Vanessa Redgrave — Actor (61)
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Little Odessa (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Little Odessa
director: James Gray actor: Tim Roth / Edward Furlong …
other title: Fuga para Odessa / Cuestión de sangre
Long separated from his Russian family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.
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Deep Impact (1998) [Movie]
Deep Impact
director: Mimi Leder actor: Robert Duvall / Téa Leoni …
other title: Impacto Profundo
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
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The Gathering Storm (2002) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
The Gathering Storm
director: Richard Loncraine actor: Albert Finney / Vanessa Redgrave …
other title: Guerra imminente / O Encontro …
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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The Butler (2013) [Movie]
The Butler
director: Lee Daniels actor: Forest Whitaker / Oprah Winfrey …
other title: The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca / O Mordomo da Casa Branca …
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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Howards End (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Howards End
director: James Ivory actor: Emma Thompson / Helena Bonham Carter …
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.
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Man in an Orange Shirt (2017) [TV] IMDb TMDB
Man in an Orange Shirt
director: Patrick Gale actor: Julian Morris / Oliver Jackson-Cohen …
other title: El hombre de la camisa naranja
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
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The Devils (1971) [Movie]
The Devils
8.6 (5 ratings) director: Ken Russell actor: Vanessa Redgrave / Oliver Reed …
other title: I diavoli / Os Diabos …
In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Robinson in Ruins (2010) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Robinson in Ruins
director: Patrick Keiller actor: Vanessa Redgrave
other title: 废墟中的罗宾森
The eagerly awaited sequel to Patrick Keiller's London and Robinson in Space is a beautifully photographed cinematic essay on our current environmental and economic predicament, narrated by Vanessa Redgrave. Timely, provocative and studded with surreal humour, Robinson in Ruins reveals hidden histories and surprising visions (from the opium poppy fields of Oxfordshire to what seems to be a talking post box), making us consider the world around us afresh.
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Call the Midwife (2012) [TV] TMDB Skybridge
Call the Midwife
director: Heidi Thomas actor: Vanessa Redgrave / Helen George …
other title: L'amore e la vita - Call the Midwife / Jordemoderen …
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Letters to Juliet (2010) [Movie]
Letters to Juliet
director: Gary Winick actor: Amanda Seyfried / Christopher Egan …
other title: Cartas Para Julieta / Briefe an Julia …
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
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Girl, Interrupted (1999) [Movie]
Girl, Interrupted
6.8 (10 ratings) director: James Mangold actor: Winona Ryder / Angelina Jolie …
other title: Ragazze interrotte / Vida Interrompida …
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
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Foxcatcher (2014) [Movie]
Foxcatcher
director: Bennett Miller actor: Steve Carell / Channing Tatum …
other title: Foxcatcher - Una storia americana
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul — a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
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Cars 2 (2011) [Movie]
Cars 2
6.0 (7 ratings) director: John Lasseter actor: Larry the Cable Guy / Owen Wilson …
other title: Biler 2 / Carros 2
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
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Blow-Up (1966) [Movie]
Blow-Up
8.3 (12 ratings) director: Michelangelo Antonioni actor: David Hemmings / Vanessa Redgrave …
other title: Blow-up / Blowup - História de um Fotógrafo …
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
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Mission: Impossible (1996) [Movie]
Mission: Impossible
7.4 (33 ratings) director: Brian De Palma actor: Tom Cruise / Jon Voight …
other title: Missão - Impossível / Mission : Impossible …
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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Wilde (1997) [Movie]
Wilde
director: Brian Gilbert actor: Stephen Fry / Jude Law …
other title: Oscar Wilde / Wilde - den første moderne mand
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a chat at the theatre with Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas leads to a full-fledged romance. However, this affair leads to a legal dispute with Lord Alfred's oppressive father, the Marquess of Queensberry, and, given the local anti-gay laws, Wilde is jailed. Wilde's vast intellect helps him survive until he regains his freedom.