Diana Scarwid
19 titles
Filmography
19 results

The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
(1996)When an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children are determined to get him out of jail before Christmas.

Mommie Dearest
(1981)Based on Christina Crawford's book about the alleged abuse she suffered by her adoptive mother, actress Joan Crawford.

Down Will Come Baby
(1999)A girl’s life turns incredibly stressful as her estranged parents start to drift apart and a new woman sets out to overtake their broken family.

Psycho III
(1986)Anthony Perkins directs and stars as Norman Bates who is released from prison and returns home to the Bates Motel where he must face the murderously possessive skeleton in his closet.

Inside Moves
(1980)After a failed suicide attempt, a pitiful soul drinks heavily at a local bar, but when his bartender pal gets a shot at pro basketball, hope glimmers.

What Lies Beneath
(2000)After witnessing the apparition of a young woman, a professor’s wife investigates the murder of a beautiful college student with ties to her husband.

Dirty Pictures
(2000)The director of a Cincinnati museum fights against local opinions to have the right to show the controversial work of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Strange Invaders
(1983)Michael Laughlin directs "Strange Invaders," an affectionate homage to science fiction/alien takeover films of the 1950s that stars Paul Le Mat ("Hanoi Hilton") as a university professor searching for his ex-wife (Diana Scarwid, "Extremeties"), who seems to have disappeared while visiting her hometown of Centerville, Illinois. In fact, the place turns out to be a hotbed of aliens, in place since the Fifties and weirdly unaware of how the outside world has changed.

Brenda Starr
(1989)A stylish reporter in a comic book who nabbed a wanted crime lord pursues a doomsday plot in the Amazon while being pursued by two men who love her.

The Cure
(1995)An unlikely friendship between two boys -- the neighborhood bad boy and a boy who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion -- leads to an exhilarating adventure as the two set off to find the "cure"...a journey that will change their lives forever.

The Neon Bible
(1995)A train ride for a teenage boy in 1940s rural Georgia becomes a trip through his turbulent past and the one eccentric aunt who tried to protect him.

Extremities
(1986)After managing to escape a would-be rape, the sadistic attacker, armed with her wallet, comes to find her. But he doesn’t count on her being ready.

Valley of the Heart's Delight
(2006)Based on a true story of California’s last lynch mob, a young reporter defies power to stop the lynching of two innocent men in 1933 San Jose.

Rumble Fish
(1983)This is an unforgettable story of a young man's struggle to live up to his adored brother's reputation in an impoverished industrial town. Matt Dillon (Wild Things) and Mickey Rourke (Barfly) are Rusty James and The Motorcycle Boy, and lead an all-star cast including Nicolas Cage (Adaptation), Dennis Hopper (Speed) and Diane Lane (Under the Tuscan Sun).

Silkwood
(1983)The story of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear reactor worker who might have been murdered to prevent her expose of wrongdoing at the power plant.

Heat
(1986)Set in Las Vegas, this is the tale of a tough bodyguard who has a soft spot for his friends, and takes their safety as his personal responsibility.

Pretty Baby
(1978)A photographer in turn-of-the-century New Orleans who takes pictures in the red-light district, becomes bewitched by a prepubescent girl being raised in the brothel where her mother works.

Party Monster
(2003)"The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down. Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green with Gloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Marilyn Manson and Dylan McDermott in this tale of drugs, excess and murder. It's the wildest true story ever told! "

A Guy Thing
(2003)Waking up next to another woman after his wild bachelor party with no memory of the night before, a distressed man tries to keep his fiancee.