Carrie (1976)
Horror | Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Nancy Allen
Director: Brian De Palma
Beyond the Call (1996)
Drama
Russell Gates is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien, is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, David Strathairn, Arliss Howard, Janet Wright, Lindsay Murrell, Leslie Carlson
Director: Tony Bill
Missing (1982)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Jerry Hardin, John Shea, Charles Cioffi
Director: Costa-Gavras
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Starring: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits, Sissy Spacek, Elisabeth Moss
Director: David Lowery
Prime Cut (1972)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Marvin is an underworld enforcer sent to Kansas City to collect money from Hackman, a mysterious mobster who has no intention of paying up.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek
Director: Michael Ritchie
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Biography | Drama | Music
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer who rose from poverty to fame.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, William Sanderson, Pat Patterson
Director: Michael Apted
JFK (1991)
Drama | History | Thriller
Oliver Stone's detailed examination of possible answers to unsolved mysteries surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Kevin Costner plays New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who remained unconvinced by the Warren Commission Report and launched his own investigation. This film was released on a wave of controversy and led to calls for Congress to re-open government records from the 1977 House Select Committee on the assassination. Stone weaves actual archive footage with historical reconstruction and conjecture to present his argument that Kennedy was killed by the CIA due to his desire to withdraw troops from Vietnam. The film gained several Oscar nominations and Stone won a Golden Globe award for Best Director.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Wayne Knight
Director: Oliver Stone
The Ring Two / The Ring 2 (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
North Country (2005)
Drama
A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson, Sean Bean, Jeremy Renner
Director: Niki Caro
Affliction (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wade Whitehouse is a sheriff of a small New Hampshire town who achieved nothing in life in the opinion of his ex-wife Lillian and daughter Jill and is a heavy drinker. His girlfriend Margie accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy businessman to hunt – and only Jack returns alive. Wade decides to play detective and starts investigating the case despite the fact Jack insists it was an accidental self-inflicted shot.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Brigid Tierney, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe
Director: Paul Schrader
Badlands (1973)
Crime | Drama
A garbage collector (Martin Sheen) and his impressionable girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) kill her father when he disapproves of their relationship, and embark on a homicidal trail of destruction across the Midwestern United States. Based on the true case of 1950s killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, John Carter
Director: Terrence Malick
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Drama | History
Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport becuase they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhaused, and gets to work late.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker
Director: Richard Pearce
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Deadfall (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
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.
Starring: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Sissy Spacek, Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Blast from the Past (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
A romantic comedy about a naive man who comes out into the world after being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley, Joey Slotnick, Dale Raoul
Director: Hugh Wilson
Deadfall (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
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.
Starring: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Sissy Spacek, Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
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In The Bedroom (2001)
Crime | Drama
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers apart…
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother
Director: Todd Field
The Straight Story (1999)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Tells the true story of 73-year-old Alvin Straight who went from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wis., in 1994 while riding a lawn mower (as his driver's license had been revoked) The man undertook his strange journey to mend his relationship with his ill, estranged, 75-year-old brother Lyle.
Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Dan Flannery, Everett McGill
Director: David Lynch
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3 Women (1977)
Drama
Two nurses with contrasting backgrounds become friends and move into an apartment together. A third woman, a mural artist, also inhabits the building.
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Director: Robert Altman
