Directing
Claudia Weill
Born January 1, 1947 · New York City, New York, USA (age 79)
Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. Girlfriends would be one of 82 films made by a female director to compete at Cannes. In 2019, Girlfriends was selected by the Library of Co…
Known For
Girlfriends · 1978Girlfriends
★ 6.71978
MovieDramaComedy
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
It's My Turn · 1980It's My Turn
★ 5.81980
MovieComedyRomance
A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story · 1992A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
★ 7.31992
MovieDramaTV Movie
A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.
Face of a Stranger · 1991Face of a Stranger
★ 10.01991
MovieDramaTV Movie
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their apartment. Much to the embarrassment of her daughter Tina, who wants to marry a rich snob, she helps the homeless Dollie, who lives in a cardboard box near her building, and they become friends
Giving Up the Ghost · 1998Giving Up the Ghost
★ 6.31998
MovieComedyTV Movie
After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide to join him in the afterlife. While the young woman is making up her mind about suicide, her husband's ghost helps with a current murder case.
Year of the Woman · 1973Year of the Woman
★ 9.01973
MovieDocumentary
Utitlising humour, fantasy, animation, poetry and theatrics, Hochman and her crew challenge the male establishment for ignoring the first meeting of the National Women's Political Caucus and Shirley Chisholm's bid for US vice-president.
Critical Choices · 1996Critical Choices
★ 6.31996
MovieDramaTV Movie
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir · 1975The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
★ 8.01975
MovieDocumentary
Documentary on mainland Chinese life. Directed, produced, written, and narrated by Shirley MacLaine, the film follows her First American Women’s Friendship Delegation to China. The delegation consisted of all women, including a four-woman film crew.
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