Rita TushinghamFilmography

The Hideout

Actors: Laura Morante, Rita Tushingham, Burt Young, Treat Williams, Yvonne Scio

Synopsis: A woman making her way back to sanity finds herself living in a house with a history of madness in this thriller. Lei (Laura Morante) is a woman who has spent fifteen years in a mental hospital; eager to start her life over again, she's decided to put her life's savings into opening a restaurant. Read More

Puffball

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Samantha Morton, Rita Tushingham, William Houston

Synopsis: Don't Look Now director Nicholas Roeg steps back behind the camera for the first time in fifteen years to weave this macabre tale of a young architect who finds her unborn child in danger after moving deep into the Irish countryside. Liffrey (Kelly Reilly) has had enough of the big city, and now Read More

Being Julia

Actors: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: A woman scorned unleashes her fury in this droll comedy based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a famous and well-respected actress, but though her life in the limelight seems glamorous, things are not going well for her off-stage. Julia's husband is unfaithful Read More

Out of Depth

Actors: Sean Maguire, Danny Midwinter, Nicholas Ball, Phil Cornwall, Josephine Butler

Synopsis: A man looks outside the law for justice and discovers the price was far higher than he expected in the drama Out of Depth. Paul (Sean Maguire) is a graphic designer who is furiously angry and appalled when a drunken thug beats up his mother (Rita Tushingham) and adds insult to injury by urinating Read More

Under the Skin

Actors: Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham, Mark Womack, Matthew Delamere

Synopsis: Samantha Morton, who soon after this film gained attention for her role in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, makes an impressive feature debut in first time writer-director Carine Adler's bittersweet saga about a troubled woman's uneven progress toward self-realization. Morton plays Iris, a woman Read More

Swing

Actors: Hugo Speer, Lisa Stansfield, Paul Usher, Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham

Synopsis: Swing is the story of working-class friends who escape their bleak Liverpool lives to launch a swing band. Martin (Hugo Speer) spends two years in jail for his brother. When he gets out, he is handed two years of unopened love letters and a piece of advice: get a job or end up back in jail. Read More

The Boy from Mercury

Synopsis: This sprightly, nostalgic and ultimately sentimental Irish drama is suitable for family viewing. It centers on an 8-year-old boy who devises an imaginative way to cope with his grief and loneliness after his father dies. Set in Dublin around 1960, the tale centers on Harry Cronin, who decides, in Read More

An Awfully Big Adventure

Actors: Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth

Synopsis: A misleading title and a different type of performance from Hugh Grant are two of the offbeat features of An Awfully Big Adventure. Virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates), who speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe in 1947 England headed by manipulative director Read More

A Csalas Gyonyore

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Aniko Fur, Peter Andorai, Gyorgy Dorner, Gabor Reviczky

Synopsis: Julia had a good job in the old communist-ruled Hungary. She was an electrical engineer. Now she is thirty, and since the government has fallen, the rules of the game have changed. Without a job for the first time in many years, she discovers that her husband has been carrying on with his boss' Read More

The Gospel According to Harry

Actors: Jack Kehoe, Viggo Mortensen, Jennifer Rubin

Synopsis: As directed by Polish film stalwart Lech Majewski in English, with a Hollywood cast including Viggo Mortensen (A Walk on the Moon) and Jack Kehoe (Melvin & Howard), the 1993 allegory The Gospel According to Harry unfolds at some indeterminate point in the future - when much of the Pacific Ocean is Read More

Papierowe Malzenstwo

Actors: Gary Kemp, Joanna Trepechinska, Rita Tushingham, Richard Hawley, David Horovitch

Synopsis: This slight multi-national comedy concerns a young Polish woman who becomes engaged to a British doctor in Warsaw. When the doctor leaves the country, the woman travels to London to meet her fiancée and get married. But upon arrival in London she discovers his mother disapproves of the match and Read More

Hard Days, Hard Nights

Resurrected

Actors: David Thewlis, Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, Michael Pollitt, Rudi Davies

Synopsis: The first directorial effort of British screenwriter Paul Greengrass, Resurrected is based on a true story that came to light during the Falklands War. David Thewlis plays an Army private who, after being listed as missing and presumed dead, wanders back into camp, a victim of amnesia. The army Read More

The Housekeeper

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Ross Petty, Shelley Peterson, Jonathan Crombie, Jessica Steen

Synopsis: In this mystery-thriller based on a novel by Ruth Rendell, Eunice (Rita Tushingham, wife of director Ousama Rawi) is a housekeeper who gets a job working for an older doctor and his wife in the U.S. Eunice is super-sensitive, rather homely, and illiterate. But she makes friends with a religious Read More

Dream to Believe

Actors: Olivia D'Abo, Rita Tushingham, Keanu Reeves, Jessica Steen, Renee Murphy

Synopsis: The curiously neglected A Dream to Believe (aka Flying) can be summed up as a distaff Rocky. Olivia D'Abo is starred as a teen-aged girl who dreams of becoming a top gymnast. Human, emotional and financial roadblocks do not dissuade D'Abo, nor do her own severe physical shortcomings. You can see Read More

Spaghetti House

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Rita Tushingham, Derek Martin

Synopsis: In this silly Italian comedy, a trio of robbers burst into an Italian restaurant and place its five employees in a storage room to hold them hostage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

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Mysteries

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Sylvia Kristel, David Rappaport, Rita Tushingham, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Set in a remote seaside village somewhere in the Netherlands, this drama centers on the increasingly bizarre behavior of a tourist who has become romantically obsessed by a local beauty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Slaughterday

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an ingenious, unseen thief recruits ex-cons to join his gang via short-wave radio in hopes of pulling off a huge caper. Unfortunately, a woman inadvertently stands in his way, and violence ensues as he tries to move her and carry on with his plans. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Ragazzo Di Borgata

Actors: Giacomo Piperno, Rita Tushingham

Synopsis: Ettore (Giacomo Piperno) is a charming child at home; on the streets, he is a regular terror. He and his gang of children steal brazenly from the rich, and often engage in rape. After his father is imprisoned for a bungled theft, Ettore quits school and takes a job as a waiter in a bar that Read More

The Search for Green Eyes

Green Eyes

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Green Eyes stars Paul Winfield as a Vietnam veteran who feels like a fish out of water in civilian life. Shunned by his family and friends and pushed aside by the Establishment, Winfield decides to find the one person who truly needs him. That person is the Vietnamese child whom he Read More

Rachel's Man

Synopsis: The great Biblical romance between Jacob and Rachel provides the basis of this costume drama. The trouble begins when the young woman's stern father demands that they wait seven years before they wed. On the blessed day the wedding occurs and that night the union is consummated. The next day Read More

The Human Factor

Actors: George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone, Arthur Franz, Rita Tushingham

Synopsis: A simple man becomes bent on violent revenge in this thriller. John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) is an American who lives with his wife and three children in Naples, Italy, where he's employed by NATO as an electronics expert. Kinsdale and his good friend Mike McAllister (John Mills) are working to Read More

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Straight on Till Morning

Synopsis: In this thriller, a naive young woman travels from Liverpool to London to search for a man willing to sire her child. She meets a perfectly charming fellow and decides that he is the one. Unfortunately, "Mister Perfect" turns out to be a psychotic killer. The film is also titled Til Dawn Do Us Read More

The Guru

Actors: Michael York, Utpal Dutt, Madhur Jaffrey, Rita Tushingham, Aparna Sen

Synopsis: Tom Pickle (Michael York) is the British rock star who travels to India to learn the sitar from Ustad Zafar Khan (Uptal Dutt). Much to the dismay of his aggressive agent Chris (Barry Foster), he leaves the money-making music world behind to learn about the exotic Indian instrument. Khan believes Read More

The Bed Sitting Room

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan

Synopsis: The specter of atomic warfare raises its head once again in this bizarre 1969 black comedy, directed by Richard Lester and hatched from the mind of twisted British comic Spike Milligan. England lays in ruins after World War III, and a number of dazed survivors try to carry on as if nothing is Read More

Diamonds for Breakfast

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor, Maggie Blye, Francisca Tu

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the Read More

Smashing Time

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl

Synopsis: Smashing Time attempts to turn British actresses Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave into a female Laurel and Hardy. The film's second mistake is to prolong the joke for 96 minutes. Tushingham and Redgrave play a couple of dimwitted North Country girls who head to London, in hopes of breaking into Read More

The Trap

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Barbara Chilcott, Linda Goranson

Synopsis: Every ten years or so, the all-purpose title The Trap is applied to a film about psychological rather than physical entrapment. This 1966 British/Canadian coproduction stars Oliver Reed as a roughhewn fur trapper of the 1890s. He has missed the annual "wife auction" due to inclement weather, and Read More

Doctor Zhivago

Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots Read More

The Knack ... And How to Get It

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, John Bluthal

Synopsis: Colin (Michael Crawford, who much later won a Tony Award for his role in Broadway's Phantom of the Opera) is an uptight schoolteacher whose housemate, Tolen (Ray Brooks) is a consummate womanizer. Colin imagines a long line of young women in tight white sweaters on his stairwell, waiting to get Read More

A Place to Go

Actors: Bernard Lee, Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne, Doris Hare, Barbara Ferris

Synopsis: British pop performer Michael Sarne stars as young Ricky, a kid from London's East End who is yet another victim of urban socio-economic blight. Discouraged and frustrated, Ricky gets involved with a local gang hoping to support his family by turning to a life of crime. Rita Tushingham, in her Read More

Girl With Green Eyes

Actors: Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean, Julian Glover

Synopsis: Rita Tushingham was propelled into stardom with The Girl with Green Eyes. She plays a gawky young rural Irish girl who takes a room with a wise-cracking Dublin lass (Lynn Redgrave). Enter a middle-aged writer (Peter Finch), who makes a beeline for the shy, lonely Tushingham--completely ignoring Read More

The Leather Boys

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson, Avice Landone

Synopsis: Dot (Rita Tushingham) is a girl who marries motorcycle maven Reggie (Colin Campbell) to escape her parents' influence. The marriage gets off to a rocky start and completely slides downhill after the honeymoon is plagued by bad weather. Dot refuses to have anything to do with household Read More

A Taste of Honey

Actors: Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah

Synopsis: Director Tony Richardson adapted the screenplay of A Taste of Honey from the "kitchen sink" stage play by Shelagh Delaney. Rita Tushingham plays a working-class British teenager, living with her drink-sodden, libertine mother Dora Bryan. Denied affection by her selfish mother, Tushingham is pushed Read More

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