Movies by Joan Allen
As part of the cast:
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The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz …
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Following the Jason Bourne debacle, the CIA finds itself dealing with a familiar threat when another estranged operative surfaces. Jeremy Renner stars alongside Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz…
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So You Want to Be President? (2010)
Cast: Stockard Channing, Joan Allen, Edward Kennedy …
This humorous and informative video uses a read-along format to introduce four popular children's books about American history and politics, including So You Want to Be President, which…
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Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City (2010)
Cast: Joan Allen
Directed by: Judith Paine McBrien
This documentary profiles the career and life of visionary architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham (1846-1912), whose designs for skyscrapers, green spaces in cities and eclectic buildings…
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Good Sharma (2009)
Cast: Dalip Tahil, Joan Allen, Billy Connolly …
Directed by: Suri Krishnamma
To fulfill a lifelong dream, Indian taxi driver Sharma (Dalip Tahil) leaves New York and returns to his native India to build a school for girls in his rural village. But first, this ordinary…
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Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Cast: Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa …
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
When his master dies, a loyal pooch named Hachiko keeps a regular vigil -- for more than a decade -- at the train station where he once greeted his owner every day in this touching drama…
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Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Cast: Joan Allen, Ed Begley Jr., Henry Simmons …
Directed by: Bob Balaban
Joan Allen stars as 20th-century painter Georgia O'Keeffe in this Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated biopic that follows the artist's tempestuous relationship with her lover and…
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Death Race (2008)
Cast: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane …
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Jason Statham stars in this futuristic thriller as Jensen Ames, an ex-con turned speedway champion who's framed for a grisly murder and forced to compete in a grueling three-day…
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Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2008)
Cast: Joan Allen, Meri Roth, Marcela Nohynkova …
Directed by: Roberta Grossman
Joan Allen narrates this riveting portrait of Hungarian poet Hannah Senesh, a remarkable woman who risked her own life to parachute behind enemy lines -- enduring capture, torture and,…
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Cast: Matt Damon, Paddy Considine, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon returns as trained assassin Jason Bourne in this third film based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novels. This time around, Bourne travels the globe on a quest to reconstruct…
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The Rape of Europa (2007)
Cast: Joan Allen
Directed by: Bonni Cohen, Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham …
Joan Allen narrates this documentary that chronicles 12 years of the Nazis' pillaging works of art throughout Europe and the international effort to locate, protect and return millions…
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Trumbo (2007)
Cast: Dalton Trumbo, Michael Douglas, Donald Sutherland …
Directed by: Peter Askin
After failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, successful screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted in Hollywood. This documentary details Trumbo's…
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Bonneville (2006)
Cast: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Christopher N. Rowley
Jessica Lange, Joan Allen and Kathy Bates star in this road trip yarn, which follows three friends on a journey across the West after one of them is widowed. Along the way, they learn a thing…
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The Upside of Anger (2005)
Cast: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen …
Directed by: Mike Binder
Terry Wolfmeyer (Joan Allen) has been dumped by her husband -- who, in a clichéd ending, ran off with his secretary -- and is left to raise her four daughters alone. But there could be a…
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The Notebook (2004)
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner …
Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
Two young lovers (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel. Their story is…
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Flushed from his momentary refuge by an assassin, amnesiac -- and ex-CIA killer -- Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) finds himself thrust into secret alliances, setups and shootouts in this riveting…
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Yes (2004)
Cast: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill …
Directed by: Sally Potter
A love affair develops between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in this tale of religion, politics and sex. Tired of her loveless marriage with her…
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The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays (2004)
Cast: James Earl Jones, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna …
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique…
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Off the Map (2003)
Cast: Amy Brenneman, Valentina de Angelis, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott directs this coming-of-age dramedy that follows an 11-year-old girl, Bo (Valentina de Angelis), as she spends the summer of 1974 watching her father (Sam Elliott) battle a…
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War Letters: American Experience (2002)
Cast: Joan Allen, Eric Stoltz, Kevin Spacey …
Directed by: Robert Kenner
Featuring eyewitness accounts of battles from the American Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, this compelling documentary tells the stories of America's fighting men and women through…
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The Mists of Avalon (2001)
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Uli Edel, Ulrich Edel
Director Eli Udel's Emmy-winning television miniseries gives King Arthur's Camelot a feminist slant as Avalon high priestess Viviane (Anjelica Huston) and sisters Morgaine (Julianna…
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The Contender (2000)
Cast: Gary Oldman, Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges …
Directed by: Rod Lurie
Sen. Laine Hanson is nominated to be America's first female vice president. But a right-wing stalwart seizes on a 20-year-old sex scandal to discredit her. Hanson refuses to confirm or…
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When the Sky Falls (2000)
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin …
Directed by: John Mackenzie
Determined to make Dublin a safer place to raise her child, Irish journalist Sinead Hamilton (Joan Allen) writes a series of investigative pieces exposing a major drug ring. Hamilton's…
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It's the Rage (1999)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Gary Sinise, David Schwimmer …
Directed by: Jim Stern
Guns can manipulate, shock, kill and confer supreme power on their users. These attributes become all too real for a group of gun-toting individuals, including an estranged couple (Joan Allen…
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Pleasantville (1998)
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy …
Directed by: Gary Ross
Geeky teenager David (Tobey Maguire) and his popular twin sister, Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and…
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Face/Off (1997)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen …
Directed by: John Woo
An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look…
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The Ice Storm (1997)
Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver …
Directed by: Ang Lee
Prep-schooler Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) returns home for Thanksgiving weekend and finds his family about to implode. While his father (Kevin Kline) tries to douse his sorrows with booze and…
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The Crucible (1996)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield …
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Playwright Arthur Miller's parable of the 1950s anti-communist crusade (thinly veiled here as the Salem, Mass., witch trials of 1692) receives lush treatment in this Oscar-nominated film…
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Mad Love (1995)
Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard …
Directed by: Antonia Bird
Levelheaded high schooler Matt Leland (Chris O'Donnell) falls for the seductive, impulsive and clinically depressed Casey Roberts (Drew Barrymore). When she's institutionalized…
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Nixon (1995)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe …
Directed by: Oliver Stone
The Watergate scandal toppled the world's most powerful man: United States president Richard Nixon (Anthony Hopkins). Director Oliver Stone re-creates the turbulent days of the early…
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Cast: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
After 7-year-old Josh Waitzken gets hooked on speed chess and becomes a whiz at it, his dad hires an implacable chess master to coach the boy but reassesses his decision when Josh's…
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Ethan Frome (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen …
Directed by: John Madden
In this drama based on Edith Wharton's 1911 novel detailing a forbidden love triangle, Ethan Frome (Liam Neeson) is torn between his joyless marriage to Zenobia (Joan Allen) and his…
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In Country (1989)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Although her father was killed in Vietnam when she was a baby, Kentucky girl Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) vows to learn more about him -- against the wishes of her remarried mother (Joan…
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau …
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola directed this fact-based account of dreamer and auto entrepreneur Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges). Unimpressed with the cars being built following World War II, Tucker…
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The Room Upstairs (1987)
Cast: Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Linda Hunt …
Directed by: Stuart Margolin
Based on a novel by Norma Levinson, this Hallmark Hall of Fame production follows chain-smoking Boston teacher Leah Lazenby (Stockard Channing) on her quest to start a boarding house inside…
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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller …
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Full of regrets and facing divorce, middle-aged housewife Peggy Sue Bodell is given the chance to go back in time and change her fate, splitting up with her future husband before he breaks…
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Manhunter (1986)
Cast: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Michael Mann
Using his uncanny ability to get inside psychopaths' minds, former FBI agent Will Graham (William Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer. Graham retired after catching…