The Bostonians (1984)
Drama | Romance
A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter, Linda Hunt, Wallace Shawn
Director: James Ivory
Still of the Night (1982)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford, Josef Sommer
Director: Robert Benton
*batteries not included (1987)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.
Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Carmine, Dennis Boutsikaris
Director: Matthew Robbins
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Biography | Drama | War
The life and career of the respected World War II German general.
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll
Director: Henry Hathaway
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Drama
A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.
Starring: Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Jon Avnet
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Newman plays Sully, a likable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when his estranged son – and grandson – drop into his life.
Starring: Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Director: Robert Benton
The World According to Garp (1982)
Comedy | Drama
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
Starring: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Swoosie Kurtz
Director: George Roy Hill
The Birds (1963)
Horror | Thriller
An immense flock of birds descends upon a seacost town, makes it their nesting ground, and begins to attack and kill the townsfolk.
Starring: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Charles McGraw
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Comedy | Drama
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Bruce Beresford
