Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner. Don's quick wit and good looks disarm the free-spirited Jill, and before long they're more than just friends. Will Mrs. Baker's incessant meddling destroy Don and Jill's budding relationship?

Zandy's Bride

1974

English

6.4

♡ 4

58%

Jan Troell Director

Joaquín Martínez as Arvis Demas

Eileen Heckart as Ma Allan

James Gammon as Man in Gunfight

Richard Yniguez as Tao Ramirez

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.

No Way to Treat a Lady

1968

English

7.0

♡ 7

89%

74%

Action

based on novel or book

Jack Smight Director

Val Avery as Bartender

Murray Hamilton as Inspector Haines

Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Brummel

Mary Boylan as Sadie's Neighbor

Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

Breathing Lessons

1994

English

6.5

♡ 2

60%

Action

Drama

John Erman Director

James Garner as Ira Moran

Eileen Heckart as Mabel

Joanne Woodward as Maggie Moran

Joyce Van Patten as Serena

A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.

Burnt Offerings

1976

English

6.4

♡ 26

50%

43%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

Mystery

Thriller

window

Dan Curtis Director

Bette Davis as Aunt Elizabeth

Lee Montgomery as David Rolf

Eileen Heckart as Roz Allardyce

Anthony James as The Chauffeur

A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t quite what they seem. Every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself…

The Bad Seed

1956

English

7.4

♡ 16

64%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

William Hopper as Col. Kenneth Penmark

Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle

Dayton Lummis as The Doctor

Frances Bavier as Woman in dinner party scene

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

Up the Down Staircase

1967

English

7.3

♡ 2

78%

69%

based on novel or book

teacher student relationship

Robert Mulligan Director

Florence Stanley as Ella Friedenberg

Eileen Heckart as Henrietta Pastorfield

Roy Poole as Mr. McHabe

Jean Stapleton as Sadie Finch

Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

Bus Stop

1956

English

6.3

♡ 24

73%

62%

Action

based on play or musical

Joshua Logan Director

Robert Bray as Carl

Edward G. Robinson Jr. as Cowboy

Eileen Heckart as Vera

Arthur O'Connell as Virgil Blessing

Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.

The Victim

1972

English

6.2

♡ 7

Herschel Daugherty Director

Sue Ane Langdon as Edith Jordan

Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Hawkes

John Furlong as Second Policeman

Jess Walton as Susan Chappel

A woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.

The Hiding Place

1975

English

7.3

♡ 6

87%

James F. Collier Director

Julie Harris as Betsie ten Boom

Cyril Shaps as Building Inspector Smit

Arthur O'Connell as Casper ten Boom, 'Papa'

Eileen Heckart as Katje

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith keeps them from despair and bitterness.

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