Joan Plowright

All Movies of Joan Plowright

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  8.0
  Drowning by Numbers
  An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place in a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local...
   1988

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  8.0
  Uncle Vanya
  Character: Sonya

   1963

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  7.5
  Three Sisters
  In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meanin...
  Character: Masha

   1970

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  7.2
  Enchanted April
  This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has it's own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously fi
   1992

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  7.2
  Nothing Like a Dame
  Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that goes back more than half a century. The four acting greats discuss their careers and reminisce about their humble beginn
   2018

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  7.1
  Stalin (TV)
  The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
  Character: Olga

   1992

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  7.0
  George and the Dragon
  The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that has changed forever. An age of legends and mystery is about to unf...
   2004

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  7.0
  The Return of the Native (TV)
  Based on the classic novel written by Thomas Hardy, this is the tragic story of Eustacia Vye, a beautiful young woman who feels trapped by her environment.
  Character: Mrs. Yeobright

   1994

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  7.0
  The Merchant of Venice (TV)
  Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using Antonio as his collateral, he borrows money from Shylock. But when the debt comes due, Shylock demands repayment in the form of a pound of Antonio's flesh.
  Character: Portia

   1973

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  7.0
  Equus
  A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the o...
   1977

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  6.9
  Avalon
  Sam Krichinsky came to America in 1914. Then he came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place he had seen in his entire life. Sam and his brothers married, had children and went to work, putting money into a hat to bring over...
  Character: Eva Krichinsky

   1990

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  6.9
  Widows' Peak
  A quaint Irish town in the 20s is set buzzing when a sexy, secretive stranger arrives, seducing the men and manipulating the women in this comic murder-mystery.
  Character: Mrs. Doyle-Counihan

   1994

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  6.8
  The Entertainer
  Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical jokes about sex and politics and hu...
  Character: Jean Rice

   1960

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  6.7
  Jane Eyre
  Jane Eyre (portrayed as the orphan child by Anna Paquin and as an adult by Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the plain, impoverished young woman who is hired by Mr. Rochester (William Hurt) through Mrs. Fairfax (Joan Plowright) to work as ...
  Character: Mrs. Fairfax

   1996

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  6.6
  The Spiderwick Chronicles
  From the beloved best-selling series of books comes The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy adventure for the child in all of us. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, his sister ...
  Character: Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick

   2008

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  6.5
  Brimstone & Treacle
  Brimstone and Treacle is a modern gothic tale about the evil that men do and the price that must be paid to make things right. The film, a remake of a 1976 teleplay that included Denholm Elliot in its original cast as Mr. Bates, t...
   1982

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  6.1
  Tea with Mussolini
  Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli looks at the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman. The boy's mother has died, and he is raised by an Englishwoman in pre-WWII Fascist Italy. Living...
  Character: Mary Wallace

   1999

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  6.0
  The Diary of Anne Frank (TV)
  The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
  Character: Mrs. Frank

   1980

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  6.0
  I Am David
  An extraordinary family adventure, I AM DAVID follows a 12 year-old boy as he boldly escapes from an East European prison camp and makes an incredible personal journey to freedom. Fleeing with only a compass, half a loaf of bread ...
  Character: Sophie

   2004

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  5.8
  Last Action Hero
  Young Danny spends all his time watching action movies in a rundown theatre. His aging projectionist friend Nick invites Danny to a special preview screening of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new action movie ‘Jack Slater IV’ and g...
  Character: Teacher

   1993

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  5.7
  Revolution
  New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convince...
  Character: Mrs. McConnahay

   1985

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  5.6
  I Love You to Death
  Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the questio...
  Character: Nadja

   1990

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  5.4
  Surviving Picasso
  In 1943, a young painter, Françoise Gilot (1921- ) meets Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), already the most celebrated artist in the world. For the next ten years, she is his mistress, bears him two children, is his muse, and paints wit...
   1996

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  5.3
  Dennis the Menace
  When his parents have to go out of town, Dennis stays with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. The little menace is driving Mr. Wilson crazy, but Dennis is just trying to be helpful. Even to the thief who's arrived in town.
  Character: Martha Wilson

   1993

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  5.2
  Callas Forever
  A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas (Ardant).
  Character: Sarah Keller

   2002

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  5.2
  Bringing Down the House
  A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on track after his wife, Kate (Jean S...
  Character: Virginia Arness

   2003

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  5.0
  Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (TV)
  Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in US history. Aldrich Ames was a middle-class CIA agent, whose problems with alcohol and general ineptness had kept him from rising f...
   1998

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  5.0
  101 Dalmatians
  A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals then gang up against her and get their revenge in slapstick fashion.
  Character: Nanny

   1996

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  5.0
  Britannia Hospital
  Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital t...
   1982

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  4.5
  Bewitched
  Based on the classic TV show which aired from 1964-72. In Columbia Pictures' beguiling romantic comedy, Bewitched, an all-stall cast led by Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine cast their spell on the mo...
   2005

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  4.2
  The Scarlet Letter
  In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she establishes independence, fixing up a house, befriending Quakers a...
  Character: Harriet Hibbons

   1995

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  4.1
  Mr. Wrong
  A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince anyone else of his Jekyll/Hyde true nature
  Character: Mrs. Crawford

   1996

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  Peace one day
  The story of Jeremy Gilley's attempts to persuade the global community via the United Nations to sanction officially a day without conflict; a ceasefire day; a global day of Peace.
  Character: Self

   2004

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  Rock My World
  When a rock band at the top of their game suddenly loses their leader, their direction suddenly becomes questionable. All the band members know is that the leader's clothes were found at the edge of a waterfront and he had not bee...
   2002

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  Dance With Me
  Rafael Infante (Chayanne), a Cuban native who never met his real father, immigrates to America. Taking up residence in Houston, he begins searching for his illegitimate father and takes up employment as a superintendent at the wor...
   1998

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  Sorrento Beach
  "Sorrento Beach" is set in a small Victorian seaside town near Melbourne at the home of the Moynihans. It concerns the long-brewing rivalries and jealousies among three sisters: Hilary, a widow who lives in Sorrento with...
   1995

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  A Pyromaniac's Love Story
  A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire that destroys his workplace. Garet, the real arsonist, is apalled that som...
   1995

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  A Place for Annie (TV)
  Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later...
   1994

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  The Dressmaker
  In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
   1988

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  All for Love (TV Series)
  Character:  Edith 1 episode, 1982

   1982