List of the best Frank Perry movies: The Swimmer(1968), David and Lisa(1962), Ladybug, Ladybug(1963), Diary of a Mad Housewife(1970), Man on a Swing(1974), Mommie Dearest(1981), Play It as It Lays(1972), Rancho Deluxe(1975), Trilogy(1969), Hello Again(1987), Dummy(1979) ... ...
Drama
USA
1968
94 Minutes
Director
Burt Lancaster Janet Landgard Janice Rule Tony Bickley Marge Champion Bill Fiore Kim Hunter Joan Rivers
advertising executive old flame babysitter friend housewife bleak dreamy disturbing suburbia connecticut swimming pool failure family dysfunction suburban life midlife crisis lost loves quest discovery fall 1960s
A man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town.
Drama
USA
1962
94 Minutes
Director
young man girl mother psychiatrist eerie dark intense mental institution city house mental illness family dysfunction trust maturing love discovery transformation 1960s
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people.
Drama
USA
1963
84 Minutes
Director
Jane Connell William Daniels Alice Playten James Frawley Richard Hamilton Kathryn Hays Jane Hoffman Elena Karam Judith Lowry Nancy Marchand Estelle Parsons
student teacher girl principal boy bleak sad school dump united states bomb shelter nuclear attack survival childhood fear war escape 1960s
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
95 Minutes
Director
Richard Benjamin Carrie Snodgress Frank Langella Lorraine Cullen Frannie Michel Lee Addoms Hilda Haynes Donald Symington Peter Boyle Katherine Meskill
A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.
Crime, Drama
USA
1974
108 Minutes
Director
Cliff Robertson Joel Grey Dorothy Tristan Peter Masterson Elizabeth Wilson George Voskovec Ron Weyand Lane Smith Joe Ponazecki Christopher Allport Richard Venture
psychic police chief teacher mother police officer chilling gripping small town family home police station motel murder investigation mystery pursuit 1970s
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... See full summary »
Biography, Drama
USA
1981
129 Minutes
Director
Faye Dunaway Diana Scarwid Howard da Silva Mara Hobel Rutanya Alda Harry Goz Michael Edwards Jocelyn Brando Priscilla Pointer Joe Abdullah Gary Allen
actress orphan young woman boyfriend studio head reporter melodramatic intense dark los angeles movie set mansion joan crawford family dysfunction failing career alcoholism breakdown doomed romance fall rivalry
The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
Drama
USA
1972
99 Minutes
Director
actress director celebrity husband wife producer intense dark powerful sad los angeles movie set las vegas mojave desert nervous breakdown failed romance infidelity career vs. love hollywood escape
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Comedy, Western
USA
1975
93 Minutes
Director
Jeff Bridges Sam Waterston Elizabeth Ashley Charlene Dallas Clifton James Slim Pickens Harry Dean Stanton Richard Bright Patti D'Arbanville Maggie Wellman Bert Conway
cattle rustler rancher wife cowboy detective niece hilarious quirky montana ranch prison robbery teamwork bartering boredom ransom deception quest transformation temptation
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
Drama
USA
1969
110 Minutes
Director
Maureen Stapleton Martin Balsam Mildred Natwick Geraldine Page Susan Dunfee Donnie Melvin
nanny spinster widower boy aunt cousin eerie moving emotional somber alabama small town cemetery new york city house insanity loneliness childhood illness death
"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 one of her "babies" is expecting... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1987
96 Minutes
Director
Shelley Long Corbin Bernsen Judith Ivey Gabriel Byrne Sela Ward Austin Pendleton Carrie Nye Robert Lewis Madeleine Potter Thor Fields John Cunningham
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.
Drama
1979
96 Minutes
Director
Paul Sorvino LeVar Burton Brian Dennehy Rose Gregorio Gregg Henry Steven Williams Helen Martin Jonathan Pilurs Paul Butler
A court-appointed lawyer (Paul Sorvino) who cannot hear defends a young murder suspect (LeVar Burton) who cannot hear or speak.