- The Uninvited
2025 Helen
- The Gettysburg Address
2025 Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
- Lightning Bug
2025 Lydia
- On the End
2025 Trudie Ferreira
- Mack & Rita
2022 Betty
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
- Uncle Frank
2020 Aunt Butch
- Tesla
2020 The Grande Dame
- The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020 Harper Pitt
- Marjorie Prime
2017 Marjorie
- Lady Bird
2017 Sister Sarah Joan
- The Nice Guys
2016 Mrs. Glenn
- The Comedian
2016 Miriam
- Run All Night
2015 Margaret Conlon
- The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013 The Youngest Daughter (later)
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012 Aunt Mel
- Roadie
2012 Mom
- Please Give
2010 Mrs. Portman
- A Dog Year
2009 Lois Blair
- Turn the River
2008 Abby
- Diminished Capacity
2008 Belle
- Killshot
2008 Lenore
- Hollywoodland
2006 Helen Bessolo
- Little Fugitive
2006 Elizabeth
- Griffin & Phoenix
2006 Dr. Imberman
- Sweet Land
2005 Inge (as an older woman)
- P.S.
2004 Ellie Silverstein
- Iron Jawed Angels
2004 Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
- The Best Thief in the World
2004 Helen
- Red Betsy
2003 Helen Rounds
- A Foreign Affair
2003 Ma Adams
- Minority Report
2002 Dr. Iris Hineman
- The Laramie Project
2002 Lucy Thompson
- Powder Keg
2001 Mother
- The Pledge
2001 Helen Jackson
- Tumbleweeds
1999 Ginger
- The Eternal
1998 Mrs. Ferriter
- Hudson River Blues
1997 Julia
- Eye of God
1997 Thanks
- Twister
1996 Aunt Meg
- Larger Than Life
1996 Luluna
- Dead Man Walking
1995 Helen's Mother
- How to Make an American Quilt
1995 Sophia
- Truman
1995 Madge Wallace Gates
- Holy Matrimony
1994 Orna
- Skylark
1993 Lou Wheaton
- Falling Down
1993 D-Fens' Mother
- The Donner Party
1992 voice
- Hard Promises
1992 Mrs. Bell
- Deadly Matrimony
1992
- Keep the Change
1992 Lureen
- Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 Mama Threadgoode
- Coney Island
1991 (voice)
- White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991 Alice Todd
- The Grapes of Wrath
1991 Ma Joad
- Green Card
1990 Brontë's Mother
- Midnight Run
1988 Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
- Black Widow
1987 Sara
- Fatal Attraction
1987 Martha
- Twisted
1985 Helen Giles
- The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985 Mary Neal
- Doubletake
1985 Sarah
- Reckless
1984 Mrs. Prescott
- Reuben, Reuben
1983 Mare Spofford
- The House of Mirth
1981 Bertha Dorset
- Four Friends
1981 Mrs. Carnahan
- Resurrection
1980 Kathy
- Foxes
1980 Mrs. Axman
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980 Cornelia
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976 Anita Cunningham
- Particular Men
1972 Anne Starr
- Up the Sandbox
1972 Elinore
- Five Easy Pieces
1970 Partita Dupea
- Dragon Country
1970 Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
- The Way We Live Now
1970 Jane Aldridge
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967 Evelyn
- The Master Builder
1960 Hilda
- East of Eden
1955 Anne
- Strange Lady in Town
1955 Spurs O'Brien
- The Steel Harp
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