Sissy Spacek

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Dir. Brian De Palma · With Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

Dir. David Lynch · With Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Dir. Oliver Stone · With Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Dir. Terrence Malick · With Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

Dir. Richard Pearce · With Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

Dir. Niki Caro · With Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

Dir. Robert Altman · With Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

Dir. Todd Field · With Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl

A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.

Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins

The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

Dir. David Lowery · With Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek

For Rod Kimble, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most outrageous stunt yet to raise money for Frank's operation -- and then Rod will kick Frank's butt.

Dir. Akiva Schaffer · With Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader

Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.

Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

Dir. Aaron Schneider · With Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek

Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.

Dir. Jay Russell · With Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.

Dir. Michael Mayer · With Colin Farrell, Robin Wright, Dallas Roberts

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

Dir. Mark Rydell · With Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn

A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.

Dir. Glenn Kessler, Daniel Zelman, Todd A. Kessler · With Kyle Chandler, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz

Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie, they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.

Dir. Sue Kramer · With Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan, Tom Cavanagh

An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface. Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Dir. Courtney Solomon · With Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood

Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is embarrassed to see their ruse exposed to the world by an overzealous television reporter. Now, Brad and Kate are left with precious little choice other than to swallow their pride and suffer the rounds.

Dir. Seth Gordon · With Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall

A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.

Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky · With Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam

After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.

Dir. Lynne Ramsay · With Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek

Irene and Franklin York, a retired couple, have a secret: a Chamber buried in their backyard that miraculously leads to a strange, deserted planet. When an enigmatic young man arrives, the Yorks' quiet existence is upended and the mysterious Chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could have ever imagined.

Dir. Holden Miller · With Sissy Spacek, J.K. Simmons, Cass Buggé

After Molly Kochan receives a diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, she leaves her husband and explores the full breadth and complexity of her sexual desires for the first time in her life.

Dir. Kim Rosenstock, Elizabeth Meriwether · With Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Jay Duplass

After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.

Dir. Hideo Nakata · With Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman