The best Jessica Tandy’s movies

Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy

07/06/1909- 11/09/1994
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The Birds

The Birds
7.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 28/03/1963
  • Character: Lydia Brenner
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/12/1991
  • Character: Ninny Threadgoode
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.

Cocoon

Cocoon
6.7/10
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

Cocoon: The Return

Cocoon: The Return
5.4/10
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

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*batteries not included
6.6/10
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.

Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck
6.9/10
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

Forever Amber

Forever Amber
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/10/1947
  • Character: Nan Britton
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/12/1989
  • Character: Daisy Werthan
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those types of relationships where shunned.

The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/08/1982
  • Character: Mrs. Fields
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.

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
6.9/10
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Still of the Night

Still of the Night
6/10
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.

The Bostonians

The Bostonians
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1984
  • Character: Miss Birdseye
A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1994
  • Character: Beryl Peoples
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.

Best Friends

Best Friends
5.5/10
When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."

Terror in the Aisles

Terror in the Aisles
6.3/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryHorror
  • Release: 26/10/1984
  • Character: Lydia Brenner (archive footage) (uncredited)
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/07/1962
  • Character: Mrs. Helen Adams
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.

The Valley of Decision

The Valley of Decision
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/05/1945
  • Character: Louise Kane
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.

Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway
5.2/10
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by it's Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.

Used People

Used People
6.1/10
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...

The House on Carroll Street

The House on Carroll Street
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 04/03/1988
  • Character: Miss Venable
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty

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