Ellen Burstyn
- Place to Be
2026 Brooke
- Flesh Impact
2026 Marilyn Monroe
- Mother, Couch
2024 Mother
- E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
2024 E. Jean Carroll
- The Exorcist: Believer
2023 Chris MacNeil
- Three Months
2022 Valerie
- Queen Bees
2021 Helen Wilson
- Watch on the Rhine
2021 Fanny
- Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
2021 Herself
- Pieces of a Woman
2020 Elizabeth Weiss
- The House of Tomorrow
2019 Executive Producer
- Lucy in the Sky
2019 Nana Holbrook
- American Woman
2019 Miss Dolly
- The Tale
2018 Nettie
- Nostalgia
2018 Helen Greer
- All I Wish
2018 Celia Berges
- Wiener-Dog
2016 Nana
- Custody
2016 Beatrice Fisher
- The Age of Adaline
2015 Flemming
- About Scout
2015 Gram
- Unity
2015 Narrator (voice)
- Interstellar
2014 Murph (older)
- Draft Day
2014 Barb Weaver
- Flowers in the Attic
2014 Grandmother
- River of Fundament
2014 Hathfertiti
- The Calling
2014 Emily Micallef
- Two Men in Town
2014 Mère Garnett
- Petals on the Wind
2014 Olivia Foxworth
- Wish You Well
2013 Louisa Mae Cardinal
- Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012 Nanette
- The Mighty Macs
2011 Mother St. John
- Another Happy Day
2011 Doris Baker
- Main Street
2010 Georgiana Carr
- According to Greta
2009 Katherine
- The Velveteen Rabbit
2009 Swan (voice)
- Lovely, Still
2009 Mary
- W.
2008 Barbara Bush
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2008 Miss Addie
- Mitch Albom's For One More Day
2007 Pauline "Posey" Benetto
- The Stone Angel
2007 Hagar
- The Fountain
2006 Dr. Lillian Guzetti
- The Wicker Man
2006 Sister Summersisle
- The Elephant King
2006 Diana Hunt
- 30 Days
2006 Maura
- Our Fathers
2005 Mary Ryan
- Mrs. Harris
2005 Former Tarnower Steady
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven
2004 Ruby
- Brush with Fate
2003 Rika
- Red Dragon
2002 Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)
- Within These Walls
2001 Executive Producer
- Requiem for a Dream
2000 Sara Goldfarb
- The Yards
2000 Val Handler
- Mermaid
2000 Trish
- Walking Across Egypt
1999 Mattie Rigsbee
- Night Ride Home
1999 Maggie
- Playing by Heart
1998 Mildred
- The Patron Saint of Liars
1998 June Clatterbuck
- You Can Thank Me Later
1998 Shirley Cooperberg
- Deceiver
1997 Mook
- Flash
1997 Laura Strong
- A Deadly Vision
1997 Yvette Watson
- The Spitfire Grill
1996 Hannah Ferguson
- Timepiece
1996 Maud Gannon
- How to Make an American Quilt
1995 Hy Dodd
- The Baby-Sitters Club
1995 Mrs. Haberman
- My Brother's Keeper
1995 Helen
- Roommates
1995 Judith
- Follow The River
1995 Gretel
- When a Man Loves a Woman
1994 Emily
- Getting Gotti
1994 Jo Giacalone
- Trick of the Eye
1994 Frances Griffin
- Getting Out
1994 Arlie's Mother
- The Cemetery Club
1993 Esther Moskowitz
- Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
1993 Joan Delvecchio
- Roots of Roe
1993 Letters of Margaret Sanger (voice)
- Earth and the American Dream
1992 Reader (voice)
- When It Was a Game 2
1992 Passage Narrator (voice)
- Dying Young
1991 Mrs. O'Neil
- Grand Isle
1991 Mademoiselle Reisz
- Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
1991 Lillian "Lil" Lambert
- When You Remember Me
1990 Nurse Cooder
- The Color of Evening
1990 Kate O'Rielly
- Hanna's War
1988 Katalin
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987 Mrs. Stocks (voice)
- Pack of Lies
1987 Barbara Jackson
- Act of Vengeance
1986 Margaret Yablonski
- Something in Common
1986 Lynn Hollander
- Twice in a Lifetime
1985 Kate MacKenzie
- The Ambassador
1985 Alex Hacker
- Surviving
1985 Tina Brogan
- Into Thin Air
1985 Joan Walker
- People vs. Jean Harris
1981 Jean Harris
- Silence of the North
1981 Olive Frederickson
- Resurrection
1980 Edna
- Same Time, Next Year
1978 Doris
- A Dream of Passion
1978 Brenda Collins
- Providence
1977 Sonia Langham
- Harry and Tonto
1974 Shirley
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 Alice Hyatt
- Thursday's Game
1974 Lynne Evers
- The Exorcist
1973 Chris MacNeil
- The King of Marvin Gardens
1972 Sally
- The Last Picture Show
1971 Lois Farrow
- Alex in Wonderland
1970 Beth Morrison
- Tropic of Cancer
1970 Mona (uncredited)
- Pit Stop
1969 Ellen McCleod
- Goodbye Charlie
1964 Franny Salzman
- For Those Who Think Young
1964 Dr. Pauline Swenson
- Ricochet
1961 Rose Maxon
- The Christmas Tree
1958 Elizabeth
- Easy Out?
1948 Mary
- Bathing Flo
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