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Britannia Hospital (1982)
6.3/10
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Starring: Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright
A gala celebration turns into an apocalyptic nightmare in Lindsay Anderson's biting social satire. The staff of Britannia Hospital are preparing for i... Read more
Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
7.7/10
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Sting , Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright, Suzanna Hamilton
An eerie, psychological drama about a manipulative and mesmerising young man (Sting) who worms his way into the home and lives of a middle class coupl... Read more
I Am David (2003)
7.3/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Jim Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Ben Tibber
A brave 12-year-old boy escapes from a Communist concentration camp in Bulgaria, making his way across Europe in order to deliver an important letter... Read more
Drowning By Numbers (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
An ironic black comedy that celebrates the English obsession with game playing and their love of wit, verve and the multi-layered linguistic and picto... Read more
Callas Forever (2002)
6.6/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright
It took director Franco Zeffirelli a quarter of a century to figure out how best to pay homage on screen to his longtime friend and colleague, opera l... Read more
Drowning By Numbers (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
An ironic black comedy that celebrates the English obsession with game playing and their love of wit, verve and the multi-layered linguistic and picto... Read more
Bringing Down the House (2003)
5.6/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Jean Smart, Joan Plowright
Steve Martin and Queen Latifah star with Eugene Levy in the hit comedy "Bringing Down the House". Peter Sanderson (Martin), a divorced, straight-laced... Read more
A Place for Annie (1994)
7.4/10
Director: John Gray
Starring: Joan Plowright, Mary-Louise Parker, Sissy Spacek
Award-winning stars give superb performances in this uplifting drama about three very different women whose lives are changed and enriched through the... Read more
Wagner (1983)
7.9/10
Director: Tony Palmer
Starring: Gemma Craven, Joan Plowright, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Richard Burton, Va...
Historical dazzler stars Richard Burton as the notorious composer, philosopher and scoundrel Richard Wagner. His exploits were the talk of Europe; his... Read more
Dinosaur (2000)
6.5/10
Director: Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton
Starring: Joan Plowright, Ossie Davis, D B Sweeney, Voices Of
Disney's spectacular computer-animated adventure is set 65 million years ago at the end of the Age of Reptiles, as an abandoned baby iguanadon named A... Read more
Revolution (1985)
5.3/10
Director: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski, Steven Berkoff
A dramatic look at "the world turn'd upside down," the world of the American Revolution. Al Pacino stars as a Scottish immigrant who fights the Britis... Read more
Uncle Vanya (1962)
7.2/10
Director: Stuart Burge
Starring: Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, Max Adrian, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike
The film of the highly acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's play. Chekhov's portrayal of the frustrations and disillusi... Read more
Tea With the Dames (Nothing Like a Dame) (2018)
7.6/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Michael Williams
Together, they're 342 years old. They're in their seventh decade of cutting-edge, epoch-defining performances on stage and on screen. Funny, smart, sh... Read more
The Spiderwick Chronicles ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathai...
Moving with their mother (Mary-Louise Parker) from New York City to the rundown Spiderwick Estate, twins Jared and Simon (both Freddie Highmore) and t... Read more
Dennis the Menace (1993)
5.5/10
Director: Nick Castle
Starring: Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Plowright, Lea Thompson, P...
Based on the famous comic strip, this centres on the relationship between 6 year old Dennis Mitchell and his grouchy neighbour, Mr Wilson. Walter Matt... Read more
Enchanted April (1992)
7.4/10
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, Joan Plowright, Alfred Molina,...
A charming and dreamlike comedy-drama set in the 1920's, as four London women with little in common, travel to Italy together and spend a month in a r... Read more
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Cher , Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Cha...
This poignant autobiographical tale from director Franco Zeffirelli is set in Florence, Italy and covers the years 1935 to 1945 in the life of a boy n... Read more
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Sarah Bolger, Freddie Highmore, Nick Nolte, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright,...
Moving with their mother (Mary-Louise Parker) from New York City to the rundown Spiderwick Estate, twins Jared and Simon (both Freddie Highmore) and t... Read more
I Love You To Death (1990)
6.4/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Joan Plow...
An off-beat comic love story inspired by true events, about a wife who tried to kill her philandering husband several times, and yet at the court case... Read more
Three Sisters (1970)
6.7/10
Director: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Jeanne Watts, Louise Purnell, Joan Plowright, Derek Jacobi, Sheila Reid, Alan Ba...
In a remote little town in turn of the century Russia, three sisters - Olga (Jeanne Watts), Irina (Louise Purnell), and Masha (Joan Plowright) - and t... Read more
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
7.6/10
Director: Dan Ireland
Starring: Rupert Friend, Robert Lang, Anna Massey, Joan Plowright, Zoe Tapper, Marcia Warr...
Mrs Palfrey (Joan Plowright) has been uneasy since her husband passed away, and decides to move from her home in Scotland to London, to be nearer her... Read more
Twelfth Night (1969)
7.1/10
Director: John Sichel
Starring: Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Joan Plowright, Gary Raymond, Adr...
After a shipwreck, believing her brother has been killed, Viola disguises herself as a boy named Cesario and becomes a courtier to Orsino, who sends h... Read more
The Entertainer (1960)
7.1/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Brenda De Banzie, Alan Bates, Shirley Anne Field, Laurence Olivier, Roger Livese...
Laurence Olivier shocked audiences accustomed to seeing him in Shakespeare or period romances when he joined forces with the two defining figures of G... Read more
George and the Dragon (2004)
5.7/10
Director: Tom Reeve
Starring: James Purefoy, Piper Perabo, Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bill Treache...
When the knight, Sir George (James Purefoy), returns from the Holy Crusades in Palestine he's seen more than enough bloodshed and wants nothing more t... Read more
Oscar Wilde Vol 1: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) / The Importance of Being Earnest (1988)
Director: John Gorrie, Stuart Burge
Starring: Rupert Frazer, Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen, Paul McGann, Natalie Ogle, Joan Plowri...
Acclaimed BBC adaptations of two of Oscar Wilde's most esteemed works. Lovingly restored, these plays feature a who's who of great actors of the Briti... Read more