Gena Rowlands
Birthday: 1930-06-19
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Biography: Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977).
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Night on Earth
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night....
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Light of Day
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems....
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Faces
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Ric...
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Playing by Heart
In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak...
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Paris Je T'aime
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...
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Gloria
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant gu...
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The Notebook
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a ...
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Taking Lives
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the id...
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Another Woman
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor...
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Two-Minute Warning
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major ch...
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Minnie and Moskowitz
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders i...
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The Brink's Job
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pi...
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Tony Rome
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry s...
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Hope Floats
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping...
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Opening Night
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her lat...
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The Mighty
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Ma...
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Broken English
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has childr...
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The Skeleton Key
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...
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Paulie
Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor w...
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A Woman Under the Influence
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Ni...
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Lonely are the Brave
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape wit...
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Hysterical Blindness
Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey....
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Machine Gun McCain
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn o...
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Once Around
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling r...
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Unhook the Stars
Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when...
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The Neon Bible
During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events th...
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Tempest
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the succes...
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Something to Talk About
Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is d...
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Wild Iris
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband....
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Love Streams
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart....
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Charms for the Easy Life
The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth ...
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1001 Nights
Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installment of the...
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An Early Frost
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mo...
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Yellow
A young substitute teacher escapes from her drudging everyday life by fantasizing about bizarre para...
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What If God Were the Sun?
A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally i...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...
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A Child Is Waiting
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hans...
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Crazy in Love
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men w...
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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society....
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Silent Cries
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military sold...
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Anything for John
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for...
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The Spiral Road
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he...
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The High Cost of Loving
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut...
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The Weekend
Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstat...
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The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drasti...
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The Betty Ford Story
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty F...
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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she i...
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Face of a Stranger
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's ...
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Parts Per Billion
The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face...
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Edge of Outside
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Gri...
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Olive
A mysterious child with magical powers and a great secret, invades the lives of three lonely people ...
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Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Combining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this docum...
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per we...
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Parallel Lives
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemi...
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Nick Quarry
A 10 minute demo reel for a proposed TV series based on the Tony Rome PI movies. With an original sc...
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A Question of Love
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband....
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Faces
James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world o...
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Thursday's Child
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, ...
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I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, ...
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Best Friends for Life
Sarah and Harriet have been best friends since childhood. They married at the same time, had childre...
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Grace & Glorie
When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the tw...
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Montana
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their liv...
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Light Keeps Me Company
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoir...
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A Constant Forge
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am...
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She's So Lovely
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of hi...
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Cannes: All Access
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Ca...
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Hollywood Mavericks
A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of fil...
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Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect...
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Making 'Faces'
A documentary featuring interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands, and Seymour Cassel, and c...
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Watching Gena Rowlands
Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’ ...
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Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with ...
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Rapunzel
A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determ...
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Shadows
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopard...
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Husbands
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives an...
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Ted & Venus
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poet...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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