Anna Massey
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1937-08-11
Locus Natus: Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK
Et ut: Anna Raymond Massey, Anna Massey CBE, Anna Massey OBE, Anna Raymond Massey CBE
Frenzy
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
release : 1972.05.25popularis : 10.629
Bunny Lake Is Missing
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
release : 1965.10.03popularis : 14.034
The Machinist
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to...
release : 2004.07.02popularis : 20.271
Mountains of the Moon
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen...
release : 1990.02.16popularis : 8.232
Peeping Tom
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which...
release : 1960.05.16popularis : 14.127
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
release : 2004.09.22popularis : 3.164
Another Country
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it...
release : 1984.06.01popularis : 10.076
The Oxford Murders
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical...
release : 2008.01.18popularis : 13.826
The Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using...
release : 2002.05.17popularis : 8.266
Belonging
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly...
release : 2004.09.12popularis : 3.344
A Doll's House
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and...
release : 1973.04.10popularis : 2.36
Murder in Mind
A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the...
release : 1994.10.02popularis : 2.399
Gideon's Day
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From...
release : 1958.03.25popularis : 2.983
Dark Blue World
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become...
release : 2001.05.17popularis : 8.346
Mad Cows
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends...
release : 1999.10.29popularis : 2.765
The Looking Glass War
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to...
release : 1970.01.02popularis : 3.404
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
release : 2005.11.25popularis : 3.725
A Hazard of Hearts
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value:...
release : 1987.12.27popularis : 3.819
The Grotesque
Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo...
release : 1995.09.09popularis : 6.598
The Gigolos
Sacha is an aging, well-established London 'male escort' with a select clientèle of weekly socialite ladies, such as baroness James, who...
release : 2006.04.26popularis : 2.039
Come and Go
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible...
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 0.725
Captain Jack
Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung...
release : 1999.05.28popularis : 3.765
The Vault of Horror
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include...
release : 1973.03.16popularis : 7.278
Pinochet in Suburbia
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to...
release : 2006.03.26popularis : 1.408
The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
A portrait of Virginia Woolf, including a recreation of the furor around the 1910 and 1912 post-Impressionist exhibits, documentation of the Woolfs'...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 3.194
Foreign Body
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain...
release : 1986.09.26popularis : 1.816
An Angel for May
When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his...
release : 2002.08.10popularis : 2.668
Driftwood
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 2.43
Season's Greetings
Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the...
release : 1986.12.24popularis : 0.815
De Sade
The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
release : 1969.08.27popularis : 3.556
The Corn Is Green
A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she...
release : 1979.01.29popularis : 5.364
The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 8.995
The Man from the Pru
The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a...
release : 1990.06.30popularis : 1.662
Hotel du Lac
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by...
release : 1986.03.02popularis : 2.91
The Critic
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical...
release : 1982.08.28popularis : 0.709
Dead of Night: A Woman Sobbing
Jane is an discontented middle-class wife and mother. One night in her bedroom she hears a woman crying, though her husband hears nothing. Is it a...
release : 1972.12.17popularis : 1.309
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
Actress attended by homosexual dresser.
release : 1979.01.02popularis : 1.977
Haunted
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family....
release : 1995.10.27popularis : 15.683
A Very British Psycho
A documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy surrounding its release, and the life of its screenwriter, Leo...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 3.765
Sakharov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
release : 1984.06.20popularis : 2.549
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her...
release : 1989.09.01popularis : 0.748
Sweet William
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter),...
release : 1980.04.11popularis : 1.819
Angels and Insects
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries...
release : 1995.09.10popularis : 3.917
Déjà Vu
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
release : 1998.04.22popularis : 2.053
David Copperfield
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin...
release : 1969.12.01popularis : 4.424
The McGuffin
Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for...
release : 1986.01.12popularis : 1.559
Remember the Germans
The conflict of a German man, Robert, who worked during the war for U.S Intelligence and now has been drawn back to his country to be honoured by his...
release : 1969.07.28popularis : 2.155
Little Girls Don't
Little Girls Don't" is the tale of two girls, Sheryl and Abbey who have been inseparable friends since childhood despite coming from very different...
release : 1981.03.10popularis : 1.857
Relics
Daniel is about to marry a woman 30 years his senior. The woman begins to suspect that he is after her money.
release : 1973.04.10popularis : 0.613
Afternoon Off
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...
release : 1979.02.03popularis : 2.386
Impromptu
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name...
release : 1991.04.12popularis : 9.959
Anna Karenina
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 3.566
Room to Rent
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the...
release : 2001.06.22popularis : 3.48
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...
release : 1981.10.13popularis : 2.511
The Day After the Fair
Based on the short story by Thomas Hardy.
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.688
Possession
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in...
release : 2002.08.16popularis : 8.642
Elizabeth's Pirates
The Elizabethan founders of the British Empire have long been considered heroes of great personal genius and skill who civilised the natives and...
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 2.332
A Good Murder
An illegal immigrant on the run from a Russian mafia boss, falls for an artist. When he discovers her family home is worth millions, he hatches a...
release : 2006.03.13popularis : 2.166
The Slab Boys
Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work
release : 1997.08.28popularis : 3.219
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
release : 2001.03.06popularis : 2.418
Tears in the Rain
When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey...
release : 1988.01.01popularis : 10.384
Affinity
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the...
release : 2008.12.28popularis : 7.333
The Little Drummer Girl
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by...
release : 1984.10.19popularis : 5.275
I Remember Nelson
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story...
release : 1982.04.14popularis : 0.857
Sacred Hearts
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
release : 1985.11.01popularis : 1.518
The Tall Guy
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
release : 1989.02.01popularis : 4.586
Emily's Ghost
Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country,...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 3.422
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E....
release : 2000.09.20popularis : 2.932
Light the Blue Touch Paper
Armchair Theatre episode released under the Armchair Theatre Archive banner in 2019
release : 1966.09.24popularis : 0.717
The Sleeper
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are...
release : 2000.12.26popularis : 1.261
A Little Romance
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with...
release : 1979.04.27popularis : 7.578
Sweet Angel Mine
Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is...
release : 1996.09.17popularis : 2.93
Moving on the Edge
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
release : 1984.03.06popularis : 0.715
The Love of a Good Woman
Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.
release : 1976.10.15popularis : 1.154
Journey into the Shadows: Portrait of Gwen John 1876-1939
Moving out from under the shadow of her artist brother Augustus John, Gwen John moved to Paris in 1903, working as an artist's model until becoming...
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 0.88
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves...
release : 1964.06.24popularis : 1.781
The Color of the Wind
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an...
release : 1988.11.02popularis : 2.241