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Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) more movies like this

directed by Jon Avnet
featuring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Nick Searcy

A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges her existence, and while he ...

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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Beresford
featuring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the twenty-five year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman). Both employer and employee are outsiders, Hoke because of the color of his skin, Miss ...

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The Desert Fox

The Desert Fox (1951) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane

The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat from North Africa and his government-decreed death. A brilliant tactician, Rommel earns the respect not only of his own men but of the enemy. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler (Luther Adler), laboring under the delusion that he ...

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*batteries not included

*batteries not included (1987) more movies like this

directed by Matthew Robbins
featuring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peņa, Michael Carmine

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are among the impoverished residents of a slum tenement threatened with demolition by evil land developers. Only a miracle can save Cronyn, Tandy, and their friends -- and that miracle manifests itself in the form of a "family" of extraterrestrial flying saucers, who need the electricity provided by the tenement to ...

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The Birds

The Birds (1963) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies

The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' ...

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Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool (1994) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh

Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination (and won citations from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Berlin International Film Festival) for his performance in this well-drawn comedy-drama. Sully (Newman) is a 60-year-old man who emotionally seems to have never quite emerged from adolescence; scraping by on part-time work in construction, Sully ...

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The Light in the Forest

The Light in the Forest (1958) more movies like this

directed by Herschel Daugherty
featuring Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur, Jessica Tandy

Those who learned to dislike Conrad Richter's novel The Light in the Forest when it was required reading in high school will be pleasantly surprised by this Disney adaptation. In his second film appearance, James MacArthur plays Johnny Butler, a white youth who was captured by the Delaware Indians in infancy. In 1764, a peace treaty is signed ...

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The Story Lady

The Story Lady (1991) more movies like this

directed by Larry Elikann
featuring Ed Begley, Jr., Jessica Tandy, Lisa Jakub, Richard Masur, Stephanie Zimbalist, Tandy Cronyn

In this made-for-TV drama, Jessica Tandy plays Grace McQueen, an elderly woman who has grown bored and restless following the death of her husband. Grace has always loved telling stories to children, and as a way of keeping herself occupied she comes up with an idea for a public access television series in which she will read great children's ...

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Butley

Butley (1974) more movies like this

directed by Harold Pinter
featuring Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, Michael Byrne

The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's Othello. Another of these filmed theatricals is Simon Gray's Butley, which was brought to the screen by playwright Harold Pinter, and which features an astonishing performance by Alan Bates. The story focuses on one very bad ...

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Cocoon

Cocoon (1985) more movies like this

directed by Ron Howard
featuring Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon

Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly corny thanks to the performances of its mostly senior cast. Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, and Hume Cronyn are three old-timers who sneak out of their retirement home a few days a week to swim in the large pool on an abandoned estate next door. When the threesome begins to ...

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The House on Carroll Street

The House on Carroll Street (1988) more movies like this

directed by Peter Yates
featuring Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Rhode, Jessica Tandy

Yes, there are commies under the bed. But are there Nazis there too? Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) is a modestly successful Life photo editor living in 1950s New York, until she is called before the Senate Un-American Activities Committee to testify about her "communist" associations. When she refuses to divulge the names of friends in her civil ...

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The Bostonians (1984) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Jessica Tandy, Nancy Marchand

Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Henry James, Merchant/Ivory's The Bostonians is set among the Back Bay uppercrust of the 19th century. Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), bored by his opulent lifestyle and his "proper" friends, is fascinated by his cousin, outspoken suffragette Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave). Basil and Olive's ...

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Camilla (1994) more movies like this

directed by Deepa Mehta
featuring Jessica Tandy, Bridget Fonda, Elias Koteas, Maury Chaykin, Graham Greene

Jessica Tandy made one of her final screen appearances in this comic road movie. Freda (Bridget Fonda) is a would-be singer and songwriter who would like a career as a performer but lacks the courage; it doesn't help that her husband Vincent (Elias Koteas), a graphic artist, keeps insisting that her interest in music is merely a hobby. Hoping to ...

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Best Friends (1982) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley

We'd rather not speculate over how much of Best Friends is autobiographical. We'll just note that this story of a male-female screenwriting team was written by real-life married scenarists Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. Lovers as well as collaborators, scriveners Richard Babson (Burt Reynolds) and Paula McCullen (Goldie Hawn) decide to make ...

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Still of the Night (1982) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford

In Still of the Night, a mystery thriller written and directed by Robert Benton, a psychiatrist falls in love with a woman who is suspected of the murder of one of his patients. Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider) is treating a married museum curator. When the man is killed, Sam is visited by his dead patient's mistress and co-worker Brooke Reynolds ...

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The Seventh Cross (1944) more movies like this

directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead

Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the war years. The story concerns seven prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp who manage to elude the guards and the Gestapo. The commandant, in a rage over their escape, nails crosses to seven trees, planning to crucify each ...

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