Cast: Shirley Knight
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Shirley Knight. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 70
As Good As It Gets
1997 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction James L. Brooks
Cast Jack Nicholson · Helen Hunt · Greg Kinnear · Cuba Gooding Jr.
Synopsis As Good As It Gets (1997) follows Melvin Udall, a misanthropic, obsessive-compulsive novelist whose life takes unexpected turns when he is forced to care for his neighbor's dog. His interactions with Carol, a waitress struggling to support her sick son,...
7.6
132K votes
7.6
132K votes
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Paul Newman · Geraldine Page · Ed Begley · Shirley Knight
Synopsis Paul Newman and Geraldine Page re-created their Broadway roles in Tennessee Williams's SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH for this stylish film adaptation. Newman stars as Chance Wayne, a Hollywood gigolo determined to become a star, who teams up with Alexandra Del...
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (TV Series)
1984 · Series · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Val Guest · John Hough · Peter Sasdy · Gabrielle Beaumont
Cast Dirk Benedict · Jenny Seagrove · Deborah Raffin · Mary Crosby
Synopsis TV Series. Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived (one season) anthology television series from Hammer Studios similar to the format now used by Masters of Horror in which several directors under contract to Hammer produced thirteen 69-73...
7.2
114 votes
7.2
114 votes
The Rain People
1969 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Francis Ford Coppola
Cast Shirley Knight · James Caan · Robert Duvall · Tom Aldredge
Synopsis Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight), a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery...
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K votes
Dutchman
1967 · Movie · 55 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Harvey
Cast Shirley Knight · Al Freeman Jr. · Frank Lieberman · Robert Calvert
Synopsis Lula, a sluttish white woman, boards a New York City subway car and sits next to Clay, a well-dressed black man who is the only other passenger.
6.3
25 votes
6.3
25 votes
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (TV)
1995 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Mick Jackson
Cast James Woods · Henry Thomas · Mercedes Ruehl · Lolita Davidovich
Synopsis The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruilty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most...
6.3
115 votes
6.3
115 votes
The Equalizer (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Michael Sloan · Richard Lindheim · Alan Metzger · Tobe Hooper
Cast Edward Woodward · Keith Szarabajka · Robert Lansing · Mark Margolis
Synopsis Robert McCall is a tough-as-nails, no-BS private eye who went into business for himself after leaving the shadowy agency he once worked for. McCall works on behalf of those whose problems the police cannot - or will not - get...
6.2
102 votes
6.2
102 votes
Juggernaut
1974 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Richard Harris · Anthony Hopkins · Omar Sharif · David Hemmings
Synopsis Some unknown maniac is threatening a navigation company to blow up one of its luxury transatlantics, the "Britannic", now in high sea with 1200 passengers. He is asking for a £500,000 ransom, otherwise the 7 bombs aboard will explode. An...
6.1
903 votes
6.1
903 votes
Petulia
1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Julie Christie · George C. Scott · Richard Chamberlain · Arthur Hill
Synopsis A married doctor falls for the young wife of an abusive rich man.
6.0
317 votes
6.0
317 votes
If These Walls Could Talk (TV)
1996 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Nancy Savoca · Cher
Cast Demi Moore · Shirley Knight · Catherine Keener · Sissy Spacek
Synopsis A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a...
5.9
658 votes
5.9
658 votes
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Robert Preston · Dorothy McGuire · Eve Arden · Angela Lansbury
Synopsis In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage...
5.9
41 votes
5.9
41 votes
The Group
1966 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Candice Bergen · Joan Hackett · Elizabeth Hartman · Shirley Knight
5.8
175 votes
5.8
175 votes
Hawaiian Eye (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dein · Alvin Ganzer · Paul Landres · André De Toth
Cast Connie Stevens · Robert Conrad · Poncie Ponce · Anthony Eisley
Synopsis TV Series (1959-1963) 134 episodes. Set against the beautiful tropical landscape of Honolulu, Hawaii, this series centered around the cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm - Thomas Jefferson Lopaka,...
5.8
21 votes
5.8
21 votes
21 Hours at Munich
1976 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction William A. Graham
Cast William Holden · Shirley Knight · Franco Nero · Richard Basehart
5.6
296 votes
5.6
296 votes
Our Idiot Brother
2011 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Jesse Peretz
Cast Paul Rudd · Zooey Deschanel · Elizabeth Banks · Emily Mortimer
Synopsis Despite looking for the good in every situation and the best in every person, Ned always seems to find himself holding the short end of the stick—being conned into selling pot to a uniformed cop, being dumped by his girlfriend,...
5.6
1K votes
5.6
1K votes
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Rebecca Miller
Cast Robin Wright · Keanu Reeves · Julianne Moore · Winona Ryder
Synopsis Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) is a woman in the prime of life. A happily married mother of two grown-up children, she is also a generous hostess and an excellent cook. Her marriage to legendary publisher Herb Lee (Alan Arkin),...
5.4
2K votes
5.4
2K votes
Little Boy Blue
1997 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Antonio Tibaldi
Cast Ryan Phillippe · Nastassja Kinski · John Savage · Shirley Knight
Synopsis Deep in the heart of Texas lives a young man named Jimmy West, whose painful and dangerous struggle for normalcy and happiness in a deeply dysfunctional family uncovers a long buried secret of incest. Ray, a disturbed Vietnam war veteran...
5.4
59 votes
5.4
59 votes
The Haunting of Amelia
2008 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction A.D. Calvo
Cast Brendan Fehr · Chad Lindberg · Tania Raymonde · Beatrice Rosen
Synopsis A young man (Brendan Fehr) whose life has been on hold for ten years while he mourns the tragic death of his high school girlfriend falls for a waitress who is the spitting image of his lost love, while his...
5.3
30 votes
5.3
30 votes
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Callie Khouri
Cast Sandra Bullock · Ellen Burstyn · Fionnula Flanagan · James Garner
5.2
1K votes
5.2
1K votes
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Irwin Allen
Cast Michael Caine · Karl Malden · Sally Field · Telly Savalas
Synopsis Adventurers return to the overturned ship, seeking a fortune.
5.2
947 votes
5.2
947 votes