List of the best Gilbert Cates movies: Rings Around the World(1966), Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams(1973), Backfire(1987), The Last Married Couple in America(1980), Oh, God! Book II(1980), My First Love(1988), A Death in the Family(2002), One Summer Love(1976), I Never Sang for My Father(1970) ... ...
Documentary
USA
1966
79 Minutes
Director
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1973
93 Minutes
Director
Joanne Woodward Martin Balsam Sylvia Sidney Dori Brenner Win Forman Tresa Hughes Peter Marklin Ron Richards Charley Oberley Minerva Pious Helen Ludlam
wife mother husband daughter dark emotional family home farm france battlefield family death mother/child relationship childhood transformation 1970s
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|UK
1987
93 Minutes
Director
Karen Allen Keith Carradine Jeff Fahey Bernie Casey Dinah Manoff Dean-Paul Martin Virginia Capers Philip Sterling
vietnam vet drifter wealthy woman gold digger sister wife dark suspenseful sultry tense british columbia mansion bar household unhappy marriage betrayal money crime murder plot schemes
Disgruntled wife cheats on her well off husband, who's been suffering from PTSD ever since he came home from the Vietnam War. After an incident he ends up in a catatonic state. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone is after her.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1980
103 Minutes
Director
George Segal Natalie Wood Richard Benjamin Arlene Golonka Allan Arbus Marilyn Sokol Oliver Clark Priscilla Barnes Dom DeLuise Valerie Harper Bob Dishy
husband wife friend love interest beautiful woman amusing playful los angeles household divorce marriage infidelity romance social change sex love temptation 1980s
Mari and Jeff Thompson start to doubt their own marriage when every couple they know separate.
Comedy
USA
1980
94 Minutes
Director
George Burns Suzanne Pleshette David Birney Louanne John Louie Conrad Janis Anthony Holland Hugh Downs Hans Conried Wilfrid Hyde-White Marian Mercer
girl god father mother psychiatrist school principal airy lighthearted amusing playful chinese restaurant school psychiatrist's office classroom god's word advertising campaign misunderstanding visions faith childhood
God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.
Drama, Romance
1988
100 Minutes
Director
Bea Arthur Richard Kiley Joan Van Ark Barbara Barrie Anne Francis Richard Herd Kate Charleson
A widow gets in touch with her former high-school sweetheart, a divorced doctor who she discovers is involved in a romance with a much-younger woman.
Drama
2002
91 Minutes
Director
Annabeth Gish James Cromwell John Slattery Austin Wolff Christopher Strand David Alford Kathleen Chalfant Bill Raymond
In 1915 Tennessee a woman and her two young sons try to cope with a devastating loss. Based on James Agee's novel.
Drama
1976
98 Minutes
Director
Beau Bridges Susan Sarandon Mildred Dunnock Michael Miller Linda Miller Martin Burke James Otis James Noble Ann Wedgeworth Frederick Coffin
young man beautiful woman doctor mother brother mentally ill person profound melodramatic connecticut city mental institution movie theater mental illness troubled youth memory loss romance family discovery love transformation
Released from a mental hospital, a young man (Beau Bridges) returns to his mother (Mildred Dunnock) but meets other women first.
Drama
1970
90 Minutes
Director
Melvyn Douglas Gene Hackman Dorothy Stickney Estelle Parsons Elizabeth Hubbard Lovelady Powell Daniel Keyes Conrad Bain Jon Richards James Karen
father son mother fiancée sister college professor moving tender emotional bleak touching brooding new york city parents' house diner hospital father/son relationship independence family grief
A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out to his bitter father (Melvyn Douglas).