The best Shirley Knight’s crime movies

Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight

05/07/1936- 22/04/2020
We present our ranking of the best Shirley Knight’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 Shirley Knight.

The Salton Sea

The Salton Sea
7/10
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

Juggernaut

Juggernaut
6.6/10
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.

A Promise to Carolyn

A Promise to Carolyn
6.2/10
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.

Shadow Over Elveron

Shadow Over Elveron
6.6/10
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.

The Outsider

The Outsider
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/11/1967
  • Character: Peggy Leydon
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.

House of Women

House of Women
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/04/1962
  • Character: Erica Hayden
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.

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