Francesca AnnisFilmography

Cranford

Actors: Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis, Michael Gambon, Simon Woods

Synopsis: The small town gossip, secrets, and romance of Mary Gaskells' popular series of novels comes to the small screen in this BBC drama series from director Simon Curtis. The year is 1842, and Cranford is a modest Cheshire market town on the verge of great change. The railway is reaching to Cranford Read More

Jane Eyre

Actors: Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens, Francesca Annis, Christina Cole

Synopsis: Screen newcomer Ruth Wilson assumes the role of Charlotte Bronte's eponymous heroine in director Susanna White and screenwriter Sandy Welch's adaptation of the classic 1847 novel. Jane Eyre is a plain but spirited woman who leaves behind the cruel confines of a charity home to work as a governess Read More

The Libertine

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander

Synopsis: A man who lives for pleasure finds his hedonism betrays him in time in this film adaptation of the play by Stephen Jeffreys. The second Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), was a notorious figure in 17th century Europe; well-respected as a poet and author, Wilmot also earned no small Read More

Revolver

Actors: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, André Benjamin, Terence Maynard

Synopsis: After learning the secrets of manipulation, graft, and deceit while incarcerated, a recently released ex-convict sets into motion a complex revenge plot against the man who killed his sister-in-law and put him behind bars in maverick director Guy Ritchie's highly stylized crime drama. For seven Read More

Copenhagen

Actors: Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, Francesca Annis

Synopsis: Adapted from the Tony award-winning play by Michael Frayn, Copenhagen is set in the titular Denmark capitol in the year 1941. According to existing records, it was in that city and year that German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his Danish mentor Neils Bohr met together on the brink of WWII. It Read More

Onegin

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Another member of the Fiennes family leaves a mark in the film business, as Martha Fiennes makes her big-screen directorial debut with a screen adaptation of the verse novel by Aleksander Pushkin, with her big brother Ralph Fiennes in the leading role. Onegin (Fiennes) is a blase man who has grown Read More

Wives and Daughters

Actors: Francesca Annis, Justine Waddell, Keeley Hawes, Anthony Howell

Synopsis: Debuting November 28, 1999, over BBC1, the four-part British miniseries Wives and Daughters was the second of two TV adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell's unfinished novel (the first aired in 1972). Set in the early 1800s, the story takes place in a small, gossip-driven English town. Upon the Read More

The Debt Collector

Actors: Billy Connolly, Ken Stott, Francesca Annis, Iain Robertson, Annette Crosbie

Synopsis: The first feature of Anthony Neilson, The Debt Collector is a dark contemporary thriller set in Edinburgh. The protagonist, Nick Dryden, has just been released from prison after serving 16 years for murder. In his youth, he was Edinburgh's most notorious and violent criminal, but his Read More

Reckless: The Sequel

Actors: Francesca Annis, Robson Green, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: This sequel to the popular TV series finds Owen (Robson Green) and Anna (Francesca Annis) making an impulsive decision to marry. Their plans are thwarted by Anna's ex-husband, Richard (Michael Kitchen), who wants to break up the couple. Will their union survive Richard's dastardly schemes? Read More

Milk

Actors: James Fleet, Phyllida Law, Joss Ackland, Clotilde Courau, Peter Jones

Synopsis: The first feature by Bill Brookfield, Milk is an offbeat British comedy about a family in mourning. The death of an 81-year-old woman sets the scene for this tale about family funerals and the difficulty of burying one's mother. Adrian is an unmarried, unworldly, and unstable dairy farmer Read More

Reckless

Actors: Francesca Annis, Robson Green

Synopsis: Love at first sight leads to a difficult and dangerous liaison in this romantic drama. Owen Springer (Robson Green) is a young surgeon whose father is in failing health, though the elderly man is convinced his condition is worse than it really is. Owen has relocated to Manchester to be closer to Read More

Weep No More My Lady

Actors: Daniel J. Travanti, Kristin Scott Thomas, Francesca Annis, Stéphane Audran, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: In this suspenseful mystery, two rival sisters vie for the love of a powerful businessman. One of them ends up murdered and then the real trouble begins. The story is based on a best-seller by Mary Higgins Clark. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gravy Train Goes East

Actors: Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Anita Zagaria, Jacques Sereys, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: This four-part, four-hour British miniseries was a sequel to Malcolm Bradbury's 1990 TV effort The Gravy Train. Christoph Waltz returned to the role of Dorfman, a terminally idealistic member of the European Economic Council. This time around, the teeny-tiny Balkan state of Slaka hoped to join the Read More

Parnell and the Englishwoman

Actors: Trevor Eve, Francesca Annis, David Robb, Robert Lang, Lorcan Cranitch

Synopsis: Although the story of 19th century Irish statesman and patriot Charles Steward Parnell resulted in a disastrous movie vehicle for Clark Gable in 1937, the results were more satisfying when the same story was adapted as a four-episode British TV miniseries in 1990. Trevor Eve headed the cast as Read More

Romeo - Juliet

Actors: John Hurt, Robert Powell, Francesca Annis, Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Despite the use in this film of voices dubbed by greats of English theater, the casting of long-haired cats to play the roles of Romeo and Juliet seems somewhat perverse. Nonetheless, the lines are well read, and the movie contains some fine original musical compositions. Among the voices: Maggie Read More

Onassis

Synopsis: Part One of this four-hour TV movie adaptation of Peter Evans' biography suggested that Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis spent every waking hour commiserating in bed with lovers of all sexes. Part Two of Onassis: The Richest Man in the World hunkers down to the Main Event: The showdown Read More

I'll Take Manhattan

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, Francesca Annis, Perry King

Synopsis: This glitzy miniseries based on the Judith Krantz novel is a wicked soap opera about sex, power, and betrayal. Valerie Bertinelli stars as Maxi, whose mother (Francesca Annis) marries her father's hated brother Cutter (Perry King) after his death. Cutter had sworn to destroy everything his late Read More

Under the Cherry Moon

Actors: Prince, Steven Berkoff, Francesca Annis, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jerome Benton

Synopsis: Diminutive pop star Prince plays another variation on the suave gigolo in this vanity piece. Set on the French Riviera, the story follows Christopher Tracy as he plays piano in a bistro and woos rich Continental ladies for dollars. Tracy and his accomplice Tricky (Jerome Benton of The Time) Read More

Rio De Oro

Actors: Ángela Molina, Bruno Ganz, Francesca Annis, Stefan Gubser, Nacho Rodriguez

Synopsis: This is an enigmatic tale of a man's attempt to regain a lost period of youthful happiness. Peter (Bruno Ganz) and his somewhat broken-down wife arrive at a friend's house for an extended visit. Peter has been attracted to the woman of the house; he also once spent an idyllic summer here. He takes Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Deja Vu, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Magnum, P.I.'s two-part Season Six opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Magnum (Tom Selleck) and Higgins (John Hillerman) are still in London, still battling their inner demons. Having had premonitions of the death of his friend Geoffrey St. Clair, Magnum Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Deja Vu, Part 1

Synopsis: Filmed on location, this first episode of Magnum, P.I.'s two-part Season Six opener (originally telecast in a single two-hour timeslot) finds Magnum (Tom Selleck) and Higgins (John Hillerman) journeying to London at the behest of their boss, novelist Robin Masters. As Higgins explains the duties Read More

Dune

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

Shades of Darkness: The Maze

Synopsis: In this made for British TV movie, a young girl meets a ghost of her mother's lover on her estate. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Krull

Actors: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: Meant to be a whimsical sword-and-sorcery film about a prince out to save his princess from the jaws of the Beast, Krull has enough scenes borrowed from blockbuster predecessors (Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Robin Hood, Star Wars) and is gentle enough to be rather derivative, ordinary fare. Read More

Coming Out of the Ice

Actors: John Savage

Synopsis: Coming Out of the Ice stars John Savage as the real-life Victor Herman, an American athlete born to Ukrainian immigrants. In 1931, when Herman was sixteen, he and his family moved to the Soviet Union when his father was transferred there for his job with Ford Motor Company. Four years later Read More

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Synopsis: In this made-for-television mystery (adapted from a novel by Agatha Christie) a man dying on a beach utters the question "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Amateur detectives Frankie and Bobby subsequently begin digging for an explanation for the enigmatic query, which leads them to an utterly Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The House of Lurking Death

Synopsis: Adaptation of a Agatha Christie story features a box of chocolates laced with arsenic at old maid Lois Hargreaves' home making her the number one suspect. (Made for British television) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Affair of the Pink Pearl

Synopsis: Based on Agatha Christie's short story series, the P.I. couple of Tommy and Tuppence have 24 hours to discover who stole a priceless pink pearl. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Ambassador's Boots

Synopsis: Affectionately reminiscent of the old Thin Man pictures, the British comedy-mystery series Partners in Crime starred James Warwick and Francesca Annis as husband-and-wife private eyes. The series was telecast in America as Tommy and Tuppence, a component of PBS' Mystery anthology. In The Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: Finessing the King

Synopsis: Based on an Agatha Christie mystery, this made for British TV story has two private investigators, Tommy and Tuppence, led by a mysterious newspaper notice to a masquerade ball. As in all Christie vehicles, you can be assured there is a murder to be solved. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Unbreakable Alibi

Synopsis: This made-for-TV mystery is based on the tales of Agatha Christie and centers upon Tommy and Tuppence Beresford who do a young man's bidding and help him prove that an Australian journalist with two seemingly airtight alibis is really the guilty party. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Secret Adversary

Synopsis: In this drama set in London during the 1920s, two amateur detectives try to find an important document before the enemy does. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Crackler

Synopsis: In this British made for TV murder mystery, based on an Agatha Christie, a husband and wife seek out a gang of forgers who do their work amongst the upper echelons of society. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Man in the Mist

Synopsis: Man in the Mist is another episode from the British "Partners in Crime" TV series. This effort was telecast in the US as "Tuppence and Tommy", in reference to sleuthing married couple played by Francesca Annis and James Warwick. This time, Tuppence and Tommy Beresford are vacationing in an Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Clergyman's Daughter

Synopsis: This British made-for-TV murder mystery, based on an Agatha Christie story, chronicles the exploits of Tommy and Tuppence who are hired by the clergyman's daughter to look into the recent murders at the family's country house. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stronger Than the Sun

Actors: Francesca Annis, Tom Bell

Synopsis: In this provocative British drama, a young Yorkshire woman discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works. At first, her lover encourages her make public her find, but when the resulting pressure gets too strong, he leaves her to fight alone. Despite her pleas and Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Sunningdale Mystery

Synopsis: During the 1985-86 season of PBS' Mystery anthology, American audiences were treated to the British-produced adventures of Agatha Christie's society sleuths Tuppence and Tommy. Originally shown under the blanket title Partners in Crime, these sprightly 60-minute puzzlers starred Francesca Annis as Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime [TV Series]

Actors: James Warwick, Francesca Annis

Synopsis: This sporadically telecast British series was based on the "Tuppence and Tommy" stories by Agatha Christie. James Warwick and Francesca Annis starred as upper-class couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, who never seemed to go anywhere without stumbling over a mystery or murder. Most often, Tommy Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Case of the Missing Lady

Synopsis: This mystery is based on an Agatha Christie novel. It follows Tommy and Tuppence as they search for the fiancee of a famed Arctic explorer who mysteriously disappeared. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lillie

Actors: Francesca Annis, Anton Rodgers

Synopsis: Francesca Annis, previously seen on the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Madame Bovary, plays the title role in the 13-installment Masterpiece offering Lillie. This is the story of legendary British actress Lillie Langtry, who during the Victorian and Edwardian era was as Read More

Sign It Death

Synopsis: In this drama, a young woman becomes obsessed with a British businessman and begins hatching an evil, elaborate plot to snag him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Macbeth

Actors: Terence Bayler, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Nicholas Selby, John Stride, Vic Abbott, Stephen Chase

Synopsis: Perhaps William Shakespeare meant to have Lady Macbeth perform her sleepwalking scene in the nude -- it was this X-rated scene and the film's much-publicized spurts of violence, rather than the brilliant performances of Jon Finch as Macbeth and Francesca Annis as his Lady, that lured crowds to Roman Polanski Read More

The Walking Stick

Actors: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Winston Graham, The Walking Stick stars Samantha Eggar as Deborah, a polio-stricken woman courted by charming artist Leigh Hartley (David Hemmings). She moves in with Leigh, who immediately suggests that she help him rob the antique store where she works. Her common sense Read More

The Sky Pirate

Actors: Michael McClanathan, Claudia Leacock, Frank Meyer, Margaret Kramer, Lorenzo Mans

Synopsis: This adventure chronicles the series of events that cause a young man to hijack a flight to Cuba. It seems that he had some great times while stationed there as a sailor and he wants to relive them. He is further motivated after speaking with his niece's liberal lover who believes that the time in Read More

Run with the Wind

Synopsis: The usally elegant and classy Francesca Annis is the fickle heroine of the British Run With the Wind. The girlfriend of boxer Sean Caffrey, Annis summarily dumps her beau in favor of the usual charming guy with guitar (Shawn Phillips). By the time Annis learns she's made a mistake, Caffrey has Read More

The Pleasure Girls

Actors: Ian McShane, Francesca Annis, Klaus Kinski, Mark Eden, Tony Tanner

Synopsis: In this drama, the difficulties of being a young woman during the 1960s are examined. The story centers upon a country girl who comes to London to pursue a modeling career and ends up living with three girls and a young man--who is one of the others' brother. While waiting for her big break, the Read More

Saturday Night Out

Actors: Heather Sears, Bernard Lee, Erika Remberg, John Bonney, Colin Campbell, Francesca Annis

Synopsis: This British comedy details what happens to five sailors and a passenger as they spend fifteen hours on shore leave in London while waiting for their cargo ship to unload. The passenger, a lonely widowed business man named George (Bernard Lee), finds his way to a West End bar, where he meets Wanda Read More

Crooks in Cloisters

Actors: Ronald Fraser, Barbara Windsor, Gregoire Aslan, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye

Synopsis: In this comedy, crooks on the lam hide-out in an abandoned island monastery. Along with their leader, the robbers put on monks' habits and begin living a quiet pastoral existence centered around raising animals and crops. It takes them a while to get the hang of it. As they learn, they are Read More

Flipper's New Adventure

Actors: Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Helen Cherry, Tom Helmore, Francesca Annis, Brian Kelly

Synopsis: This 1964 sequel to the 1963 box-office hit Flipper is unnecessarily melodramatic at times, but at least it isn't a cookie-cutter imitation of the original. Suzy the Dolphin returns to the "male" role of the superintelligent Flipper, while Luke Halpin reprises the role of Sandy Ricks. This time Read More

Murder Most Foul

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank, Megs Jenkins, Dennis Price, Ralph Michael, James Bolam, Stringer Davis, Francesca Annis, Alison Seebohm, Terry Scott

Synopsis: Murder Most Foul represented Margaret Rutherford's third appearance as Agatha Christie's spinsterish sleuth Miss Marple. The film opens with Marple serving on a murder-trial jury. She forces a mistrial because she considers the accused to be innocent; to prove her theory, she traces the trail of Read More

West 11

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Kathleen Breck, Eric Portman, Diana Dors, Kathleen Harrison, Harold Lang

Synopsis: Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) forgoes working for a living in this seedy district of London. He hangs out in jazz clubs and chases women, which makes him lose what little money he has remaining. Ex-Army veteran Richard Dyce (Eric Portman) shows up at the club, and the two directionless louts begin to Read More

Cleopatra

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

Synopsis: In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Read More

The Eyes of Annie Jones

Synopsis: In this thriller, an orphan with ESP is engaged to help solve the abduction of a wealthy Englishwoman by her aunt. The rich woman's brother and the local cabbie believe in the girl's mysterious talent. They are terrified that she will lead the authorities to the woman's corpse. The brother stops Read More

His and Hers

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books are created by the adventures he experiences, thanks to the brainstorms of his editor. His latest adventure finds him truly lost in the desert and adopted by a tribe of Read More

Young Jacobites

The Cat Gang

Synopsis: The Cat Gang is a group of precocious pre-teen British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. But the Gang comes in handy when a smuggling gang arrives on the scene. Off and on the screen in 50 minutes, The Cat Gang seems predestined Read More