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A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons (1966) more movies like this

directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York

Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage role as Sir Thomas More. The crux of the film is the staunchly Catholic More's refusal to acknowledge King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw)'s break from the church to divorce his first wife and marry Anne ...

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Camelot

Camelot (1967) more movies like this

directed by Joshua Logan
featuring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries

Joshua Logan directs this lavish version of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway success with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and Franco Nero in the lead roles originally portrayed on Broadway by Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet. The musical, based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King, chronicles the legend of ...

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Deep Impact

Deep Impact (1998) more movies like this

directed by Mimi Leder
featuring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski

Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White House press conference. United States President Beck ...

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Howards End

Howards End (1992) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, James Wilby, Samuel West

One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is "poor relation" Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of the estate of Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave), an ...

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Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Vanessa Redgrave

Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and murder of the infant daughter of a famed aviatrix. ...

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If These Walls Could Talk 2

If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Anne Heche, Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Marian Seldes, Michelle Williams, Natasha Lyonne, Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres

This three-part drama, produced for HBO, examines the changing tides of the lives of lesbians in America, both politically and personally, as we eavesdrop on three stories taking place in the same house over a span of five decades. In 1961, the house is home to Edith (Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby (Marian Seldes), an elderly lesbian couple whose ...

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Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted (1999) more movies like this

directed by James Mangold
featuring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg

In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and the bizarre world of the institution. Susanna ...

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Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway (1997) more movies like this

directed by Marleen Gorris
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, John Standing

This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home she shares with her husband, a prominent politician, she finds herself looking back on her life 30 years before, when ...

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The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm (2002) more movies like this

directed by Richard Loncraine
featuring Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey

Today, Winston Churchill is regarded as one of the great leaders of his time, and a hero for helping to guide Great Britain through the crises of World War II. But in the 1930s, Churchill's place in history hardly seemed assured; his early warnings against the growing threat of the Third Reich were taken seriously by few of his contemporaries, and ...

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Atonement

Atonement (2007) more movies like this

directed by Joe Wright
featuring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave

A mischievous girl accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit, only to find that her words have irrevocably and permanently changed the lives of all involved in a film that re-teams the filmmakers behind Pride & Prejudice to adapt the best-selling 2002 novel by author Ian McEwan. The year is 1935, and as the summer heat takes ...

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Blow-Up (1966) more movies like this

directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
featuring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Peter Bowles, John Castle

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language production was also his only box office hit, widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his "fab" but oddly-lifeless existence of casual sex and ...

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Julia (1977) more movies like this

directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Jr., Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook

The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards), Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) ...

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Evening (2007) more movies like this

directed by Lajos Koltai
featuring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy

As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago, one she kept secret all their lives. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (played by Claire Daines) spends one night ...

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Yanks (1979) more movies like this

directed by John Schlesinger
featuring Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera, Rachel Roberts

John Schlesinger directs the war romance Yanks, based on the story by Colin Welland. Set in England at the end of WWII, the story concerns three American GIs and their affairs with British women of varying social status. The central romance concerns Sgt. Matt Dyson (Richard Gere) and Jean Moreton (Lisa Eichhorn making her film debut), who is the ...

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A Month by the Lake (1995) more movies like this

directed by John Irvin
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli, Alessandro Gassman

This romantic comedy is set upon Italy's beautiful Lake Como just before WW II erupted in Europe. British, middle-aged, but still-attractive Miss Bentley has come to the lake to visit the family resort. She has not been there since her father died and since her 14-year relationship with a married man broke up. The place has changed since she was ...

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Agatha (1979) more movies like this

directed by Michael Apted
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse, Celia Gregory

What happened when best-selling mystery novelist Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days back in 1926? The British Agatha "answers" that question. Vanessa Redgrave is cast as Ms. Christie, who vanished from her home not long after her husband (Timothy Dalton) informed her that he was leaving her. Nearly two weeks later, after being the subject of ...

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The Fever (2004) more movies like this

directed by Carlo Gabriel Nero
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Moore, Angelina Jolie, Joely Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia, Geraldine James

Director Carlo Gabriel Nero brings actor/playwright Wallace Shawn's controversial study of the growing chasm between the first and third world from stage to screen with this tale of a privileged woman whose reality suddenly suffers a profound shift. A bourgeois woman awakens suffering from a particularly intense fever and trapped in an ...

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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Loggia

Julia Ormond stars as Copenhagen resident Smilla Jasperson, a reclusive, half-Inuit scientist who befriends a neglected Inuit boy who lives in her building. Arriving home from work one day, Smilla is mortified to learn that the boy has died in a fall from the building's roof. Suspicious because she knows that her young friend was afraid of heights ...

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Wetherby (1985) more movies like this

directed by David Hare
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Marjorie Yates, Stuart Wilson, Tim McInnerny

In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that ostensibly focuses on an innocent dinner party but is really about something else. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is an old-maid schoolmarm who has lived in Wetherby, a small town in northeastern Yorkshire, all of her life. ...

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Venus (2006) more movies like this

directed by Roger Michell
featuring Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Richard Griffiths, Vanessa Redgrave

An aging pair of veteran English actors whose success never quite took hold finds their quiet existence suddenly interrupted by the arrival of one of the men's precocious grandnieces in director Roger Michell's affectionate comedy drama. Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) may still land the occasional paying gig -- Maurice has ...

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Mother's Boys (1994) more movies like this

directed by Yves Simoneau
featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave, Luke Edwards

A psychotic estranged wife attempts to sabotage her husband's new romance by turning her children against his lover in this thriller. Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) had abandoned her husband Robert (Peter Gallagher) and their three sons several years earlier. Unfortunately, now that Robert has filed for divorce after falling in love with Callie (Joanne ...

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Prick Up Your Ears (1987) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Frears
featuring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters

This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Loot and What the Butler Saw is evenly balanced by ...

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Morgan! (1966) more movies like this

directed by Karel Reisz
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw, Newton Blick

A classic 1960's cult film in the British "angry young man" tradition, the hero of this film from Czech director Karel Reisz is more lunatic than agitator. Morgan Delt (David Warner) is an artist from a working class background, married to Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave), a woman far above him in social standing. Given to a rich fantasy life to begin ...

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Wilde (1998) more movies like this

directed by Brian Gilbert
featuring Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Tom Wilkinson

Literary genius, legendary wit, bon vivant, and gay martyr, Oscar Wilde was a man whose legend has grown to iconic proportions since his death at the beginning of the 20th century. Establishing Wilde (Stephen Fry) as a loving family man, complete with a wife (Jennifer Ehle) and two adorable sons, the film takes pains to portray him as a dignified ...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) more movies like this

directed by Tony Richardson
featuring Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett

During the ill-fated charge of British troops at Balaclava in the Crimean War, loyal soldiers who blindly followed orders were led to certain death. This is the fifth time the story has been told on film, but the actual event is an afterthought to the main plot. Snobbish aristocrats and ineffectual politicos combine with pompous blue-bloods to ...

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