Joan Plowright Movies

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...

A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the...

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for...

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...

The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.

Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare...

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...

Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David...

A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.

Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the...

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...

Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John...

Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary...

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.