Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver Movies / Drama

• A Map of the World [13 September 1999]

  School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her, and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.

• Abduction [23 September 2011 (India)]

  Nathan, a young man, learns that he was abducted as a child. But before he can confront his adoptive parents, they are shot dead by mysterious men who are now out to track him down.

• Alien [6 December 1979 (India)]

  The crew of a spacecraft, Nostromo, intercept a distress signal from a planet and set out to investigate it. However, to their horror, they are attacked by an alien which later invades their ship.

• Alien 3 [22 May 1992 (USA)]

  Ellen Ripley's escape pod crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a penal colony planet terrorised by an alien. She rallies the inmates into killing it but realises that she is carrying an alien embryo herself.

• Alien: Resurrection [6 November 1997 (France)]

  Ripley 8, a human-alien hybrid clone, is aboard a vessel, Auriga, along with space pirates. However, when aliens invade Auriga, Ripley does her best to prevent them from reaching and destroying Earth.

• Annie Hall [20 April 1977 (Taiwan)]

  Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

• Cedar Rapids [11 February 2011 (USA)]

  A naive insurance agent is chosen to represent his company for a convention to be held in Iowa. Once there, he meets three veterans who help him change his life.

• Chappie [4 March 2015 (Belgium)]

  Chappie, one of the police robots, is stolen by criminals who treat it like their own child. With new programming, it becomes the first robot with the ability to feel and think for itself.

• Company Man [3 May 2000]

  "Company Man" is the story of a nerdy Connecticut grammar school teacher who stumbles into becoming a legendary international spy hero in an effort to avoid his nagging wife. With total and blissful incompetence, Allen Quimp (Douglas McGrath) is one part Inspector Clouseau, one part Mr. Bean, and no parts James Bond. His misadventures give way to his meteoric rise in the CIA, and Quimp soon finds himself leading a band of Agency misfits in a series of lunatic attempts to overthrow Castro.… MORE

• Copycat [27 October 1995 (USA)]

  Helen, an agoraphobic psychologist, leads a reclusive life after getting attacked by a psychopath. However, she later teams up with two detectives to hunt down a dangerous serial killer.

• Crazy on the Outside [8 January 2010 (USA)]

  Just out of prison, Tommy has trouble with the outside world. His sister is too controlling, he has to lie to his mother and deal with his ex-girlfriend. Soon, he falls in love with a parole officer.

• Dave [7 May 1993 (USA)]

  Dave bears an uncanny resemblance with President Bill Mitchell. When Bill suffers a stroke while having sex with one of his aides, Dave is called to impersonate the President on an ongoing basis.

• Deal of the Century [4 November 1983]

  An arms dealer eager to score a big contract, Eddie Muntz (Chevy Chase) heads to South America to negotiate with both a dictator and the revolutionaries who oppose him. Although talks don't go well and he gets wounded, Muntz remains determined to sell his unmanned planes. Joined by Catherine DeVoto (Sigourney Weaver), the widow of a colleague, and Ray Kasternak (Gregory Hines), a pilot rethinking his views on violence, Muntz launches a go-for-broke attempt to make his arms deal.… MORE

• Death and the Maiden [23 December 1994 (USA)]

  Paulina suspects that her house guest is the same man who kidnapped, tortured and raped her years ago. She holds him captive and tortures him to confess to the crimes.

• Galaxy Quest [25 December 1999 (USA)]

  Jason Nesmith, the star of a television series receives a call for help from a group of aliens. Now, he and his co-stars have to defend the aliens against an alien warlord.

• Ghostbusters II [16 June 1989 (USA)]

  Having gone bankrupt and out of work, the Ghostbusters have now retired. But their services are required again when a series of events involving ectoplasmic slime threaten the city and Dana's baby.

• Ghostbusters: Afterlife [5 March 2021 (India)]

  When a single mother and her two children move to a new town, they soon discover that they have a connection to the original Ghostbusters and their grandfather's secret legacy.

• Gorillas in the Mist [23 September 1988 (USA)]

  This film is an adaptation of wildlife expert Dian Fossey's autobiography. Midwesterner Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) leaves the United States for Africa, where she studies the gorillas of Rwanda and Uganda. As Fossey develops a bond with the animals, she also becomes wary of the poachers who prey on them. Fearing that the gorillas will go extinct if humans continue to hunt them, she organizes a defense league to protect the animals; in doing so, though, she puts herself in a perilous situation.… MORE

• Half Moon Street [13 August 1986]

  A London scholar (Sigourney Weaver) moonlights as a personal escort and becomes a pawn in a plot against a client (Michael Caine).

• Heartbreakers [23 March 2001 (USA)]

  A mother and daughter work the sweetest of frauds. The mum marries a rich guy, then the daughter gets him into a compromising position, and then the mum walks away with a big divorce settlement. In a twist of fate, the mother fall for their new target, a tycoon, and the daughter for a $3 million beach bar owner.

• Imaginary Heroes [14 September 2004]

  After their college athlete son (Kip Pardue) commits suicide, Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) and Ben Travis (Jeff Daniels) re-evaluate their relationship. Their teenage son, Tim (Emile Hirsch), offers some relief from the difficulties when Sandy starts smoking marijuana with him, though Ben feels excluded from their newfound friendship. When Tim realizes he is no longer attracted to his girlfriend, Steph (Suzanne Santo), his interest in neighbor Kyle (Ryan Donowho) takes on a whole new meaning.… MORE

• Infamous [13 October 2006 (USA)]

  In Kansas, with childhood friend Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), author Truman Capote (Toby Jones) developed an intense and complex relationship with convicted killer Perry Smith (Daniel Craig) while researching what would become one of his greatest works, "In Cold Blood."

• Paul [14 February 2011 (United Kingdom)]

  Two comic book buffs take a road trip to Area 51, where they run into an alien. With federal agents in pursuit, the two inept geeks must quickly find a way to return the alien to his spaceship.

• Prayers for Bobby [21 January 2009]

  In this adaptation of a true story, devout Christian Mary Griffith (Sigourney Weaver) fights to "cure" her gay son, Bobby (Ryan Kelley). Although he tries to please his mother, Bobby cannot change his lifestyle, and his depression leads to suicide. Mary questions her faith and searches for comfort, but after the church is unable to help her cope with Bobby's death, she seeks to understand her opinions on homosexuality for herself. Eventually, Mary becomes an advocate for gay rights.… MORE

• Rampart [23 November 2011 (New York)]

  Dave, a veteran cop, finds himself in a mess after having cheated on his two ex-wives, who happen to be sisters. He now faces a full-blown scandal after his ways get him in trouble with the law.

• Snow White: A Tale of Terror [24 August 1997]

  There are no singing dwarves in this creepy gothic story; instead, the insane and wicked stepmother is consumed with jealousy for her beautiful stepdaughter, Lilly, whom she is determined to destroy. The film makes full use of its Czech locations to create an eerie, unsettling atmosphere and mould a mature interpretation of this classic tale.

• Tadpole [December 2000 (New York)]

  Oscar, a 15-year-old boy, falls in love with his stepmother, Eve. Oscar is sure that he can be a better partner for Eve than his work-obsessed father, Stanley Grubman.

• The Assignment [2017 (USA)]

  After being double-crossed, a hit man becomes a hit woman (Michelle Rodriguez) with help from a rogue surgeon (Sigourney Weaver). Accompanied by a nurse named Johnnie, she sets out for revenge.

• The Cabin in the Woods [1 June 2012 (India)]

  When five college friends (Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams) arrive at a remote forest cabin for a little vacation, little do they expect the horrors that await them. One by one, the youths fall victim to backwoods zombies, but there is another factor at play. Two scientists (Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford) are manipulating the ghoulish goings-on, but even as the body count rises, there is yet more at work than meets the eye.… MORE

• The Cold Light of Day [10 August 2012 (India)]

  Will, a Wall Street businessman, is shaken when his family is kidnapped during a trip. As he embarks on a mission to save them, he is followed by intelligence agents to recover a mysterious briefcase.

• The TV Set [6 April 2007 (New York)]

  Mike Klein (David Duchovny), the creator of a TV pilot called "The Wexler Chronicles," learns the hard way about how televisions shows evolve from concept to reality. Though Mike's concept involves serious subject matter, a network executive (Sigourney Weaver) and her cohorts have other plans to lighten up and dumb-down the show to appeal to a broader audience.… MORE

• The Village [26 July 2004 (Brooklyn)]

  An isolated town lives in fear of an unknown monster from the surrounding woods. But when one from the community is badly injured, a blind girl sets out into the woods to find help from beyond.

• The Year of Living Dangerously [17 December 1982 (Australia)]

  An intriguing mix of politics and romance in Peter Weir's thriller, set in a turbulent Indonesia during the mid-60s.

• Working Girl [20 December 1988 (Los Angeles)]

  Tess, a secretary, decides to fight back by using the identity of Katharine, her boss, after she steals her idea and presents it to a client. However, it's not an easy ride for Tess.

• You Again [15 October 2010 (India)]

  Marni, a successful woman, is shocked to learn that her brother is marrying the school bully from her past. When she tries to expose her, things do not go as planned.

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