Shirley Knight Movies

A young poet wins his first prize of $250, but his family is not supportive.

A behind-the-scenes documentary by George Lucas about 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola and his crew creating the 1969 film "The Rain People."

The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An...

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow...

A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.

A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss.

A girl is beaten and raped by someone from the school, but he doesn't go to prison because there is no proof about it. Now, the girl's mother tries...

Struggling New York City singer/songwriter Danny falls in love with Ariana, a wealthy girl from Connecticut who tragically cannot hear the music she...

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him...

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible...

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old...

An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed.

The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.

Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her...

A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.

A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His...

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son...

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...