GUILTY BY SUSPICION (1991)

 

Written & Directed By: Irwin Winkler

Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus  

Editor: Priscilla Nedd 

Cast: Robert DeNiro, Annette Benning, Patricia Wettig, Chris Cooper, George Wendt, Adam Baldwin, Tom Sizemore, Martin Scorsese, Barry Primus, Sam Wanamaker, Luke Edwards, Ben Piazza, Stuart Margolin, Roxann Biggs, Allan Rich, Illenana Douglas, Stephen Root, Jon Tenney, Jonathan Ames 

David Merrill, a successful director, has spent the last couple of years working on movies overseas. He returns right in the middle of the McCarthy-era Communist witch-hunt that was sweeping through Hollywood. When first approached by the 'inquisitors' he rebuffs them, not realizing how much influence they have. He soon finds that he can't get work, having been blacklisted for failing to cooperate. However, if he will just tell them what they want to know, he can go back to work.

DEATH ON THE NILE (2022)

 

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh Written By: Michael Green  Based upon the novel by: Agatha Christie  Cinematography: Haris Zamberloukos Editor: Una Ni Dhonghalie 

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Armie Hammer, Letitia Wright, Emma Mackey, Tom Bateman, Sophie Okonedo, Rose Leslie, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Adam Garcia, Michael Rouse, Alaa Safi 

While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress.

DANNY COLLINS (2015)

Written & Directed By: Dan Fogelman 
Cinematography: Steve Yedlin 
Editor: Julie Monroe 

Cast: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Christopher Plummer, Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Garner, Nick Offerman, Melissa Benoist, Josh Peck, Katarina Cas, Giselle Eisenberg, Brian Thomas Smith, Scott Lawrence 


Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.

CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)

Directed By: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck 
Written By: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet 
Story By: Nicole Perlman, Meg LaFeuve, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet Cinematography: Ben Davis 
Editor: Debbie Berman & Elliot Graham 

Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Annette Bening, Jude Law, Lashana Lynch, Clark Gregg, Lee Pace, Gemma Chan, Dijmon Hounsou 

Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (2006)

Written & Directed By: Ryan Murphy 
Based on The Memoir By: Augusten Burroughs 
Cinematography: Christopher Baffa 
Editor: Byron Smith 


Cast: Joseph Cross, Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Annette Bening, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Gabrielle Union, Kristin Chenoweth, Dagmara Domincyzk, Colleen Camp 


The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

20TH CENTURY WOMEN (2016)

Written & Directed By: Mike Mills 
Cinematography By: Sean Porter 
Editor: Leslie Jones 


Cast: Annette Bening, Lucas Jade Zumann, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Alison Elliott, Alia Shawkat 


The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979. The film is semi-autobiographical, according to Michael Mills. The main cast members are based on one or multiple influences upon Mills from his childhood. Annette Bening's character in particular is based partly on his mother, but with the emphasis on Bening's particular spin on her character.

THE LOBSTER (2016)

Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos 
Written By: Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou 
Cinematography By: Thimios Bakatakis 
Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis 


Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly, Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman, Jessica Barden, Lea Seydoux, Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, Emma O’Shea, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley

GINGER & ROSA (2012)

Written & Directed By: Sally Potter 
Cinematography By: Robbie Ryan 
Editor: Anders Refn 

 Cast: Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, Annette Bening, Jodhi May, Alice Englert, Oliver Platt, Timothy Spall, Christina Hendricks,