Maggie Gyllenhaal Filmography

Untitled Sam Mendes Comedy

Actors: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines

Synopsis: Authors Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida provide the script for Sam Mendes' (Revolutionary Road) untitled comedy focusing on a married couple (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) searching for a place to live before their baby is born in this Focus Features production. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Curb Your Read More

Paris, je t'aime

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris Je T'aime features eighteen short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

Small Tragedy

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary-Louise Parker, Patricia Clarkson

High Falls

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Peter Sarsgaard, Waris Ahluwalia, Charlie Tahan

Synopsis: Hollywood luminaries Maggie Gyllenhaal (Mona Lisa Smile, Secretary) and Peter Saarsgard (Garden State, Flightplan) co-star in director Andrew Zuckerman's 33-minute short High Falls, helmed from a script by Alex Vlack. The story follows a man and his wife who embark on a country vacation with a Read More

Stranger Than Fiction

Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: A socially isolated IRS agent whose every move is documented by a disembodied female voice discovers that his life is the subject of a book currently being written by a best-selling author, whose creative block has stunted her repeated efforts to kill him off, in a quirky fantasy comedy written by Read More

SherryBaby

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito, Ryan Simpkins

Synopsis: An emotionally stunted ex-convict whose recent release from prison finds her attempting to form a relationship with her young daughter finds that redemption doesn't come easy in this emotional family drama, the feature debut of award-winning documentary filmmaker Laurie Collyer. When Sherry Read More

Trust the Man

Actors: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James LeGros

Synopsis: Two couples demonstrate that breaking up can be just as hard as staying together in this romantic comedy drama. Rebecca (Julianne Moore) and Tom (David Duchovny) are a seemingly happy married couple living in New York City -- she's a successful actress, while he stays home with the kids. However Read More

World Trade Center

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff

Synopsis: Director Oliver Stone once again offers a powerful and provocative story based on real-life events in this drama. Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Michael Pena) were two officers assigned to New York City's Port Authority who were working their beats on a quiet day in Read More

Monster House

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kevin James

Synopsis: A suburban home has become physically animated by a vengeful human soul looking to stir up trouble from beyond the grave, and it's up to three adventurous kids from the neighborhood to do battle with the structural golem in this comically frightful tale, directed by Gil Kenan and featuring the Read More

The Great New Wonderful

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olympia Dukakis, Judy Greer, Naseeruddin Shah

Synopsis: A collection of everyday New Yorkers struggle to carry on with their increasingly stressful lives a year after the city was forever changed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Brooklyn-native Danny Leiner's ensemble-cast slice of life. Dr. Trabulous (Tony Shalhoub) is a gifted psychologist with a Read More

Quartier des Enfants Rouges

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lionel Dray

Synopsis: Writer/director Olivier Assayas draws on the themes in his previous film Irma Vep for this short starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lionel Dray. The segment concerns a young drug addicted actress (Gyllenhaal) who senses a burgeoning romance with her dealer (Dray). This film was included in Paris, Je T'Aime Read More

Happy Endings

Actors: Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Clarke, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: Three loosely interrelated stories of dysfunctional relationships are played for edgy laughs in this dark comedy drama from writer and director Don Roos. An unexpected assignation between stepsiblings Mamie and Charley results in Mamie becoming pregnant, with the child being put up for adoption Read More

Criminal

Actors: John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis: A con artist finds family squabbles are getting in the way of a major payday in this sharp blend of comedy and suspense, based on the Argentinean hit Nueve Reinas (aka Nine Queens). Richard Gaddis (John C. Reilly) is a smart-suited confidence man who knows how to run a big con but prefers to pull Read More

Shall Not Want

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad Henke

In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

Mona Lisa Smile

Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint Read More

Casa de los Babys

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden, Daryl Hannah, Susan Lynch, Mary Steenburgen

Synopsis: John Sayles' Casa de los Babys tells the tale of a half-dozen American women who travel to Latin America in order to pick up their adopted children. They all stay at the same motel while they each wade through the bureaucracy. Sharing with each other their fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations at Read More

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? Read More

Secretary

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Sadomasochism provides the backdrop for a very unusual employer/employee relationship in this very offbeat romantic drama from filmmaker Steven Shainberg. Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a shy young woman, who, after a brief spell in a mental institution, is released in the care of her Read More

40 Days and 40 Nights

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo

Synopsis: Following memorable roles in the military action-adventures Pearl Harbor (2001) and Black Hawk Down (2001), young actor Josh Hartnett is propelled to romantic leading man status with this semi-autobiographical comedy from screenwriter Rob Perez. Hartnett stars as Matt Sullivan, a young man Read More

Adaptation

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the Read More

Donnie Darko

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze

Synopsis: Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask his contempt for many of his peers and enjoys challenging the authority of the adults around him. Donnie is also visited on occasion by Frank, a monstrous Read More

Riding in Cars With Boys

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, Adam Garcia, Lorraine Bracco, Sara Gilbert, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Synopsis: Penny Marshall directed this serio-comic story, based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, about a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly (Drew Barrymore) grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her Read More

Cecil B. Demented

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Lawrence Gilliard, Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal

Synopsis: Iconoclastic satirist John Waters bites the hand that (periodically) feeds him in this humorous look at the underside of the film industry. Self-styled guerrilla filmmaker Cecil (Stephen Dorff) leads a Baltimore movie-making collective/street gang called the Sprocket Holes, which includes Cecil's Read More

The Pornographer (a love story)

Synopsis: The border between professional and personal relationships comes under fire in this independent drama. Michael (Martin Donovan) is a filmmaker whose last project featured a beautiful actress named Anna (Irène Jacob). While Michael is trying to work on his next screenplay, he can't get Anna out of Read More

The Photographer

Actors: Reg Rogers, Mary Alice, Marisa Berenson, Rob Campbell, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Synopsis: Several stalwarts of the New York independent film scene make appearances in this tale of a creatively frustrated photographer and his search through the streets of Manhattan for ten mysterious snapshots which may hold the key to continued success. The film opens as Max (Reg Rogers), a former Read More

The Patron Saint of Liars

Actors: Dana Delany, Clancy Brown, Ellen Burstyn, Sada Thompson, Nancy Moore Atchison

Synopsis: Though she has struggled to put her past behind her, a woman finds the task impossible. This drama chronicles the events that transpire after she must learn to let herself get close to the man who married her even though he was aware she was pregnant from another man. Instead of repeating her Read More

The Terror Inside

Actors: Heather Locklear, Brett Cullen, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin Dunn, Richard Herd

A Dangerous Woman

Actors: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn, Chloe Webb

Synopsis: Debra Winger's performance as a slow, mentally disturbed woman in A Dangerous Woman, raises the film far above its conventional, violence-ridden plot. Winger plays Martha, a quiet, lonely woman who has adjusted to a life without a man as she toils away at her small job at a dry cleaners in a small Read More

Waterland

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, Sinéad Cusack, John Heard, Cara Buono

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Graham Swift, this drama follows the past and present crises of schoolteacher Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons), who attempts to resolve the problems in his own life and the apathy of his students by relating stories of his troubled childhood in the English Fens (a marshy region in Read More