Penelope Wilton
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1946-06-03
Locus Natus: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Et ut: Penelope Alice Wilton, Penelope Winton, Пенелопа Уилтон, 페네로프 윌튼
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is...
release : 2004.04.09popularis : 30.815
Visitation
14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.524
Clockwise
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.
release : 1986.03.01popularis : 12.382
The History Boys
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or...
release : 2006.10.02popularis : 8.618
Iris
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with...
release : 2001.12.14popularis : 11.234
Calendar Girls
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
release : 2003.09.02popularis : 8.666
The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective...
release : 1981.08.28popularis : 10.235
Cry Freedom
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald...
release : 1987.11.06popularis : 9.915
Blame It on the Bellboy
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a...
release : 1992.01.24popularis : 4.085
Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...
release : 1977.03.09popularis : 3.174
Alice Through the Looking Glass
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland'...
release : 1998.12.26popularis : 13.497
Carrington
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted...
release : 1995.05.25popularis : 4.562
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the...
release : 2012.02.23popularis : 13.039
Laughterhouse
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.
release : 1984.09.01popularis : 2.007
Tom's Midnight Garden
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs...
release : 1999.07.02popularis : 3.746
Rockaby
An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she...
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 2.195
Brexit Shorts: The End
After 43 years together, Helen finds out her husband is leaving.
release : 2017.06.26popularis : 1.813
The Girl
Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers,...
release : 2012.10.22popularis : 12.04
Landscape
A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly...
release : 1995.10.21popularis : 0.935
Belle
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in...
release : 2013.05.01popularis : 11.774
Victoria & Albert
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and...
release : 2001.08.26popularis : 9.086
The Secret Rapture
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic...
release : 1993.09.12popularis : 3.193
Match Point
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris....
release : 2005.10.26popularis : 26.372
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors...
release : 2016.04.24popularis : 4.195
The Borrowers
The Borrowers are small, fifteen-centimeter-high humans, who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in...
release : 1993.11.27popularis : 2.897
The Deep Blue Sea
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The...
release : 1994.11.12popularis : 2.519
King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...
release : 1975.03.23popularis : 1.333
Country
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the...
release : 1981.10.20popularis : 1.842
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his...
release : 2015.02.26popularis : 8.711
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a...
release : 2022.07.15popularis : 1.537
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
release : 2000.12.25popularis : 2.446
Falling
Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures...
release : 2005.03.06popularis : 7.631
Celebration
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an...
release : 2007.02.26popularis : 2.273
The BFG
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle...
release : 2016.06.01popularis : 25.604
Lucky Jim
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British...
release : 2003.04.11popularis : 2.267
The Whistle-Blower
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the...
release : 2001.04.14popularis : 1.063
Half Broken Things
A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family
release : 2007.10.28popularis : 2.184
Margot
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the...
release : 2009.11.30popularis : 1.94
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best...
release : 2013.11.02popularis : 6.717
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National...
release : 2010.01.24popularis : 0.978
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when...
release : 2018.04.19popularis : 10.497
Zoo
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
release : 2018.06.08popularis : 8.961
Summerland
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
release : 2020.07.24popularis : 10.594
Eternal Beauty
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
release : 2020.08.21popularis : 5.233
Downton Abbey
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England...
release : 2019.09.12popularis : 19.263
Othello
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides...
release : 1981.10.04popularis : 5.304
King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...
release : 1982.09.19popularis : 5.223
Operation Mincemeat
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain...
release : 2022.04.01popularis : 12.849
Pride & Prejudice
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his...
release : 2005.09.16popularis : 53.004
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its...
release : 1972.10.03popularis : 1.182
Pasmore
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
release : 1980.10.21popularis : 0.813
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 3.661
Downton Abbey: A New Era
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile,...
release : 2022.04.27popularis : 25.758
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his...
release : 2023.04.27popularis : 13.287