The best Madeleine Sherwood’s drama movies

Madeleine Sherwood

Madeleine Sherwood

13/11/1922 (101 años)
Today we present the best Madeleine Sherwood’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 Madeleine Sherwood’s movies.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7.9/10
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Baby Doll

Baby Doll
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/12/1956
  • Character: Nurse in Doctor's Office (uncredited)
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.

Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/03/1962
  • Character: Miss Lucy
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

Resurrection

Resurrection
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 26/09/1980
  • Character: Ruth (as Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood)
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.

Teachers

Teachers
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/10/1984
  • Character: Grace
A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.

Broken Vows

Broken Vows
5.6/10
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes his faith to its very foundation. Intrigued by the dying man's mention of "Nim," and fascinated by the man's saintly demeanor, Father Joseph's curiosity is redoubled when a beautiful young woman enters his church to question the young priest about the deceased man. Father Joseph and the woman, whom he discovers to be the "Nim" in question, embark upon an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man's death.

Hurry Sundown

Hurry Sundown
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/02/1967
  • Character: Eula Purcell
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.

Pendulum

Pendulum
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/02/1969
  • Character: Mrs. Eileen Sanderson
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.

Silence Like Glass

Silence Like Glass
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/07/1989
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

Parrish

Parrish
6.5/10
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.

In the Cool of the Day

In the Cool of the Day
5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/05/1963
  • Character: Party Hostess (uncredited)
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.

The Manhunter

The Manhunter
5.9/10
A professional hunter is brought in to track a bank robbery suspect through a Louisiana swamp, and winds up getting romantically involved with the suspect's wife.

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