Shelley Winters’s Typical Vibe
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Shelley Winters has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Tenant.
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Straight Time
1978
Crime · Drama

Two Men in Town
1973
Crime · Drama

Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977
Drama · Crime

Papillon
1973
Crime · Drama

Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Drama

The Honeymoon Killers
1970
Crime · Drama

Mandingo
1975
Romance · Drama

Soldier Blue
1970
Western · Drama

The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included

A Place in the Sun
1951 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Scalphunters
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Prime Video · Included

Pete's Dragon
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Disney+ · Included

The Portrait of a Lady
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 86%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Tentacles
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 93%Prime Video · Included

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Dir. Charles Laughton · With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Dir. Guy Green · With Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon

A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Dir. George Stevens · With Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Dir. George Stevens · With Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Dir. Lewis Gilbert · With Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Dir. Jack Smight · With Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.
Dir. Don Chaffey · With Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
Dir. Giulio Paradisi · With Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen

Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.
Dir. Jane Campion · With Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud

Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
Dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis · With John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins
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