5 Movies Starring Sarah Paulson

Down with Love

Down with Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-05-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (31672 Reviews)

Director:

Peyton Reed

Fullplot:

An homage to the early 1960s sex comedies that starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day. The story follows a best-selling female advice author who has all the answers until a sly journalist playboy starts asking the questions.

The Notorious Bettie Page

The Notorious Bettie Page

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-05-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (8681 Reviews)

Director:

Mary Harron

Cast:

Writer:

Mary Harron

Guinevere Turner

Fullplot:

Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955, Bettie Page (1923-2008 ) waits to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks, we see her childhood in Tennessee, a brief marriage, a gang rape, and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons, models for photos, and acts in short films for adults, earning the nickname, "The Pin-Up Queen of the Universe." We see her relationship with merchants Irving and Paula Klaw, photographers John Willie and Bunny Yeager, boyfriends, and the public. Through it all, she is wholesome, sporting, and forthright - Eve before the fall.

Griffin & Phoenix

Griffin & Phoenix

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-01-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (5880 Reviews)

Director:

Ed Stone

Fullplot:

Griffin is divorced, living in a flat in Manhattan while his sons and ex live in the family home in Westchester. He gets bad news from his oncologist: cancerous lesions have spread through his chest, and he has only a year or so to live. He audits a psychology class on death and dying at a nearby college where he chats up a woman who turns out to be an assistant dean. She's Phoenix; she smiles but keeps her distance, warming to him slowly. He tells her nothing of his situation. At his apartment a few days later, she finds a stash of books on death, dying, and terminal illness: will she put two and two together, and what will she do about it?

The Time Being

The Time Being

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-07-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (601 Reviews)

Genres:

Mystery

Cast:

Writer:

Nenad Cicin-Sain

Richard N. Gladstein

Fullplot:

An artist meets a mysterious and wealthy benefactor and their relationship is not what it appears to be.

Carol

Carol

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-11-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (493 Reviews)

Director:

Todd Haynes

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Patricia Highsmith (novel)

Phyllis Nagy (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

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