Movies starring Maggie Gyllenhaal

Biography: 
Maggie Gyllenhaal made her debut as full-blown, star in "Secretary (2002)" in 2002. Her sweet looks and conduct has a deep onscreen subtle style that emerges from the characters she plays, large part or small. Gyllenhaal's career has already shown through her presence on screen. After attending Columbia University, Gyllenhaal resides in New York City. She earned her BA in English, which gave he ...  show all 

Secretary (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeremy Davies | Maggie Gyllenhaal | James Spader | Lesley Ann Warren | Patrick Bauchau
Directors: Steven Shainberg
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.

Donnie Darko (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Drew Barrymore | Jena Malone | Jake Gyllenhaal | Holmes Osborne | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Daveigh Chase | Mary McDonnell | James Duval | Arthur Taxier | Patrick Swayze | Mark Hoffman | David St. James | Tom Tangen | Jazzie Mahannah | Jolene Purdy | Stuart Stone | Gary Lundy
Directors: Richard Kelly
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

Monster House (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Newman | Steve Buscemi | Mitchel Musso | Catherine O'Hara | Fred Willard | Sam Lerner | Woody Schultz | Ian McConnel | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Jason Lee | Spencer Locke | Kevin James | Nick Cannon | Jon Heder | Kathleen Turner
Directors: Gil Kenan
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The teenage DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of their street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJ’s parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker’s lawn, the old man has a siege, and sooner they find that the house is a monster. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes on them. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night.

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Kirsten Dunst | Julia Stiles | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Ginnifer Goodwin | Dominic West | Juliet Stevenson | Marcia Gay Harden | John Slattery | Marian Seldes | Donna Mitchell | Terence Rigby | Jennie Eisenhower | Leslie Lyles | Laura Allen
Directors: Mike Newell
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Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.