Joan Plowright

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

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

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional ...

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 ...

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov’s Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to ...

A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before – but faces a ...

A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, ...

A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.

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 ...

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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 ...

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ...

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the ...

When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to ...

Four English women, unhappy with their lives, rent an Italian villa on holiday.

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers’ triangle when she uses her ...

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when ...

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity ...

Avalon is the third in Levinson’s semi-autobiographical series of four “Baltimore Films”: Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon ...

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 ...

An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts ...

Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt’s biography explores how Zeffirelli’s sense of drama was born out of his ...

BBC Arena’s documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on ...

Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca’s upbringing by a circle of English ...

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected ...

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 ...