Sissy Spacek
- The Catch
2027
- Love Letter to Texas
2026 Narrator
- Die My Love
2025 Pam
- Sam & Kate
2022 Tina
- Without Getting Killed or Caught
2021 Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
- The Old Man & the Gun
2018 Jewel
- River of Gold
2016 Narrator
- Deadfall
2012 June
- The Help
2011 Missus Walters
- Get Low
2010 Mattie Darrow
- Four Christmases
2008 Paula
- Lake City
2008 Maggie
- Hot Rod
2007 Marie Powell
- Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007 Josie Cahill
- Gray Matters
2007 Dr. Sydney
- An American Haunting
2005 Lucy Bell
- The Ring Two
2005 Evelyn
- North Country
2005 Alice Aimes
- Nine Lives
2005 Ruth
- A Home at the End of the World
2004 Alice Glover
- Tuck Everlasting
2002 Mae Tuck
- Last Call
2002 Zelda Fitzgerald
- In the Bedroom
2001 Ruth Fowler
- Midwives
2001 Sibyl Danforth
- Songs In Ordinary Time
2000 Marie Fermoyle
- The Straight Story
1999 Rose
- Blast from the Past
1999 Helen
- The Rage: Carrie 2
1999 Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Affliction
1998 Margie Fogg
- Eye of God
1997 Thanks
- If These Walls Could Talk
1996 Barbara Barrows
- The Grass Harp
1996 Verena Talbo
- Beyond the Call
1996 Pam O'Brien
- The Good Old Boys
1995 Spring Renfro
- Trading Mom
1994 Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
- A Place for Annie
1994 Susan Lansing
- Hard Promises
1992 Christine Ann Coalter
- A Private Matter
1992 Sherri Finkbine
- JFK
1991 Liz Garrison
- The Talking Eggs
1991 Narrator (voice)
- The Long Walk Home
1990 Miriam Thompson
- 'night, Mother
1986 Jessie Cates
- Crimes of the Heart
1986 Babe Magrath
- Violets Are Blue
1986 Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
- Marie: A True Story
1985 Marie Ragghianti
- The River
1984 Mae Garvey
- The Man with Two Brains
1983 Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
- Missing
1982 Beth Horman
- Raggedy Man
1981 Nita
- Coal Miner's Daughter
1980 Loretta Lynn
- Heart Beat
1980 Carolyn Cassady
- Verna: USO Girl
1978 Verna Vane
- 3 Women
1977 Mildred "Pinky" Rose
- Death Game
1977 Set Dresser
- Carrie
1976 Carrie
- Welcome to L.A.
1976 Linda Murray
- Katherine
1975 Katherine Alman
- Ginger in the Morning
1974 Songs
- The Migrants
1974 Wanda Trimpin
- Phantom of the Paradise
1974 Set Dresser
- Badlands
1973 Holly Sargis
- The Girls of Huntington House
1973 Sara
- Prime Cut
1972 Poppy
