Joan Micklin Silver Movies

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While...

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East...

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker...

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate...

Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second -...

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for...

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at...

"A family of Polish immigrants has a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States. The story centers on the son, named Janek, who has...

A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic...

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern,...

The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s,...

A ride to the airport unites three women whose husbands are either prisoners or missing in Vietnam.

A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, Ray Silver; and a handful of key collaborators...

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.