
Writing
Barbara Turner
Born 1936-07-14 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Gloria Rose "Barbara" Turner (July 14, 1936 – April 5, 2016) was an American screenwriter and actress.
Acting credits
3.9A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.
Monster from Green Hell
1957
5.4A young woman teaches herself to become a sharpshooter so she can hunt down the three men who murdered her parents. She finds a sheriff who is willing to help her track them down.
Two-Gun Lady
1955
6.8Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II.
Operation Eichmann
1961
9.0Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.
Portrait of a Murderer
1958
4.0The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area.
Nightmare in Chicago
1964
6.5A chemist in a perfume factory seems to have killed his wife, cut her up, and stuck her remains in the freezer.
Wink of an Eye
1958
Behind the camera
6.2A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Cujo
1983
6.1Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
5.2Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
The Company
2003
6.2A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.
Sharing the Secret
2000
6.7In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Pollock
2000
5.7Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
Georgia
1995
5.7Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
Georgia
1995
7.0True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
Eye on the Sparrow
1987
7.0True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
Eye on the Sparrow
1987
4.0A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Those Secrets
1992
9.0A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.
The Dark Side of Innocence
1976
3.8A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
The Affair
1973
9.0A paranoid schizophrenic woman finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering.
Out of Darkness
1994
4.5Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.
Deathwatch
1966
7.5Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.
Freedom
1981
NRA college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.
The War Between the Tates
1977
6.5High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.
Sessions
1983
3.7A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.
Somebody's Daughter
1992