The best Joanne Woodward’s drama movies

Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward

27/02/1930 (94 años)
Today we present the best Joanne Woodward’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Joanne Woodward’s movies.
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Philadelphia

Philadelphia
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/12/1993
  • Character: Sarah Beckett
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/04/1958
  • Character: Clara Varner
Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/09/1993
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

From the Terrace

From the Terrace
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/07/1960
  • Character: Mary St. John / Mrs. Alfred Eaton
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.

The Three Faces of Eve

The Three Faces of Eve
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 23/12/1957
  • Character: Eve White / Eve Black / Jane
A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.

Paris Blues

Paris Blues
6.7/10
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian and Connie, who are vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them, or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them. Ram, who wants to be a serious composer, finds Paris more exciting than America and is reluctant to give up his music for a relationship, and Eddie wants to stay for the city's more tolerant racial atmosphere.

Lucky Them

Lucky Them
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/09/2013
  • Character: Doris
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.

The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/04/1960
  • Character: Carol Cutrere
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

Rachel, Rachel

Rachel, Rachel
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/08/1968
  • Character: Rachel Cameron
Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/11/1990
  • Character: India Bridge
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Harry & Son

Harry & Son
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/03/1984
  • Character: Lilly
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.

Crisis at Central High

Crisis at Central High
7.2/10
Story of the federally-ordered integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Winning

Winning
6/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 22/05/1969
  • Character: Elora
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.

No Down Payment

No Down Payment
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/10/1957
  • Character: Leola Boone
The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/03/1959
  • Character: Quentin Compson / Narrator
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.

Count Three and Pray

Count Three and Pray
6.3/10
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/12/1972
  • Character: Beatrice
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

WUSA

WUSA
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/08/1970
  • Character: Geraldine
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. Rheinhardt finds his cynical detachment challenged by a lady friend, Geraldine, and by Rainey, a neighbour and troubled idealist who becomes aware of WUSA's sinister, hidden purpose. And when events start spinning out of control, even Rheinhardt finds he must take a stand.

The Stripper

The Stripper
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/06/1963
  • Character: Lila Green
An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.

Breathing Lessons

Breathing Lessons
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 06/02/1994
  • Character: Maggie Moran
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.

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