Movies by Ruth Gordon

Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby

Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.

Don't Go to Sleep

Don't Go to Sleep

One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.

Delta Pi

Delta Pi

A sorority house mother enters her girls in a mud-wrestling contest.

Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

The Great Houdinis

The Great Houdinis

A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.

Perfect Gentlemen

Perfect Gentlemen

Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.

The Whirl of Life

The Whirl of Life

The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period

The Ten-Year Lunch

The Ten-Year Lunch

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.

Isn't It Shocking?

Isn't It Shocking?

A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.