 Bliss 1997  R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lance Young
Cast: Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee, Terence Stamp, Spalding Gray, Casey Siemaszko, Leigh Taylor-Young, Lois Chiles, Blu Mankuma, Ken Camroux, Molly Parker
A newly married couple, Joseph (Craig Sheffer) and Maria (Sheryl Lee), consult a sex therapist. When psychoanalytic methods fail, Maria heads for the strange Dr. Baltazar Vincenza (Terence Stamp), and Joseph soon follows. This is a very graphic film, which deals openly with the subject of sex.
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The Center of the World 2001  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino, Mel Gorham, Balthazar Getty, Pat Morita, Shane Edelman, Shirley Knight
Richard, a partner in a successful Internet company, pays $10,000 for three days in Las Vegas with a stripper (Molly Parker). She sets strict ground rules, but neither has taken into account the factor of emotions.
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 The Five Senses 1999 R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Cast: Mary-Louise Parker, Pascale Bussieres, Richard Clarkin, Brendan Fletcher, Marco Leonardi, Nadia Litz, Daniel MacIvor, Molly Parker, Gabrielle Rose, Tara Rosling
Interconnected stories deal with the five senses in this ensemble piece that revolves around the disappearance of a Toronto toddler.
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 Hollywoodland 2006 R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allen Coulter
Cast: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Robin Tunney, Bob Hoskins, Lois Smith, Molly Parker, Ted Atherton, David J. MacNeil, Dash Mihok, Kevin Hare, Kathleen Robertson, Joe Spano, Jeffrey DeMunn
Based on events following the death under questionable circumstances of George Reeves (Ben Affleck) who had played Superman on the popular TV show, this film shows how Reeves' mother Helen Bessolo (Lois Smith) hires private detective Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) to uncover the facts surrounding her son's death. Suspects rise to the fore. Toni Mannix (Diane Lane) heads the list as the lover Reeves dumped after a 10-year affair, and her husband, MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins), is also in the running–along with Reeves' new fiancee Leonore (Robin Tunny). The film goes back and forth between scenes of Simo's investigation and past events in Reeves' life showing just what a complex person he was.
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The Intruder 1999  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: David Bailey
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charles Edwin Powell, Nastassja Kinski, Molly Parker, John Hannah, Charles Papasoff, Marianne Therien, Mike Tsar, Angelo Tsarouchas, Janis Kershner
A distraught woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) enters a police station and confesses to the murder of her husband's first wife–but that wife died two years previously. The rest of this remake of "Gaslight" is told in flashbacks: after coming to the U.S. from Europe, our heroine meets and marries Nick (Charles Edwin Powell). Soon after she finds out his first wife had been murdered, strange things go on in and around their apartment. Is she going crazy?
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Iron Jawed Angels 2004  TV, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Katja von Garnier
Cast: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Anjelica Huston, Margo Martindale, Molly Parker, Lois Smith, Patrick Dempsey, Laura Fraser, Vera Farmiga, Brooke Smith, Adilah Barnes, Bob Gunton, Julia Ormond, Carrie Snodgress
Women's suffrage is the theme of this story set in the early part of the 20th century when American feminist Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and social reformer Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) left the mainstream effort and formed a more radical wing fighting for women's right to vote. The title comes from Alice's fight against being force fed while on a hunger strike after being jailed with her suffragettes when they picketed the White House. While she showed courage, the real courage was that of the suffragettes as a whole whose efforts resulted in the ratification of the 19th Constitutional Amendment on July 26, 1920, giving women the right to vote.
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Marion Bridge 2002 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Cast: Molly Parker, Stacy Smith, Marguerite McNeil, Ellen Page, Hollis McLaren, Emmy Alcorn, Joseph Rutten, Nicola Lipman, Jackie Torrens, Kevin Curran, Linda Busby, Rebecca Jenkins
When Agnes (Molly Parker) returns to Nova Scotia to help care for her dying mother (Marguerite McNeill), she also must confront her two sisters (Stacy Smith and Rebecca Jenkins) from whom she has been estranged. As family members begin to deal with each other, long-hidden secrets are revealed.
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 Max 2002 R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Menno Meyjes
Cast: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Ulrich Thomsen, David Horovitch, Janet Suzman, Andras Stohl, Peter Capaldi, Kevin McKidd
In this fictionalized biography of Adolph Hitler, Jewish art dealer Max Rothman (John Cusack) befriends aspiring artist Adolph Hitler (Noah Taylor). Director Menno Meyjes argues a case that Hitler turned to politics because he failed as an artist.
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Rare Birds 2001 R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
Cast: William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker, Cathy Jones, Vicky Hynes, Greg Malone, Maggie Myer, Lawrence Barry, Sheila McCarthy, Leah Lewis
On the shores of Newfoundland is a small village, and in this village resides Dave (William Hurt), a down-on-his-luck owner of a restaurant that is going under. His best friend, Phonse (Andy Jones), comes up with a scheme to bring people to their community: fake the sighting of a rare bird. Funny, especially Andy Jones.
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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Sto 1995 TV, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes, William Converse-Roberts, William Allen Young, Kevin McNulty, Vic Polizos, Molly Parker
Glen Close takes on the role of Margarethe Cammermeyer in this true story of Cammermeyer's legal fight to prevent the U.S. Army from discharging her when her status as a homosexual was revealed. Close won an Emmy for her role in this film, and costar Judy Davis also was awarded the Emmy for her depiction of Cammermeyer's lover, Diane.
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 Sunshine 1999 R, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Istvan Szabo
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker, Deborah Kara Unger, William Hurt, James Frain, John Neville, Miriam Margolyes
This story relates the tribulations of three generations of a Jewish family enduring Hungary's troubled years. The Sonnenschien family–despite two world wars and numerous governments between the late 1800s and the 1960s–survive as history tends to repeat itself throughout the generations.
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Waking the Dead 2000  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Keith Gordon
Cast: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Leah Pinsent
Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup), a congressional candidate, begins to question his own sanity as he senses the presence of his ex-lover, Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly). The problem: Sarah died nine years ago.
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 The Wicker Man 2006 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski, Diane Delano, Michael Wiseman, Erika-Shaye Gair, Christa Campbell, Emily Holmes, Matthew Walker, Sophie Hough
Deeply Christian Sheriff Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) gets a note from ex-fiancee Willow (Kate Beahan) begging for his help in finding her daughter, Rowan (Erika-Shaye Gair). Malus answers the call and arrives on a small island in Puget Sound where he runs into an even larger mystery in the form of a group of pagan women who live in a farming commune and make blood sacrifices. But, Malus connects clues that lead to Rowan's abduction by commune members with the intent of using her as a sacrifice during the upcoming "Day of Death and Rebirth" pageant.
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 Wonderland 1999 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Ian Hart, John Simm, Stuart Townsend, Kika Markham, Jack Shepherd, Enzo Cilenti, Sarah-Jane Potts
Set in London during a four-day period (Thursday through Sunday), this drama centers on three sisters–Debby (Shirley Henderson), Nadia (Gina McKee), and Molly (Molly Parker)–who weather their own crises amidst the teeming metropolis filled with anonymous faces.
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| 1. Bliss (1997)
2. The Center of the World (2001)
3. The Five Senses (1999)
4. Hollywoodland (2006)
5. The Intruder (1999)
6. Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
7. Kissed (1996)
8. Marion Bridge (2002)
9. Max (2002)
10. Rare Birds (2001)
11. Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Sto (1995)
12. Sunshine (1999)
13. Under Heaven (1998)
aka: In the Shadows
14. Waking the Dead (2000)
15. The Wicker Man (2006)
16. Wonderland (1999)
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