Greta Scacchi Filmography

Brideshead Revisited

Actors: Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Jonathan Cake, Patrick Malahide, Thomas Morrison

Synopsis: Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of love and the British class system has been given a polished screen adaptation in this film version from director Julian Jarrold. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) was raised in a middle-class household and though he's never known want and is fortunate enough to have Read More

L'Amour caché

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Greta Scacchi, Melanie Laurent

Synopsis: Screen legend Isabelle Huppert (La Dentellière, Les Soeurs Brontë) headlines acclaimed director Alessandro Capone's gently-spun yet intransigent psychodrama L'Amour caché (2007). Huppert plays Danielle, a middle-aged woman rebounding from the trauma of an unsuccessful suicide attempt, and Read More

Miss Austen Regrets

Actors: Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Pip Torrens, Jack Huston

Synopsis: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Read More

Hidden Love

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Greta Scacchi, Melanie Laurent, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: Acclaimed actress Isabelle Huppert stars in this downbeat tale of a suicidal mental patient trapped in an endless maze of despair following the death of her only child. Initially raised in an acrid household, later locked into a dicey marriage, and ultimately saddled with a daughter she never Read More

Broken Trail

Actors: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi

Synopsis: Sideways star Thomas Hayden Church appears alongside Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall in a dramatic mini-series shot in the classic western tradition. The year is 1897. As Print Ritter (Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Church) travel the slow road to reconciliation, they reluctantly Read More

The Book of Revelation

Actors: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels, Anna Torv, Deborah Mailman

Synopsis: A talented dancer who was abducted and tortured by three mysterious women struggles to come to grips with his harrowing experience in director Ana Kokkinos' adaptation of Rupert Thompson's unsettling novel. A beautiful and charismatic dancer who has immersed himself in a dream world of graceful Read More

The Handyman

Actors: Greta Scacchi

Flightplan

Actors: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby

Synopsis: A woman is forced to prove her own sanity to save the life of her daughter in this taut thriller. Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the traumatic death of her husband. After traveling to Berlin on business with her six-year-old daughter Read More

Beyond the Sea

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn

Synopsis: Kevin Spacey serves as both director and star for this biopic based on the life and career of legendary entertainer Bobby Darin, which moves back and forth between his childhood and adult selves to tell the tale of his remarkable life. Born Bobby Cassotto and raised in the Bronx, young Bobby Read More

Sotto Falso Nome

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Greta Scacchi, Anna Mouglalis, Giorgio Lupano, Magdalena Mielcarz

Baltic Storm

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland, Dieter Laser, Juergen Schormagel

Synopsis: In an era when at-sea disasters have grown increasingly rare thanks to "foolproof" naval technology, the September 28, 1994 wreck of the ferry boat M/S Estonia raised more than a few eyebrows. En route from Talinn to Stockholm, via the Baltic Sea, the craft capsized and 852 civilians never reached Read More

Festival In Cannes

Actors: Jenny Gabrielle, Greta Scacchi, Kim Kolarich, Rachel Bailit, Zack Norman

Synopsis: The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film marketplace -- provides the backdrop for this typically understated comedy-drama from director Henry Jaglom. Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) is a well-known American actress who Read More

Daniel Deronda

Synopsis: Produced for British television, Daniel Deronda was adapted from George Eliot's final novel, written in 1874 (and first filmed in 1921). As was her habit, Eliot laid bare the hypocrisy and venality of Victorian-era "class culture," at the same time admitting that a certain amount of conformity was Read More

Cotton Mary

Actors: Madhur Jaffrey, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Sakina Jaffrey, Laura Lumley

Synopsis: Ismail Merchant, best known as a producer for his work with director James Ivory (including Howards End and A Room With a View), takes possession of the director's chair in this drama. In 1954, seven years after India has gained independence from Great Britain, many Indians still feel like Read More

Looking For Alibrandi

Actors: Graeme Blundell, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: A teenage girl confronts the crises of growing up -- some typical, some unusual -- in this drama. Josie (Pia Miranda) is the 17-year-old daughter of Christina Alibrandi (Greta Scacchi), a single mother and member of a large extended family of Sicilian immigrants living in Sydney, Australia. While Read More

Christmas Glory From Westminster

Synopsis: Home Vision Cinema presents Christmas Glory From Westminster. This program features poetry and music from celebrities from the worlds of film and opera. Readings include Greta Scacchi reciting William Blake's The Lamb and Joan Plowright reading Kipling's Eddie's Service, while the performances Read More

One of the Hollywood Ten

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, Ángela Molina, Christopher Fulford, Antonio Valero

Synopsis: The troubled career of blacklisted director Herbert Biberman, who endured a considerable struggle to make the 1954 pro-Labor film Salt of the Earth, provides the centerpiece for this historical drama. The film opens at the 1937 Academy Awards, where Biberman's wife, Gale Sondergaard (Greta Read More

The Red Violin

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy Read More

Panstvi

Actors: Martin Dejdar, Greta Scacchi, Gabrielle Anwar, Laura Harris, Edie McClurg

Synopsis: In this spoof of old-fashioned murder mysteries, Detective Tomas Hatcher of Scotland Yard (Martin Dejdar) is dispatched to Ravenscroft Manor to investigate the murder of Patrick (Matt Hantley), who has been working at the palatial estate as a stable boy. Hatcher quickly discovers nearly everyone Read More

Love & Rage

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane, Valerie Edmond, Donal Donnelly

Synopsis: A drama of romantic obsession turned violent, Love and Rage was inspired by a true story and partially filmed in the home where the actual events occurred. James Lynchahaun (Daniel Craig) works at the estate of Agnes MacDonnell (Greta Scacchi), a wealthy woman who considers her privacy important Read More

Ladies Room

Actors: John Malkovich, Lorraine Bracco, Greta Scacchi, Veronica Ferres, Molly Parker

Synopsis: John Malkovich and Lorraine Bracco star in this offbeat drama set in women's restrooms. The first half of the film tells of three actresses forced to prepare for their performance in the same bathroom because their dressing rooms are flooded. Veteran actress Gemma (Bracco) is stunned by the anger Read More

The Serpent's Kiss

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: Haughty and vain British industrialist Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) dearly loves his wife Juliana (Greta Sacchi). Since they only have a daughter (Carmen Chaplin), and a strange one at that, Smithers decides that rather than leaving his fortune to his wife and child, he will build a Read More

Tom's Midnight Garden

Actors: Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Joan Plowright, Anthony Way, David Bradley

Synopsis: This fantasy for younger audiences concerns Tom (Anthony Way), a 14-year-old English boy who in the 1950s is sent to live with his Aunt Gwen (Greta Scacchi) and Uncle Alan (James Wilby) after one of his siblings becomes seriously ill. Late one night, Tom makes a remarkable discovery -- after Read More

Macbeth

Actors: Sean Pertwee, Greta Scacchi

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's famous "Scottish play" gets a new and updated look in this version produced for British television. Macbeth (Sean Pertwee), a brave and bloodthirsty man, has aspirations to political power, and at the urgings of his wife (Greta Scacchi), Macbeth murders Duncan (Philip Madoc) Read More

The Odyssey

Actors: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Utilizing an exceptional international all-star cast and excellent special effects, Hallmark entertainment and American Zoetrope productions created this fun-filled adaptation of Homer's most-famous epic poem. It was originally broadcast as a four-hour miniseries on the NBC network. The story Read More

Rasputin

Actors: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: Rasputin is a dramatization of the life story of one of the most intriguing figures in all history. A crude peasant from Siberia, Rasputin (Alan Rickman) was a self-styled charismatic holy man who traveled widely, openly engaging in drunkenness, sexual indulgences, and general debauchery. In the Read More

Cosi

Actors: Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young

Synopsis: In this Australian comedy, adapted by Louis Nowra from his own play and updated from a '70s to a '90s setting, a Sydney slacker gets the chance to stage an opera, but his cast is assembled from the ranks of the mentally ill. After a long stretch sponging off his law-student girlfriend Lucy (Rachel Read More

Emma

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, Greta Scacchi, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jane Austen (who in the '90s seemed to be in the running alongside William Shakespeare and Stephen King for the honors of most adapted author in Hollywood), this period romantic comedy stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse, a young woman who imagines herself an authority on Read More

Jefferson in Paris

Actors: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam

Synopsis: Best known for their historical epics that examine class and social issues in British life through a thick lens of tasteful production design and good manners, director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant set their sights on an American protagonist for a change with Jefferson in Paris. As the Read More

The Browning Version

Actors: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty Read More

Country Life

Actors: Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore

Synopsis: This Australian drama has been adapted from Chekov's Uncle Vanya. It is set in post WW I Australia at a time when the Aussies were getting ready to break away from England. After his father's death, Jack Dickens sacrificed his literary aspirations to run the family farm. He lives in the old farm Read More

Desire

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio, Claudine Auger

Synopsis: Greta Scacchi plays a famous feminist activist, while Vincent D'Onofrio portrays a humble Scots fisherman in this film from director Andrew Birkin. Despite the obvious ideological chasm between them, the two fall in love. The couple spend the rest of the film running away from commitment, only to Read More

Turtle Beach

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson, Art Malik, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In this grim docu-drama an Australian photojournalist leaves her children to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she becomes friends with a Vietnamese streetwalker who has married a diplomat and together they try to do something about shocking conditions Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

The Killing Beach

Synopsis: The struggles faced by Vietnamese boat people make up the focus of this story about an Australian reporter (Greta Scacchi) assigned to cover the Malaysian arrival of Vietnamese refugees. Also known as Turtle Beach. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Shattered

Actors: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Wolfgang Petersen directed this intricate suspense thriller, based on the novel by Richard Neely and starring Tom Berenger as Tom Merrick, who begins to suspect the auto accident that caused his memory loss may not have been accidental. The film begins with a car crash over a seaside cliff in San Read More

Fires Within

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Jimmy Smits, Vincent D'Onofrio, Luis Avalos

Synopsis: A Cuban woman who escapes to America finds herself in political, financial, and romantic jeopardy in this taut drama. Cuban refugee Isabel (Greta Scacchi) flees her country and makes her way to Miami after her husband, Nestor (Jimmy Smits), a political activist, is sentenced to a long stay in a Read More

Presumed Innocent

Actors: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) is a bland, oppressed man who burns with a quiet, corrosive intensity that can flare uncontrollably. A Philadelphia prosecutor, Sabich's fire seems to have one outlet: his job. He loves prosecuting people. Otherwise, his life is dead-ended. He has a loveless marriage Read More

White Mischief

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt

Synopsis: Based on one of the most scandalous murders in British history, White Mischief transpires in Kenya at a time just before the beginning of World War II. Jock Broughton (Joss Ackland) is a wealthy rancher who becomes taken with a young gold-digger named Diana (Greta Scacchi). Even though he is fully Read More

Paura e amore

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino, Sergio Castellitto, Paolo Hendel

Synopsis: The loves and lives of three sisters provides the basis of this melodrama. The eldest is intelligent and very aware of life's ticking clock. The middle sister lives on emotions, while the youngest is an idealistic, impassioned pre-med student. The story is loosely based on Chekhov's play Three Read More

La Donna Della Luna

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Lucas Orlandini, Tim Finn, Mike Magistro, Marcello Perracchi

Synopsis: Angela (Greta Scacchi) is an Italian woman in Italy to attend her father's funeral in Sicily in this romantic drama. She meets the teenage Salvo (Luca Orlandini) when he jumps aboard the ferryboat and into her car. Salvo claims he is being chased by drug kingpins, and Angela wavers on believing Read More

A Man in Love

Actors: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale, John Berry

Synopsis: A married American actor (Peter Coyote) falls in love with his on-screen flame (Greta Scacchi) while filming an Italian biography of author Cesare Pavese. France's 1987 entry to the Cannes Film Festival, this was the first English-language film for director Diane Kurys. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

Good Morning, Babylon

Actors: Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Omero Antonutti

Synopsis: The always innovative Taviani Brothers pay homage to another unique filmmaker, D. W. Griffith, in Good Morning, Babylon. Vincent Spano and Joaquim de Almeida star as Nicola and Andrea Bonnano, the latest in a long line of Tuscany-born cathedral builders. Emigrating to America, the brothers settle Read More

Burke and Wills

Actors: Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Fargher, Ralph Cotterill

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of Robert O'Hara Burke (Jack Thompson) and William John Wills (Nigel Havers), who in 1860 set forth to create the first accurate maps of the interior region of the Australian continent. To this end, Irish explorer Burke and British scientist Wills Read More

Defense of the Realm

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay

Synopsis: This fast-paced thriller examines the amorality of a nation's secret services and the responsibility of journalistic investigations in an era of nuclear tensions and bureaucratic deceit. The film examines an unspooling series of events occurring after a near crash of a nuclear bomber at an Read More

The Ebony Tower

Actors: Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: In one of his last film appearances, Laurence Olivier portrays an elderly painter who has locked himself away from the world in a crumbling French chateau. Olivier is not quite a hermit; he enjoys the attentions of two nubile admirers, played by Greta Scacchi and Toyah Willcox. This situation is Read More

The Coca-Cola Kid

Actors: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, Kris McQuade

Synopsis: The ugly American bullying his way through a foreign country was a subject for comedy in several films of the 1980s, most notably Bill Forsyth's Local Hero and this film from exiled Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev. Eric Roberts plays Becker, an aggressive marketing executive for the Coca-Cola Read More

Camille

Actors: John Gielgud, Greta Scacchi, Colin Firth

Synopsis: Alexandre Dumas fis first dramatized his own novel La Dame aux Camelias in 1852. Before the century was out, the work had been transformed by Giuseppe Verdi into the opera La Traviata; before the next century was out, the Dumas book had been made into no fewer than 25 films. The 1984 Read More

Waterfront

Synopsis: When a pay cut sends Australian dock workers on strike, a group of Italian immigrants are hired to take their place, causing much resentment and hatred on both sides. However, when an Italian woman and an Australian man start up a passionate affair, they discover that they must work to preserve Read More

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Actors: Alan Bates, James Mason, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Burden, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even the most righteous person can be bought, Fischer (Bates) plans a party with a strange and diabolical twist. The party favors contain one of two things--one million dollars Read More

Das Zweite Gesicht

Actors: Thomas Schuecke, Greta Scacchi, Franz Buchrieser, Brigitte Karner

Synopsis: A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of deja vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that Read More

Heat and Dust

Actors: Julie Christie, Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood

Synopsis: Two women, related but separated by one generation and 60 years, have parallel experiences in the evocative mystical environment of India in this period drama from producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Although a little slow-paced for some, and slightly confusing because the stories Read More