The best Elizabeth Ashley’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Elizabeth Ashley’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Elizabeth Ashley.
Happiness
7.7/10
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Coma
6.9/10
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
The Cake Eaters
6.3/10
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
The Carpetbaggers
6.5/10
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly abandons sweet, bubbly Monica, turns his young, attractive stepmother Rina into a self-destructive actress and manages to disappoint even his closest friend, cowboy movie star Nevada. Is Jonas beyond redemption?
Ship of Fools
7.1/10
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
Split Image
6.4/10
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
A Fire in the Sky
6/10
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.
Windows
4.8/10
Emily is the subject of a perverse obsession by a gay neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Andrea turns peeping tom and watches Emily with a telescope as she begins a love affair with Detective Luffrono.
Blue Bayou
6.6/10
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
92 in the Shade
6/10
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Paperback Hero
5.9/10
A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.
Svengali
5.8/10
An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger. An adaptation of George L. Du Maurier's novel "Trilby"
The Heist
6.1/10
An armored-car guard must convince the authorities he is innocent after he is forced to rob his own company.
A Man of Passion
5.2/10
A coming of age story of a young boy who is left to live with his grandfather, a famous painter. With his grandfather's fame comes a grand lifestyle where the boy learns about life, women and sex. Stars Anthony Quinn, Maud Adams.
The Third Day
5.6/10
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
Second Chance
5.5/10
A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
6.7/10
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of their kidnappings, he is unable to stop them from grabbing William Henry Cameron right from under OSI's nose. OSO demands one million dollars in gold and Oscar Goldman takes the opportunity to try and lure them out into the open. Meanwhile, Steve accompanies Dr. Erica Bergner, who is testing a new method of brain transferal in order to find out where Cameron is being kept.
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
5.7/10
This biographical drama, based on the late actress's autobiography, chronicles her attempts to rescue her drug addicted son while simultaneously trying to overcome her life-threatening cancer.
In the Best Interest of the Children
6.9/10
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
Tom and Joann
The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended. A sequel to Breaking Up (1978).
