Ellen Burstyn films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 26 films on Boxlist

Known for The Last Picture Show, Interstellar and Requiem for a Dream.

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Starring Ellen Burstyn

The Last Picture Show
1971 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their...
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Interstellar
2014 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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Requiem for a Dream
2000 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
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The Exorcist
1973 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately...
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The Tale
2018 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a...
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Three Months
2022 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love in the most unlikely of places.
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Pieces of a Woman
2020 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
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Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
The Fountain
2006 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
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Draft Day
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
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The Age of Adaline
2015 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
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When a Man Loves a Woman
1994 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
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Wiener-Dog
2016 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some...
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Love, Marilyn
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses will embody the legend...
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Playing by Heart
1998 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to...
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The Yards
2000 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the...
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Petals on the Wind
2014 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.
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W.
2008 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up to his decision to invade Iraq.
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The Baby-Sitters Club
1995 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
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Queen Bees
2021 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially avoids leads her to exactly what she has been missing: new...
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
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Mother, Couch
2024 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches.
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Dying Young
1991 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always...
The Exorcist: Believer
2023 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
When his daughter, Angela, and her friend Katherine, show signs of demonic possession, it unleashes a chain of events that forces single father Victor Fielding to confront the nadir of evil. Terrified and desperate, he seeks out Chris...
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Lucy in the Sky
2019 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
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