Biography: Alec McCowen |
Lean, incisive British actor Alec McCowen studied at the RADA before launching his stage career in 1942. McCowan's theatrical work has been devoted almost exclusively to Shakespeare and the classics; he regards Astrov in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya as his... more
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Cast: Alec McCowen
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 97min
Written by British TV screenwriter, Malcolm McKay, this is the second of three movies that revolve around the concept of forgiveness. In this comedy, a dancer becomes pregnant. Discovering that her live-in boyfriend has been cheating on her, she kicks...
Cast: Terry Jones
Tags: Drama Biopic Docudrama Satire Parody/Spoof
Length: 104min
This comedy was inspired by the true story of Cynthia Payne, a former waitress who gained fame as England's best-known (and best-liked) madame. Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a working-class single mother who sub-leases a few inexpensive flats...
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer Martin Scorsese Daniel Day-Lewis Winona Ryder Geraldine Chaplin Claire Bloom
Tags: Drama Romance Romantic Drama Period Film
Length: 138min
In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder),...
Length: 93min
After a brief introduction by J.M. Barrie (Alec McCowen) and shots of the young Daisy Ashford (Carina Radford) working on a book, this children's fantasy film about the aristocracy in England at the end of the 19th century begins its surreal journey....
Cast: Julia Roberts
Length: 85min
Two men who had been partners 20 years earlier reunite and rekindle old animosities in this routine, low-budget drama by director David Drury, made for the "First Love" British TV series but also released theatrically. James (James Aubrey), a teacher,...
Cast: Deborah Kerr
Tags: Drama
Length: 92min
An embittered, lonely old widow reluctantly tends her late husband's garden and discovers that more than flowers can bloom there when she encounters her East Indian neighbor, a woman with an ailing husband. This touching drama chronicles their...
Cast: William Shakespeare
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Errors Romance
Length: 124min
Part of the TV series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is one of the subtlest and most enjoyable of the Shakespearian plays. Portraying the different types of love, it is set in a country house of aristocrats and there are practical jokes,...
Cast: Harrison Ford John Barry Christopher Plummer Richard Masur Lesley-Anne Down
Tags: Drama War Romance War Drama
Length: 109min
In this WWII omance, Harrison Ford (face-to-face with superstardom from his involvement in Star Wars) is cast as David Halloran, an American bomber pilot stationed in London. During an air raid, Halloran meets and falls in love with beautiful Briton...
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock Henry Mancini
Tags: Detective Film Psychological Thriller Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 120min
Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation virtually in tatters, a far cry from his stature at the start of the 1960s. Then, he'd been in the middle of the massively successful trio of movies, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The...
Cast: Trevor Howard Glenda Jackson
Length: 102min
Stevie is not a he but a she--famed British poet Stevie Smith. As portrayed by Glenda Jackson, Stevie escapes her dull middle-class existence through her poetry. Though she takes many a spiritual flight of fancy, she never truly leaves the small...
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