The best James Karen’s drama movies on YouTube

James Karen

James Karen

28/11/1923- 23/10/2018
We present our ranking of the best James Karen’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about James Karen.

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive
7.9/10
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Any Given Sunday

Any Given Sunday
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/12/1999
  • Character: Christina's Advisor
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/12/2006
  • Character: Martin Frohm
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

Nixon

Nixon
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 22/12/1995
  • Character: Bill Rogers
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.

Wall Street

Wall Street
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/12/1987
  • Character: Lynch
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.

All the President's Men

All the President's Men
7.9/10
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Richard Nixon to resign from his post.

Capricorn One

Capricorn One
6.8/10
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is reported lost on re-entry. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth.

Frances

Frances
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/12/1982
  • Character: Judge Hillier
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

The China Syndrome

The China Syndrome
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/03/1979
  • Character: Mac Churchill
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

Up Close & Personal

Up Close & Personal
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/03/1996
  • Character: Tom Orr
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...

Drew Peterson: Untouchable

Drew Peterson: Untouchable
6/10
The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
5.9/10
Jess Robin dreams of a career in popular music, but his father, Cantor Rabinovitch, forbids it, insisting Jess live as a traditional Jew and inherit his position at the synagogue. With the help of friend and professional musician Bubba, Jess gets a chance to go to Los Angeles and have famous singer Keith Lennox record one of his songs. Defying both his father and his wife, Jess leaves New York to pursue his dreams.

Joyride

Joyride
5/10
Three excitement-craving friends get more than they bargained for when they steal a hit woman's automobile.

Girl

Girl
5.7/10
Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to local rock singer Tod Sparrow and learn more about the life of one who follows a touring band along with her new friends aspiring rock star wannabee Cybil, outgoing fellow groupie Rebecca, and music critic Kevin.

I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 18/10/1970
  • Character: Old Age Home Director
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.

Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
5.9/10
A young Jehovah's Witness believes the ultimate punishment will be inflicted upon him for typical teenage activity. His life is rather grim until infatuation with a friend's older sister opens his eyes.

Bender

Bender
4.6/10
The unsettling true story of America's first serial killing family. A troubled doctor searches for patients swallowed by the prairie and encounters the Benders, homesteaders trapped by a life of unspeakable sin

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