Deborah Kara Unger

Jackals (2017)

As: Kathy Powell

Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Kevin Greutert

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Stephen Dorff | Johnathon Schaech | Nick Roux | Alyssa Julia Smith

A Thought of Ecstasy (2017)

As: Liz Archer

August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He remembers Marie, with whom he had a relationship before she moved to the United States and disappeared from his life. Frank sets out in search of her and finds himself in a USA petrified by a heat wave and lost in suspicion and political paranoia. He heads into the desert in pursuit of Marie.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Rolf Peter Kahl

Stars: Rolf Peter Kahl | Deborah Kara Unger | Buddy Giovinazzo | Ava Verne | Lena Morris

Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)

As: Agnes

A Gulf War veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Johnny Martin

Stars: Nicolas Cage | Don Johnson | Deborah Kara Unger | Anna Hutchison | Talitha Bateman

The Hollow (2015)

As: Aunt Cora

It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. ...

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Sheldon Wilson

Stars: Richard Harmon | Alisha Newton | Stephanie Hunt | Sarah Dugdale | Hilary Jardine

A Dangerous Arrangement (2015)

As: Samantha

In a secluded cove in Malta, a beautiful young woman tries to drown herself. Her name is Ellen, a night club employee who just days before trying to end her life was drifting through each day uneventfully, spending most of her time at work and with her hard-partying boyfriend and lovable, yet incompetent roommates. But when Ellen meets Amy and Carrie, everything changes…all of their lives spin out of ...

Directed by: Mario Philip Azzopardi

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Colm Meaney | Tamara Duarte | Mikhail Basmadjian | Larissa Bonaci

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012)

As: Dahlia Gillespie

Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand, Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she's not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her forever.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: M.J. Bassett

Stars: Sean Bean | Carrie-Anne Moss | Malcolm McDowell | Radha Mitchell | Adelaide Clemens

186 Dollars to Freedom (2012)

As: Consul Powers

A young California surfer has to grow up in a hurry when he is thrown into a Peruvian political prison in 1980.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Camilo Vila

Stars: Johnny Lewis | Alex Meraz | Michael DeLorenzo | John Robinson | Grant Bowler

The Truth (2012)

As: Morgan Swinton

In the jungles of Ecuador, blood taints the waters. A multinational conglomerate's unholy alliance with a bloodthirsty military regime has resulted in a massacre. Only the rebel Francisco Franco and his determined wife Mia can prove the truth. To settle a personal debt, former CIA agent Jack Begosian takes on the freelance assignment to rescue Francisco and risks everything in a brutal battle to expose the ...

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Damian Lee

Stars: Forest Whitaker | Deborah Kara Unger | Eva Longoria | Steven Bauer | Andy García

The Samaritan (2012)

As: Helena

After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: David Weaver

Stars: Alan C. Peterson | Samuel L. Jackson | Tom Wilkinson | Luke Kirby | Ruth Negga

Samuel Bleak (2011)

In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Dustin Dugas Schuetter

Stars: Keith David | Deborah Kara Unger | James Russo | David Zayas | Jaime Murray

The Way (2010)

As: Sarah

When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Emilio Estevez

Stars: James Nesbitt | Deborah Kara Unger | Emilio Estevez | Martin Sheen | Yorick van Wageningen

Takedown (2010)

As: Danielle

Five years ago David's life came undone when his young daughter fell victim to a brutal attack. The subsequent emotional fallout cost him his marriage and his job. Handicapped by guilt and anguish David abandoned his past and alienated himself. He took a second rate job as a security guard and plodded on - his wounds concealed but unhealed. All it would take is a scratch for them to open wide and consume ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Estella Warren | Aaron Pearl | Lou Diamond Phillips | Jordana Largy

Angel and the Badman (2009)

As: Temperance

A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good company in the form of some Quakers.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Terry Ingram

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Luke Perry | John Tench | Melanie Papalia | Lou Diamond Phillips

Walled In (2009)

As: Mary

Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak (Mischa Barton) is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy (Cameron Bright), tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Cameron Bright | Eugene Clark | Mischa Barton | Noam Jenkins

Messages Deleted (2009)

As: Det. Lavery

A quivering voice begs to screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking it a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder...then another...then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel has the attention of the police. Now the prime suspect in a series of murders, ...

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Rob Cowan

Stars: Matthew Lillard | Deborah Kara Unger | Gina Holden | Serge Houde | Chiara Zanni

88 Minutes (2008)

As: Carol

A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Jon Avnet

Stars: William Forsythe | Alicia Witt | Al Pacino | Leelee Sobieski | Amy Brenneman

Silent Hill (2006)

As: Dahlia Gillespie

The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers – and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is ...

Runtime: 125 min.

Directed by: Christophe Gans

Stars: Sean Bean | Deborah Kara Unger | Radha Mitchell | Jodelle Ferland | Laurie Holden

Lies & Alibis (2006)

As: Dorothy

Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Matt Checkowski | Kurt Mattila

Stars: Steve Coogan | Sam Elliott | Rebecca Romijn | James Brolin | Selma Blair

White Noise (2005)

As: Sarah Tate

An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Geoffrey Sax

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Michael Keaton | Ian McNeice | Chandra West | Keegan Connor Tracy

A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

As: Georgianna

A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Shainee Gabel

Stars: Sonny Shroyer | Gabriel Macht | Clayne Crawford | Scarlett Johansson | John Travolta

One Point O (2004)

As: Trish

Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Jeff Renfroe | Marteinn Þórsson

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Bruce Payne | Lance Henriksen | Udo Kier | Jeremy Sisto

Hollywood North (2004)

As: Sandy Ryan

The making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Peter O'Brian

Stars: Jennifer Tilly | Deborah Kara Unger | Matthew Modine | Alan Thicke | Alan Bates

Shake Hands With the Devil (2004)

As: Emma, an American Reporter

Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and is less geared to drama and emotional manipulation, but it is still grim and upsetting.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Roy Dupuis | James Gallanders | Michel Mongeau | Odile Katesi Gakire

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004)

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.

Runtime: 59 min.

Directed by: Jill Sharpe

Stars: Don McKellar | Atom Egoyan | Robert Lepage | Sheila McCarthy | Patricia Rozema

Thirteen (2003)

As: Brooke LaLaine

Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke

Stars: Evan Rachel Wood | Nikki Reed | Brady Corbet | Jeremy Sisto | Holly Hunter

Fear X (2003)

As: Kate

When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | John Turturro | Stephen Eric McIntyre | William Allen Young | Gene Davis

Émile (2003)

As: Nadia

In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Carl Bessai

Stars: Ian McKellen | Janet Wright | Tygh Runyan | Ian Tracey | Chris William Martin

Stander (2003)

As: Bekkie Stander

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Bronwen Hughes

Stars: David O'Hara | Dexter Fletcher | Deborah Kara Unger | Thomas Jane | Ashley Taylor

Between Strangers (2002)

As: Catherine

Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Edoardo Ponti

Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Deborah Kara Unger | Mira Sorvino | Julian Richings | Sophia Loren

Leo (2002)

As: Caroline

A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome obstacles of the past to save the little boy and ultimately himself.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Mehdi Norowzian

Stars: Elisabeth Shue | Joseph Fiennes | Sam Shepard | Dennis Hopper | Justin Chambers

The Salton Sea (2002)

As: Colette

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: D.J. Caruso

Stars: Adam Goldberg | Val Kilmer | Vincent D'Onofrio | Luis Guzmán | Doug Hutchison

Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)

Ten women give monologues to camera, each remembering a man who was important in their lives.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Rodrigo García

Stars: Kathy Baker | Radha Mitchell | Elizabeth Peña | Debi Mazar | LisaGay Hamilton

Signs & Wonders (2000)

As: Katherine

Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Nossiter

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Stellan Skarsgård | Charlotte Rampling

The Hurricane (1999)

As: Lisa Peters

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Runtime: 146 min.

Directed by: Norman Jewison

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Liev Schreiber | Denzel Washington | John Hannah | Vicellous Reon Shannon

Sunshine (1999)

As: Carole Kovacs

The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up ...

Runtime: 181 min.

Directed by: István Szabó

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Ralph Fiennes | Rosemary Harris | Jennifer Ehle | Rachel Weisz

The Weekend (1999)

As: Marian Kerr

Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who had also been Lyle`s lover. Marian, who is still inconsolable after losing Tony to AIDS, is upset when Lyle brings his new ...

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Brian Skeet

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Brooke Shields | Jared Harris | Gena Rowlands | David Conrad

Luminous Motion (1999)

As: Mom

A mom and her 10 year son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes up with a hardware store owner until she gets her own place. Then the kid's father shows up to try to take the two over.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Bette Gordon

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Eric Lloyd | Terry Kinney | Jamey Sheridan | James Berland

Payback (1999)

As: Mrs. Lynn Porter

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Brian Helgeland

Stars: Mel Gibson | Gregg Henry | Maria Bello | David Paymer | Bill Duke

The Rat Pack (1998)

As: Ava Gardner

After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo careers of the Rat Pack: Dean Martin has become a big success despite the breakup of his partnership with Jerry Lewis; Sinatra's career is at its peak; Sammy Davis, Jr., is making a comeback after a near fatal car crash, and standup comic Joey Bishop is ...

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Rob Cohen

Stars: Angus Macfadyen | Ray Liotta | Joe Mantegna | Don Cheadle | William Petersen

The Game (1997)

As: Christine

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: David Fincher

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Michael Douglas | James Rebhorn | Sean Penn | Spike Jonze

Keys to Tulsa (1997)

As: Vicky Michaels Stover

Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. Richter's friend Ronnie ropes him into a scheme to steal the inheritance of his wife, Vicky.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Leslie Greif

Stars: Michael Rooker | Deborah Kara Unger | Eric Stoltz | James Spader | Joanna Going

No Way Home (1996)

As: Lorraine

An ex-cons future is threatened by his brother's involvement with drugs.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Buddy Giovinazzo

Stars: Joseph Ragno | Deborah Kara Unger | James Russo | Tim Roth | Catherine Kellner

Crash (1996)

As: Catherine Ballard

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: David Cronenberg

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Elias Koteas | Rosanna Arquette | James Spader | Holly Hunter

Highlander: The Final Dimension (1994)

As: Alex Johnson / Sarah

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod (Christopher Lambert) training with another immortal swordsman, the Japanese sorcerer Nakano (Mako). When an evil immortal named Kane (Mario Van Peebles) kills the old wizard, the resulting battle leaves him buried in an underground cave. When Kane resurfaces in the 20th century to create havoc, it's up to McLeod to stop him.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Andrew Morahan

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Mario Van Peebles | Christopher Lambert | Martin Neufeld | Mako

State of Emergency (1994)

As: Sue Payton

Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Lesli Linka Glatter

Stars: Joe Mantegna | Jay O. Sanders | Lynn Whitfield | Paul Dooley | Melinda Dillon

Whispers in the Dark (1992)

As: Eve Abergray

Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Christopher Crowe

Stars: Jill Clayburgh | Deborah Kara Unger | Anthony LaPaglia | Annabella Sciorra | Jamey Sheridan

Till There Was You (1991)

As: Anna

Frank Flynn is summonsed from New York by his brother Charlie to Vanuatu. He arrives only to find Charlie dead, and becomes involved with his late brother's partner, Viv, and Viv's unhappy wife, Anna.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: John Seale

Stars: Deborah Kara Unger | Jeroen Krabbé | Mark Harmon | Shane Briant | Lech Mackiewicz

Blood Oath (1990)

As: Sister Littell

On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War ...

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Stephen Wallace

Stars: John Bach | George Takei | Bryan Brown | Toshi Shioya | Terry O'Quinn