Edith Evans — Actor (11)
Tom Jones (1963) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tom Jones
director: Tony Richardson actor: Albert Finney / Susannah York
other title: Tom Jones, Romântico e Aventureiro / Tom Jones - Zwischen Bett und Galgen
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
The Nun's Story (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Nun's Story
director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Audrey Hepburn / Peter Finch
other title: La storia di una monaca / Nonnen
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [Movie] TMDB
The Importance of Being Earnest
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Michael Redgrave / Michael Denison
other title: L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto / Ernst sein ist alles
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
The New Cinema (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The New Cinema
director: Gary Young actor: Francis Ford Coppola / Edith Evans
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
Craze (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Craze
director: Freddie Francis actor: Jack Palance / Diana Dors
other title: Il buio macchiato di rosso / Dämon des Grauens
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers human sacrifice.
The Whisperers (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Whisperers
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Edith Evans / Eric Portman
other title: Flüsternde Wände / Les Chuchoteurs
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Look Back in Anger (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Look Back in Anger
director: Tony Richardson actor: Richard Burton / Claire Bloom
other title: I giovani arrabbiati / Blick zurück im Zorn
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Madwoman of Chaillot
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Hepburn / Charles Boyer
other title: La pazza di Chaillot / Die Irre von Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
The Queen of Spades (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Queen of Spades
director: Thorold Dickinson actor: Anton Walbrook / Edith Evans
other title: La donna di picche / La Reine des cartes
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
Prudence and the Pill (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Prudence and the Pill
director: Fielder Cook / Ronald Neame actor: Deborah Kerr / David Niven
other title: Prudenza e la pillola / Sarilhos Conjugais
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?