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Law, Redgrave and Spacey up for theatre awards -
2 December 2011
-Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Kevin Spacey are among the stars nominated for the upcoming Whatsonstage.com Awards, which honour the best in London theatre.-Law has been nominated for the Best Actor trophy for his role in the West End run of Anna Christie. He will be up
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Redgrave pays tribute to Russell -
29 November 2011
-Veteran actress Vanessa Redgrave has remembered late director Ken Russell as a "genius" and revealed she still treasures a tribute he wrote following the death of her daughter Natasha Richardson.-Tommy director Russell, who passed away on Sunday (27Nov11) aged 84, cast R
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Redgrave honoured for acting career -
14 November 2011
-Acting legends Meryl Streep, Ralph Fiennes and James Earl Jones came together in London on Sunday (13Nov11) to honour Vanessa Redgrave for her lengthy career.-Redgrave was feted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the first-ever European tribute to an a
Vanessa Redgrave - what members say
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Where was Oscar?! 24 February 2010
review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
Good action movie 8 May 2006
review by Topkit from Berkshire
Highly recommended 6 April 2004
Vanessa Redgrave - filmography
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Prefaces To Shakespeare
(2012)
Starring: David Tennant, Ethan Hawke, Derek Jacobi
Certificate: 
The documentary will uncover the ways in which we, his audiences, are still influenced and affected by Shakespeare, every day of our lives, even when we dont know it. Starring: David Tennant, Ethan Hawke, Derek Jacobi, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave and Jeremy Irons.
 
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Due for release on 27th August 2012
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Call The Midwife
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Ben Caplan, Jessica Raine
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
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BBC drama CALL THE MIDWIFE is based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, who began a career in midwifery in the 1950s. Newly qualified, Jenny is sent to work alongside an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House in London's East End.
86%
from 282 members
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Coriolanus - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Certificate: 
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Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, CORIOLANUS, scripted by John Logan, updates one of Shakespeare's more difficult plays, without sacrificing the Bard's original dialogue. Set in modern times, the movie stars Fiennes as the title character, a fierce General able to fight Rome's most dreaded enemies ..read more »
61%
from 35 members
Due for release on 4th June 2012
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Anonymous
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Xavier Samuel, Rhys Ifans, Jamie Campbell Bower
Director: Roland Emmerich
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A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare-- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford-- set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.
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from 1,941 member
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Anonymous - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Xavier Samuel, Rhys Ifans, Jamie Campbell Bower
Director: Roland Emmerich
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Director Roland Emmerich explores the mystery surrounding William Shakespeare in this period drama set in Elizabethan England, when tightly-guarded political secrets were often exposed on the stages of London's most prominent theatres. For centuries, historians have searched for clues as to who ..read more »
61%
from 769 members
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Robinson In Ruins
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Patrick Keiller
Certificate: 
Newly free from prison, mysterious flâneur Robinson has been haunting the Oxfordshire countryside. Rusting film cans found abandoned in an old caravan turn out to contain the results of his research a visual investigation into the historic ruins of the English landscape and the reality of late ..read more »
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from 90 members
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Robinson In Ruins - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Patrick Keiller
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Newly free from prison, mysterious flâneur Robinson has been haunting the Oxfordshire countryside. Rusting film cans found abandoned in an old caravan turn out to contain the results of his research a visual investigation into the historic ruins of the English landscape and the reality of late ..read more »
53%
from 53 members
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Letters to Juliet
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Gary Winick
Certificate: 
When Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is left to explore Verona while her fiancee works she discovers a wall of lovelorn letters to Juliet Capulet, of Romeo and Juliet fame. Talking with the women who answer these letters she decides to respond to one herself. To her surprise the letter writer and her ..read more »
69%
from 20,108 members
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Day Of The Triffids
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard
Director: Nick Copus
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A modern day adaptation of John Wyndham's best-selling iconic novel, which brings his terrifying creation of carnivorous plant species to life in a CGI extravaganza, supported by a sensational all-star cast that includes Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Vanessa Redgrave and ..read more »
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from 1,852 member
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Day Of The Triffids - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard
Director: Nick Copus
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A modern day adaptation of John Wyndham's best-selling iconic novel, which brings his terrifying creation of carnivorous plant species to life in a CGI extravaganza, supported by a sensational all-star cast that includes Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Vanessa Redgrave and ..read more »
54%
from 1,170 member
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How About You...
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Joss Ackland, Hayley Atwell, Orla Brady
Director: Anthony Byrne
Certificate:
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Ellie is left in charge of an elderly residential home, and while most of the residents have left to spend Christmas with their families, four residents known as 'The Hard Core' remain. The Hard Core have become impossible to live with. In fact, their rude and objectionable behaviour is so terrible ..read more »
68%
from 653 members
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The Riddle
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Vinnie Jones, Derek Jacobi, Julie Cox
Director: Brendan Foley
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A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub. Gradually he becomes obsessed with unraveling a century-old murder in the pages of the manuscript. Only when he has done so, with the help of ..read more »
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from 517 members
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Atonement - HD
(2007)
Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai
Director: Joe Wright
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Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
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from 880 members
Not currently released
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Atonement - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai
Director: Joe Wright
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On a sultry summer day in 1935, an upper-class British family prepares for a dinner party at their country estate. The participants include Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen writer, her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley), Cambridge graduate and femme fatale, Robbie Turner (..read more »
72%
from 181 members
Not available for rental
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Evening
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Lajos Koltai
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A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
57%
from 5,323 members
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Atonement
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai
Director: Joe Wright
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Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
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from 101,845 members
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The Shell Seekers
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Prunella Scales, Alastair Mackenzie
Director: Piers Haggard
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When Penelope Keeling, the 64-year-old daughter of a famous artist suffers a mild heart attack, it presents her with the opportunity to reassess her life and the chance to revisit the past. Leaving her home in the English countryside, Penelope travels to the Mediterranean island of Ibiza to visit ..read more »
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from 500 members
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Short Order
(2005)
Starring: Emma De Caunes, Jack Dee, Vincent Fegan
Director: Anthony Byrne
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Fifi Koko, a young chef prodigy, falls prey to an existential quagmire that fears her talent shall not overcome the expectations her reputation has sown. The late hours bring about a colorful cast of strangers and romances that feed her with temptation, insight and humor on the path of her life-..read more »
35%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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White Countess
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: James Ivory
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Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
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from 4,619 members
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Byron
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Little
Director: Julian Farino
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The BBC biopic BYRON recreates the life and times of early 19th century scribe Lord George Gordon Byron (Jonny Lee Miller of TRAINSPOTTING), widely considered one of the finest English-language belletrists in history. Though Byron culled enormous repute for the scandalous, taboo-breaking lead ..read more »
59%
from 533 members
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The Locket
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Marguerite Moreau, Chad Willett
Director: Karen Arthur
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Vanessa Redgrave stars as Esther, a woman who befriends and helps out Michael (Chad Willet), a young man who has had a tough life and could possibly lose out on the love of his life. Through her friendship and guidance, she tries to see Michael through his trying times. In return, she has a favour ..read more »
48%
from 87 members
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The Pledge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Mirren, Michael O'Keefe
Director: Sean Penn
Certificate:
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Director Sean Penn's (THE INDIAN RUNNER, THE CROSSING GUARD) third film features Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black, a retired detective whose final case ultimately causes his slow descent into madness. In the midst of his retirement party, Black decides to join Detective Stan Krolak (Aaron Eckhart) on ..read more »
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from 3,487 members
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Deep Impact - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Mimi Leder
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A reporter believes that she has discovered a Congressman's affair. But as it turns out, Elle isn't a mistress, but something used to describe an event so cataclysmic that it could destroy the planet...When it is discovered that an enormous comet is on a collision course with Earth, a handful of ..read more »
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from 797 members
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Lulu On The Bridge
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Willem Dafoe
Director: Paul Auster
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Writer Paul Auster made his solo directorial debut with this romantic drama about an affair between a middle-aged musician and an aspiring actress. Hit by a stray bullet during a nightclub shooting, jazz saxophonist Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel) can no longer play, and he falls into a depression. His ..read more »
54%
from 134 members
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Deep Impact
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Mimi Leder
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A fourteen-year-old amateur astronomer, an ambitious newswoman, and a former astronaut all find themselves at the forefront of catastrophe when it is discovered that a comet is on a fatal collision course with the Earth. In the time leading up to the disaster, they find themselves searching for ..read more »
63%
from 9,078 members
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Bella Mafia
(1997)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Tilly, Nastassja Kiniski
Director: David Greene
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Follows the story of the family of Sicilian magnate Don Luciano. When a series of murders tear the family apart, its women group together to gain revenge on those responsible for the carnage.
63%
from 212 members
Not currently released
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Wilde
(1997)
Starring: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Brian Gilbert
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This unconventional biopic traces the brilliant, witty, and tragic life of Oscar Wilde from his rise to fame as a much-in-demand author and public speaker to his downfall and ultimate imprisonment for homosexuality. Thoughout the melodrama, the amazing performance of comic actor and author Stephen ..read more »
67%
from 4,359 members
Not currently released
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Mrs Dalloway
(1997)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves
Director: Marleen Gorris
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Critically-acclaimed adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. It's a lovely summer day and Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for an elaborate party. During the day of her party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful, vivacious and much-courted young woman. ..read more »
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from 1,298 member
Not currently released
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Mission: Impossible
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Randall Paul, John McLaughlin, Karel Dobry
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
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from 39,049 members
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Mission: Impossible - HD
(1996)
Starring: Randall Paul, John McLaughlin, Karel Dobry
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
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from 373 members
Not currently released
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Mission: Impossible - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Randall Paul, John McLaughlin, Karel Dobry
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
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from 3,289 members
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A Month by the Lake
(1995)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Uma Thurman, Edward Fox
Director: John Irvin
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At a luxurious lakeside resort, an attractive red-headed guest has her eye on a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt, the mischievous redhead goes to outrageous lengths -- including a fling with a passionate younger man -- to reel in her wealthy catch!
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from 34 members
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The House of the Spirits
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons
Director: Billie August
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Based on Isabel Allende's novel and set in a South American country beset by constant turmoil and bloody power struggles, this film follows three generations of the Truebas family from the 1920s through the 1970s. Just as the nation around them is at odds with itself, the family painfully and ..read more »
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from 1,777 member
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Little Odessa
(1994)
Starring: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly
Director: James Gray
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Hitman Joshua plays a deadly game of chance when he returns to Brighton Beach to eliminate an Iranian jeweller. His return stirs up a past that could incite his own execution...
58%
from 45 members
Currently unavailable
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Howard's End
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: James Ivory
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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 ..read more »
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from 5,662 members
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Prick Up Your Ears
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate: 
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 ..read more »
66%
from 2,784 members
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Wetherby
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench
Director: David Hare
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A lonely Yorkshire schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave), hosts a dinner party for her friends at her cottage in Wetherby. A stranger, John Morgan (Tim McInnerny), arrives at the party with Marcia and Stanley Pilborough (Judi Dench and Ian Holm). Unexpectedly, he returns the next day and ..read more »
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from 101 members
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The Bostonians
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory brings Henry James's classic novel THE BOSTONIANS to the screen in this evocative, historical adaptation filled with exciting, exacting performances. The story centers on the fight between an ardent feminist and a southern gentleman for a charismatic faith healer's daughter. ..read more »
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from 334 members
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Wagner - Movie
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Director: Tony Palmer
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A seven-hour epic film of the life of the composer Richard Wagner. The musical score is performed by the London, Vienna and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestras, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.
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from 268 members
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Playing for Time
(1980)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams
Director: Daniel Mann
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When Jewish songstress Fania Fénelon (Vanessa Redgrave) is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task: using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers. Daniel Mann directs this Emmy-..read more »
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from 2 members
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Agatha
(1979)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton
Director: Michael Apted
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An imaginative account of the 11 day disappearance of novelist Agatha Christie in 1926. When her husband Archie (Dalton) confronts her with his affair and demands a divorce, crime writer Agatha Christie (Redgrave) tells him she fears for her life and promptly vanishes.
She signs into a Harrogate ..read more »
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from 10 members
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Yanks
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn
Director: John Schlesinger
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From early 1942 until D-Day, several million Americans landed in Britain on their way to fight at the European front. To the war-weary British, many of these troops were "overpaid and oversexed." But despite the resentment, with thousands of men abroad, the stage was set for romantic dalliances ..read more »
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from 840 members
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Mary Queen Of Scots
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Glenda Jackson, Ian Holm
Director: Charles Jarrott
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Political intrigue, strong women, weak men, and countless conspiracies fuel this beautifully staged--though not completely accurate--historical drama about the life of 'Fiery' Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (Vanessa Redgrave). In the wake of the Protestant Reformation, Mary Stuart becomes enmeshed in ..read more »
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from 172 members
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A Quiet Place in the Country
(1969)
Starring: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Geret
Director: Elio Petri
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Leonardo (Franco Nero) is a painter who retreats to a house in the country to regain his lost inspiration. He is plagued by the presence of an erotic apparition. The gorgeous ghost soon moves the painter to the point he wishes to carry on a relationship with her. Leonardo is several bristles shy of ..read more »
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from 4 members
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Camelot
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Laurence Naismith, Estelle Winwood, Gary K. Marshall
Director: Joshua Logan
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A musical adaptation of the legendary King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table. Songs include: 'If Ever I Would Leave You', 'How To Handle A Woman' and 'Then You May Take Me To The Fair'. Music directors include Ken Darby and Alfred Newman. Music and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Edward Carere ..read more »
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from 952 members
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Blow Up
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Watch now: £2.49
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 ..read more »
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Vanessa Redgrave facts
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...t an actor and that is the central flaw in this film.
Great performances from Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Sheen, Jude Law and Jennifer Elhe but the whole thing let down by all ...
