Lee Grant is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor and director. She has starred in Detective Story, The Landlord, Shampoo, In the Heat of the Night, and Valley of the Dolls and has directed many films, including the Oscar-winning Down and Out in America. Recently restored, her feature debut as a director, Tell Me a Riddle, has been acknowledged as the first major American film to be entirely written, produced, and directed by women.
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The List
1
Harlan County USA
Barbara Kopple
1976
105 min
2
The Scarlet Empress
UnavailableJosef von Sternberg
1934
104 min
3
A Face in the Crowd
UnavailableElia Kazan
1957
125 min
4
La Cage aux Folles
UnavailableEdouard Molinaro
1978
92 min
5
Being There
UnavailableHal Ashby
1979
130 min
6
Persona
Ingmar Bergman
1966
84 min
7
The Player
Robert Altman
1992
124 min
8
Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda
1962
90 min
9
Ace in the Hole
UnavailableBilly Wilder
1951
111 min
10
Girlfriends
UnavailableClaudia Weill
1978
86 min