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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The Thanksgiving Visitor (TV)
1967 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Frank Perry
Cast Geraldine Page · Truman Capote · Neil Fitzgerald · Michael Kearney
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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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A Christmas Memory (TV)
1966 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Frank Perry
Cast Geraldine Page · Donnie Melvin · Lavinia Cassels · Christine Marler
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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
Direction Frank Perry
Cast Martin Balsam · Maureen Stapleton
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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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