Lee Grant Movies

  • 1982
    A Crime to Fit the Punishment

    A Crime to Fit the Punishment

    A Crime to Fit the Punishment

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    This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth,...

    A Crime to Fit the Punishment
  • 1985
    Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

    Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

    Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

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    A contemporary remake of "Cinderella"

    Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
  • 1980
    Tell Me a Riddle

    Tell Me a Riddle

    Tell Me a Riddle

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    A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with...

    Tell Me a Riddle
  • 1971
    The Neon Ceiling

    The Neon Ceiling

    The Neon Ceiling

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    A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a...

    The Neon Ceiling
  • 1959
    The World of Sholom Aleichem

    The World of Sholom Aleichem

    The World of Sholom Aleichem

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    This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and...

    The World of Sholom Aleichem
  • 2006
    Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'

    Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'

    Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'

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    We look at why Valley of the Dolls is so beloved and appreciated, both for its "badness" and hidden merits. Valley Of The Dolls is considered either...

    Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
  • 1988
    Calling the Shots

    Calling the Shots

    Calling the Shots

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    Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

    Calling the Shots
  • 1975
    For the Use of the Hall

    For the Use of the Hall

    For the Use of the Hall

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    A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the...

    For the Use of the Hall
  • 1976
    The Stronger

    The Stronger

    The Stronger

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    Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The...

    The Stronger
  • 1989
    Battered

    Battered

    Battered

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    Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the powerful, if harrowing portrait of a life lived in...

    Battered
  • 1994
    Under Heat

    Under Heat

    Under Heat

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    Dean is 36 and recently diagnosed as HIV positive. He has come home to tell his mother and his older brother Milo.

    Under Heat
  • 1958
    Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

    Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

    Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

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    A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is...

    Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
  • 1968
    The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

    The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

    The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

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    On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and...

    The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
  • 1986
    Nobody's Child

    Nobody's Child

    Nobody's Child

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    Fact-based drama about the life of Marie Balter, who spent most of her young life in mental institutions. At age 16, she first attempted suicide and...

    Nobody's Child
  • 2001
    The Gun Deadlock

    The Gun Deadlock

    The Gun Deadlock

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    Documentary about gun control focusing on how women feel about owning guns. The program features both sides of the gun-control issue, including...

    The Gun Deadlock
  • 1982
    Thou Shalt Not Kill

    Thou Shalt Not Kill

    Thou Shalt Not Kill

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    A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.

    Thou Shalt Not Kill
  • 1981
    The Willmar 8

    The Willmar 8

    The Willmar 8

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    Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

    The Willmar 8
  • 2006
    Tribute To Burgess Meredith

    Tribute To Burgess Meredith

    Tribute To Burgess Meredith

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    The cast of Rocky (1976) pays tribute to actor Burgess Meredith.

    Tribute To Burgess Meredith
  • 2000
    Poor Liza

    Poor Liza

    Poor Liza

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    A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman.

    Poor Liza
  • 1985
    What Sex Am I?

    What Sex Am I?

    What Sex Am I?

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    "What Sex Am I?" follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to...

    What Sex Am I?