List of the best Piper Laurie movies: Ruby(1977), Has Anybody Seen My Gal?(1952), Tim(1979), Carrie(1976), Francis Goes to the Races(1951), No Room for the Groom(1952), Johnny Dark(1954), Smoke Signal(1955), Another Harvest Moon(2009), Son of Ali Baba(1952), The Golden Blade(1953), Tiger Warsaw(1988) ... ...
Horror
1977
84 Minutes
Piper Laurie Stuart Whitman Janit Baldwin Roger Davis Chrystin Sinclaire Paul Kent Edward Donno Fred Kohler Jr.
mother daughter deaf mute criminal creepy disturbing drive-in theater household vengeance crime family strange happenings possession revenge pursuit 1950s
A slain gangster's moll (Piper Laurie) runs a Florida drive-in theater with her telekinetic teenage daughter (Janit Baldwin).
Musical, Comedy
1952
89 Minutes
Millicent Blaisdell
Piper Laurie Charles Coburn Rock Hudson Gigi Perreau Lynn Bari William Reynolds Larry Gates Skip Homeier James Dean
heir millionaire wealthy man family first love lighthearted charming united states city money wealth inheritance family love first love discovery love rise 1920s
When a 1920s millionaire (Charles Coburn) tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady (Piper Laurie) and her boyfriend (Rock Hudson) feel the repercussions.
Drama
1979
108 Minutes
Mary Horton
Piper Laurie Mel Gibson Alwyn Kurts Pat Evison Peter Gwynne Deborah Kennedy
mentally challenged businesswoman laborer sister father heartwarming emotional australia house sydney may-december romance illiteracy mental retardation friendship love 1970s
An Australian spinster (Piper Laurie) falls in love with a mentally impaired young man (Mel Gibson) she hires as gardener.
Horror
USA
1976
98 Minutes
Margaret White
Sissy Spacek Piper Laurie William Katt Amy Irving John Travolta Nancy Allen Betty Buckley P.J. Soles Sydney Lassick Stefan Gierasch Priscilla Pointer
teenager mother prom queen prom king dark eerie tense california high school house supernatural superhuman abilities self-esteem high school teen angst prom revenge transformation underdog discovery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Comedy
USA
1951
88 Minutes
Donald O'Connor Piper Laurie Cecil Kellaway Jesse White Barry Kelley Hayden Rorke Vaughn Taylor Larry Keating Peter Brocco Edwin Max Don Beddoe
The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters.
Comedy
USA
1952
82 Minutes
Tony Curtis Piper Laurie Spring Byington Don DeFore Jack Kelly Lillian Bronson Paul McVey Stephen Chase Lee Acker Frank Sully James Parnell
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more ... See full summary »
Action
USA
1954
85 Minutes
Tony Curtis Piper Laurie Don Taylor Paul Kelly Ilka Chase Sidney Blackmer
Automobile engineer, Johnny Dark, designs a radical new car. When the owner refuses to sponsor the car in a Canada to Mexico Sports-car race, Johnny, with the aid of the owner's ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1955
88 Minutes
Dana Andrews Piper Laurie Rex Reason William Talman Gordon Jones Milburn Stone Douglas Spencer William Schallert Bill Phipps Robert Wilke Pat Hogan
A suspected cavalry deserter proves to be resourceful in helping the surviving members of a fort, flee Indians along a dangerous river.
Drama
USA
2009
89 Minutes
Ernest Borgnine Piper Laurie Anne Meara Doris Roberts Richard Schiff Cybill Shepherd Sunkrish Bala Amber Benson Clay Bravo Cameron Monaghan Dale Waddington Horowitz
old man dying person bleak emotional endearing inspiring incredible melancholy moving raw profound uneasy nursing home united states death memory loss life lessons suicide discovery quest
An elderly dementia patient must decide whether to leave this world under his own conditions, before he loses his dignity, or give in to his loving family and nursing home roommates' appeals to fight on and risk losing it.
Romance
USA
1952
75 Minutes
Princess Azura of Fez, Kiki
Tony Curtis Piper Laurie Susan Cabot William Reynolds Hugh O'Brian Victor Jory Morris Ankrum Philip Van Zandt Leon Belasco Palmer Lee Barbara Knudson
Kashma Baba, the son of the famed Baghdad thief Ali Baba is a cadet in a medieval Persian military academy where he runs afoul of his rival Hussein, the evil Caliph's son.
Fantasy
USA
1953
81 Minutes
Rock Hudson Piper Laurie Gene Evans Kathleen Hughes George Macready Steven Geray Edgar Barrier Dennis Weaver Anita Ekberg
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Drama
USA
1988
92 Minutes
Patrick Swayze Piper Laurie Lee Richardson Mary McDonnell Barbara Williams Bobby Di Ciccio Jenny Chrisinger Kaye Ballard
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
Drama
USA
1986
117 Minutes
Mrs. Norman
William Hurt Marlee Matlin Piper Laurie Philip Bosco Alison Gompf John F. Cleary John Basinger Philip Holmes
deaf person teacher mother student emotional intense school apartment family home new england love mother/child relationship deafness troubled youth love transformation 1980s
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
Comedy
UK
1951
87 Minutes
Chris Abbott
Donald O'Connor Jimmy Durante Piper Laurie Joyce Holden William Conrad Henry O'Neill Paul Harvey Jess Barker Elisabeth Risdon Frank Nelson Charles Flynn
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
Drama
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Rose Muller
Brett Dier Brooke Adams Piper Laurie Max Adler Emily Baldoni Shannon Collis Cathy DeBuono Emily Goss Christopher McVay Shana Sarin
matriarch daughter granddaughter husband grandmother love interest sultry emotional endearing moving touching house kitchen lake living room family love relationships friendship secret love
When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
Drama
USA
1996
97 Minutes
Kay Trafero
Veronica Hamel Mimi Rogers Piper Laurie Polly Bergen Carlos Gomez Keith Brunsmann Brian Markinson Mary Mara Denise Richards Judith Marie Bergen
In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine examines the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide.
Drama
1986
96 Minutes
Annie Gilbert
James Garner James Woods Piper Laurie Peter Michael Goetz Michael Alldredge Alan Rosenberg
brother sweetheart schizophrenic emotional heartwarming moving household united states family history epilepsy promises mental illness transformation love 1980s
A lifelong bachelor (James Garner) must take care of his schizophrenic brother (James Woods), as he promised their mother he would.
Other, Drama
1997
96 Minutes
Jennie
Patty Duke Eric Lloyd Piper Laurie Anita Gillette Jeffrey DeMunn Jimmy Skaggs Julia McIlvaine Esther Scott
young boy cousin friend servant native american heartwarming melodramatic the south household woods friendship family christmas poverty divorce dementia growing up transformation 1930s
A boy (Eric Lloyd) and his elderly cousin (Patty Duke) spend a bittersweet holiday together before he leaves for military school.
Drama
USA
1961
135 Minutes
Sarah Packard
Paul Newman Jackie Gleason George C. Scott Piper Laurie Myron McCormick Murray Hamilton Michael Constantine Stefan Gierasch Jake LaMotta Gordon Clark Alexander Rose
hustler sexy woman gambler anti-hero alcoholic writer tense gritty bar california gambling money romance billiards comeback fall rise temptation rivalry 1960s
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
Kids & Family, Fantasy
UK|USA
1985
110 Minutes
Aunt Em
Fairuza Balk Nicol Williamson Jean Marsh Piper Laurie Matt Clark Michael Sundin Tim Rose
young girl tin man friend amusing campy uplifting oz fictional city imaginary world wizard of oz rescue dreams adventure fantasy family growing up adventure
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Drama
USA
1957
95 Minutes
Delia Leslie Friskett
Jean Simmons Paul Newman Joan Fontaine Piper Laurie Charles Drake Sandra Dee Wally Cassell Alan Napier Ralph Votrian John Wilder Adam Kennedy
marine salesgirl military officer unwed mother sister wife emotional melodramatic mushy suspenseful new zealand dance hall hotel courtroom doomed romance war bride world war ii domestic violence sister relationship alcohol
During WW2, husband-less New Zealand women meet and marry American soldiers who are fighting in the Pacific theater.
Comedy
USA
1991
101 Minutes
Bea Sullivan
Danny DeVito Penelope Ann Miller Gregory Peck Piper Laurie Dean Jones Tom Aldredge R.D. Call Mo Gaffney Bette Henritze Leila Kenzle
corporate raider lawyer chairman executive company president stepdaughter witty amusing moving rhode island factory small town skyscraper business scheme corporate culture money romance rivalry wall street quest
A corporate raider buys up shares in an undervalued company and falls in love with the founder's son's lawyer/step daughter. Let the battle begin.
Fantasy
USA
1989
114 Minutes
Gena Ettinger
Corey Feldman Meredith Salenger Jason Robards Piper Laurie Harry Dean Stanton William McNamara Corey Haim
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.
Drama
USA
1993
122 Minutes
Georgia
Robert Duvall Richard Harris Shirley MacLaine Sandra Bullock Piper Laurie Micole Mercurio Marty Belafsky Ed Amatrudo
old man sea captain barber landlady waitress friend bleak brooding emotional sad florida seaside diner movie theater apartment park friendship aging sexual advances unrequited love
Two lonely, retired septuagenarians, an unkempt, hard-drinking Irish sea captain, and a fussy, well-mannered Cuban barber form an uneasy friendship.
Drama
USA
1995
114 Minutes
Helen Booth
Jack Nicholson David Morse Anjelica Huston Robin Wright Piper Laurie Richard Bradford Robbie Robertson John Savage Priscilla Barnes Kari Wuhrer
father ex-wife ex-convict girlfriend alcoholic stripper brooding melodramatic powerful apartment strip club restaurant school trailer suburb grief obsession drunken driving death of child hit and run
Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|UK
1988
102 Minutes
Emily Boynton
Peter Ustinov Lauren Bacall Carrie Fisher John Gielgud Piper Laurie Hayley Mills Jenny Seagrove David Soul
When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2009
115 Minutes
Marta
Tatum O'Neal Michael Biehn Penelope Ann Miller Rylee Fansler Piper Laurie Scott Wilson Joel Gretsch Evie Thompson Melinda Chilton Nicholas J. Coleman Nora Hennessy
In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live with the family.
Drama
1999
120 Minutes
Sarah Brady
Jack Lemmon George C. Scott Tom Everett Scott Beau Bridges Piper Laurie John Cullum Kathryn Morris Lane Smith Brad Greenquist David Wells Peter Mackenzie
schoolteacher lawyer politician preacher daughter wife fascinating passionate tennessee courtroom creationism vs. evolution ethics civil disobedience law constitutional rights education quest rise 1920s
A defense attorney (Jack Lemmon) challenges a prosecutor's (George C. Scott) religious beliefs in the trial of a man (Tom Everett Scott) accused of teaching Darwinism.
Romance
1950
90 Minutes
Cathy Norton
Ronald Reagan Charles Coburn Spring Byington Ruth Hussey Edmund Gwenn Piper Laurie Scotty Beckett Connie Gilchrist Willard Waterman Jimmy Hunt Marjorie Crosland
mother widow grocer teenager boss architect amusing charming madcap family home small town store family generation gap dating old age relationships love triangle love rivalry
A widowed grandmother (Spring Byington) has two suitors: a local grocer and her son's (Ronald Reagan) boss (Charles Coburn).
Drama
Canada
2001
97 Minutes
Ruth Anne
Sidney Poitier Wendy Crewson Jay O. Sanders Mary Alice Bernie Casey Cody Newton Piper Laurie Duke Ernsberger Tom Nowicki Mert Hatfield Terry Loughlin
Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.
Horror, Sci-Fi
USA
1998
102 Minutes
Mrs. Karen Olson
Jordana Brewster Clea DuVall Laura Harris Josh Hartnett Shawn Hatosy Salma Hayek Famke Janssen Piper Laurie Christopher McDonald Bebe Neuwirth Robert Patrick
high-school student drug dealer teacher high-school principal cheerleader football player gory frightening creepy tense emotional intricate high school ohio locker room classroom possession alien invasion conformity high school
Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after bizarre occurrences.
Crime, Biography, Drama
USA
2018
111 Minutes
Matthew McConaughey Richie Merritt Bel Powley Jennifer Jason Leigh Brian Tyree Henry Rory Cochrane RJ Cyler Jonathan Majors Eddie Marsan Taylour Paige Bruce Dern
father teenager drug dealer gunrunner federal agent informant brash bleak intense unrestrained outlandish fbi headquarters car house detroit warehouse club father/child relationship greed fbi
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Crime, Drama
USA
1992
110 Minutes
James Spader Joanne Whalley-Kilmer Jason Robards Charlotte Lewis Michael Warren Michael Parks Chuck McCann Charles Haid Chino "Fats" Williams Woody Strode Jeff Perry
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.