A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. Carol decides to renovate the venue, but, in the process, uncovers dark secrets about the club and her dead relative. After a series of disturbing events, Carol becomes increasingly unstable, but she finds some measure of comfort in Sharpe, an enigmatic older detective.

Kill Your Darlings

2013

English

6.4

♡ 70

77%

John Krokidas Director

Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg

Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer

Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Naomi Ginsberg

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Rush

1991

English

6.7

♡ 10

72%

Lili Fini Zanuck Director

Sam Elliott as Dodd

Suzanne Savoy as Dodd's Wife

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Kristen Cates

Max Perlich as Walker

Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines. While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.

Rag Tale

2005

English

3.8

♡ 4

Mary McGuckian Director

Malcolm McDowell as Chairman - Global Media Inc, Richard

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Deputy Editor - The Rag, Mary Josephine

Kerry Fox as Editor - The Press, Peach James Taylor

John Sessions as Political Editor - The Rag, Felix Miles Sty

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

Georgia

1995

English

6.5

♡ 5

81%

Ulu Grosbard Director

Max Perlich as Axel Goldman

John C. Reilly as Herman

Ted Levine as Jake

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Sadie Flood

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994

English

7.2

♡ 34

64%

Ethan Coen Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Amy Archer

Steve Buscemi as Beatnik Barman

Roy Brocksmith as Board Member

Noble Willingham as Zebulon Cardoza

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Crooked Hearts

1991

English

5.9

♡ 14

39%

Action

Drama

dysfunctional family

parent child relationship

Romance

secret

Michael Bortman Director

Vincent Gale as Charley's Friend

Cindy Pickett as Jill

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Marriet Hoffman

Joshua Jackson as Tom

An upper-middle class family in Washington state deals with failures, infidelities and troubling secrets. Charley is 26 and still lives at home, despite his simmering anger at his father, Edward. Charley's younger brother, Tom, just dropped out of college and returned home to live. Tom's unstable new girlfriend, Marriet, has designs on joining the family, but she's hardly a calming influence on the crumbling home.

Greenberg

2010

English

6.1

♡ 34

76%

Noah Baumbach Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Beth - Beller's Party

Juno Temple as Muriel

Dave Franco as Rich - Sara's Party

Ben Stiller as Roger Greenberg

Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded there—since he doesn't drive—until his brother's assistant, Florence, comes to his rescue. She's as much a lost soul as he is, and the pair form a significant connection—giving Roger a much-needed reason to be happy.

Margot at the Wedding

2007

English

6.0

♡ 7

51%

long island, new york

neighbor

sibling relationship

sister sister relationship

Noah Baumbach Director

Ciarán Hinds as Dick Koosman

Jack Black as Malcolm

Nicole Kidman as Margot

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Pauline

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.

Backdraft

1991

English

6.7

♡ 44

72%

Ron Howard Director

William Baldwin as Brian McCaffrey

Robert De Niro as Donald Rimgale

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Jennifer Vaitkus

Kurt Russell as Stephen McCaffrey / Dennis McCaffrey

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.

The Moment

2013

English

4.9

♡ 8

11%

Jane Weinstock Director

Norma Maldonado as Blanca

Alia Shawkat as Jessie

Martin Henderson as John / Peter

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lee

Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappearance.

Dolores Claiborne

1995

English

7.4

♡ 50

86%

82%

Action

based on novel or book

Taylor Hackford Director

John C. Reilly as Const. Frank Stamshaw

Bob Gunton as Mr. Pease

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Selena St. George

Judy Parfitt as Vera Donovan

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Kansas City

1996

English

♡ 9

59%

Robert Altman Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Blondie O'Hara

John Durbin as Gas Station Attendant

Steve Buscemi as Johnny Flynn

Dermot Mulroney as Johnny O'Hara

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

Amityville: The Awakening

2017

English

4.8

♡ 85

29%

Franck Khalfoun Director

Jennifer Morrison as Candice

Cameron Monaghan as James

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Joan

Mckenna Grace as Juliet

Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn't telling her everything and soon learns they moved into the infamous Amityville house.

Single White Female

1992

English

6.4

♡ 43

53%

Barbet Schroeder Director

Bridget Fonda as Allison Jones

Frances Bay as Elderly Neighbor

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Hedra Carlson

Tara Karsian as Mannish Applicant

Having recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young women quickly form a bond, but soon Allison begins to notice not all’s well with her new tenant.

Short Cuts

1993

English

7.6

♡ 32

95%

jazz singer or musician

loss of loved one

suicide

Robert Altman Director

Robert Downey Jr. as Bill Bush

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lois Kaiser

Julianne Moore as Marian Wyman

Peter Gallagher as Stormy Weathers

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Road to Perdition

2002

English

7.6

♡ 166

82%

thompson sub machine gun

Thriller

Sam Mendes Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Annie Sullivan

Daniel Craig as Connor Rooney

Jude Law as Maguire

Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

Wrong Is Right

1982

English

5.6

♡ 19

27%

Richard Brooks Director

Tom McFadden as Billy Bob Harper

Leslie Nielsen as Mallory

Sean Connery as Patrick Hale

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Young Girl

Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.