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Shirley MacLaine has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Apartment.
The Switch
2010
Comedy · Romance
The Apartment
1960 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included
Irma la Douce
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%MGM+ · Included
The Children's Hour
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%MGM+ · Included
Steel Magnolias
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Netflix · Included
Mrs. Winterbourne
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
The Last Word
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Netflix · Included
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Dir. Ben Stiller · With Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.
Dir. William Wyler · With Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser
In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fábregas
Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.
Dir. James L. Brooks · With Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
Dir. Frank Tashlin · With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
Dir. Mark Pellington · With Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Heche
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 former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
Dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman · With Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susan Sarandon
Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.
Dir. Marc Lawrence · With Anna Kendrick, Shirley MacLaine, Bill Hader
Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.
Dir. Christian Duguay · With Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose. After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her sister's love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into their lives, the sisters face some complicated truths about themselves and their family.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.
Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Dir. Richard Attenborough · With Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton
Sarah Huttinger learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film "The Graduate" -- and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.
Dir. Hal Needham · With Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
Dir. Nora Ephron · With Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine
A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.
Dir. Chris Bouchard, Blake Harris · With Poppy Drayton, Shirley MacLaine, Loreto Peralta
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