Directed by Guy Green • 1961 • United Kingdom
Starring Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger
This daring drama garnered significant controversy for its frank and complex handling of a taboo subject. After his release from prison on charges of intent to commit child molestation, Jim Fuller (an Oscar-nominated Stuart Whitman) attempts to restart his life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist (Rod Steiger). When a young girl is attacked, suspicion immediately falls on Fuller and threatens to derail his budding relationship with a compassionate single mother (Maria Schell).
Directed by Frank Perry • 1962 • United States
Starring Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva
One of the first films to treat the issue of mental illness with sensitivity and compassion, this groundbreaking independent drama traces, with profound humanity, the relationship that develops b...
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1972 • Soviet Union
Starring Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yuri Yarvet
Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to i...
Directed by Joan Tewkesbury • 1979 • United States
Starring Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine
The sole theatrical feature directed by Joan Tewkesbury—whose screenplays for NASHVILLE and THIEVES LIKE US yielded two of Robert Altman’s finest films—is an endlessly intriguing, shaggy-dog ...
