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  • The Pallisers - Part 3
  • The Pallisers - Part 3 review by srb from Richmond, Surrey
    Rated - 4.0 stars Victorian soap that has everything 17 January 2006
    ...osity about which of his admirers he'll end up with - the tragic Laura Kennedy (Anna Massey) or the not-quite-respectable Madame Max (Barbara Murray)? All that, and at ...   Read customer review
  • The Chain
  • The Chain review by BluePeta from Brighton, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars The Chain 4 October 2006
    ...lve around them but there are some winceworthy moments from Nigel Hawthorne and Anna Massey as he returns to his house for a packet of rubber bands. Maurice Denham is a l...   Read customer review

Anna Massey - filmography


  • Affinity on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Anna Madeley,  Zoe Tapper,  Domini Blythe
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    ITV drama starring Zoe Tapper, Anna Madeley and Amanda Plummer. After the death of her father, Margaret Prior (Madeley) makes the decision to visit the inmates of Millbank, one of London's most infamous female prisons. Among Millbank's murderers and thieves, Margaret becomes fascinated by the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,252 members
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  • Tess Of The D'Ubervilles (2 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jodie Whittaker,  Laurence Richardson,  Eddie Redmayne
    Director: David Blair
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four-part television adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel, set in his fictional county of Wessex. When Tess (Gemma Arterton) is sent to work for distant relatives following the death of her parents, she is pursued and exploited by Alec D'Urberville (Hans Matheson), eventually falling pregnant ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,777 member
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  • Pinochet in Surbubia (2006)
    Starring: Derek Jacobi,  Phyllida Law,  Peter Capaldi
    Director: Richard Curson Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Drama about General Pinochets remarkable exile in the UK, Pinochet In Suburbia tells the story of a holiday trip that led to the Generals arrest and subsequent detention for some 500 days, from October 1998 to spring 2000. The story delicately weaves several narrative strands, including a tense and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 4 members
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  • The Gigolos on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Sacha Tarter,  Trevor Sather,  Susannah York
    Director: Richard Bracewell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Meet Sacha and Trevor - the smooth-talking favourite young gigolo of the over-50s of Mayfair and Piccadilly, and his awkward valet who takes his management role very seriously. Together, they are a force to be reckoned with. But when Sacha is forced to take a rest, the pressure is on the shy and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 687 members
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  • Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Joan Plowright,  Rupert Friend,  Anna Massey
    Director: Dan Ireland
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Feelgood comedy drama about an unlikely friendship between an elderly widow and a young author. After the death of her husband, Mrs Palfrey (Joan Plowright) decides to leave her home in Scotland and relocate to London to be nearer her grandson Desmond (Lorcan O'Toole). Taking up residence in the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 466 members
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  • Belonging (2004)
    Starring: Peter Sallis,  Brenda Blethyn,  Rosemary Harris
    Director: Christopher Menaul
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    TV drama starring Brenda Blethyn. Jess is a happily married woman with a heart of gold whose husband Jacob (Kevin Whately), the town's local handyman, is 'Mr Dependable'. Jess enjoys taking care of Jacob's elderly relatives who live with them both, but something is about to happen that will turn ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 156 members
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  • The Machinist on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
    Director: Brad Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Brooding psychological thriller, starring Christian Bale. Trevor Reznik (Bale) is a factory machine-operator who is suffering from crippling insomnia. His weight has plummeted, he suffers from hallucinations, and he finds himself unable to concentrate at work, leading to a horrific accident ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 61,722 members
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  • An Angel For May (2002)
    Starring: Hugo Speer,  Tom Wilkinson,  Geraldine James
    Director: Harley Cokeliss
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    British TV drama based on the novel by children's author Melvin Burgess, in which a young boy goes back in time. The film opens after an air raid during WWII, in which a young girl is calling for help, although we don't see her. We are then brought forward to the present time following Tom (Matthew ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 185 members
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  • Dark Blue World on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ondrej Vetchy,  Tara Fitzgerald,  Charles Dance
    Director: Jan Sverak
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    It's 1950 and the height of the Cold War in Communist-ruled, post-war Czechoslovakia. Ex-RAF Czech pilot Franta Slama - a man in his early forties - is confined to a labour camp as an "enemy of the people", because he had flown for the RAF during WWII. The new totalitarian Communist regime deemed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,524 member
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  • Room To Rent (2000)
    Starring: Clementine Celarie,  Rupert Graves,  Juliette Lewis
    Director: Khaled Hagar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ali (Said Taghmaoui) is a young Egyptian living in London with only a few weeks left on his visa. Eager to find a wife so that he might stay in the country, Ali becomes friends with model Linda (Juliette Lewis) and she offers to marry him for £3000. He falls in love with her and moves into her ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 13 members
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  • Captain Jack (1998)
    Starring: Peter McDonald,  David Troughton,  Sadie Frost
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Captain Jack (Bob Hoskins) is a rebellious old sea-dog. Ignoring all dangers, he is determined to follow in the wake of his hero Captain Scoresby and sail from Whitby to the Arctic. Jack pulls together a crew of misfits and loners and sets off on his intrepid journey - ignoring the fact that his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 274 members
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  • Driftwood (1997)
    Starring: Anne Brochet,  James Spader,  Anna Massey
    Director: Ronan O'Leary
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    French sculptor Sarah (Anne Brochet) lives on a remote part of an island. When she finds a man (James Spader) washed up on the beach, she takes him in, mending his broken leg. He suffers from amnesia, and Sarah becomes obsessed with keeping him to herself, telling him that they are on a deserted island.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 158 members
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  • Angels And Insects (1995)
    Starring: Douglas Henshall,  Jeremy Kemp,  Patsy Kensit
    Director: Philip Haas
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    William Adamson (Mark Rylance) is an impoverished naturalist whose fortunes seem to improve when he marries Eugenia (Patsy Kensit), the daughter of a rich aristocratic family. However, life amongst his new relatives isn't easy, with his brother-in-law Edgar (Douglas Henshall) taking an immediate ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 754 members
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  • Impromptu on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Judy Davis,  George Corraface
    Director: James Lapine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Judy Davis and Hugh Grant star in this comic tale in which George Sand, one of the most celebrated and infamous writers of her time, pursues the composer Fredric Chopin. Her notorious lifestyle and reputation make it a difficult task but she eventually seduces him in Paris.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 475 members
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  • A Hazard Of Hearts (1987)
    Starring: Gareth Hunt,  Edward Fox,  Neil Dickson
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Helena Bonham Carter stars as the beautiful Serena Staverley in this adaptation of Barbara Cartland's romantic novel. One night, betting against the debauched Lord Wrotham (Edward Fox), Serena's gambling addicted father (Christopher Plummer) stakes Serena's hand in marriage on the outcome of a game ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 189 members
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  • Hotel Du Lac on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Googie Withers,  Denholm Elliott,  Patricia Hodge
    Director: Giles Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A woman novelist breaks off an engagement and retreats to a hotel in the Swiss Alps, where she reflects on her life while idly observing the other guests. Adapted from Anita Brookner's Booker prize winning novel.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 606 members
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  • The Chain (1985)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Judy Parfitt,  Bernard Hill
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Screen play by legendary writer, Jack Rosenthal (Barmitzvah Boy, Wide Eyed and Legless), covers the trials of moving house as a group of people find their lives disrupted and changed when they become locked in the house chain.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 94 members
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  • Another Country on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Colin Firth,  Anna Massey
    Director: Marek Kanievska
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    He rebelled against his family. He outraged his friends. Finally he betrayed his country. Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance as Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,944 members
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  • Mansfield Park - BBC (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Nicholas Farrell,  Bernard Hepton,  Sylvestra Le Touzel
    Director: David Giles
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    1986 BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen. When Fanny Price (Sylvestra Le Touzel) is sent to live with her rich aunt and cousins by her debt-ridden mother, she struggles to adjust to her new aristocratic lifestyle. Her 'superior' relatives constantly ignore her, and only her cousin, Edmund (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 853 members
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  • Mayor Of Casterbridge (2 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Alan Bates,  Anna Massey,  Anne Stallybrass
    Director: David Giles
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A 1978 BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel. Eighteen years after selling his wife, Michael Henchard (Alan Bates) is set to become mayor of Casterbridge. When his wife and her daughter return, they set a disastrous chain of events in motion.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 473 members
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  • The Pallisers - Part 1 (2 discs) on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Barbara Murray,  Susan Hampshire,  Philip Latham
    Director: Hugh David
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The first seven episodes of the classic BBC period drama, based on Anthony Trollope's series of political novels and set amongst the upper classes of mid-Victorian England. Ambitious politician Plantagenet Palliser and Lady Glencora are forced into a politically advantageous marriage, setting the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 773 members
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  • The Pallisers - Part 3 (2 discs) on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Barbara Murray,  Susan Hampshire,  Philip Latham
    Director: Hugh David
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Episodes 14 - 20 of the BBC period drama, based on the series of novels by Anthony Trollope. The Palliser family now weild great influence in the political and social establishment of the time, but all that might be about to change as the country lurches inexorably towards a poltical crisis. At the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 427 members
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  • The Pallisers - Part 2 (2 discs) on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Barbara Murray,  Susan Hampshire,  Philip Latham
    Director: Hugh David
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Further eight episodes of the BBC period drama, based on the series of novels by Anthony Trollope. Following the successful marriage of Plantagenet Palliser (Philip Latham) and Lady Glencora (Susan Hampshire), Palliser begins his meteoric rise through the British political establishment of the mid-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 490 members
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  • Vault Of Horror on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Daniel Massey,  Glynis Johns
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Five separate horror tales, linked by the story of five men trapped in a vault beneath the Thames. The individual tales involve mysticism, vampires in an English town, the grisly end of an insurance racket, magicians, and the voodoo exploits of an artist who exacts revenge by painting the deaths of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 605 members
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  • Frenzy on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Alec McCowen,  Barbara Leigh Hunt,  Jon Finch
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation virtually in tatters, a far cry from his stature at the start of the 1960s. Then, he'd been in the middle of the massively successful trio of movies, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds, and was a ubiquitous presence on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,968 members
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  • Frenzy - Blu-ray (1972)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Alec Mcgowen,  Barry Foster
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alfred Hitchcock's first British film since 'Stage Fright' (1950) stars Barry Foster as market trader Robert Rusk, a psychopathic killer who strangles women with ties. Suspicion falls, however, on the innocent Richard Blaney (Jon Finch), after Rusk kills Blaney's ex-wife Brenda (Barbara Leigh-Hunt) ..read more »
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  • Bunny Lake Is Missing on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Carol Lynley,  Keir Dullea,  Keir Dullea
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 374 members
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  • Peeping Tom on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Carl Boehm,  Maxine Audley,  Michael Powell
    Director: Michael Powell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Michael Powell's controversial serial killer classic. A clean-cut focus puller (Carl Boehm) at the local film studio supplements his wages by taking girly photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent. By night he is a sadistic killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,160 members
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  • Peeping Tom - Blu-ray (1960)
    Starring: Carl Boehm,  Maxine Audley,  Michael Powell
    Director: Michael Powell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Michael Powell's controversial serial killer classic. A clean-cut focus puller (Carl Boehm) at the local film studio supplements his wages by taking girly photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent. By night he is a sadistic killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 518 members
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Anna Massey facts

5 most recent films

Kingdom - Series 3 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Affinity - 3.0 stars
Tess Of The D'Ubervilles - 4.0 stars
The Oxford Murders - 2.5 stars
Pinochet in Surbubia - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kingdom - Series 3 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Tess Of The D'Ubervilles - 4.0 stars
The Pallisers - Part 3 - 3.5 stars
Midsomer Murders - Written In Blood - 3.5 stars
The Machinist - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Frenzy - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Room To Rent - 2.0 stars
Pinochet in Surbubia - 3.0 stars
The Gigolos - 2.0 stars
Driftwood - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Wilkinson - 4 times - show films
Billie Whitelaw - 4 times - show films
Edward Fox - 4 times - show films
Colin Firth - 4 times - show films
Rupert Everett - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Hugh David - 9 times - show films
Michael Powell - 3 times - show films
Metin Huseyin - 3 times - show films
Oliver Parker - 3 times - show films
Metin Hüseyin - 3 times - show films