Direction: Frank Perry

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


The Swimmer

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Burt Lancaster · Janice Rule · Janet Landgard · Tony Bickley

Plot Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friends pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

David and Lisa

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Keir Dullea · Janet Margolin · Howard Da Silva · Neva Patterson

Plot The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He...

6.7

184 votes

6.7

184 votes

Last Summer

1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Barbara Hershey · Richard Thomas · Bruce Davison · Catherine Burns

Plot During summer vacation on Long Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's...

6.3

86 votes

6.3

86 votes

Man on a Swing

1974 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Cliff Robertson · Joel Grey · Dorothy Tristan · Elizabeth Wilson

Plot A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to...

6.2

27 votes

6.2

27 votes

Mommie Dearest

1981 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Faye Dunaway · Steve Forrest · Diana Scarwid · Mara Hobel

Plot Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her...

6.2

771 votes

6.2

771 votes

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Richard Benjamin · Frank Langella · Carrie Snodgress · Lorraine Cullen

Plot Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She...

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes

Doc

1971 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Stacy Keach · Faye Dunaway · Harris Yulin · Michael Witney

Plot The story of notorious criminals Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin) and Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach) and the gunfight at the OK Corral in a revisal fashion.

5.7

441 votes

5.7

441 votes

Monsignor

1982 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Christopher Reeve · Geneviève Bujold · Fernando Rey · Jason Miller

Plot John Flaherty is a young and ambitious American priest who arrives in the Papal Sovereign city state of the Vactican in 1944 to take his holy orders as a catholic...

5.1

150 votes

5.1

150 votes

Rancho Deluxe

1975 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Jeff Bridges · Sam Waterston · Elizabeth Ashley · Slim Pickens

Plot Jack McKee and Cecil Colson are bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle in the wilds of Montana. Jack left his wealthy parents because he resented their posh...

4.9

43 votes

4.9

43 votes

Hello Again

1987 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Shelley Long · Judith Ivey · Gabriel Byrne · Corbin Bernsen

Plot A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.

3.9

227 votes

3.9

227 votes

Skag (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Abby Mann · Frank Perry · Allen Reisner · Bruce Bilson

Cast Karl Malden · Piper Laurie · Craig Wasson · Peter Gallagher

Plot Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forced him to stay at home and try to put his life back...

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Play It As It Lays

1972 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Tuesday Weld · Anthony Perkins · Tammy Grimes · Adam Roarke

Plot A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.

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Trilogy

1969 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Beverly Ballard · Geraldine Page · Martin Balsam · Truman Capote

Plot "Miriam": Miss Miller has spent her life as a governess for children in some of the most fashionable homes in New York. She is shocked one day to learn that...

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On the Bridge

1992 · Documentary · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Plot A documentary of director Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995.

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Compromising Positions

1985 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Susan Sarandon · Raul Julia · Edward Herrmann · Judith Ivey

Plot An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several...

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Ladybug Ladybug

1963 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Jane Connell · William Daniels · James Frawley · Richard Hamilton

Plot Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.

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Among the Paths to Eden (TV)

1967 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Dummy (TV)

1979 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Paul Sorvino · LeVar Burton · Brian Dennehy · Rose Gregorio

Plot A deaf and dumb young man is accused of murdering a prostitute and defended by a deaf lawyer.

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