Prunella Scales — Actor (11)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
director: Jack Clayton actor: Maggie Smith / Bob Hoskins
other title: La segreta passione di Judith Hearne / Die große Sehnsucht der Judith Hearne
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
The Wicked Lady (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Wicked Lady
director: Michael Winner actor: Faye Dunaway / Alan Bates
other title: L'avventuriera perversa / Den onde Lady
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
Stiff Upper Lips (1998) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Stiff Upper Lips
director: Gary Sinyor actor: Georgina Cates / Peter Ustinov
other title: Arrogantes y exquisitos
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
Room at the Top (1958) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Room at the Top
director: Jack Clayton actor: Laurence Harvey / Simone Signoret
other title: La strada dei quartieri alti / Um Lugar na Alta Roda
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Consuming Passions (1988) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Consuming Passions
director: Giles Foster actor: Tyler Butterworth / Vanessa Redgrave
other title: Cioccolato bollente / Pasión devoradora
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
Breaking the Code (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Breaking the Code
director: Herbert Wise actor: Derek Jacobi / Alun Armstrong
other title: Der codierte Mann / Descifrando el código
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
A Question of Attribution (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Question of Attribution
director: John Schlesinger actor: James Fox / Prunella Scales
other title: Una questione di attribuzione
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
The Boys from Brazil (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Boys from Brazil
director: Franklin J. Schaffner actor: Gregory Peck / Laurence Olivier
other title: I ragazzi venuti dal Brasile / Drengene fra Brasilien
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Howards End (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Howards End
other title: Casa Howard / Regresso a Howards End
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.