List of the best Teresa Wright movies: Shadow of a Doubt(1943), Count the Hours(1953), The Search for Bridey Murphy(1956), Escapade in Japan(1957), Roseland(1977), Pursued(1947), The Pride of the Yankees(1942), Enchantment(1948), Track of the Cat(1954), The Capture(1951), Something to Live For(1952), The Best Years of Our Lives(1946) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1943
108 Minutes
Teresa Wright Joseph Cotten Hume Cronyn Macdonald Carey Henry Travers Patricia Collinge Edna May Wonacott Wallace Ford Irving Bacon Charles Bates Clarence Muse
uncle serial killer young girl neighbor detective widow dark suspenseful household small town murder surveillance poison newspapers paranoia infatuation pursuit mystery 1940s
A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Crime, Drama
USA
1953
76 Minutes
Ellen Braden
Teresa Wright Macdonald Carey Dolores Moran Adele Mara Edgar Barrier Jack Elam
murder victim immigrant wrongly accused couple worker lawyer intense suspenseful dark gritty courtroom ranch home room struggle justice crime prevention law motivation helping others
Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of two murders.
Drama
USA
1956
84 Minutes
Ruth Simmons
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life--that of Bridey Murphy. Several ... See full summary »
Adventure
1957
92 Minutes
Mary Saunders
Teresa Wright Cameron Mitchell Jon Provost Roger Nakagawa Philip Ober Kuniko Miyake Susumu Fujita Katsuhiko Haida Tatsuo Saitô Hideko Koshikawa Ureo Egawa
Rescued from a plane, an American boy (Jon Provost) sets out with a Japanese boy to find his parents (Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell) in Tokyo.
Drama
1977
103 Minutes
May (The Waltz)
Teresa Wright Christopher Walken Lilia Skala Lou Jacobi Don De Natale Louise Kirtland Hetty Galen Carol Culver Danny Shearer Geraldine Chaplin Helen Gallagher
widow dancer lover gigolo partner creative heartwarming ballroom new york city dance romance marriage competition polyamory quest transformation discovery love 1970s
A widow (Teresa Wright), a gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an old German scrubwoman (Lilia Skala) come to dance in New York's Roseland ballroom.
Western
1947
101 Minutes
Thorley Callum
Teresa Wright Robert Mitchum Judith Anderson Dean Jagger Alan Hale Harry Carey Jr. John Rodney Clifton Young
orphan foster brother foster mother foster child brother-in-law love interest brooding thrilling uneasy ranch american west adoption childhood trauma family violence attempted murder jealousy growing up mystery pursuit
A rancher's daughter (Teresa Wright) and stepson (Robert Mitchum) become lovers caught in a New Mexico family feud.
Biography
USA
1942
127 Minutes
Eleanor Gehrig
Gary Cooper Teresa Wright Walter Brennan Dan Duryea Ludwig Stossel Addison Richards Hardie Albright
lou gehrig babe ruth baseball player wife reporter emotional inspiring moving touching new york city baseball field aspirations baseball illness discovery rise love 1940s
The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
Romance
USA
1948
102 Minutes
David Niven Teresa Wright Evelyn Keyes Farley Granger Jayne Meadows Leo G. Carroll Philip Friend Shepperd Strudwick Henry Stephenson
general soldier american woman love interest pilot emotional melodramatic london house world war ii jealousy loneliness regret love transformation 20th century
Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1954
103 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Teresa Wright Tab Hunter Diana Lynn Beulah Bondi Philip Tonge William Hopper Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
mother alcoholic son father brother neighbor tense brooding dark northern california ranch mountain family home family dysfunction killer animals frontier life hunting love triangle rivalry quest
Around the turn of the 20th century, during a harsh northern California winter, members of a ranching family are squabbling among themselves while the two oldest sons go hunting for a panther that is killing their livestock.
Western
USA
1951
81 Minutes
Ellen Tevlin Vanner
Lew Ayres Teresa Wright Victor Jory Jacqueline White Jimmy Hunt Barry Kelley Duncan Renaldo William Bakewell Milton Parsons Frank Matts Felipe Turich
fugitive priest widow suspect police officer fiancée gripping melodramatic thrilling moving oil field mexico house embezzlement accidental death engagement escape pursuit 1950s
Follows the progress of a female ex-convict as she tries to rebuild her life after being released from prison.
Drama
USA
1952
89 Minutes
Edna Miller
actress alcoholic married man sponsor wife brooding emotional melodramatic passionate spirited theater city affair alcoholics anonymous alcoholism acting love forbidden love fall 1950s
An actress becomes an alcoholic after being jilted. She is aided by an Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair; however, he is married.
Drama
USA
1946
172 Minutes
Peggy Stephenson
Fredric March Myrna Loy Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo Harold Russell Hoagy Carmichael Gladys George Steve Cochran
veteran wife amputee banker fiancée daughter powerful somber fascinating profound small town midwest family home war disillusionment world war ii love sacrifice discovery transformation
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Drama
USA
1942
134 Minutes
Carol Beldon
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Dame May Whitty Teresa Wright Reginald Owen Henry Travers Richard Ney Henry Wilcoxon
mother soldier father daughter architect emotional touching sad england household airplane family home bombing air raids class distinctions world war ii death rise transformation discovery
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Sci-Fi
USA
1980
103 Minutes
Laura Roberts
Christopher Reeve Jane Seymour Christopher Plummer Teresa Wright Bill Erwin George Voskovec Susan French John Alvin Eddra Gale Sean Hayden Audrey Bennett
playwright elderly woman professor manager actress love interest dreamy emotional heartwarming hotel mackinac island michigan obsession time travel hypnosis love triangle unlikely romance love pursuit quest
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
Drama
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Jean Simmons Anthony Perkins Teresa Wright Mary Wickes Ian Wolfe Norma Jean Nilsson Dawn Bender
mother actress teen girl father student charming touching boston apartment theater father/daughter relationship acting ambition employment education theater growing up quest discovery 1910s
This is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.
Drama
USA
1988
104 Minutes
Grandmother
Diane Keaton Liam Neeson Jason Robards Ralph Bellamy Teresa Wright James Naughton Asia Vieira Joe Morton
A divorced mother may lose custody of her young daughter to her ex-husband after he learns that the little girl crawled into bed with the mother and her boyfriend.