Lois Smith
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1930-11-03
Locus Natus: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Et ut: Lois Arlene Humbert, Lois Arlene Smith
Minority Report
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the...
release : 2002.06.20popularis : 43.549
East of Eden
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their...
release : 1955.04.10popularis : 14.269
Hollywoodland
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of...
release : 2006.08.31popularis : 14.216
Twister
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a...
release : 1996.05.10popularis : 48.589
Dead Man Walking
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
release : 1995.12.29popularis : 13.555
Holy Matrimony
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.
release : 1994.04.08popularis : 5.658
Sweet Land
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
release : 2005.10.21popularis : 6.065
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
release : 1976.02.04popularis : 5.984
How to Make an American Quilt
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn...
release : 1995.10.06popularis : 13.275
P.S.
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance,...
release : 2004.10.15popularis : 10.546
Five Easy Pieces
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and...
release : 1970.09.12popularis : 9.142
A Dog Year
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely...
release : 2009.09.03popularis : 8.623
Turn the River
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
release : 2008.05.09popularis : 10.862
Skylark
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the...
release : 1993.02.07popularis : 4.077
The Uninvited
Rose and Sammy enjoy an idyllic life with love, a Hollywood Hills home, and a curious son. During a party, Sammy assigns unusual significance to it,...
release : 2024.03.11popularis : 3.756
Iron Jawed Angels
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
release : 2004.01.16popularis : 9.015
Black Widow
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But...
release : 1987.02.06popularis : 12.561
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all...
release : 2012.08.15popularis : 16.609
The Eternal
An alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the...
release : 1998.09.18popularis : 3.812
Little Fugitive
Set in present day Brooklyn, this film is a remake of the 1953 classic, "Little Fugitive." With his father in jail and his mother working long hours...
release : 2006.05.27popularis : 1.203
The Best Thief in the World
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 6.626
Roadie
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he...
release : 2012.01.06popularis : 2.602
Strange Lady in Town
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor,...
release : 1955.04.12popularis : 2.141
Twisted
One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 2.649
The Donner Party
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey...
release : 1992.10.28popularis : 3.272
The Execution of Raymond Graham
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately...
release : 1985.11.17popularis : 5.582
Doubletake
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives...
release : 1985.11.24popularis : 3.304
Fried Green Tomatoes
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode...
release : 1991.12.27popularis : 27.305
Showing Up
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe...
release : 2014.02.25popularis : 2.187
Dragon Country
Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with...
release : 1970.01.02popularis : 0.917
Red Betsy
A close-knit Midwestern farm family deals with loss, change, and social progress during the 1940's.
release : 2003.03.27popularis : 0.884
Hello Actors Studio
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional...
release : 1988.11.09popularis : 0.757
Little Fugitive
Set in present day Brooklyn, this film is a remake of the 1953 classic, "Little Fugitive." With his father in jail and his mother working long hours...
release : 2006.05.27popularis : 1.203
Coney Island
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous....
release : 1991.02.04popularis : 2.002
Falling Down
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
release : 1993.02.26popularis : 25.589
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a...
release : 1967.10.17popularis : 2.571
The Laramie Project
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage...
release : 2002.01.10popularis : 8.036
Please Give
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
release : 2010.04.30popularis : 8.279
James Dean: Sense Memories
Documentary exploring the last 18 months of James Dean's acting career.
release : 2005.05.11popularis : 0.69
Run All Night
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his...
release : 2015.03.11popularis : 33.126
The House of Mirth
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 1.805
Green Card
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple....
release : 1990.12.23popularis : 13.153
Powder Keg
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs...
release : 2001.06.01popularis : 11.074
Fatal Attraction
For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth, and has a loving daughter. But,...
release : 1987.09.18popularis : 43.957
Larger Than Life
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. One...
release : 1996.07.26popularis : 8.82
The Nice Guys
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
release : 2016.05.15popularis : 19.229
Griffin & Phoenix
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
release : 2006.09.12popularis : 8.294
Resurrection
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an...
release : 1980.09.26popularis : 6.45
Marjorie Prime
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased...
release : 2017.01.23popularis : 10.982
Particular Men
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the...
release : 1972.04.15popularis : 0.431
The Comedian
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to...
release : 2016.12.09popularis : 12.616
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding...
release : 2013.10.10popularis : 1.269
Hard Promises
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry....
release : 1992.01.31popularis : 2.26
Lady Bird
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her...
release : 2017.09.01popularis : 32.722
Reuben, Reuben
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young...
release : 1983.12.19popularis : 4.018
Foxes
A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
release : 1980.02.29popularis : 9.089
Truman
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his...
release : 1995.09.09popularis : 3.933
Up the Sandbox
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her...
release : 1972.12.21popularis : 3.317
The French Dispatch
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student...
release : 2021.10.21popularis : 16.227
Tumbleweeds
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine...
release : 1999.11.24popularis : 3.307
The Pledge
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
release : 2001.01.19popularis : 18.837
The Gettysburg Address
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous...
release : 2025.11.19popularis : 3.625
The Master Builder
Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the twilight of his career who reaches for love in response to his work's demise.
release : 1960.03.21popularis : 1.466
Uncle Frank
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's...
release : 2020.11.25popularis : 10.94
Switched at Birth
This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not...
release : 1991.04.28popularis : 6.024
Midnight Run
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the...
release : 1988.07.20popularis : 18.364
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in...
release : 1980.03.03popularis : 2.014
Deadly Matrimony
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her...
release : 1992.11.22popularis : 1.407
Tesla
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous...
release : 2020.08.14popularis : 12.463
Four Friends
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.
release : 1981.12.11popularis : 4.727
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luciano is investigated.
release : 1991.05.05popularis : 2.992
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
release : 2020.10.08popularis : 3.463
The Grapes of Wrath
A stage presentation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". The Steppenwolf Theater Company's production featuring the original Broadway cast. ...
release : 1991.03.22popularis : 3.777
Mack & Rita
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.
release : 2022.08.12popularis : 15.249
Reckless
Rebellious footballer Johnny falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds: Tracy has a comfortable, well-off family, whereas...
release : 1984.02.03popularis : 10.9
The Way We Live Now
A mid-life crisis propels a disaffected advertising executive out of his marriage and into a series of disastrous love affairs with a series of...
release : 1970.05.27popularis : 1.189
Keep the Change
A struggling artist visits his family on their Montana ranch and finds that his former flame, daughter of a family foe, is now married to an old...
release : 1992.06.09popularis : 0.702
Hudson River Blues
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.
release : 1997.12.12popularis : 1.224