Glenda May Jackson, better known as Glenda Jackson, was an British Actress. She has won two Academy Awards, an Golden Globes Awards and two BAFTA Awards. She's known for Women in Love (1969), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) and This Sporting Life (1963).
This movie portrays British poet/author Stevie Smith and her life with her beloved aunt through direct dialogue with the audience by Stevie, as well as flashbacks, and narration by a friend. The movie mainly focuses on her relatio...
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) is forced to understudy for the leading lady (Rita) at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director (Cecil B. DeThrill) is in the a...
Richard Harris is Frank Machin, an aggressive rugby-playing miner in the north of England who destroys the relationship he wants most by the force of his rebellious will. Anderson's incisive comment on class expatiation is as forc...
The film adaptation of Ibsen's play 'Hedda Gabler', the story of of a woman unhappy and frustrated with her middle-class existence, who derives satisfaction from the manipulation of those around her. Glenda Jackson received an Osc...
The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian's industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters Gudrun, a sculptress and Ursula Brang...
A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life...
A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is se...
Mary, Queen of Scot's half-brother and Queen Elizabeth of England plot against her because she has polarized the english population, a portion of whom embrace the "true" roman Catholic religion. Meanwhile, Mary Stewart's...
Caine and Jackson star as a novelist and his wife who invite Berger into their home with the hopes that he will both share their bed and help Caine with his new novel. This elegant and underrated comedy-drama candidly explores man...
Bittersweet, Oscar-winning romantic comedy concerns the complicated affair between a married American businessman and an English divorcee. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Son...
Every so often, an actor or actress will achieve a fame which transcends any memory of their work, and he or she becomes synonymous with the word "star." Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was one such person. A commanding perf...
The story takes place on Mother’s Day in 1924. Fir Mr. and Mrs. Evan give their housekeeper, Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), the day off, as the couple are set to go to their neighbor’s house to celebrate his engagement. The tr...
At the request of an old war time colleague, George Smiley agrees to investigate the murder Stella Rode, a junion master's wife at Carne School - a boy's school. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody wh...
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful st...
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize.
Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Alan Bates), returns from the front during the First World War shell-shoc...
The biographical drama of the difficult recovery of the actress Patricia Neal with the help of her husband, the writer Roald Dahl after having suffered from a sudden attack.
The most dangerous man in the world. He's about to expose the CIA, the FBI, the KGB...and himself. CIA agent Miles Kendig, tired of his incompetent colleagues, decides to get out of 'the game' and to ensure he's left alone he thre...
Barton is a soldier in WW2 England; he meets Alice, who is looking after her farm single-handed as her husband is a prisoner of the Japanese. Barton stays overnight and they get friendly, and he decides to desert and stay with Ali
When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
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