Shirley Knight Movies

Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor.

An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by visiting a countryside mansion, but soon the trip...

Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her...

Struggling New York City singer/songwriter Danny falls in love with Ariana, a wealthy girl from Connecticut who tragically cannot hear the music she...

Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old...

The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.

As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a teenager, a wedding photographer and a...

Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him...

Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together...

From an Ingmar Bergman script. Previously produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" and for the BBC as "The Lie" (both 1970). In this Emmy...

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied...

A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.

A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have...

A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general.

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His...

Two teens become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship.

A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his...

A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.

A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins...