Penelope Wilton — Actor (31)
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Carrington (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Carrington
director: Christopher Hampton actor: Emma Thompson / Jonathan Pryce …
other title: Carrington - Liebe bis in den Tod
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
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Celebration (2007) IMDb TMDB
Celebration
director: John Crowley actor: James Bolam / Janie Dee …
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) IMDb TMDB
The French Lieutenant's Woman
director: Karel Reisz actor: Meryl Streep / Jeremy Irons …
other title: La donna del tenente francese / Den franske løjtnants kvinde …
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
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The Norman Conquests (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Norman Conquests
director: Herbert Wise actor: Richard Briers / Fiona Walker …
The trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in laws gather at the decaying country home of their bedridden mother; the drink flows, and hidden enmities, intimate secrets and uncomfortable truths emerge through the veneer of jollity and civility.
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Iris (2001) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Iris
director: Richard Eyre actor: Kate Winslet / Judi Dench …
other title: Iris - Un amore vero
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Laughterhouse (1984) IMDb TMDB
Laughterhouse
director: Richard Eyre actor: Ian Holm / Penelope Wilton …
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 500 geese 100 miles to market at Christmastime.
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Landscape (1995) IMDb TMDB
Landscape
director: Harold Pinter actor: Ian Holm / Penelope Wilton
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 semblance of conversation. Doollee.com
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Rockaby (2000) IMDb TMDB
Rockaby
director: Richard Eyre actor: Penelope Wilton
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 calls for more.
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Cry Freedom (1987)
Cry Freedom
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Kevin Kline / Denzel Washington …
other title: Grido di libertà / Grita Liberdade …
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
director: Hettie Macdonald actor: Jim Broadbent / Penelope Wilton …
other title: L'imprevedibile viaggio di Harold Fry / Harold Frys usandsynlige pilgrimsfærd …
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 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.
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Operation Mincemeat (2022)
Operation Mincemeat
director: John Madden actor: Colin Firth / Matthew Macfadyen …
other title: L'arma dell'inganno - Operazione Mincemeat / Operação Secreta …
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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The Passion (2008) TMDB
The Passion
director: Michael Offer actor: Ben Daniels / Penelope Wilton …
other title: Das Leiden Christi / La Passion …
The Passion is a television drama serial that tells the story of the last week in the life of Jesus.
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Downton Abbey (2019) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Downton Abbey
director: Michael Engler actor: Hugh Bonneville / Laura Carmichael …
other title: 다운튼 애비 / ダウントン・アビー …
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 will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
director: John Madden actor: Bill Nighy / Maggie Smith …
other title: Marigold Hotel / O Exótico Hotel Marigold …
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
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Brief Encounters (2016) TMDB
Brief Encounters
director: Oriane Messina / Fay Rusling actor: Sophie Rundle / Angela Griffin …
other title: Good Vibrations
In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers party plan saleswomen.
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Clockwise (1986) IMDb TMDB
Clockwise
director: Christopher Morahan actor: John Cleese / Alison Steadman …
other title: Kuk i timeplanen / Clockwise - Recht so, Mr. Stimpson …
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.
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Dead Hot (2024) TMDB
Dead Hot
director: Charlotte Coben actor: Bilal Hasna / Vivian Oparah …
5 years ago, Elliot came home to find his soulmate Peter had vanished—with nothing left behind but his finger in a puddle of blood. Still living with Peter's twin Jess, they don't know if he ran away, was kidnapped or worse. Elliot tries moving on, and after a magical date with wonderful Will, that seems possible. But when shit hits the fan, Elliot and Jess know they need to find out the truth.