The Lost Daughter (2021)
Drama
A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
Starring: Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Jessie Buckley, Ed Harris, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Secretary (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Starring: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen McHattie, Patrick Bauchau
Director: Steven Shainberg
World Trade Center (2006)
Drama | History | Thriller
Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Jay Hernandez
Director: Oliver Stone
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Tony Hale
Director: Marc Forster
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Drama
A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy.
Starring: Rosa Salazar, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Anna Baryshnikov, Michael Chernus, Ajay Naidu, Daisy Tahan, Haley Murphy
Director: Sara Colangelo
Strip Search (2004)
Drama
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
Starring: Glenn Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ken Leung, Bruno Lastra
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: John Waters
Donnie Darko (2001)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore
Director: Richard Kelly
Criminal (2004)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two con artists try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfeit copy of an extremely rare currency bill.
Starring: John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maeve Quinlan, Peter Mullan, Jonathan Tucker
Director: Gregory Jacobs
Frank (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, Tess Harper, Carla Azar
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Waterland (1992)
Drama | Mystery
Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting – with his class, with his wife. He ventures into telling his class stories about his young adulthood in the Fens district in England. The emotional wounds from his younger life wash over him in present day, affecting his work and his relationships with his students and his wife.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, Sinéad Cusack, Cara Buono, Lena Headey, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Monster House (2006)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Even for a 12-year old, D.J. Walters has a particularly overactive imagination. He is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbor Horace Nebbercracker, who terrorizes all the neighborhood kids, is responsible for Mrs. Nebbercracker's mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker's property, promptly disappears, swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives. D.J. has seen it with his own eyes! But no one believes him, not even his best friend, Chowder. What everyone does not know is D.J. is not imagining things. Everything he's seen is absolutely true and it's about to get much worse than anything D.J could have imagined.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kevin James, Mitchel Musso
Director: Gil Kenan
White House Down (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Richard Jenkins, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, Rachelle Lefevre
Director: Roland Emmerich
Happy Endings (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Thriller
An ensemble cast telling 10 stories with intertwining characters. One story is about a father and son who are dating the same woman . Another features a woman who long ago gave her baby up for adoption but is now being blackmailed by a documentary filmmaker who claims to know the now-grown child's whereabouts.
Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Jason Ritter, Tom Arnold, Laura Dern
Director: Don Roos
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Won't Back Down (2012)
Drama
Two determined mothers-, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children.
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Oscar Isaac, Holly Hunter, Rosie Pérez, Emily Alyn Lind
Director: Daniel Barnz
Hysteria (2011)
Comedy | Romance
A romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator.
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett
Director: Tanya Wexler
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In 1953, a time when women's roles were rigidly defined, free-spirited, novice art history professor Katherine Ann Watson (Julia Roberts) begins teaching at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College–which despite its academic reputation, is an environment where success is measured by 'how well' the students marry. Encouraging these women to strive for a more enlightened future, Watson challenges the administration and inspires her students to look beyond the image of what is, and consider the possibilities of what could be–contrary to popular belief.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West
Director: Mike Newell
