Annette Bening

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Dir. Sam Mendes · With Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch

The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge, wins $27 million dollars and uses the money to revive their small Michigan town.

Dir. David Frankel · With Bryan Cranston, Annette Bening, Rainn Wilson

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Dir. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton · With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Chris Messina

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Dir. Kevin Costner · With Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Michael Gambon

The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Dir. Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden · With Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

Dir. Mike Mills · With Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig

As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

Dir. Dan Fogelman · With Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening

Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean.

Dir. Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · With Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

Dir. Scott Z. Burns · With Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm

Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.

Dir. Lisa Cholodenko · With Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Dir. Mike Nichols · With Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

Dir. Tim Burton · With Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

Dir. Mike Nichols · With Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn

It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.

Dir. Howard Deutch · With Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.

Dir. Richard Loncraine · With Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.

Dir. Miloš Forman · With Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly

A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.

Dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal · With Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

Dir. Paul McGuigan · With Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters

An ageing hard-living 1970s rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon.

Dir. Dan Fogelman · With Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Christopher Plummer

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.

Dir. Rodrigo García · With Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Dir. Stephen Frears · With Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening

Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.

Dir. Irwin Winkler · With Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.

Dir. Rob Reiner · With Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen

Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband of 29 years tells her he's leaving her for another woman. Through stages of shock, disbelief and anger -- and with support from her son -- Grace ultimately regains her footing while learning it's never too late to be happy.

Dir. William Nicholson · With Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, Josh O'Connor

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

Dir. Barry Levinson · With Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel

A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

Dir. Arie Posin · With Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.

Dir. Edward Zwick · With Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis

A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

Dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini · With Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon

Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

Dir. Christoph Waltz · With Christoph Waltz, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave