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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters - filmography
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Portrait Of A Lady
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
Director: Jane Campion
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Nicole Kidman stars in this dark, elaborate adaptation of Henry James's novel, director Jane Campion's follow-up to THE PIANO. American Isabel Archer (Kidman) visits her wealthy relatives in 1872 England, where she turns down an offer of marriage by a kind and rich suitor (Richard E. Grant) in ..read more »
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53%
from 2,035 members
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Raging Angels
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, Monet Mazur, Diane Ladd
Director: Alan Smithee
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Chris and Lila are two struggling rock musicians in Los Angeles who, one day, meet up with superstar Colin Grammercy. Colin chooses Lila to be a singer in his band but little does she or Chris realise the supernatural battle they are about to face...
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37%
from 44 members
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The Delta Force
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Robert Forster
Director: Menahem Golan
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When a band of ruthless terrorists hijack an airliner full of American passengers, the U.S. enlists the aid of an elite strike force (Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, and others) to rescue the hostages.
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61%
from 1,041 member
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Pete's Dragon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Sean Marshall
Director: Don Chaffey
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This heartwarming musical blends live action, animation, and music to highlight the story of Pete (Sean Marshall), a young boy who is befriended by a delightful dragon named Elliot (voiced by Charlie Callas). The film features charming performances from Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Shelley ..read more »
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65%
from 3,416 members
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The Tenant
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Roman Polanski
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Trelkovsky (director Roman Polanski), a Polish immigrant residing in Paris, moves into an apartment vacated by a young woman who committed suicide by leaping out of her window. Upon moving in, Trelkovsky begins feeling that the woman's personality traits are being thrust upon him. At a local shop, ..read more »
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64%
from 1,674 member
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Cleopatra Jones
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters
Director: Jack Starrett
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A buxom beauty, undercover narcotics agent Cleo Jones (Tamara Dobson) is the principal operative in a covert scheme to eradicate an international drug trade. But she's pulled away from important business when a phony raid on her boyfriend's ghetto halfway house puts the rehabilitation centre in ..read more »
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52%
from 177 members
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The Poseidon Adventure
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Carol Lynley
Director: Ronald Neame
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On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon is on a magnificent voyage from New York to Athens, Greece. Unfortunately, disaster befalls passengers and crew when the cruise ship is capsized by a huge tidal wave brought on by a submarine-induced earthquake. Though the casualties are many, 10 ..read more »
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64%
from 4,113 members
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Bloody Mama
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Robert DeNiro
Director: Roger Corman
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Director Roger Corman pulls no punches in this sordid (and true) saga of Kate "Ma" Barker and her sons, brutal criminals who terrorized America in the 1920s and '30s. At Ma's command they rob and murder, but when they kidnap a local politician (Pat Hingle), he turns into the father figure they ..read more »
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46%
from 249 members
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The Scalphunters
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this amiable comic Western in which fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is returning from a successful expedition only to find himself ambushed by a small group of Indians. The Indians force Joe to trade his pelts for Joseph, an educated runaway slave, played brilliantly by ..read more »
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63%
from 307 members
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Wild in the Streets
(1968)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, Diane Varsi
Director: Barry Shear
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Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth ..read more »
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17%
from 4 members
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Pat Boone, John Wayne
Director: George Stevens
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George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of the execution of all male children in Judea, ..read more »
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63%
from 581 members
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A Patch of Blue
(1965)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Director: Guy Green
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When Gordon Ralfe, a handsome, hard-working black man encounters Selina, a blind white girl, he befriends the lonely woman. Her only true friend, Gordon introduces Selina to a whole world beyond the confines of her deprived home life. But given the current racial climate, Gordon's afraid to tell ..read more »
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83%
from 13 members
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The Balcony
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Peter Falk, Shelley Winters, Leonard Nimoy
Director: Joseph Strick
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An adaptation of Jean Genet's highly unusual, powerful play. The action takes place in a whorehouse, where business continues as usual despite the fact that a violent revolution rages in the streets outside. But the real world finally intrudes into this bastion of fantasy in the form of a police ..read more »
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37%
from 92 members
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Lolita
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, ..read more »
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66%
from 4,010 members
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The Young Savages
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas
Director: John Frankenheimer
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John Frankenheimer (The Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate) is one of the most innovative filmmakers of the twentieth century, whose groundbreaking techniques and definitive, cinematic style has rippled through the history of movies to leave an indelible mark. Renowned actor Burt ..read more »
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66%
from 15 members
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters
Director: George Stevens
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George Stevens' life-altering experience of witnessing the death camps after WWII was doubtless responsible for his desire to adapt the famed diary of the teenaged Jewish girl, played by Millie Perkins. With the feared 'Green Police' or Dutch Gestapo combing Amsterdam in search of Jews, Anne, her ..read more »
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63%
from 568 members
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Odds Against Tomorrow
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Bright, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Director: Robert Wise
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A classic noir thriller, produced and directed by ROBERT WISE (West Side Story), ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW stars HARRY BELAFONTE (Carmen Jones), ED BEGLEY (Sweet Bird of Youth) and ROBERT RYAN (The Dirty Dozen).
Dave Burke (BEGLEY ) is an embittered ex – policeman whose career was shattered ..read more »
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70%
from 47 members
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I Am A Camera
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Shelley Winters
Director: Henry Cornelius
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Based on Christopher Isherwood's short stories about decadent pre-Nazi Berlin, this film chronicles the adventures of a struggling writer and his wild female friend Sally Bowles. The basis for the later musical and movie CABARET. A young English writer, exploring the hedonism of 1930's Berlin, ..read more »
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51%
from 94 members
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The Night Of The Hunter
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
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In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father's stolen fortune. In Robert Mitchum's career-defining role as ..read more »
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71%
from 6,207 members
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Meet Danny Wilson
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Alex Nicol, Shelley Winters
Director: Joseph Pevney
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Frank Sinatra shines as a gifted, but quick tempered, up and coming lounge singer Danny Wilson who makes a meagre living singing in dive bars and hustling pool with best friend Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol). Even with a set of golden tonsils, "Easy Street" isn't so easy for Danny to find. One night, by ..read more »
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49%
from 11 members
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A Place In The Sun
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters
Director: George Stevens
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George Stevens' lavish adaptation of this classic casts Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor as the star-crossed lovers. As George Eastman (Clift) hitchhikes into the town where a job awaits him at the factory of his affluent Uncle Charles (Herbert Heyes), the lovely Angela Vickers (Taylor) speeds ..read more »
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65%
from 1,059 member
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He Ran All The Way Home
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, John Garfield
Director: John Berry
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Nick Robey and his partner in crime Al Molin hold up a payroll with disasterous results. With his partner dead and the police hot on his heels Nick meets Peggy Dobbs and forces her and her family to hide him from the law.
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56%
from 16 members
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Winchester 73
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Director: Anthony Mann
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Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps ..read more »
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70%
from 924 members
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Cry Of The City
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Victor Mature, Shelley Winters, Richard Conte
Director: Robert Sidomak
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Two boyhood pals from New York's Lower East side diverge in their paths through life - Marty becomes a criminal, a killer without remorse, while Candella rises to chief of the homicide bureau. Richard Conte and Victor Mature take the leads in this film noir that is perhaps the most perfectly ..read more »
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66%
from 125 members
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A Double Life
(1947)
Starring: Ronald Coleman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters
Director: George Cukor
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The exploration of the personality of Anthony John (Ronald Colman), a brilliant but schizoid actor who is a specialist in classic drama but whose personality changes when he portrays Othello on stage. His outgoing character endears him to all - but his wife is terrified that one day his cruel ..read more »
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48%
from 5 members
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Fanny Hill
on DVD
Starring: Lisa Foster, Oliver Reed, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Director: Gerry O'Hara
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An adaptation of John Cleland's infamous erotic novel, this is the sensual story of nubile, virginal country girl Fanny Hill forced into the oldest profession in the world. Throwing herself body and soul into her new work, Fanny comes to derive enormous pleasure from her new-found ability to please,..read more »
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49%
from 328 members
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Shelley Winters facts
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Night At The Wrong Time 17 January 2005
... distorted. The same can be said for the characters. The acting is superb, even Shelley Winters fits perfectly. So a film that is full of style and is a masterpiece.
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Flawed Adaptation 13 December 2005
Excellent hokum afloat 19 February 2006
