The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects...
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1981
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The story of Paul Gaugin (1848-1903), the Parisian stockbroker who left his job, his wife and his five children for the life...
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1980
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Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this...
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Miss Pross
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1980
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Based on the best-selling book by William Stevenson, this three-part NBC miniseries begins in 1939, just before the outbreak...
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Sister Luke
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1979
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The wife of a greedy Yankee entrepreneur comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this thriller. He is after...
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1979
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The 1979 TV movie Les Miserables was advertised as the 12th feature film to be based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel (and that...
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1978
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A star-studded cast highlights this musical adaptation of the classic fantasy tales of Lewis Carroll. One day young Alice...
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Queen of Hearts
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1972
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Set in the British Isles in the 1930s, this film involves two old-maid sisters who lock their deranged brother in a cellar...
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1970
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Set on a gorgeous island in the Mediterranean, this sexually exploitive film stars Raquel Welch as an everyday housewife...
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1970
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This chilling mystery begins when Lucy Dawson (Flora Robson) is found strangled in her apartment. Her nephew Tim...
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Lucy Dawson
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1970
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A fine cast distinguishes this unusual supernatural thriller. When London-based vintner Phillippe de Montfaucon (David Niven)...
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Countess Estelle
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1967
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Another semi-successful attempt to adapt the works of American fantasist H.P. Lovecraft to the screen, this is loosely based...
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Aunt Agatha
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1967
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This documentary video looks at the events and circumstances surrounding the Duke of Windsor's abdication to marry a...
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1967
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A Greek sailor hopes to earn enough money to spend more time with his young bride in this romantic melodrama. He returns...
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1967
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Miss Binns
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1966
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This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by...
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1965
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Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a...
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Mrs. Cassidy
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1965
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Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost...
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1965
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Richard Attenborough stars as a stalwart sergeant-major, stationed in British colony in Africa. When the colony declares its...
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Miss Barker-Wise
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1964
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Miss Gilchrist
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1963
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Dowager Empress Tsu Hzi
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1963
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Olivia Chesney
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1958
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Greek actress Melina Mercouri made her English-language film debut in The Gypsy and the Gentleman. Mercouri plays tempestuous...
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1958
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A rugged, isolated island off the coast of Nova Scotia provides the setting for this drama. Much of the island is owned by...
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Donna MacKenzie
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1957
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Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. She...
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1957
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Generally forgotten today, Romeo and Juliet is a satisfactory, if perfunctory, adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy....
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Nurse
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1954
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The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents...
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Melita
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1953
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A novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop was the source for the grim British drama Tall Headlines. The son of a middle-class family...
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Mary Rackham
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1952
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This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing...
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Countess Platen
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1948
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Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off...
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Chairman of Juvenile Court
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1948
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Adapted from a play by Daphne Du Maurier, The Years Between stars Valerie Hobson as war widow Diana. Determined to carry on...
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Nanny
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1947
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Sister Philippa
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1947
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Holiday Camp was a British comedy that served the same purpose as Hollywood's The Egg and I--to act as the launching pad for...
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1947
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The problem of "enemy" war brides was eloquently addressed in the British drama Frieda. In her English-language film debut,...
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Nell Dawson
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1947
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American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the...
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Mrs. Ellis
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1946
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George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar...
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Ftatateeta
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1946
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Angelique Buiton
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1945
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The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of...
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Miss Manningford
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1944
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Mrs. Ainsworth
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1941
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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Unnamed character
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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Elizabeth I
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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Mrs. Taylor
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1940
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In this psychological drama set in a small English village, the villagers become hysterical after a series of damning...
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Mary Rider
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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Jessica Newcome
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1939
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Ellen Dean
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1939
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Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour...
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Lucy Blair
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1937
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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Elizabeth I
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1937
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This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia's 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from...
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Empress Elizabeth
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1934
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A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease in this British melodrama. When...
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1933
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Based upon a thrice-filmed book by Sir Compton Mackenzie, Dance Pretty Lady is a romantic drama set in the Edwardian era....
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1932
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In this drama, a French judge, a womanizer when he is not upon the bench, is out on a date when he witnesses a murder. One...
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1931
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