Alex of Venice

2014

English

5.8

♡ 13

74%

44%

Action

Drama

Chris Messina Director

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Alex

Will McCormack as Director

Matthew Del Negro as Jamie

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Maureen

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.

The Big Picture

1989

English

6.2

♡ 18

87%

Christopher Guest Director

Holly Fields as Daughter

June Lockhart as Janet Kingsley

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lydia Johnson

Kevin Bacon as Nick Chapman

Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.

White Boy Rick

2018

English

6.5

♡ 60

56%

51%

Action

based on a true story

Yann Demange Director

Brian Tyree Henry as Detective Jackson

Jennifer Jason Leigh as FBI Agent Snyder

Jonathan Majors as Johnny 'Lil Man' Curry

Matthew McConaughey as Richard Wershe Sr.

The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

The Love Letter

1998

English

7.2

♡ 8

78%

Dan Curtis Director

David Foster as Conductor

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Elizabeth Whitcomb

David Dukes as Everett Reagle

Campbell Scott as Scott Corrigan

20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?

Buried Alive

1990

English

6.5

♡ 19

26%

Frank Darabont Director

Tim Matheson as Clint Goodman

William Atherton as Cortland 'Cort' van Owen

Brian Libby as Earl

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Joanna Goodman

A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.

Eyes of a Stranger

1981

English

6.0

♡ 11

43%

Ken Wiederhorn Director

Dan Fitzgerald as Bartender

Jose Bahamonde as Jimmy

John DiSanti as Stanley Herbert

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Tracy Harris

A TV newswoman catches a pervert watching her sister who cannot see, hear or speak.

Grandview, U.S.A.

1984

English

5.5

♡ 7

38%

parent child relationship

revenge

small town

Randal Kleiser Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Candy Webster

Robert Swan as Fire Chief

Joan Cusack as Mary

Jamie Lee Curtis as Michelle 'Mike' Cody

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.

LBJ

2016

English

6.5

♡ 26

55%

Rob Reiner Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson

Tim Ransom as Larry O'Brien

Woody Harrelson as Lyndon B. Johnson

Bill Pullman as Ralph Yarborough

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

The Men's Club

1986

English

4.8

♡ 7

23%

Action

Drama

Peter Medak Director

Cindy Pickett as Hannah

Richard Jordan as Kramer

Harvey Keitel as Solly Berliner

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Teensy

Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.

Girls of the White Orchid

1983

English

5.1

♡ 7

29%

Jonathan Kaplan Director

Keone Young as Akira

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Carol Heath

James Saito as Officer #1

Jim Beaver as Pedestrian

In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work at the White Orchid nightclub, she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to be receptive to client's proposals.

The Jacket

2005

English

7.1

♡ 101

44%

John Maybury Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dr. Beth Lorenson

Keira Knightley as Jackie Price

Mackenzie Phillips as Nurse Harding

Daniel Craig as Rudy Mackenzie

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

Flesh+Blood

1985

English

6.7

♡ 25

Paul Verhoeven Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Agnes

Kitty Courbois as Anna

Rutger Hauer as Martin

Bruno Kirby as Orbec

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

Washington Square

1997

English

6.6

♡ 9

81%

69%

Action

based on novel or book

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

single father

Agnieszka Holland Director

Robert Stanton as Arthur Townsend

Maggie Smith as Aunt Lavinia Penniman

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Catherine Sloper

Jennifer Garner as Marian Almond

In 1870s New York, spinster heiress Catherine Sloper is courted by the much younger, penniless Morris Townsend, much to the chagrin of her overprotective father. Catherine must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man interested in her solely for her inheritence.

In the Cut

2003

English

5.4

♡ 18

35%

Jane Campion Director

Mark Ruffalo as Detective Giovanni A. Malloy

Sunrise Coigney as Frannie's Young Mother

Kevin Bacon as John Graham

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Pauline

A New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood.

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

English

7.5

♡ 42

81%

Ethan Coen Director

Dan Martin as Bailiff

Scarlett Johansson as Birdy Abundas

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Female inmate

Gregg Binkley as New Man

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

Sharp Stick

2022

English

4.9

♡ 7

50%

Lena Dunham Director

Jon Bernthal as Josh

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Marilyn

Taylour Paige as Treina

Scott Speedman as Vance Leroy

Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.

The Anniversary Party

2001

English

6.3

♡ 4

61%

husband wife relationship

Alan Cumming Director

John Benjamin Hickey as Jerry Adams

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Sally Therrian

Matt Malloy as Sanford Jewison

Phoebe Cates as Sophia Gold

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989

English

6.8

♡ 6

65%

74%

Action

based on novel or book

Uli Edel Director

Alexis Arquette as Georgette

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Tralala

Bill Mondy as Uptown Doggie

Peter Dobson as Vinnie

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982

English

7.1

♡ 49

78%

80%

Action

based on novel or book

Amy Heckerling Director

Nicolas Cage as Brad's Bud

Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton

Eric Stoltz as Stoner Bud

Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for love, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone. Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer faces-off with the resolute teacher, Mr. Hand. Hilarity and heartbreak ensue.

Hateship Loveship

2013

English

6.2

♡ 15

52%

Liza Johnson Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Chloe

Kristen Wiig as Johanna Parry

Guy Pearce as Ken

Hailee Steinfeld as Sabitha

A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.

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Alex of Venice

The Big Picture

White Boy Rick

The Love Letter

Buried Alive

Eyes of a Stranger

Grandview, U.S.A.

LBJ

The Men's Club

Girls of the White Orchid

The Jacket

Flesh+Blood

Washington Square

In the Cut

The Man Who Wasn't There

Sharp Stick

The Anniversary Party

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Hateship Loveship