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The second child of actors Raymond Massey and Adrienne Allen, Anna Massey made her own film bow as the spunky daughter of Jack Hawkins in John Ford's Gideon's Day (1958). Anna was one of the few members of the female cast of the controversial Peeping... more
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
Cast: Joan Plowright
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 108min
An elderly widow and a young would-be author strike up an unlikely friendship in this comedy drama. Mrs. Palfrey (Joan Plowright) has been uneasy since the death of her husband, and she decides to move from her long-time home in Scotland to London so...
Cast: Anna Massey
Tags: Screwball Comedy Comedy Drama Slapstick
Length: 90min
Mad Cows is a slapstick comedy about sex and the singles scene. Single and confused Maddy has just had a baby. The first day that she goes out with her baby, she gets arrested at Harrods for shoplifting. While in detention at the Holloway Prison's...
Tags: Comedy Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Slice of Life
Length: 94min
One man's pursuit of life, liberty, and a green card sets the stage for this comedy-drama. Ali (Said Taghmaoui) was born in Egypt but has come to England in hopes of finding his fortune. Nothing if not industrious, Ali juggles several low-paying jobs:...
Cast: John Gielgud Francis Ford Coppola Kate Beckinsale
Tags: Gothic Film Horror Mystery Haunted House Film Period Film
Length: 108min
Adapted from the novel by James Herbert, this subtle, melancholy British chiller owes a great deal to Henry James's ~The Turn of the Screw. The story opens with a chilling prologue in 1905 England, in which a young boy fails to prevent the accidental...
Cast: Susannah York Jonathan Pryce
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: min
In this fact-based drama, a British man accused of his wife's murder becomes the target of his friends' and neighbors' wrath. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Denholm Elliott Julie Walters
Length: 93min
When a father attempts to return to his abandoned family after 23 years his grown son tries to murder his drunk, unemployed father. ~ All Movie Guide
Cast: Fiona Shaw Katrin Cartlidge
Tags: Drama Religious Drama
Length: 95min
Sacred Hearts in one of the more trenchant of the "nun- bashing" films of the 1980s. Anna Massey plays the unbalanced Mother Superior in charge of a British convent during the war years. Through the rigid enforcement of her Spartanlike rules, Sister...
Cast: Sam Waterston
Tags: Comedy
Length: 92min
A British-American production, Sweet William is an R-rated movie about sexual relationships that focuses on the flings of an untamed Scotsman named William (Sam Waterston). William has had two marriages and many affairs, and he approaches more...
Cast: Sharon Stone Don Sharp Maurice Denham
Tags: Drama Melodrama Romantic Drama
Length: 101min
The romantic melodrama tells the story of an American beauty who romantic journeys to England in obedience to her late mother's last request. There she encounters the son of her mother's former beau and romantic sparks fly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie...
Cast: Katharine Hepburn George Cukor John Barry
Tags: Drama Inspirational Drama
Length: 93min
Welsh-born writer Emlyn Williams' 1938 play The Corn is Green originally starred Ethel Barrymore as L.C. Moffat, the strong-willed schoolteacher under whose guidance the illiterate Welsh teenager Morgan Evans matriculates as an honor student. Bette...
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