Ann Dowd
Also Known As: 앤 도드, آن داود
Biography: Ann Dowd (born January 30, 1956) is an American actress. She decided to become an actress while a premed student at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1978 and went on to study at The Theatre School at DePaul University. In 1993 she won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance in the play Candida. She has appeared in television shows including House, The X-Files, Third Watch and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Films Dowd has appeared in include Lorenzo's Oil, Philadelphia, Apt Pupil, Garden State and Flags of Our Fathers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 30, 1956
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
The Informant!
Overview: A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
Popularity:
Bushwhacked
Overview: A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and leads a scout group on a hike through the mountains.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-04
Popularity:
Apt Pupil
Overview: One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
Popularity:
The Babysitters
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-09
Popularity:
Marley & Me
Overview: A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
Popularity:
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Overview: The live special event features reenactments of episodes from “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes”.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-07
Popularity:
The Living Wake
Overview: A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-06
Popularity:
The Independent
Overview: It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young journalist teams up with her idol, legendary journalist Nick Booker, to uncover a conspiracy that places the fate of the election, and the country, in their hands.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-02
Popularity:
Bachelorette
Overview: Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-23
Popularity:
Compliance
Overview: On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-23
Popularity:
Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season
Overview: When Shiloh's abusive previous owner, Judd Travers, tries to retake Shiloh again, Ray tries to find a way to end the rivalry and open up the hidden kindness within the town drunk.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-02
Popularity:
The Toe Tactic
Overview: Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, talking to herself in mirrors, and rejecting any offered intimacy. She's watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles. They ensure that random acts bring her connections - with a neighbor boy, his mother, and his surreptitious piano teacher (the lad wants to surprise his mom). She also meets an elevator operator in the building where she temps for Ms. Hadaway, a widow with perfect diction. Can Mona take a few steps on the road to expressing emotion?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-29
Popularity:
Baby
Overview: A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take the baby in and care for it as if it were their own. But what if the baby's mom really returns to claim it?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-08
Popularity:
Side Effects
Overview: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-07
Popularity:
Coming Up Roses
Overview: A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and bouts of depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
Popularity:
Lucy
Overview: MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-04
Popularity:
The Drop
Overview: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
Popularity:
Shiloh
Overview: An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to Judd Travers, a local hunter. After Shiloh is mistreated again, he runs away and returns to Marty. Knowing his father will once again make him bring Shiloh back to Judd, he makes a home for the dog in an old shed up the hill from the Prestons' house and hides him from his family. His secret is soon discovered when a stray attacks the dog one night and he must turn to his father for help.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-30
Popularity:
Gimme Shelter
Overview: After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-17
Popularity:
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Overview: A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-18
Popularity:
Philadelphia
Overview: Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-22
Popularity:
Garden State
Overview: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
Popularity:
Flags of Our Fathers
Overview: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-19
Popularity:
The Exorcist: Believer
Overview: Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-04
Popularity:
St. Vincent
Overview: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
Popularity:
Big Driver
Overview: Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-18
Popularity:
Wildlike
Overview: Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-25
Popularity:
The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
Popularity:
The Undertaker's Children
Overview: Inspired by real events, a reclusive undertaker is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative. When the older sister uncovers her sinister plan to get rid of them, she contacts a child welfare nurse, pleading for help. As things escalate, the girl has no choice but to escape with her brother before helps arrives, unleashing an evil that knows no bounds in the process.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date:
Popularity:
The Friend
Overview: When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-28
Popularity:
Familiar Strangers
Overview: "Familiar Strangers" asks the question. "Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and siblings after being replaced by the family dog? . . . Perhaps as friends - weird friends?" An off beat - funny - heartfelt story of family negotiating the changing relationships between parents and children, especially as those children grow into adulthood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Popularity:
The Art of Getting By
Overview: George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-17
Popularity:
Our Brand Is Crisis
Overview: Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
Popularity:
The Great & The Small
Overview: Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship with his two bit criminal of a boss and an enigmatic detective, while at the same time winning back the heart of his ex-girlfriend, a working single mom. Never having a mother or father himself, Scott discovers the true meaning of fatherhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-31
Popularity:
Goodbye Baby
Overview: An ambitious young woman who can't afford to pay for college throws caution to the wind by moving to New York City and attempting to break into the toughest stand-up comedy circuit in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-12
Popularity:
Green Card
Overview: Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-23
Popularity:
Captain Fantastic
Overview: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-08
Popularity:
I Believe in America
Overview: Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground movement for independence, struggle with their need for identity and their need for a peaceful life, as the dying revolutionary movement struggles with new ideas and old ideals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-02
Popularity:
Alice Upside Down
Overview: Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves her and her older brother Lester to a new town.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-06
Popularity:
It Could Happen to You
Overview: Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-16
Popularity:
Collateral Beauty
Overview: Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-15
Popularity:
Hedgehog
Overview: The daughter of a late comic is forced to confront her fears of performing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-22
Popularity:
A Kid Like Jake
Overview: On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-01
Popularity:
Nancy
Overview: Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-08
Popularity:
American Animals
Overview: Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.
Genres: Drama Crime Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-01
Popularity:
Hereditary
Overview: Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-07
Popularity:
Tyrel
Overview: Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there, it’s clear that (1) he’s the only black guy, and (2) it’s going to be a weekend of heavy drinking. Although Tyler is welcomed, he can’t help but feel uneasy in “Whitesville.” The combination of all the testosterone and alcohol starts to get out of hand, and Tyler’s precarious situation starts to feel like a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-20
Popularity:
Speed of Life
Overview: The film follows a woman who has a chance to reflect on her life when a wormhole opens upon David Bowie’s death.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-10
Popularity:
The Notorious Bettie Page
Overview: Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-14
Popularity:
Homework
Overview: Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African plumber from the opposite side of town with natural simplicity and freedom in his dance movements. Curiosity leads towards an explosion of awakening in both her dance and personal worlds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-03
Popularity:
Taking Chance
Overview: Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-21
Popularity:
Rebecca
Overview: After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-16
Popularity:
All Over Me
Overview: Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent and meaningless death rocks their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-25
Popularity:
Gardener of Eden
Overview: When a young deli-counter clerk and general slacker in New Jersey accidentally saves a young woman from a serial rapist, he becomes convinced that his new role in life is to become a vigilante.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-26
Popularity:
Lorenzo's Oil
Overview: Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-30
Popularity:
Henrietta Bulkowski
Overview: A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how she finds happiness.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-08
Popularity:
Cowboys
Overview: Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-15
Popularity:
The Forgotten
Overview: Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction Drama Action Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-24
Popularity:
Family Squares
Overview: The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel dies suddenly, the family has to come together. The story of Family Squares takes the Worth Family on a journey discovering that not only did Grandma Mabel keep some secrets, so did everyone else. They find their way back to each other and realize that while you can’t choose your family, you can choose to be friends with them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-25
Popularity:
Mass
Overview: Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-08
Popularity:
The Thing About My Folks
Overview: Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for sale. The day trip turns into a road trip while dad and son explore their past, their relationship, and why Sam's wife might have left him. The road trip includes fishing, drinking, playing pool, sleeping under the stars, and frank discussion. Anger simmers close at hand, as do love and hope. Where Sam's wife is - and why she left - leads to the movie's resolution.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-02
Popularity:
Enemy of the People
Overview: Enemy of the People centers on a small former manufacturing town that has been revitalized as a resort destination due to its natural hot springs. When a scientist, who is the sister of the town’s Mayor, finds that the water is contaminated and the baths must be shut down, a democratic society confronts, in public and in private, a complex ethical crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-28
Popularity:
The Discoverers
Overview: Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage west.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-16
Popularity: