Search results for "Joan Plowright"
Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace
IMDb: 5.6
94 min

Everybody’s favourite comics kid is back. He stays in the home of George (Walter Matthau), and Martha Wilson (Dame Joan Plowright) when his parents are out of town. Dennis Mitchell…

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Genre: Comedy, Family
101 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians
IMDb: 5.7
103 min

Following a chase through London’s bustling streets, Roger, a struggling computer game author, and Pongo, his Dalmatian male, are pulled into St. James Park where they meet Anita (Joely Richardson),…

Genre: Comedy, Family
Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House
IMDb: 5.6
105 min

When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak…

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Genre: Comedy
The Scarlet Letter (1995)

The Scarlet Letter (1995)

The Scarlet Letter (1995)
IMDb: 5.3
135 min

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Entertainer

The Entertainer

The Entertainer
IMDb: 7.1
96 min

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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Genre: Drama, Music
Tea with Mussolini

Tea with Mussolini

Tea with Mussolini
IMDb: 6.9
117 min

In 1935 a group of elderly British women, whom the Italians have named the Scorpioni, have chosen Italy, specifically Florence, as a place to live to blend their proper British…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
IMDb: 6.8
112 min

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.2
137 min

Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Avalon (1990)

Avalon (1990)

Avalon (1990)
IMDb: 7.2
128 min

A Polish-Jewish family arrives in the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century and they and their children try to build themselves a better future in the promised land….

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Genre: Drama, Family
Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital
IMDb: 6.3
111 min

Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when…

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I Love You to Death

I Love You to Death

I Love You to Death
IMDb: 6.4
97 min

Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) works with Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when…

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Dance with Me (1998)

Dance with Me (1998)

Dance with Me (1998)
IMDb: 5.9
126 min

Young Cuban Rafael Infante (Chayanne) just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) for the first time. The difficult part is that…

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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native
IMDb: 6.1
101 min

Reddleman Diggory Venn drives slowly across the heath, carrying a hidden passenger in the back of his van. When darkness falls, the country folk light bonfires on the hills, emphasizing…

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Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso
IMDb: 6.4
125 min

In 1943, a young painter, Françoise Gilot (1921- ) (Natascha McElhone) meets Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) (Sir Anthony Hopkins), already the most celebrated artist in the world. For the next ten…

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Genre: Romance
Back to the Secret Garden

Back to the Secret Garden

Back to the Secret Garden
IMDb: 5.8
100 min

Return to the magical place where hope and friendship grow. Back To The Secret Garden, the sequel inspired by the classic children's tale The Secret Garden, leads into a magical…

Genre: Family, Fantasy
Global Heresy

Global Heresy

Global Heresy
IMDb: 6.1
106 min

Elderly aristocrats Lord Charles (Peter O'Toole) and Lady Diana Foxley (Dame Joan Plowright) give their staff – butler Benson (Ian Downie) and cook Margaret (Helen Beavis) – a one week…

Genre: Drama
Enchanted April

Enchanted April

Enchanted April
IMDb: 7.4
95 min

This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners, both male and female, and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking…

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Genre: Romance
The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
IMDb: 6.2
92 min

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their seventeen-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

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Genre: Romance, War
A Place for Annie

A Place for Annie

A Place for Annie
IMDb: 7.4
99 min

Baby Annie (Kathy and Leslie Anderson) is H.I.V. positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother, Linda (Mary-Louise Parker). To stop her from being taken…

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Genre: TV Movie
Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers
IMDb: 7.2
118 min

Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are…

Genre: Drama
Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Three Sisters
IMDb: 6.4
165 min

Olga, Masha and Irina Prozoroff (Louise Purnell) lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who had commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction…

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Genre: Drama