Direction: Glenn Jordan

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Glenn Jordan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Les Miserables (TV)

1978 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Richard Jordan · Anthony Perkins · Cyril Cusack · Claude Dauphin

Plot Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

6.7

73 votes

6.7

73 votes

Barbarians at the Gate (TV)

1993 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast James Garner · Jonathan Pryce · Peter Riegert · Joanna Cassidy

Plot Johnson's bid for the company is opposed by two of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis (who is played by Jonathan Pryce), and his cousin George R. Roberts....

6.2

43 votes

6.2

43 votes

Mass Appeal

1984 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Jack Lemmon · Zeljko Ivanek · Charles Durning · Louise Latham

Plot A popular Connecticut priest shields a seminary rebel from the wrath of a stern monsignor.

5.9

111 votes

5.9

111 votes

Only When I Laugh

1981 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Marsha Mason · Kristy McNichol · James Coco · Joan Hackett

Plot A boozy Broadway actress (Marsha Mason) comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends (James Coco, Joan Hackett) as well as her needy daughter...

5.9

69 votes

5.9

69 votes

Family (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Jay Presson Allen · Richard Kinon · Edward Parone · Glenn Jordan

Cast Kristy McNichol · Meredith Baxter · Sada Thompson · James Broderick

Plot TV Series (1976-1980). 5 seasons. 86 episodes. The show featured Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, a happily married middle-class couple living in Pasadena, California. Doug...

5.8

30 votes

5.8

30 votes

A Streetcar Named Desire (TV)

1995 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Jessica Lange · Alec Baldwin · John Goodman · Diane Lane

Plot Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic...

5.6

306 votes

5.6

306 votes

Sarah, Plain and Tall (TV)

1991 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Glenn Close · Christopher Walken · Lexi Randall · Christopher Bell

Plot Set around the turn of the century. Jacob, a widowed farmer with two small children, places an ad in a paper for a new wife. The ad is answered by...

5.4

104 votes

5.4

104 votes

Midwives (TV)

2001 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Peter Coyote · Sissy Spacek · Terry Kinney · Alison Pill

Plot A midwife in rural Vermont is wrongly accused of murder in the death of one of her patients by the woman's husband.

4.5

51 votes

4.5

51 votes

O Pioneers! (TV)

1992 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Jessica Lange · David Strathairn · Tom Aldredge · Anne Heche

Plot The film centers around a family of Swedish immigrants in Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The family's father dies and leaves the family farm to his daughter....

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Something in Common (TV)

1986 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

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Frankenstein (TV)

1973 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Robert Foxworth · Susan Strasberg · Bo Svenson · Heidi Vaughn

Plot A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation."

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Heartsounds (TV)

1984 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · James Garner · Sam Wanamaker · Wendy Crewson

Plot New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to...

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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (TV)

1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Glenn Close · Christopher Walken · Lexi Randall · Christopher Bell

Plot On a cold winter day a mysterious stranger shows up at the Witting Farm. He is John Witting, the father of Jacob Witting who abandoned Jacob and his mother when...

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Jake's Women (TV)

1996 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Alan Alda · Anne Archer · Lolita Davidovich · Julie Kavner

Plot Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with.

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Echoes in the Darkness (TV)

1987 · Movie · 260 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Peter Coyote · Stockard Channing · Robert Loggia · Peter Boyle

Plot Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania,...

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Night Ride Home (TV)

1999 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Rebecca De Mornay · Keith Carradine · Ellen Burstyn · Thora Birch

Plot Neal (Keith Carradine) and Nora (Rebecca DeMornay) are a married couple who run a horse ranch. Neal and Nora have slowly but surely drifted apart; while they still live together,...

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After Jimmy (TV)

1996 · Movie · min. · United States

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Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (TV)

1979 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast James Farentino · Kathryn Harrold · Stephen Elliott · Henry Olek

Plot A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However, the...

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The Long Way Home (TV)

1998 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

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Toughlove (TV)

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Lee Remick · Bruce Dern · Jason Patric · Eric Schiff

Plot A rebellious 17 year old is increasingly getting into trouble, doing drugs, and hiding events from his parents. As things spiral further out of control, his parents turn to an...

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