Maggie Gyllenhaal
          Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
Waterland (1992) 
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Lena Headey… 
- Jeremy Irons plays a history teacher in America who recounts his own suppressed coming of age to his cynical students. Adapted from Graham Swift's…
 
Dangerous Woman, A (1994) 
- Dir. Steven Gyllenhaal
Feat. Debra Winger, Gabriel Byrne, Barbara Hershey… 
- Debra Winger gives her most impressive performance yet as a simple woman whose compulsive honesty wins her few friends. Reminiscent of the plays of…
 
Cecil B. Demented (2000) 
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Melanie Griffith, Alicia Witt… 
- An unruly and somewhat passe battlecry against the mediocrity of Hollywood from the Low Priest of Pop Culture, John Waters. In a weird parody of…
 
Secretary (2002)
 
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies… 
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
 
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) 
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles… 
- Julia Roberts is restrained and fairly effective in this Ivy–League drama, set at the renowned Wellesley College in the 1950s, where she…
 
Casa de los Babys (2003)
 
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden… 
- Another quality ensemble drama from dir. John Sayles, that this time brings together six American women waiting to start a family through a Mexican…
 
Criminal (2004) 
- Dir. Greg Jacobs
Feat. John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal… 
- A reasonably successful American replay of the Argentian thriller NINE QUEENS, this sees a con artist (Reilly) take an apprentice (Luna) under his…
 
Happy Endings (2005) 
- Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal… 
- A clutch of hedonistic Americans collide, abuse and impregnate each other in this typically light yet smart black comedy from the dir. of THE…
 
Great New Wonderful, The (2005) 
- Dir. Danny Leiner
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer… 
- New York City drama centered around five interweaving stories all of which exhibit a distinctive characteristic of a changing society post–911.…
 
Monster House (2006)
 
- Dir. Gil Kenan
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Lee 
- Rollercoaster haunted–house ride for kids expertly CGI–animated around the story of three suburban teens who decide to challenge a…
 
World Trade Center (2006)
 
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal… 
- Powerful and gripping rendering of the plight of two NYC cops who became trapped in the rubble of the collapsing World Trade Center in the 9/11…
 
Trust the Man (2006) 
- Dir. Bart Freundlich
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Billy Crudup… 
- A light New York relationship drama about two couples and the speed–bumps they run into when temptation comes–a–knocking.
While…
 
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal… 
- A self–consciously 'clever' comedy with a cunning conceit – tax inspector Will Ferrell discovers that his drab life is being narrated and…
 
Sherrybaby (2006) 
- Dir. Laurie Collyer
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito… 
- Overfamiliar but sincere portrait of a recovering addict, with a warts–and–all Maggie Gyllenhaal fresh out of jail and determined to go…
 
Paris, Je T'aime (Paris, I Love You) (2006)
 
- Dir. Olivier Assayas, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi… 
- A prestige line–up of actors and filmmakers converge in this grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance. With each vignette…
 
Batman: The Dark Knight (2008)
 
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart… 
- Christopher Nolan’s follow–up to BATMAN BEGINS pitches Christian Bale’s Batman against Heath Ledger’s lunatic Joker, propelling this…
 
Away We Go (2009) 
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Catherine O'Hara… 
- An ersatz hipster road movie that follows a 30–something expectant couple as they travel across America looking for the perfect place to start…
 
Crazy Heart (2009)
 
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Keane… 
- In an Oscar–winning turn, Jeff Bridges plays faded country music star Bad Blake, who swaggers from one dive to the next until his friendship…
 
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010) 
- Dir. Susanna White 
Feat. Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor… 
- Emma Thompson again pens and stars in the second installment about the otherworldly nanny, accompanied again by a staggering array of British…
 
Hysteria (2011) 
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce… 
- A buoyant, light–to–touch period romance about the 19th Century invention of the vibrator, devised as cure for the female ailment know as…
 
Won't Back Down (2012) 
- Dir. Daniel Barnz
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Oscar Isaac… 
- A well–meaning but preachy social drama of community action, centred on two spirited mothers determined to bring change to an ailing inner city…
 
White House Down (2013) 
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal… 
- Conveniently on a tour of the White House, action hero beefcake Channing Tatum scrambles to save the President (Jamie Foxx) from an invading…
 
Frank (2014)
 
- Dir. Lenny Abrahamson
Feat. Domhnall Gleeson, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Gyllenhaal… 
- A lovable, off–beat indie rock satire in which Michael Fassbender plays the leader of a group of experimental musicians who lives permanently…
 
Honourable Woman, The (TV Mini-series) (2014)
 
- Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lubna Azabal…
 
- A rigorous, fast–paced thriller with Maggie Gyllenhaal as a woman who inherits her father's arms business, and finds herself in a international…
 
Kindergarten Teacher, The (2018) 
- Dir. Sara Colangelo
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar… 
- English–language remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name about a jaded teacher, mother and aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with one…