Terence RigbyFilmography

Mona Lisa Smile

Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint Read More

Simon Magus

Actors: Noah Taylor, Embeth Davidtz, Stuart Townsend, Ian Holm, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Director of award-winning short films Ben Hopkins embarked on this ambitious feature project with Robert Jones, the producer of The Usual Suspects. The screenplay is inspired by Central European folklore, spaghetti Westerns and industrial history. But the film, which runs like a fable, has its Read More

Essex Boys

Actors: Sean Bean, Alex Kingston, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tom Wilkinson, Larry Lamb

Synopsis: Terry Winsor directs this two-fisted tale of drug, guns, and murder based on a real-life gangland killing that left three dead in the snowy Essex backcountry. The film opens with cabby neophyte Billy (Charlie Creed-Miles) getting hired by suave drug baron John Dyke (Tom Wilkinson) to shuttle Read More

Plunkett & Macleane

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Liv Tyler, Ken Stott, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: A historical comedy that applies a 1990's mindset to a tale of crime in the 1740's, Plunkett and Macleane stars Robert Carlyle as Will Plunkett and Jonny Lee Miller as Capt. James Macleane. Plunkett is a druggist who has gone broke and turned to robbery to pay his bills, while Macleane was a minor Read More

Midsomer Murders: Dead Man's Eleven

Actors: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard, Robert Hardy

Synopsis: The eighth feature-length episode of the British detective series Midsomer Murders, "Dead Man's Eleven" premiered in the U.K. on September 12, 1999. Having had his fill of Midsomer Worthy, Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles) prepares to move himself and his family to the village of Read More

Elizabeth

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This British-made historical drama depicts the rise of young Elizabeth Tudor to Queen of England, a reign of intrigue and betrayals. In 1554, Queen Mary I (Kathy Burke) tries to restore Catholicism as England's single faith. With no heir to the crown, she maneuvers to keep her Protestant Read More

The Student Prince

Actors: Rupert Penry-Jones, Judy Cornwell, Tara Fitzgerald, Richard Briers

Synopsis: A sheltered prince learns valuable lessons of love while attending Cambridge University. Fortunately, his wise bodyguard is there to help him study. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Funny Bones

Actors: Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis

Synopsis: Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around Read More

England, My England

Synopsis: This British biopic attempts to chronicle the life of 17th-century tunesmith Henry Purcell. The filmmakers have had to do much speculating about Britain's first great composer, as little is known about his life back then. It is known that Purcell had been a chorister as a child and then became the Read More

Henry Purcell: England, My England

Actors: Simon Callow, Michael Ball, Nina Young, Rebecca Front, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: Director Tony Palmer explores the mysterious life of English composer Henry Purcell in this award-winning film. Recognizing that little is known about the secretive Purcell, a group of 1960s-era actors travel back to the 16th Century in search of clues to the composer's mystery shrouded past. Read More

The Young Americans

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Viggo Mortensen, Iain Glen, Geoffrey McGivern, John Wood, Dave Duffy, Keith Allen, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: Harvey Keitel plays John Harris, an American drug enforcement officer who is asked by London police to help them in cracking an organized drug ring. The syndicate is run by a ruthless young American who turns disaffected young Britons into hardened criminals. The gang has gunned down a well-known Read More

The Children

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Siri Neal, Geraldine Chaplin, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley stars in this solid adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel (filmed previously in 1929 as The Marriage Playground). Kingsley plays Martin Boyne, an engineer in 1920s Europe who, after five years of correspondence, is planning to travel overseas to marry the recently widowed Rose Sellars Read More

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Actors: John Hurt

Synopsis: Director Mike Beckham draws on the facts in the case of two 1974 bomb attacks in Birmingham that left twenty-one dead, and six innocent men wrongly convicted. When terrorists bomb two Birmingham pubs, the authorities race to catch the culprits responsible for killing twenty-one unsuspecting Read More

Scandal

Actors: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips

Synopsis: In 1963, the conservative British government was shaken to its foundations by the Profumo Scandal. The central character in this disastrous affair was John Profumo, Britain's minister of war, who had become sexually involved with call-girl Christine Keeler, whose "sponsor" was high-priced Read More

The Beiderbecke Connection

Synopsis: After the success of the British mini-series The Beiderbecke Affair and its sequel The Beiderbecke Tapes, the BBC followed with The Beiderbecke Connection, the final installment of the trilogy. The lives of jazz lovers Trevor (James Bolam) and Jill (Barbara Flynn), now married and raising their Read More

High Tide

Actors: Ian McShane, Kika Markham, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: A dog is run over by a car; the owner investigates and finds himself faced with a dying man who utters a cryptic phrase and leaves the dog owner in great danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Testimony

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley stars as celebrated Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in this lengthy historical biography. Along with Prokofiev, Shostakovich is considered among the elite of the 20th-century composers to emerge from his country. Striving to be true to his art form, the composer was caught in the Read More

The Beiderbecke Affair

Actors: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Terence Rigby, Dominic Jephcott, Danny Schiller

Lace II

Actors: Brooke Adams, Deborah Raffin, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins

Synopsis: In this sequel to the original miniseries, Lili (Phoebe Cates), having discovered the true identity of her mother, now begins looking for her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lace

Actors: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: A notorious, internationally known sex symbol (Phoebe Cates) attempts to track down her birth mother in this glitzy, deliciously trashy melodrama. The mother could be one of three women, all of whom have vowed to never reveal the secret truth behind the child's illegitimate birth. Based on the Read More

Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four

Actors: Ian Richardson, David Healy, Thorley Walters, Terence Rigby, Joe Melia

Synopsis: Based on a Sherlock Holmes story, the Sign of Four is about an ex-convict out to wreak vengeance on an army major (Thorley Walters) who left him stranded in a penal colony while making off with a valuable stash of treasure. But with a flat, dull treatment of both the story and its characters Read More

The Dogs of War

Actors: Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman

Synopsis: Christopher Walken stars in John Irvin's graphic adaptation of Frederick Forsythe's novel about a mercenary sent to overthrow the government of an African country. Walken is Shannon, an American soldier of fortune who has staged incidents in Central America and Africa that helped topple Read More

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Actors: Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston

Synopsis: Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of service Read More

Watership Down

Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Simon Cadell

Synopsis: Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will find poetic and moving. It doesn't pull any punches. Death -- violent, disturbing death -- is ever present, portrayed in a manner that is astonishingly Read More

The Homecoming

Actors: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant, Terence Rigby, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: In The Homecoming, adapted from the play by Harold Pinter, Michael Jayston brings his wife Vivien Merchant home to visit his long-estranged family. Jayston's father Paul Rogers is a washout, his uncle Cyril Cusack is on the edge of senility, and his brothers Ian Holm and Terence Rigby are Read More

Get Carter

Actors: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley

Synopsis: Get Carter stars Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a powerful British gangster out for blood. His brother has been murdered in Newcastle, prompting Carter to declare a one-man war on other racketeers. Carter must also get his niece out of the life she is leading as an actress in pornographic films. Read More

Accident

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Vivien Merchant

Synopsis: The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this difficult but rewarding drama. Director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter had previously collaborated on 1963's The Servant, and they surrounded this Read More