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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Oscar-, Tony- and Emmy Award-winning English actress of stage, film and television. She is a member of the Redgrave family, the world-renowned theatrical dynasty. A former Trotskyist and leading member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party, she is...
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A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons is a 1988 television movie about Sir Thomas More, directed by and starring Charlton Heston. It is a remake of the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons and is based on the play by Robert Bolt of the same name. A Man for All Seasons...
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A Rumor of Angels
A Rumor of Angels is a 2000 American film directed by Peter O'Fallon, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Ray Liotta.
A young boy learns to cope with the death of his mother through his difficult friendship with a cantankerous older woman. The story is...
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Agatha
Agatha (1979) is a dramatic thriller directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan. The film focuses on renowned crime writer Agatha Christie, offering a theory as to her still...
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Atonement
Atonement is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel of the same name, directed by Joe Wright, and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton. It starred Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was produced by Working Title Films and filmed...
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Bear Island
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Consuming Passions
Consuming Passions is a 1988 black comedy film conceived - though not actually written by - Michael Palin and Terry Jones. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, and Sammi Davis and was directed by Giles Foster.
Since its release, the film...
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Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 drama film which chronicles the process and events that surrounded the production of the original 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein. Tim Robbins, in his third film as director, adapts history to create...
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Deep Impact
Deep Impact is a 1998 sci-fi-drama disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder, and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, and Robert Duvall. The plot...
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film about a teen's 18-month stay at a mental institution, starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, and Brittany Murphy. It was adapted from the original memoir of the same name, written by Susanna Kaysen. The film...
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Good Boy!
Good Boy! is a 2003 film produced by Jim Henson Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starring talking alien dogs. The film stars Liam Aiken as Owen Baker, as well as Matthew Broderick, Delta Burke, Donald Faison, Cheech Marin, Brittany Murphy, Vanessa...
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How About You
How About You is a 2007 Irish film directed by Anthony Byrne. The film is based on a short story of the same name by Maeve Binchy.
How About You tells the story of a young woman named Ellie. Ellie is left in charge of the residential home run by her...
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Howards End
Howards End is a 1992 film adaptation of E. M. Forster's 1910 novel Howards End, a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England. The film was produced by Merchant Ivory Productions, their third adaptation of a Forster novel ...
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Isadora
Isadora is a 1968 biographical film which tells the story of celebrated American dancer Isadora Duncan. It stars Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox and Jason Robards.
The movie was adapted by Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble and Clive Exton from the books My...
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Little Odessa
Little Odessa is an American crime film released in 1994 by James Gray, featuring Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly and Vanessa Redgrave. The film earned a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Critic Prize at the Deauville Film...
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Lulu on the Bridge
Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 romantic mystery drama film directed by author Paul Auster. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
A saxophone player (Harvey Keitel) is shot and loses a lung, forcing him to...
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (1972) is a Universal Pictures biographical feature film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I. The screenplay was written by...
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Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is a 1996 action thriller directed by Brian De Palma and stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The plot follows Hunt's (Tom Cruise) mission to uncover the mole within the CIA who has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team....
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Morgan! (original UK title: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment) is a 1966 comedy film made by the British Lion Films Corporation. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Leon Clore from a screenplay by David Mercer, based on his 1962...
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Mother's Boys
Mother's Boys is a 1994 thriller film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Peter Gallagher.
Jude Madigan (Curtis) has to leave her husband Robert (Gallagher) and her three children without any explanation. Three years later, when all think that she has...
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Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels.
Created from two short stories, "Mrs...
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Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.
The film (and book) features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Albert Finney stars as Poirot,...
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Prick Up Your Ears
Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the book by John Lahr. The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred...
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Romeo-Juliet
Romeo.Juliet is the title of a 1990 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play Romeo and Juliet. It was made by American producer, director and cinematographer, Armando Acosta, also credited as Armondo Linus Acosta and Armand Acosta, using...
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Searching for Debra Winger
Searching for Debra Winger is a 2002 American documentary film conceived and directed by Rosanna Arquette. It presents a series of interviews with leading actresses who discuss the various pressures they face as women working in the film industry...
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 mystery/thriller/science fiction film directed by Bille August, based on the book Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (original Danish title: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne) a 1992 novel by Danish author Peter Høeg....
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
The Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers (1951), opens on the set of a small town in Georgia. The reader is introduced to Miss Amelia, an independent, lonely woman who owns a small store. On this particular day she meets Cousin Lymon. Cousin...
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The Bostonians
The Bostonians is 1984's Merchant Ivory Film, based on Henry James' novel of the same name. The film starred Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter and Jessica Tandy. The movie received respectable reviews and showings at arthouse...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade is a British war film made in 1968 by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists (which held the rights to the 1936 film version at the time). It was directed by Tony Richardson and produced by Neil...
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The Devils
The Devils is a 1971 horror film directed by Ken Russell. It stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. It is based partially on the 1952 book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, and partially on the 1960 play The Devils by John Whiting, also based...
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The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits is a 1993 dramatic movie starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, and Antonio Banderas. The supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, Maria Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jan Niklas. It was...
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam is an independently-released drama film about the life of the famous Persian intellectual Omar Khayyám. It was directed by Kayvan Mashayekh and stars Vanessa Redgrave and Moritz Bleibtreu. It was released in...
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The Pledge
The Pledge is a 2001 mystery film directed by Sean Penn. It is based on the 1958 novella Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman (The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel), by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Dürrenmatt wrote the The...
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The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull is a 1968 British/American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted from Anton Chekov's classic 1896 play The Seagull.
Set in a rural Russian house, the plot focuses on the romantic and artistic...
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was adapted for the cinema in 1976. The novel's full title is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint...
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The Trojan Women
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The White Countess
The White Countess is a 2005 British/American/Chinese drama film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on a disparate group of displaced persons attempting to survive in Shanghai in the late 1930s.
Having escaped the...
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Wetherby
Wetherby is a 1985 British drama film written and directed by David Hare, known as one of the leading British playwrights of his generation.
Set in the town of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the film focuses on Jean Travers, a middle-aged spinster...
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Wilde
Wilde is a 1997 British biographical film directed by Brian Gilbert with Stephen Fry in the titular role. The screenplay by Julian Mitchell is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1989 biography of Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann.
The film opens with...
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They
They (also known as They Watch or Children of the Mist) is a 1993 television film about the supernatural. A father loses his daughter in a car accident after missing her ballet recital. However with the help of a mysterious old lady he is able to...
Playing For Time
Playing For Time is an Emmy Award Winning 1980 television film, written by Arthur Miller and Fania Fénelon, based on Fénelon's autobiography, The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon.
Playing For Time...
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A Month by the Lake
A Month by the Lake is a 1995 romantic comedy starring Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox and Uma Thurman. It is directed by John Irvin and is based on the novel by H.E. Bates.
In 1996, the actress Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for a Golden Globe award...
Great Moments in Aviation
Great Moments in Aviation is a 1994 romantic drama film, set on a 1950s passenger liner. The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to...
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm is a BBC-HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II. The title of the film is the same as the title of the first volume of Churchill's largely autobiographical six...
Bella Mafia
Bella Mafia is a 1997 TV movie starring James Marsden, Vanessa Redgrave and Dennis Farina. It was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women is a 1971 film, directed by Michael Cacoyannis and stars Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave. The film was made with the minimum of changes to Edith Hamilton's translation of Euripides' original play, written in 415 B.C.,...
Bear Island
Bear Island is a 1979 British-Canadian thriller film based on the novel Bear Island by Alistair MacLean. It was directed by Don Sharp and starred Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee and Lloyd Bridges.
Several people...
Letters to Juliet
Letters to Juliet is a 2010 romantic drama film written by Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan and directed by Gary Winick.
Wisdom
A DVD documentary companion to the Wisdom photography book by Andrew Zuckerman.
Inspired by the idea that wisdom is the greatest gift one generation can give to another, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman interviewed,...
Inspired by the idea that wisdom is the greatest gift one generation can give to another, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman interviewed,...
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The Riddle
The Riddle is a Brendan Foley film released in 2007.
When a woman is murdered following her discovery of an unpublished Charles Dickens manuscript, an unusual trio team up to investigate. The three are Mike (Jones), an ambitious sports reporter...
The Whistleblower
The Whistleblower is an upcoming political drama film directed by Larysa Kondracki, written by Kondracki and Eilis Kirwan, and starring Rachel Weisz. It is based on the true story of Kathryn Bolkovac.
A policewoman (Weisz) risks her job and her own...
