Peggy Ashcroft Movies

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Donat

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that...

Genre: Animation

Cast: John Mills

Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Audrey Hepburn

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maximilian Schell

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Davis

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Finch

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judi Dench

British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley MacLaine

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann-Margret

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rod Steiger

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

An account of the state visit to Britain by the President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in June 1963. In London he accompanied the Queen on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Warner

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Edward Fox

Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Jones

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt

French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Gielgud

In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Gambon

Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.

Genre: War

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director Jimmy T. Murakami and writer Raymond Briggs

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Cast: Raymond Briggs