 | The Old Man & the Gun (2018) as Jewel |
 | Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl (2016) as Herself / Loretta Lynn |
 | And the Oscar Goes To... (2014) |
 | Making 'Badlands' (2013) |
 | Deadfall (2012) as June |
 | The Help (2011) as Missus Walters |
 | Get Low (2010) as Mattie Darrow |
 | Four Christmases (2008) as Paula |
 | Lake City (2008) as Maggie |
 | Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007) as Josie Cahill |
 | Hot Rod (2007) as Marie Powell |
 | Gray Matters (2006) as Dr. Sydney |
 | An American Haunting (2005) as Lucy Bell |
 | The Ring Two (2005) as Evelyn |
 | North Country (2005) as Alice Aimes |
 | Nine Lives (2005) as Ruth |
 | A Home at the End of the World (2004) as Alice Glover |
 | Absence of Malick (2003) as Herself |
 | Tuck Everlasting (2002) as Mae Tuck |
 | Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002) as Herself |
 | Last Call (2002) as Zelda Fitzgerald |
 | In the Bedroom (2001) as Ruth Fowler |
 | Midwives (2001) as Sibyl Danforth |
 | Songs In Ordinary Time (2000) as Marie Fermoyle |
 | The Straight Story (1999) as Rose Straight |
 | Blast from the Past (1999) as Helen Thomas Webber |
 | Affliction (1998) as Margie Fogg |
 | If These Walls Could Talk (1996) as Barbara Barrows |
 | Beyond the Call (1996) as Pam O'Brien |
 | The Grass Harp (1995) as Verena Talbo |
 | The Good Old Boys (1995) as Spring Renfro |
 | Trading Mom (1994) as Mrs. Mommy Martin / Mama, Snappy French / Mom, the Nature-Hiker / Natasha, the Circus Performer |
 | A Place for Annie (1994) as Susan Lansing |
 | A Private Matter (1992) as Sherri Finkbine |
 | Hard Promises (1992) as Christine Ann Coalter |
 | JFK (1991) as Liz Garrison |
 | The Long Walk Home (1990) as Miriam Thompson |
 | Crimes of the Heart (1986) as Babe Magrath |
 | 'night, Mother (1986) as Jessie Cates |
 | Violets Are Blue (1986) as Augusta 'Gussie' Sawyer |
 | Marie (1985) as Marie Ragghianti |
 | The River (1984) as Mae Garvey |
 | The Man with Two Brains (1983) as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice) |
 | Missing (1982) as Beth Horman |
 | Raggedy Man (1981) as Nita Longley |
 | Heart Beat (1980) as Carolyn Cassady |
 | Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) as Loretta Lynn |
| | Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977) as Herself |
 | 3 Women (1977) as Mildred "Pinky" Rose |
 | Welcome to L.A. (1976) as Linda Murray |
 | Carrie (1976) as Carrie White |
 | Katherine (1975) as Katherine Alman |
| | The Migrants (1974) as Wanda Trimpin |
 | Badlands (1973) as Holly Sargis |
 | Ginger in the Morning (1973) as Ginger Brown |
 | The Girls of Huntington House (1973) as Sara |
 | Prime Cut (1972) as Poppy |
 | Without Getting Killed or Caught as Narrator |
