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Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

American actress
December 7, 1932 (91 years old)
U.S. 2023. Horror by David Gordon Green with Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum. When his 12-year-old daughter becomes possessed by a demonic entity, a widower enlists the help of a woman who had a similar experience with her daughter 50 years earlier.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Niclas Larsson with Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans. Three disunited siblings are called to the rescue when their mother refuses to get up from a couch in a furniture store.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Jared Frieder with Troye Sivan, Viveik Kalra, Brianne Tju. For three months, a South Florida teenager waits for a test result after being exposed to HIV.
U.S. 2021. Dramatic comedy by Michael Lembeck with Ellen Burstyn, James Caan, Ann-Margret. In her new seniors’ residence, a retired widow falls in love with a charming and respectful man.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2020. Psychological drama by Kornel Mundruczo with Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn. A young Boston executive resists pressure from her relatives to file a lawsuit against the midwife with whom she delivered a stillborn child at home.
Runtime: 126 min.
U.S. 2019. Drama by Semi Chellas with Hong Chau, Sarah Gadon, John Gallagher Jr.. In 1974 in the United States, a Japanese-born activist joins radical leftists on the run who are holding hostage a young heiress who has apparently taken up their cause.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 2019. Psychological drama by Noah Hawley with Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz. Upon her return to Earth after a space mission, a strong and determined astronaut is confronted with a mundane daily life, which she finds increasingly difficult to accept.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 2018. Drama by Mark Pellington with Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, John Ortiz. Grieving individuals from diverse backgrounds find a form of healing through contact with meaningful objects from their respective pasts.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 2017. Sentimental drama by Susan Walters with Sharon Stone, Tony Goldwyn, Ellen Burstyn. From one birthday to the next, the emotional evolution of a fashion designer allergic to commitment and on the verge of turning 50.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2016. Comedy by Todd Solondz with Julie Delpy, Tracy Letts, Greta Gerwig. An adult dachshund is adopted and then abandoned by a series of individuals from different backgrounds.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 2015. Sentimental drama by Lee Toland Krieger with Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford. Having stopped aging after being struck by lightning at age twenty-nine, a woman fears revealing her secret to the charming philanthropist who is in love with her.
Runtime: 114 min.

Two Men in Town

V.O.: La Voie de l'ennemi
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 2014. Sports drama by Ivan Reitman with Kevin Costner, Chadwick Boseman, Jennifer Garner. On draft day, the general manager of a professional soccer team defies outside pressure and takes risks to carry out his rebuilding plan.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 2014. Drama by Deborah Chow with Kiernan Shipka, Ellen Burstyn, Heather Graham. When her husband dies, a destitute woman entrusts her children to her pious mother, who locks them in the attic to prevent them from seeing their grandfather, who is unaware of their existence.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 2014. Crime drama by Jason Stone with Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Topher Grace. The acting police chief of a small Ontario town tracks down a mysterious man who is killing terminally ill patients across the country.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 2012. Thriller by Mikael Salomon with Lauren Ambrose, Steven Pasquale, Geena Davis. A medical student tries to understand why several patients in the hospital where she works have suddenly fallen into comas.
Runtime: 176 min.
U.S. 2011. Sports drama by Tim Chambers with Carla Gugino, Marley Shelton, David Boreanaz.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Sam Levinson with Ellen Barkin, Kate Bosworth, Ellen Burstyn.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 2007. Fantasy by Lloyd Kramer with Michael Imperioli, Ellen Burstyn, Samantha Mathis. An alcoholic former baseball player is saved from suicide by the ghost of his mother who helps him take stock of his life.
Can. 2007. Psychological drama by Kari Skogland with Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser. An old woman with a rebellious temperament and failing health recalls various tumultuous moments in her life.
Runtime: 116 min.
All. 2006. Horror by Neil LaBute with Nicolas Cage, Kate Beahan, Ellen Burstyn. While investigating the disappearance of a young girl from an island off the coast of Washington State, a police officer discovers that the inhabitants practise pagan rituals.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2006. Fantasy by Darren Aronofsky with Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn. Through the ages, a conquistador, a researcher, and a space traveller see their romantic destinies intertwined.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 2005. Drama by Phyllis Nagy with Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley, Ellen Burstyn. The principal of a private school is accused of murdering her lover, a prominent doctor known for his female conquests.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2004. Mores drama by Ron Lagomarsino with Ellen Burstyn, Annabella Sciorra, Dominique Swain. The owner of a New Orleans brothel, as well as her mother and her daughter who work with her, are in trouble with the FBI.
Runtime: n/d
U.S. 2002. Drama by Brent Shields with Glenn Close, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Gibson. A history teacher tells a colleague how an ancient painting has travelled through time to end up in her family.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Callie Khouri with Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan. Three childhood friends try to bring their eccentric friend back together with her daughter.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 2001. Drama by Mike Robe with Ellen Burstyn, Laura Dern, LaTanya Richardson. A nun, volunteering at a prison, befriends an inmate with whom she trains dogs to serve the disabled.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 2000. Psychological drama by Peter Masterson with Jodelle Ferland, Samantha Mathis, Ellen Burstyn. A four-year-old California girl sends a message to her deceased father, attached to a helium-filled balloon that travels to Canada.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 2000. Mores drama by Darren Aronofsky with Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly. A widow who wants to lose weight to look good on a game show and three young people involved in a cocaine deal fall into the hell of drug addiction.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 2000. Mores drama by James Gray with Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron. Just out of prison, a young man from a working-class background gets involved in corruption and murder.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1999. Psychological drama by Glenn Jordan with Rebecca De Mornay, Keith Carradine, Ellen Burstyn. After the death of their son in a horseback riding accident, a couple find themselves on the verge of a breakup.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1998. Chronicle by Karen Arthur with Lea Thompson, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Gibson. The joys and sorrows of the descendants of a press photographer born around 1900.
Can. 1998. Mores comedy by Shimon Dotan with Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Plummer, Ted Levine. Various recriminations arise between the family members of a Jewish patriarch who have come to visit him in his hospital room.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1997. Adventures by Simon Wincer with Lucas Black, Ellen Burstyn, Brian Kerwin. In order to join his father on the other side of the country, a kid steals back the horse he was forced to sell from its tough owner.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1996. Melodrama by Marcus Cole with Richard Thomas, Ellen Burstyn, James Earl Jones.
Runtime: 116 min.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 1995. Social drama by Glenn Jordan with John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, Annette O'Toole.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1995. Western by Martin Davidson with Sheryl Lee, Ellen Burstyn, Eric Schweig.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1993. Court drama by Bill Corcoran with Melissa Gilbert, Kate Nelligan, Ellen Burstyn. A lawyer, who was a victim of incest in her youth, fights for tougher punishment for this crime.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Bill Duke with Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Diane Ladd. Three long-time friends who are recently widowed approach their widowhood in different ways.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1991. Drama by Charles Matthau with Ellen Burstyn, Ryan Todd, Walter Matthau. The custody of a little boy by his grandmother is called into question when the principal of his school wonders about her autonomy.
U.S. 1991. Sentimental drama by Joel Schumacher with Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio. A young patient with leukemia falls in love with the nurse who takes care of him at home.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1990. Social drama by Harry Winer with Fred Savage, Kevin Spacey, Ellen Burstyn. Placed in an institution because of his mother's poverty, a young disabled man must fight for his fundamental rights.
U.S. 1988. War drama by Menahem Golan with Maruschka Detmers, Ellen Burstyn, Anthony Andrews. At the dawn of World War II, a young woman joins the British Secret Service and volunteers for a mission in occupied Europe.
Runtime: 150 min.
G.-B. 1987. Spy drama by Anthony Page with Ellen Burstyn, Teri Garr, Alan Bates. A police officer moves in with a family to observe neighbors suspected of spying.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1986. Sentimental comedy by Glenn Jordan with Ellen Burstyn, Tuesday Weld, Patrick Cassidy. A widow doesn't accept that her twnety -year-old son is having an affair with a forty -year-old divorcee.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1985. Mores drama by Bud Yorkin with Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret. A fifty-year-old man married for thirty years falls in love with a sympathetic widow, which upsets his family.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1985. Crime drama by Roger Young with Ellen Burstyn, Robert Prosky, Sam Robards. A Canadian mother harasses the American police to find her son who disappeared while hiking in Colorado.
Can. 1985. Social drama by John Mackenzie with Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn, Wilford Brimley. The president of an American miners' union seeks to eliminate his former right-hand man who opposed him.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1984. Political drama by Jack Lee Thompson with Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson. The efforts of an American diplomat to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are thwarted at every turn.
Runtime: 97 min.
Can. 1981. Mores drama by Allan W. King with Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1981. Court drama by George Schaefer with Ellen Burstyn, Martin Balsam, Peter Coyote.
Runtime: 147 min.
U.S. 1980. Fantasy by Daniel Petrie with Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Roberts Blossom.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1978. Comedy by Robert Mulligan with Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda, Ivan Bonar.
Runtime: 119 min.

A Dream of Passion

V.O.: Kravgi gynaikon
Gr. 1978. Psychological drama by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andreas Voutsinas. An actress assigned to play the role of Medea visits a woman convicted of killing her children in prison.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1976. Psychological drama by Alain Resnais with Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud. In the course of a sleepless night, a novelist stalked by death imagines the plot for a new story.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1974. Psychological drama by Martin Scorsese with Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter. A widow tries to make a living for herself and her young son as a singer, but has to settle for a waitress position.
Runtime: 112 min.
U.S. 1973. Horror by William Friedkin with Jason Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow. Assisted by a psychiatrist, an old priest tries to exorcise a twelve-year-old girl who appears to be possessed by the devil.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1972. Psychological drama by Bob Rafelson with Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn. A radio host is dragged into a tragic adventure by his megalomaniac brother.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1972. Mores comedy by Robert Moore with Gene Wilder, Ellen Burstyn, Bob Newhart. The family and professional troubles of a New York television producer.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1971. Mores drama by Peter Bogdanovich with Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd. The romantic adventures of two teenagers living in a Texas village in 1950.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1970. Comedy by Paul Mazursky with Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Jeanne Moreau. Having achieved great success with his first film, a director searches for a subject for his second.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1961. Western by R.G. Springsteen with Claude Akins, Ellen Burstyn, Philip Carey. Upon his release from prison, an outlaw seeks revenge on the man responsible for his arrest.
Runtime: 100 min.

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