Joyce Chopra Movies

A 1978 documentary short about a growing phenomenon of its time: women returning to work as they reach middle age.

After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her new baby. The changes to both her and her...

Liz dreams of buying a house and starts working as a call girl. She then becomes emotionally involved with a young man.

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the...

Started as a class project in what was likely the first filmmaking course ever taught at Harvard, Marathon documents the running of the 1964 Boston...

Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály believed that music could be taught to children as readily as reading. The method he developed uses a...

The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a...

The camera goes to live among a group of 12‐year‐old girls in a middle‐class New England neighborhood. It accompanies them to...

Tells about two young Black women and how they cope with their responsibilities as well as pursue their career ambitions.

During a stark winter weekend in upstate NY, siblings reconnect a year after their mother's death.

A 1973 short film about the noted educator and president of Radcliffe College.

An inspiring look inside a unique residence in Manhattan that is providing a safe home for 25 gay and transgender teenagers for have experienced...

Dana Griffin is what some call a gold digger and has a habit of getting what she wants anyway possible. She is to wed wealthy Ted but her deceit is...