Maggie Greenwald

Directing

Maggie Greenwald

Born

1955-06-23 (71)

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Maggie Greenwald (born June 23, 1955) is an American filmmaker who began her career as a picture and sound editor. Her first film, Home Remedy, screened at the Munich, London and Torino Film Festivals before opening at the prestigious Film Forum in New York. Her next film, in 1987, The Kill-Off, a noir thriller based on a novel by Jim Thompson, appeared at film festivals around the world including Sundance (in Dramatic Competition), Munich (opening night, American Independent section), London, Florence, Deauville, Toronto and Edinburgh before winning the Best Director Award at the Torino Film Festival. The film is acknowledged by the British Film Institute as one of the "100 Best American In…

Known for

Get a Clue poster
5.3

A wealthy student with too much fashion sense, her equally rich friends, and her rival/superior from the school paper work together to solve the case when their teacher goes missing.

Get a Clue

2002

What Makes a Family poster
6.3

Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.

What Makes a Family

2001

Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane poster
5.9

Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.

Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane

2018

Made in the USA poster
2.0

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Made in the USA

1993

Sophie and the Rising Sun poster
6.7

In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.

Sophie and the Rising Sun

2016

The Ballad of Little Jo poster
6.1

After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993

Film credits

Behind the camera

Get a Clue poster
5.3

A wealthy student with too much fashion sense, her equally rich friends, and her rival/superior from the school paper work together to solve the case when their teacher goes missing.

Get a Clue

2002

What Makes a Family poster
6.3

Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.

What Makes a Family

2001

Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane poster
5.9

Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.

Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane

2018

Sophie and the Rising Sun poster
6.7

In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.

Sophie and the Rising Sun

2016

Sophie and the Rising Sun poster
6.7

In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.

Sophie and the Rising Sun

2016

Sophie and the Rising Sun poster
6.7

In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.

Sophie and the Rising Sun

2016

The Ballad of Little Jo poster
6.1

After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993

The Ballad of Little Jo poster
6.1

After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993

Good Morning, Killer poster
4.9

Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.

Good Morning, Killer

2011

Songcatcher poster
6.2

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.

Songcatcher

2001

Songcatcher poster
6.2

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.

Songcatcher

2001

Tempted poster
6.0

The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother. Leaving her husband, Mike, behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala, the handsome son of her late surrogate parent.

Tempted

2003

Comfort and Joy poster
6.8

High-powered single-woman Jane Berry is focused on the important things in life, such as advancing her career and spending a bundle on fashionable shoes. But then a car accident on Christmas Eve changes her forever: Jane wakes up after the crash to discover that she is a married stay-at-home mom with two kids and a passion for charity work. Is she dreaming? Crazy? Is this a strange twist of fate?

Comfort and Joy

2003

The Last Keepers poster
4.8

This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When their teenage daughter Rhea falls in love with a poetically inclined boy , she begins to develop magical powers of her own throwing everything into chaos.

The Last Keepers

2013

The Kill-Off poster
4.6

In a seedy New Jersey nightclub, gossip turns to murder when the owner Pete hires exotic dancer Danny Lee, who starts up an affair with barfly Ralph, much to the chagrin of his bedridden wife, Luane.

The Kill-Off

1989

The Kill-Off poster
4.6

In a seedy New Jersey nightclub, gossip turns to murder when the owner Pete hires exotic dancer Danny Lee, who starts up an affair with barfly Ralph, much to the chagrin of his bedridden wife, Luane.

The Kill-Off

1989

Home Remedy poster
10.0

A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor.

Home Remedy

1987

Home Remedy poster
10.0

A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor.

Home Remedy

1987

Hot Stuff poster
NR

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

Hot Stuff

1979

Hot Stuff poster
NR

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

Hot Stuff

1979

Hot Stuff poster
NR

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

Hot Stuff

1979

No artwork available
NR

Short film.

AH!

1978

No artwork available
NR

Short film.

AH!

1978

No artwork available
NR

Short film.

AH!

1978