Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand

Birthday:Jun 23, 1957
Place of birth:Gibson City, Illinois, USA

Filmography

2008
Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Comedy Drama Dark Comedy
7.0

20081h 36min

United States, United Kingdom

Director: Ethan Coen

When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.


Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Drama Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy Parody
7.0

20081h 32min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Bharat Nalluri

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.

2005
North Country

North Country

Drama Legal Drama
7.3

20052h 6min

United States

Director: Niki Caro

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

2003
Something's Gotta Give

Something's Gotta Give

Drama Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy Awkward Comedy
6.7

20032h 8min

United States

Director: Nancy Meyers

When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.


Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon

Drama Romance Relationship Drama Passionate Romance
6.4

20031h 43min

United States

Director: Lisa Cholodenko

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

2002
City by the Sea

City by the Sea

Crime Drama Mystery Police Procedural Tragic Drama
6.1

20021h 48min

United States

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.

2001
The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

Crime Drama Organized Crime Psychological Drama
7.5

20011h 56min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Joel Coen

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

2000
Almost Famous

Almost Famous

Drama Music Coming-of-Age Drama Backstage & Showbiz Music
7.9

20002h 4min

United States

Director: Cameron Crowe

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.


Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys

Comedy Drama Dark Comedy Relationship Drama
7.2

20001h 51min

Germany, Japan

Director: Curtis Hanson

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.

1998
Madeline

Madeline

Family Comedy Drama
6.0

19981h 29min

United States

Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.