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  • Sexy Beast
  • Sexy Beast review by from West Yorkshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Sexy feast 10 March 2004
    ...to show that with a cast including Ray Winstone, Sir Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, James Fox and Amanda Redman we Brits can still churn out good movies. Ian McShane can fl...   Read customer review
  • Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
  • Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
    Rated - 4.0 stars It Was The Machines That Were Magnificent 6 February 2008
    ...ctors who are far more familiar playing the heavy: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Gert Frobe. And make no mistake, they are superb at it...   Read customer review
  • King Rat
  • King Rat review by from Leamington Spa, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Powerful and absorbing 22 March 2006
    ...Britain's finest plus George Segal. The first time I saw it I was blown away by James Fox as King's upper-class officer chum. This time the honours seem more evenly spre...   Read customer review

James Fox - filmography


  • Utopia - Series 1 on DVD (2013)
    Starring: Adeel Akhtar,  Alexandra Roach,  James Fox
    Director: Marc Munden,  Marc Munden
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Utopia is a cult graphic novel rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the late twentieth century. Dismissed as the fevered imaginings of a madman by most, and idolised by a handful, only one thing seems certain about Utopia: come into contact with it and you won't be safe for long. When ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 184 members
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  • Margaret on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Roger Ashton-Griffiths,  Lindsay Duncan,  Philip Jackson
    Director: James Kent
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Feature-length BBC docudrama based on the last years in the political career of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It is 1990 and support for Thatcher (Lindsey Duncan) within the government is beginning to waver. When long-serving politician Geoffrey Howe (John Sessions) resigns over ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 352 members
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  • Harley Street (2 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Ellis,  Oliver Dimsdale,  Suranne Jones
    Director: Paul Whittington
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The complete first season of the ITV drama series set in London's famous medical district. The series revolves around three doctors who run a General Practice at 192 Harley Street in London, including the strong-minded Martha Elliot (Suranne Jones), passionate ladies' man Robert Fielding (Paul ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 82 members
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  • Colditz (2 discs) (2005)
    Starring: Damian Lewis,  Laurence Fox,  Jason Priestley
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Television drama miniseries, set in the notorious German POW camp during World War Two. Three men decide to break out of the camp, but only one is successful - Nick McGrade (Damien Lewis) manages to make his way back to Britain, where he is recruited by the intelligence service MI9. When he breaks ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 672 members
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  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Anna Sophia Robb,  Noah Taylor,  David Kelly
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Family adventure based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The film centres around an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Most nights in the Bucket home, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 94,348 members
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  • The Prince and Me on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Julia Stiles,  Eliza Bennett,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Martha Coolidge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Romantic comedy starring Julia Stiles as Paige, a determined college student from the Midwest who meets and falls for Eddie (Luke Mably), a Danish foreign-exchange student. What Paige doesn't know is that Eddie is the son of the King (James Fox) and Queen (Miranda Richardson) of Denmark and has ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 14,311 members
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  • The Falklands Play on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Patricia Hodge,  John Standing,  James Fox
    Director: Michael Samuels
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Patricia Hodge and James Fox star in this BBC political drama. In 1982, Margaret Thatcher's government sent British forces to war to regain the Falkland Islands from occupying Argentinean troops. Four years later, the BBC commissioned a play on the conflict, only for playwright Ian Curteis's work ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 253 members
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  • The Lost World (2001)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Elaine Cassidy,  Tom Ward
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. Professor Challenger (Bob Hoskins) has discovered an Amazonian plateau where prehistoric life has continued to thrive. Eager to explore further, he mounts a fresh expedition and returns to discover not only dinosaurs but also highly-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 460 members
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  • Sexy Beast - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Ben Kingsley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,729 member
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  • Up at the Villa on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas,  Sean Penn,  Anne Bancroft
    Director: Philip Haas
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An impoverished English widow, on vacation near Florence, considers the marriage proposal of an aging British aristocrat who is governor of Bengal. She takes pity on a refugee, and gets in harm's way with an American playboy. After a good deed results in tragedy, she must choose between ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 503 members
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  • The Golden Bowl on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Jeremy Northam,  Madeleine Potter
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Merchant-Ivory adaptation of the Henry James novel about European nobility and American wealth at the end of the 19th century. Italian prince Amerigo (Jeremy Northam) is set to marry American heiress Maggie Verver (Kate Beckinsale), and must therefore break with his longtime mistress Charlotte (Uma ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,049 member
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  • Sexy Beast on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Ray Winstone,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gangster Gary Dove (Ray Winstone) has now retired to a villa on the Costa Del Sol, where he lives with ex-porn star wife DeeDee (Amanda Redman) and spends his time lazing by the pool and dining out with friends. All is well until Gary's psychotic former colleague Dan Logan (Ben Kingsley) arrives in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 14,948 members
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  • Lover's Prayer (1999)
    Starring: Geraldine James,  Nick Stahl,  Nick Stahl
    Director: Reverge Anselmo
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Coming of age drama set in 1800's Russia, starring Kirsten Dunst and Nick Stahl. Vladimir (Stahl) is the son of middle class parents who take summer residence next door to the house where Zinaida (Dunst) lives with her hard-drinking mother, the Princess Zasyekin (Julie Walters). Hired as page to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 55 members
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  • Mickey Blue Eyes on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joe Viterelli,  James Caan,  Gerry Becker
    Director: Kelly Makin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an Englishman working at an upmarket auction house in New York. He falls in love with Gina Vitale (Jeanne Tripplehorn), a schoolteacher from Queens, and proposes to her. However, Gina refuses to get married as she fears that Michael will be corrupted by her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 8,878 members
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  • Anna Karenina (1997)
    Starring: Sophie Marceau,  Sean Bean,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Bernard Rose
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 64 members
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  • Gulliver's Travels on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Geraldine Chaplin,  Ned Beatty
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This multi-million dollar television adaptation of the classic Jonathan Swift allegory was first transmitted on television over the Easter weekend in 1996 and drew critical acclaim and massive audiences. The story follows the adventures of Dr Lemuel Gulliver (Ted Danson) as he discovers strange and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 929 members
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  • The Choir (2 discs) (1995)
    Starring: Oliver Milburn,  Nicholas Farrell,  Jane Asher
    Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This mini-series, based on Joanna Trollope's novel, explores the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school. It features the singing voice of first-time actor and boy treble soloist Anthony Way, a real-life student at the St. Paul's Cathedral Choral School in London.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 236 members
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  • The Old Curiosity Shop on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Peter Ustinov,  Sally Walsh,  Tom Courtenay
    Director: Kevin Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    1995 TV adaptation of the classic Dickens novel. Little Nell (Sally Walsh) lives in Victorian England in the shop owned by her grandfather (Peter Ustinov). However, grandfather is heavily in debt to his wicked landlord, Mr Quilp (Tom Courtenay), who forecloses on all his loans when he discovers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 276 members
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  • The Remains of the Day on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Lena Headey
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the perfect butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 11,536 members
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  • Patriot Games - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Anne Archer,  Sean Bean
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harrison Ford plays CIA Jack Ryan for the first time in this adaptation of Tom Clancy's thriller, a follow-up to 'The Hunt for Red October'. This time around, Ryan prevents the assassination of a British Earl, killing one of the terrorist assassins in the process. The terrorist's brother Sean ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 296 members
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  • Hostage on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Talisa Soto,  Sam Neill,  Michael Kitchen
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Rennie (Sam Neill) is an uncompromising special forces agent with a taste for exotic women. Now, after years of serving his country, he decides he wants to retire. But when a senior defence analyst is kidnapped by international terrorists, the powers-that-be persuade the weary agent to enter ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 327 members
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  • Patriot Games on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Anne Archer,  Sean Bean
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harrison Ford plays CIA Jack Ryan for the first time in this adaptation of Tom Clancy's thriller, a follow-up to 'The Hunt for Red October'. This time around, Ryan prevents the assassination of a British Earl, killing one of the terrorist assassins in the process. The terrorist's brother Sean ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 14,321 members
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  • As You Like It (1992)
    Starring: Griff Rhys Jones,  Andrew Tiernan,  Emma Croft
    Director: Christine Edzard
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A modern take on Shakespeare's classic. A woman flees to an industrial wasteland, disguised as a boy to escape the fate threatened of her by her tyrannical uncle and gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 14 members
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  • Perfect Hero (2 discs) on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Nigel Havers,  Fiona Mollison,  Georgia Allen
    Director: James Cellan Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All six episodes of the TV drama starring Nigel Havers as a recovering WWII pilot trying to adapt to life after being shot down. After suffering horrific facial burns when the bomber he is piloting is shot down, Hugh Fleming (Havers)'s once promising future lies in ruins. Abandoned by his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 51 members
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  • The Russia House on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Blu Mankuma,  Roy Scheider,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this adaptation of John le Carre's novel. Russian book editor Katya (Pfeiffer) sends British publisher Barley Blair (Connery) a manuscript written by a Russian scientist. British Intelligence intercepts the manuscript, and convinces Blair to lead them to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,073 member
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  • The Whistle Blower (1987)
    Starring: Andrew Felindre,  Gordon Jackson,  Nigel Havers
    Director: Simon Langton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nigel Havers plays Bob, a Russian translator at G.C.H.Q., in Cheltenham. When a colleague is tried and convicted of spying, paranoia takes over the department. Bob is mysteriously found dead, which shatters his father Frank (Michael Caine), especially when the verdict of accidental death is given. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 463 members
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  • High Season (1987)
    Starring: Irene Papas,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Kenneth Branagh
    Director: Clare Peploe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An idealistic photographer (Jacqueline Bisset) lives on a beautiful Greek island which is regularly invaded by hordes of tourists. She enlists the help of an art historian friend to help sell an (allegedly) antique vase to raise funds for her continuing work.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 119 members
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  • Comrades - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Keith Allen,  David Atkins,  Stephen Bateman
    Director: Bill Douglas
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bill Douglas’ beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia, Douglas has created a film rich with carefully ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 162 members
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  • Comrades on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Keith Allen,  David Atkins,  Stephen Bateman
    Director: Bill Douglas
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bill Douglas’ beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia, Douglas has created a film rich with carefully ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 486 members
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  • Absolute Beginners (1985)
    Starring: David Bowie,  Patsy Kensit,  Eddie O'Connell
    Director: Julien Temple
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The film centers on Colin, an 18-year-old with a talent for photography and a fondness for the neon nightlife of British jazz clubs. He also is in love with Crepe Suzette, an impulsive, ambitious young beauty who abandons him after attracting the attention of a powerful fashion designer. Depressed ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 36 members
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  • A Passage To India on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Victor Banerjee,  Judy Davis,  Alec Guinness
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,808 members
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  • Anna Pavlova on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Galina Beliaeva,  James Fox,  Roy Kinnear
    Director: Emil Loteanu
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    This films charts the extraordinary life of the sickly little girl from a Russian village who becomes the world's most famous ballerina. Based on the real life story of the ballerina Anna Pavlova. It features incredible locations and an epic story.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 38 members
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  • Pinter's Progress And The Homecoming (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Paul Rogers,  Jonathan Pryce,  Ian Holm
    Director: Peter Hall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two films based on the work of playwright Harold Pinter. 'Pinter's Progress' (2009) is a documentary based around a series of interviews with actors, directors and writers who discuss their experiences of working with Pinter. 'The Homecoming' (1973) is a filmed version of the Pinter play. Made as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 26 members
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  • Performance on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Mick Jagger,  Anita Pallenberg,  Michelle Breton
    Director: Nicolas Roeg,  Donald Cammell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Even in an era of cinematic experimentation, Performance stands out as a visually daring major-studio film that deals with questions of sanity and identity rarely touched on in mainstream filmmaking. The elements of Performance certainly looked attractive to studio executives at Warner Bros. -- a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,207 members
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  • King Rat on DVD (1965)
    Starring: George Segal,  Patrick O'Neal,  Tom Courtenay
    Director: Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    George Segal stars as Corporal King 'Rat', wheeler-dealer prisoner of war in a Japanese camp, making money off his fellows and doing deals with the guards. Provost Marshal Tom Courtenay vows to get even with King for his dastardly doings.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 525 members
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  • The Servant - Blu-ray (1963)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Sarah Miles,  Wendy Craig
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse and employs Dirk Bogarde as a house-keeper. However, Bogarde becomes steadily more pervasive and manages to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 22 members
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  • The Servant (1963)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Sarah Miles,  Sarah Miles
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse and employs Dirk Bogarde as a house-keeper. However, Bogarde becomes steadily more pervasive and manages to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 730 members
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  • She Always Gets Their Man on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Sally Smith,  Ann Sears,  Terry Alexander
    Director: Godfrey Grayson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    British comedy starring Ann Sears as Betty Tate, a London lady who gets more than she bargained for when her cousin comes to visit. From the minute she arrives, the beautiful blonde Sally (Sally Smith) has the attention of all the men, much to the dismay of Betty and her friends at the Kensington ..read more »
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James Fox facts

5 most recent films

Utopia - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Utopia - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Margaret - 3.0 stars
Harley Street - 3.0 stars
Colditz - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Utopia - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Utopia - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution Volumes 5-8 - 4.0 stars
The Servant - 4.0 stars
Alan Bennett At The BBC - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

As You Like It - 2.0 stars
Absolute Beginners - 2.5 stars
Elgar - Elgar's Tenth Muse - 2.5 stars
Anna Pavlova - 2.5 stars
Pavlova - A Woman For All Time - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michael Caine - 5 times - show films
Cyril Cusack - 5 times - show films
Ian Holm - 4 times - show films
Sarah Miles - 4 times - show films
Vivien Merchant - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Bill Douglas - 6 times - show films
Ferdinand Fairfax - 6 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 5 times - show films
Charles Bees - 5 times - show films
Richard Eyre - 5 times - show films