Cast: Jessica Tandy

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tippi Hedren · Rod Taylor · Jessica Tandy · Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis In The Birds (1963), a charming coastal town in California becomes the setting for an inexplicable and terrifying phenomenon. A young woman, Melanie Daniels, visits the town to deliver a pair of lovebirds to a potential romantic interest, Mitch Brenner....

Direction Jon Avnet

Cast Kathy Bates · Jessica Tandy · Mary Stuart Masterson · Mary-Louise Parker

Synopsis Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) follows Evelyn, a timid housewife, who befriends Ninny, an elderly woman in a nursing home. Through Ninny's captivating stories, Evelyn learns about the enduring friendship between Idgie and Ruth in 1920s Alabama. Idgie, a free-spirited woman,...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Spencer Tracy · Signe Hasso · Hume Cronyn · Jessica Tandy

Synopsis In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty...

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Jessica Tandy · Tom Conway · Rosemary Harris · William Shatner

Synopsis While cleaning out the apartment of his dead sister Julia, Jim Whitely comes across a strange glass eye and tells to his wife the story of how his sister acquired it. Julia had fallen in love with a famous ventriloquist...

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Morgan Freeman · Jessica Tandy · Dan Aykroyd · Patti LuPone

Synopsis Driving Miss Daisy (1989) follows the evolving relationship between Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish widow, and Hoke Colburn, her African American chauffeur, in mid-20th century Atlanta. Initially resistant to needing a driver, Daisy gradually forms a deep, unlikely friendship with...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke · Jessica Tandy · Luther Adler

Synopsis James Mason is outstanding in the role of Field Marshal Rommel, the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps, which dominated North Africa during the early years of World War II, later to be overrun by the might of the Allied forces....

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Vincent Price · Glenn Langan

Synopsis When Miranda Wells was invited to live with her dark and charming distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryan in order to school his daughter at Dragonwyyck manor she was a naive farm girl. As she watches the dark secrets of the...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Linda Darnell · Cornel Wilde · Richard Greene · George Sanders

Synopsis Amber St Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison and a liaison with King Charles II form a tapestry of apparently calculating ups and...

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Greer Garson · Gregory Peck · Donald Crisp · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson) comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the...

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Charles Boyer · Ann Blyth · Jessica Tandy · Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. The same night, Emily dies of her chronic heart disease, and Henry promptly marries Doris, to the...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Joan Fontaine · Joseph Cotten · Françoise Rosay · Jessica Tandy

Synopsis Industrialist David Lawrence (Joseph Cotton) and pianist Marianne Stuart (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Paul Newman · Jessica Tandy · Bruce Willis · Melanie Griffith

Synopsis Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family...

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robin Williams · Mary Beth Hurt · Glenn Close · John Lithgow

Synopsis Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T. S. Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as...

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Steve Guttenberg · Brian Dennehy · Don Ameche · Jessica Tandy

Synopsis In Cocoon (1985), a group of elderly residents at a retirement home discover a hidden pool filled with mysterious, glowing rocks. Unbeknownst to them, these rocks are actually cocoons containing alien life forms. As the seniors swim in the pool,...

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Jessica Tandy · Robert H. Harris · George Mathews

Synopsis New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady. But she doesn't come alone.

Direction Matthew Robbins

Cast Hume Cronyn · Michael Carmine · Jessica Tandy · Frank McRae

Synopsis A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to 'persuade' them to leave. Fortunately, visiting...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Christopher Reeve · Madeleine Potter · Jessica Tandy

Synopsis 19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement, meets a faith healer's daughter, a Mississippi lawyer also has eyes for the young woman.

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Richard Beymer · Diane Baker · Corinne Calvet · Fred Clark

Direction Harold Pinter

Cast Alan Bates · Jessica Tandy · Richard O'Callaghan · Susan Engel

Synopsis An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Roy Scheider · Meryl Streep · Jessica Tandy · Joe Grifasi

Synopsis George Bynum, a patient of Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider), is brutally murdered. Soon afterward, Dr. Rice is visited by Bynum's co-worker and mistress Brooke Reynolds (Meryl Streep) and by the investigating officer Detective Vitucci. As Dr. Rice...