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review by srb from Richmond, Surrey
Victorian soap that has everything 17 January 2006
review by BluePeta from Brighton, England
The Chain 4 October 2006
Anna Massey - filmography
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Affinity
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Anna Madeley, Zoe Tapper, Domini Blythe
Director: Tim Fywell
Certificate: 
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 »
 
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
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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 »
77%
from 1,777 member
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Pinochet in Surbubia
(2006)
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Phyllida Law, Peter Capaldi
Director: Richard Curson Smith
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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 »
57%
from 4 members
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The Gigolos
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Sacha Tarter, Trevor Sather, Susannah York
Director: Richard Bracewell
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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 »
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
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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 »
71%
from 466 members
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Belonging
(2004)
Starring: Peter Sallis, Brenda Blethyn, Rosemary Harris
Director: Christopher Menaul
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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 »
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:
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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 »
65%
from 61,722 members
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An Angel For May
(2002)
Starring: Hugo Speer, Tom Wilkinson, Geraldine James
Director: Harley Cokeliss
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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 »
67%
from 185 members
Not available for rental
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Dark Blue World
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ondrej Vetchy, Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance
Director: Jan Sverak
Certificate: 
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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 »
69%
from 1,524 member
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Room To Rent
(2000)
Starring: Clementine Celarie, Rupert Graves, Juliette Lewis
Director: Khaled Hagar
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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 »
40%
from 13 members
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Captain Jack
(1998)
Starring: Peter McDonald, David Troughton, Sadie Frost
Director: Robert Young
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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 »
55%
from 274 members
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Driftwood
(1997)
Starring: Anne Brochet, James Spader, Anna Massey
Director: Ronan O'Leary
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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.
43%
from 158 members
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Angels And Insects
(1995)
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Jeremy Kemp, Patsy Kensit
Director: Philip Haas
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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 »
51%
from 754 members
Currently unavailable
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Impromptu
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Judy Davis, George Corraface
Director: James Lapine
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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.
54%
from 475 members
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A Hazard Of Hearts
(1987)
Starring: Gareth Hunt, Edward Fox, Neil Dickson
Director: John Hough
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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 »
62%
from 189 members
Currently unavailable
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Hotel Du Lac
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Googie Withers, Denholm Elliott, Patricia Hodge
Director: Giles Foster
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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.
63%
from 606 members
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The Chain
(1985)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Judy Parfitt, Bernard Hill
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate:
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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.
70%
from 94 members
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Another Country
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Anna Massey
Director: Marek Kanievska
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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.
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: 
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 »
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
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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.
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
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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 »
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
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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 »
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
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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 »
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
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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 »
63%
from 605 members
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Frenzy
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Alec McCowen, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Jon Finch
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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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 »
67%
from 2,968 members
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Frenzy - Blu-ray
(1972)
Starring: Jon Finch, Alec Mcgowen, Barry Foster
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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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
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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 »
68%
from 374 members
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Peeping Tom
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Carl Boehm, Maxine Audley, Michael Powell
Director: Michael Powell
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
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:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
72%
from 518 members
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Anna Massey facts
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...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)?
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