Jessica Tandy films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 8 films on Boxlist

Known for The Birds, Fried Green Tomatoes and Nobody's Fool.

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Starring Jessica Tandy

The Birds
1963 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs...
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Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop...
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Nobody's Fool
1994 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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...
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Driving Miss Daisy
1989 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when...
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Cocoon
1985 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
The World According to Garp
1982 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
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 a magnet for all...
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*batteries not included
1987 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and...
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Cocoon: The Return
1988 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
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