny Baker · Shelley Winters · Ellen Greene · Lois Smith

Plot An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953. He struggles to come to terms...

6.9

152 votes

6.9

152 votes

A Double Life

1947 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Ronald Colman · Signe Hasso · Edmond O'Brien · Shelley Winters

Plot The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony "Tony" John is a dedicated lonely professional that still loves his former wife Brita. They are playing Othello for almost two years and Tony...

6.9

685 votes

6.9

685 votes

The Young Savages

1961 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Dina Merrill · Edward Andrews · Vivian Nathan

Plot A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Cry of the City

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Victor Mature · Richard Conte · Mimi Aguglia · Shelley Winters

Plot Victor Mature and Richard Conte play men who both grew up in the same tough inner-city neighborhood (New York's Little Italy). One turned out to be a good cop; the...

6.8

523 votes

6.8

523 votes

Odds Against Tomorrow

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Harry Belafonte · Robert Ryan · Shelley Winters · Ed Begley

Plot Ex cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater (Robert Ryan), a white and racist ex-convict, and Johnny...

6.8

632 votes

6.8

632 votes

Time of Indifference

1964 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Rod Steiger · Shelley Winters · Tomas Milian

Plot A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

6.8

75 votes

6.8

75 votes

Executive Suite

1954 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast William Holden · June Allyson · Barbara Stanwyck · Fredric March

Plot When the president of a major furniture-manufacturing company suddenly dies, the members of the Board scramble to replace him quickly and quietly. Each man is driven by his own motives,...

6.7

586 votes

6.7

586 votes

Harper

1966 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Paul Newman · Lauren Bacall · Julie Harris · Shelley Winters

Plot Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

He Ran All the Way

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast John Garfield · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford · Selena Royle

Plot Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes...

6.7

423 votes

6.7

423 votes

The Poseidon Adventure

1972 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gene Hackman · Ernest Borgnine · Red Buttons · Carol Lynley

Plot When an earthquake sends a tidal wave over a luxury liner on New Year's Eve the top-heavy vessel capsizes.

6.6

6K votes

6.6

6K votes

The Big Knife

1955 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Jack Palance · Ida Lupino · Wendell Corey · Jean Hagen

Plot Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career...

6.5

397 votes

6.5

397 votes

Phone Call from a Stranger

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Shelley Winters · Bette Davis · Gary Merrill · Michael Rennie

Plot David Trask, the sole survivor of an airplane crash, takes it upon himself to contact the families of the various victims. He is quite surprised at who he finds: the...

6.4

276 votes

6.4

276 votes