Search results for "Joan Plowright"
Knife Edge (2009)

Knife Edge (2009)

Knife Edge (2009)
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A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country…

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
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Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of…

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
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All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
I Am David (2003)

I Am David (2003)

I Am David (2003)
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Based on Anne Holm’s acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on…

Genre: Drama, Family
Bringing Down the House (2003)

Bringing Down the House (2003)

Bringing Down the House (2003)
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Straight-laced lawyer, Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) meets and falls in love with online chat friend “Lawyer-Girl”, Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), only to discover she’s a convicted bank robber. Charlene escapes…

Genre: Comedy
Callas Forever (2002)

Callas Forever (2002)

Callas Forever (2002)
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A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas (Ardant).

Genre: Drama, Romance
Global Heresy (2002)

Global Heresy (2002)

Global Heresy (2002)
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A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Back to the Secret Garden (2000)

Back to the Secret Garden (2000)

Back to the Secret Garden (2000)
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A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before – but faces a battle with the housekeeper over whether to…

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Dinosaur (2000)

Dinosaur (2000)

Dinosaur (2000)
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An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Genre: Animation, Family
Tea with Mussolini (1999)

Tea with Mussolini (1999)

Tea with Mussolini (1999)
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Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca’s upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Dance with Me (1998)

Dance with Me (1998)

Dance with Me (1998)
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Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn’t know he is…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
101 Dalmatians (1996)

101 Dalmatians (1996)

101 Dalmatians (1996)
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The Live action adaptation of a Disney Classic. When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she…

Genre: Comedy, Family
Surviving Picasso (1996)

Surviving Picasso (1996)

Surviving Picasso (1996)
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The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Mr. Wrong (1996)

Mr. Wrong (1996)

Mr. Wrong (1996)
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A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Jane Eyre (1996)

Jane Eyre (1996)

Jane Eyre (1996)
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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
The Scarlet Letter (1995)

The Scarlet Letter (1995)

The Scarlet Letter (1995)
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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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995)

A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995)

A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995)
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A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Widows’ Peak (1994)

Widows’ Peak (1994)

Widows’ Peak (1994)
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Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with…

A Place for Annie (1994)

A Place for Annie (1994)

A Place for Annie (1994)
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Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she’s deported to a home where they’d just wait for…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Dennis the Menace (1993)

Dennis the Menace (1993)

Dennis the Menace (1993)
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Mr. Wilson’s ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he’ll need Dennis’s tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when…

Genre: Comedy, Family
Stalin (1992)

Stalin (1992)

Stalin (1992)
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The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Enchanted April (1991)

Enchanted April (1991)

Enchanted April (1991)
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Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim’s novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Avalon (1990)

Avalon (1990)

Avalon (1990)
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Avalon is the third in Levinson’s semi-autobiographical series of four “Baltimore Films”: Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in…

Genre: Drama
I Love You to Death (1990)

I Love You to Death (1990)

I Love You to Death (1990)
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Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlor located in Tacoma, Washington, and has been married to Rosalie for years. Rosalie is horrified to discover that Joey is a…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Drowning by Numbers (1988)
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An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Revolution (1985)

Revolution (1985)

Revolution (1985)
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126

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts…

Brimstone & Treacle (1982)

Brimstone & Treacle (1982)

Brimstone & Treacle (1982)
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A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Britannia Hospital (1982)

Britannia Hospital (1982)

Britannia Hospital (1982)
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Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration,…

The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
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The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Equus (1977)

Equus (1977)

Equus (1977)
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A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, 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 stable…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Three Sisters (1970)

Three Sisters (1970)

Three Sisters (1970)
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Laurence Olivier’s film of Chekhov’s play.