TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Glenn Close.
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Birthdate: March 19, 1947
Glenn Close
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1980s
2.7604
9
1990s
3.1270
14
2000s
2.7851
18
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1289
3.1289
Glenn Close Movie Rankings
1
3.2126Raised in the jungle by Gorillas, Tarzan is unsure how to respond to an expedition group exploring the terrain. Tarzan is torn between his life with the Gorillas and his immediate connection to the humans, not sure where he truly belongs. ...more about Tarzan
DVD from $16.78
(13 sellers)
2
3.0738Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. ...more about Reversal of Fortune
DVD from $6.89
(9 sellers)
3
3.0036Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. ...more about Dangerous Liaisons
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $9.00
(9 sellers)
4
2.9612
Nine Lives is a moving exploration of the individual experiences of nine women as told through nine single unbroken takes. ...more about Nine Lives
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
5
2.9610
Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. ...more about Cookie's Fortune
DVD from $19.99
(2 sellers)
6
2.9608
Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. ...more about Fatal Attraction
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $2.10
(12 sellers)
7
2.9473
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. ...more about Natural
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
DVD from $4.24
(15 sellers)
8
2.8560
A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world come together for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed corpse (which is played by Kevin Costner as noted in the Special ...more about Big Chill
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
DVD from $8.68
(12 sellers)
9
2.8532
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. ...more about Paper
DVD from $3.92
(14 sellers)
10
2.8419
The Martians decide to attack our planet and devastate everything. ...more about Mars Attacks!
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
11
2.8389
The President of the United States is on a journey home after making a speech in Moscow. But on the journey, Russian hi-jakers take over the plane, disguising themselves as newspaper reporters. ...more about Air Force One
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actress - Action/Adventure
DVD from $3.95
(13 sellers)
12
2.8284
'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. ...more about Heights
DVD from $3.91
(11 sellers)
13
2.7740
A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. ...more about Safety of Objects
DVD from $6.48
(10 sellers)
14
2.7403
An anthology of five loosely connected stories dealing with a variety of very different women in dealing with their own life problems. The first story "This is Dr. ...more about Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
DVD from $9.99
(8 sellers)
15
2.6924
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. ...more about Jagged Edge
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
16
2.6593
Zefferelli does yet another Shakespeare, with less success than he had with Taming of the Shrew or Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlet's uncle Claudius, the new King. ...more about Hamlet
DVD from $3.68
(11 sellers)
17
2.6246
The group of women from different countries and social levels are prisoners in a Japanese concentration camp, where one of them, Adrienne, who is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, organizes a vocal band in spite of their guards resistance. ...more about Paradise Road
DVD from $7.21
(10 sellers)
18
2.6164
Little Red Riding Hood: A classic story, but there's more to every tale than meets the eye. Before you judge a book by its cover, you've got to flip through the pages. For this story, we begin at the end. ...more about Hoodwinked
DVD from $8.69
(15 sellers)
19
2.5898
Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in love and marry along with their dalmations Perdita and Pongo. ...more about 101 Dalmatians
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor/Actress - Family
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.5169
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). ...more about Hook
DVD from $8.98
(11 sellers)
21
2.5060
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...more about Chumscrubber
DVD from $19.19
(9 sellers)
22
2.4853
Isabel (Hudson) heads to Paris to help out her pregnant stepsister (Watts), and arrives to find that her husband (Poupaud) has abandoned her. ...more about Divorce
DVD from $5.75
(14 sellers)
23
2.4594
We are somewhere in England in the 19th century. A Pretty housemaid works in a nice house, which is Dr. Jekyll's house. Mary Reilly think she found her best job, because she is poor and the doctor is well-known and rich. The film tells the 'Dr. ...more about Mary Reilly
DVD from $2.12
(13 sellers)
24
2.4121
Stepford has a secret. All of the wives are far too perfect, and all of the husbands are way too happy. The Stepford Wives is a sophisticated and comic re-imagining of the 1975 suspense classic. Welcome to Stepford -- the American way of love. ...more about Stepford Wives
DVD from $3.94
(14 sellers)
25
2.4093
Heights follows five characters over twenty-four hours on a fall day in New York City. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. ...more about Heights
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.4025
South America before the second world war. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. ...more about House of the Spirits
DVD from $9.99
(1 sellers)
27
2.3820
After a spot of therapy Cruella De Vil is released from prison a changed woman. Devoted to dogs and good causes, she is delighted that Chloe, her parole officer, has a dalmatian family and connections with a dog charity. ...more about 102 Dalmatians
Actor Awards
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.3286
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. ...more about World According to Garp
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $3.68
(11 sellers)
29
2.2741
Michael Cunningham (author of THE HOURS) lends his screenwriting skills to Lajos Koltai's EVENING. This time, Cunningham adapts a book by Susan Minot for the big screen. ...more about Evening
DVD from $7.95
(14 sellers)
30
2.2558
Over the course of four days, four suburban families will open up and lean on one another, sharing their burdens and joys, and help each other remember, it is the people we know and love - not the objects we own - that provide real hope and security to ...more about Safety of Objects
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.1080
This documentary examines the world AIDS crisis. ...more about Closer Walk
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.9895
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. ...more about Immediate Family
DVD from $10.23
(9 sellers)
33
1.9794
A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood. Attempts to get him noticed and placed in roles meet with failure. ...more about Welcome to Hollywood
DVD from $5.77
(4 sellers)
34
1.8553
- Not Available on DVD
35
1.6871
A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and the current 'United Europe'. ...more about Meeting Venus
- Not Available on DVD
37
0.6528
When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big audition ...more about Maxie
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
- Not Available on DVD
40
Joe is a cynical screenplay writer disenchanted by his ill luck on the Hollywood scene. Norma is a washed-up silent-film star who didn't survive the transition to talking pictures. ...more about Sunset Boulevard
- Not Available on DVD
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