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1	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) more movies like this directed by Callie Khouri featuring Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Fionnula Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Cherry Jones, Shirley Knight, James Garner Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms with her estranged, boozy mother, Vivi (Ellen ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.78!
2	Same Time, Next Year (1978) more movies like this directed by Robert Mulligan featuring Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda, Ivan Bonar Based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play Same Time, Next Year this film is about George, a married New Jersey accountant (Alan Alda), and Doris, a housewife (Ellen Burstyn). The two accidentally meet in a Californian country inn in 1951. The two have an affair, which they continue for the next 25 years, meeting only once a year for a weekend getaway ... see all copies from £7.44! new only from £7.44!
3	The Exorcist (1973) more movies like this directed by William Friedkin featuring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Kitty Winn Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old Linda Blair. Suddenly prone to fits and bizarre behavior, Regan proves quite a handful for her actress-mother, Chris ... see all copies from £1.61! new only from £2.73!
4	How to Make an American Quilt (1995) more movies like this directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse featuring Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney); she's not sure if she's ready to ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £3.38!
5	The Fountain (2006) more movies like this directed by Darren Aronofsky featuring Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky switches gears from drug-induced urban malaise to abstract science fiction with this time-tripping symbolic tale of a man's thousand-year quest to save the woman he loves. Moving between representational stories and images, this meditation on life and death focuses on the concept of the mythical Tree ... see all copies from £3.96! new only from £6.13!
6	Requiem for a Dream (2000) more movies like this directed by Darren Aronofsky featuring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry (Jared Leto), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY, while Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy ... see all copies from £3.96! new only from £6.14!
7	The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004) more movies like this directed by Lloyd Kramer featuring Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, Dagmara Dominczyk, Steve Grayhm, Michael Imperioli Mitch Albom wrote the screenplay for this made-for-television adaptation of his best-selling story, which offers a novel perspective on life, death, and the meaning of our existence. Eddie (Jon Voight) is an elderly maintenance man who has spent most of his life keeping the rides at an amusement park in good repair; Eddie has had a hard life, ... see all copies from £7.31! new only from £7.31!
8	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) more movies like this directed by Bill Couturie featuring Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam was first telecast April 3, 1988, over the HBO cable service. Based on the book of the same name, the program is devoted to poignant recitations of letters to and from American participants of the Vietnam war. The letters are heard over images culled from news footage, home movies and still photography, with ... see all copies from £4.75! new only from £10.30!
9	The Last Picture Show (1971) more movies like this directed by Peter Bogdanovich featuring John Hillerman, Randy Quaid, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) play football, go to the ... see all copies from £3.59! new only from £7.49!
10	Follow the River (1995) more movies like this directed by Martin Davidson featuring Sheryl Lee, Ellen Burstyn, Tim Guinee, Eric Schweig Sheryl Lee stars in this fact-based story of a colonial woman taken prisoner by a tribe of Shawnee Indians during the French and Indian War. After being abducted to the tribe's settlement in the wilds of Virginia, Mary Ingles (Lee) befriends a Dutch woman who is also being held captive, and the two manage to escape and work their way back home ... see all copies from £3.76! new only from £4.67!
11 view cover	Resurrection (1980) more movies like this directed by Daniel Petrie featuring Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom, Clifford David Ellen Burstyn plays Edna McCauley, the wife of a man (Jeffrey DeMunn) who is killed in an auto crash. Edna herself survives, but not before enduring an "out of body" experience. Crippled in the accident, Edna heads to her hometown in Kansas to recuperate. There she discovers that she has the power to heal people, presumably a byproduct of her ... see all copies from £20.47! new only from £20.47!
12 view cover	The Wicker Man (2006) more movies like this directed by Neil LaBute featuring Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy A young child has gone missing and it's up to a haunted but determined policeman to travel to the remote island community where she was last seen and solve the lingering mystery of her disappearance in director Neil LaBute's updated reworking of Anthony Shaffer's 1973 cult horror classic. Upon receiving a letter from his one-time fiancée, Willow ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.10!
13 view cover	The Spitfire Grill (1996) more movies like this directed by Lee David Zlotoff featuring Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton, Kieran Mulroney This debut drama from writer-director Lee David Zlotoff (creator of the TV series MacGyver) won the audience award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Alison Elliott stars as Percy Talbott, an ex-convict who's come to the small Maine town of Gilead in the hope of finding work and a place to start her life over again. With the help of the local ... see all copies from £2.80! new only from £2.80!
14 view cover	Timepiece (1996) more movies like this directed by Marcus Cole featuring Naomi Watts, Kevin Kilner, James Earl Jones, Ellen Burstyn, Mercedes Vilamil This made-for-TV drama is a prequel to the 1995 feature The Christmas Box, which starred Maureen O'Hara as the formidable dowager Mary Parkin. Set in the '40s, Timepiece stars Naomi Watts as the much-younger Mary, a British transplant not yet married to her widowed boss, small-town businessman David Parkin (Kevin Kilner). By way of explaining how ... see all copies from £8.96!
15 view cover	Flash (1997) more movies like this directed by Simon Wincer featuring Lucas Black, Ellen Burstyn, Brian Kerwin Lucas Black and Ellen Burstyn star in this made-for-TV movie from Disney, in which a poor boy dreams of owning a horse named Flash. The boy's father can't afford to buy the animal and it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous trainer, much to the boy's sorrow. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide see all copies from £14.62!
16 view cover	Playing by Heart (1998) more movies like this directed by Willard Carroll featuring Anthony Edwards, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Burstyn, Gena Rowlands, Jay Mohr, Jon Stewart, Ryan Phillippe, Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Madeleine Stowe Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is spoken by young club-hopper Joan (Angelina Jolie). Taken by the mysterious Keenan (Ryan Phillippe), she tells him that "talking about love" is like "dancing about architecture" (the original ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.45!
17 view cover	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) more movies like this directed by Martin Scorsese featuring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter, Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd, Lelia Goldoni Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest housewife, takes advantage of her trucker husband's sudden death to hit the road with her bratty son Tommy (Alfred Lutter) and pursue her childhood dream of a singing career. She ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £10.39!
18 view cover	Night Ride Home (1999) more movies like this Based on the novel by Barbara Esstman, this made-for-TV drama concerns Neal (Keith Carradine) and Nora (Rebecca DeMornay), a married couple who run a horse ranch. Neal and Nora have slowly but surely drifted apart; while they still live together, they no longer feel that they have anything to say to each other. Nora dotes on their 17-year-old son ... see all copies from £3.76! new only from £4.34!
19 view cover	Tropic of Cancer (1970) more movies like this directed by Joseph Strick featuring Rip Torn, James Callahan, Ellen Burstyn, David Bauer, Laurence Ligneres Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy literary work -- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Rip Torn plays Miller, an American expatriate author living -- and loving -- in 1920s Paris. The much-vaunted sex scenes were hot enough in 1970 to earn the film an X-rating, and ... see all copies from £11.94!
20 view cover	Twice in a Lifetime (1985) more movies like this directed by Bud Yorkin featuring Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy On the occasion of his 50th birthday, blue-collar family man Gene Hackman is possessed by our old friend, The Mid-Life Crisis. Visiting a local tavern, Hackman becomes enchanted by gorgeous barmaid Ann-Margret. In less time than it takes to down his beer, he has resolved to leave his wife Ellen Burstyn, and his daughters Ally Sheedy and Amy ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.43!
21 view cover	Walking Across Egypt (1999) more movies like this directed by Arthur A. Seidelman featuring Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Judge Reinhold, Gail O'Grady Ellen Burstyn stars in this warm family drama. Mattie (Burstyn) is an aging southern belle who realizes that she's getting too old to go on living in a house. After an odd encounter with the local dogcatcher Lamar (Mark Hamill), Mattie befriends Lamar's bad-egg nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). Soon he betrays her trust and escapes from ... see all copies from £5.06! new only from £5.06!
22 view cover	Pack of Lies (1987) more movies like this directed by Anthony Page featuring Alan Bates, Daniel Benzali, Ellen Burstyn Adapted from the one-act play by Hugh Whitemore, Pack of Lies originally aired as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation on April 26, 1987. Emmy-nominated Ellen Burstyn plays a Canadian housewife living in England, who dutifully allows a government agent (Alan Bates) into her house. The agent sets up a surveillance post in Burstyn's bedroom, ... see all copies from £4.36! new only from £4.49!
23 view cover	The Yards (2000) more movies like this directed by James Gray featuring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan, Ellen Burstyn, Faye Dunaway In this drama, a young man joins the family business without knowing that he's entering a world of danger and deceit. Hot-headed Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) has had some scrapes with the law and served time for a crime he didn't commit. Hoping to get his life back on track, he takes a job in the New York subway yards, secured by his Uncle Frank ... see all copies from £1.97! new only from £7.44!
24 view cover	The Cemetery Club (1993) more movies like this directed by Bill Duke featuring Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Diane Ladd, Lainie Kazan Based on the play by Ivan Menchell, this drama concerns three friends, Doris (Olympia Dukakis), Lucille (Diane Ladd), and Esther (Ellen Burstyn). All three live in the same Jewish community in Pittsburgh, are in their mid-to-late 50s, and have become widows within the past few months. Once a week, they gather to visit their husbands' graves and ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.27!
25 view cover	Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow (2005) more movies like this directed by Kenneth Shiffrin, Michael W. Dean featuring Robert Downey, Jr., Hubert Selby, Jr., Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, dealt with the dark underside of life in a way that was bleak and often shocking, but also laced with compassion and understanding for the tortured lives of his characters. Selby only completed the eighth grade ... see all copies from £9.87! new only from £9.87!

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