Gena Rowlands
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.128 |
| Birthday | 1930-06-19 |
| Place of Birth | Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| Also Known As | Virginia Cathryn Rowlands, |
1991
Night on Earth
7.513/1078
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
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Night on Earth
1987
Light of Day
5.517/60
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
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Light of Day
1968
Faces
7.101/223
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a...
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Faces
1998
Playing by Heart
6.633/256
In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold...
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Playing by Heart
2006
Paris Je T'aime
6.767/858
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...
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Paris Je T'aime
1980
Gloria
6.898/274
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters...
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Gloria
2004
The Notebook
7.89/12798
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life...
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The Notebook
2004
Taking Lives
6.367/1799
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scot...
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Taking Lives
1988
Another Woman
6.831/296
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti...
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Another Woman
1976
Two-Minute Warning
6.3/102
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter...
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Two-Minute Warning
1971
Minnie and Moskowitz
6.7/106
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired park...
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Minnie and Moskowitz
1978
The Brink's Job
6.194/72
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McG...
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The Brink's Job
1967
Tony Rome
6.358/74
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has se...
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Tony Rome
1998
Hope Floats
6.4/512
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries startin...
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Hope Floats
1977
Opening Night
7.6/267
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about agin...
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Opening Night
1998
The Mighty
7.248/300
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not autho...
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The Mighty
2007
Broken English
5.924/79
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children, while she's in her thirties, alone with job sh...
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Broken English
2005
The Skeleton Key
6.624/2365
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
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The Skeleton Key
1998
Paulie
6.987/550
Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.
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Paulie
1974
A Woman Under the Influence
7.8/573
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the compa...
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A Woman Under the Influence
1962
Lonely are the Brave
7.376/173
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the peni...
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Lonely are the Brave
2002
Hysterical Blindness
6.1/34
Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey.
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Hysterical Blindness
1969
Machine Gun McCain
6.1/47
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high l...
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Machine Gun McCain
1991
Once Around
6.109/64
A struggling woman finds unexpected love with a charismatic older salesman at a real estate seminar. Their passionate relationship clashes with the va...
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Once Around
1996
Unhook the Stars
5.932/44
Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when her adult daughter moves out of the family home....
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Unhook the Stars
1995
The Neon Bible
6.054/28
During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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The Neon Bible
1982
Tempest
5.927/48
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in f...
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Tempest
1995
Something to Talk About
5.625/261
Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting...
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Something to Talk About
2001
Wild Iris
7.429/7
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
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Wild Iris
1984
Love Streams
7.236/148
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
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Love Streams
2002
Charms for the Easy Life
8.5/2
The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
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Charms for the Easy Life
1998
1001 Nights
6.786/28
Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installment of the ground-breaking "Filmharmonic" project, which pre...
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1001 Nights
1985
An Early Frost
5.757/37
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Bea...
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An Early Frost
2014
Yellow
5.3/9
A young substitute teacher escapes from her drudging everyday life by fantasizing about bizarre parallel realities.
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Yellow
2007
What If God Were the Sun?
7/6
A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
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What If God Were the Sun?
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/7
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1963
A Child Is Waiting
6.838/65
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her lif...
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A Child Is Waiting
1992
Crazy in Love
4.636/11
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.
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Crazy in Love
2004
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
7.2/5
A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society.
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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
1993
Silent Cries
5/2
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civili...
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Silent Cries
1993
Anything for John
7.333/3
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-de...
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Anything for John
1996
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
0/0
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John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1962
The Spiral Road
5.5/11
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and o...
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The Spiral Road
1958
The High Cost of Loving
6.6/5
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn'...
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The High Cost of Loving
1999
The Weekend
2.667/6
Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the...
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The Weekend
2000
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
7/6
Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-l...
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The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
1987
The Betty Ford Story
0/0
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.
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The Betty Ford Story
1979
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
9.4/5
A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to re...
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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1991
Face of a Stranger
10/2
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their ap...
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Face of a Stranger
2014
Parts Per Billion
4.402/66
The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blind...
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Parts Per Billion
2006
Edge of Outside
5.8/4
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and...
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Edge of Outside
2011
Olive
6.5/1
A mysterious child with magical powers and a great secret, invades the lives of three lonely people who learn to embrace life once again.
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Olive
2006
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
6.633/15
Combining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this documentary reveals a startling portrait of one of Holl...
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Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2014
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2.8/5
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic r...
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
1994
Parallel Lives
5.714/7
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a lo...
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Parallel Lives
1968
Nick Quarry
9/1
A 10 minute demo reel for a proposed TV series based on the Tony Rome PI movies. With an original score by Jerry Goldsmith.
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Nick Quarry
1978
A Question of Love
5.15/10
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
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A Question of Love
2011
Faces
0/0
James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As Benning explains, h...
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Faces
2017
Unfortunate Circumstances
0/0
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Unfortunate Circumstances
1985
Nederland C
4/1
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Nederland C
1983
Thursday's Child
5.5/2
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with...
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Thursday's Child
1984
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
8.333/6
Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams.
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I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
1998
Best Friends for Life
7/1
Sarah and Harriet have been best friends since childhood. They married at the same time, had children within the same year and now find themselves fac...
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Best Friends for Life
1998
Grace & Glorie
6.3/6
When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. Howeve...
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Grace & Glorie
1990
Montana
6.111/9
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and...
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Montana
2000
Light Keeps Me Company
7.9/9
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the...
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Light Keeps Me Company
2000
A Constant Forge
6.833/15
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmma...
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A Constant Forge
1997
She's So Lovely
5.9/129
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his i...
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She's So Lovely
2007
Cannes: All Access
3.2/5
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red...
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Cannes: All Access
1990
Hollywood Mavericks
7.333/3
A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic di...
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Hollywood Mavericks
2017
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
6/2
Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect the fractures in the American image of women. She...
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Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2004
Making 'Faces'
0/0
A documentary featuring interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands, and Seymour Cassel, and cinematographer Al Ruban, in which they recall how...
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Making 'Faces'
2014
Watching Gena Rowlands
0/0
Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’ collaborations with Cassavetes.
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Watching Gena Rowlands
2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
6.833/6
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1...
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Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
1983
Rapunzel
5.9/5
A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determined to keep Rapunzel for herself, the witch locks...
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Rapunzel
1960
Shadows
6.9/275
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz sing...
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Shadows
1970
Husbands
6.732/166
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindl...
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Husbands
1991
Ted & Venus
4.5/12
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes whe...
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Ted & Venus
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0/0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2002
Heart of the Festival
6.667/3
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
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Heart of the Festival
2019
Peter Falk versus Columbo
7.2/13
For millions of viewers, Peter Falk is Columbo. Despite playing the quintessential blue-collar TV detective of the '70s and '80s, his early career is...
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