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Anna Massey

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Peeping TomPeeping Tom (1960) Aro Favourite
Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Karlheinz Bohm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
While Hitchcock's PSYCHO received raves reviews and general acceptance, Michael Powell's equally contentious but brilliant film was condemned as…
How the West Was WonHow the West Was Won (1962)
Dir. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda
The history of the West through three generations, with three directors each contributing an instalment. Headed by a cast to match its ambitions and…
Bunny Lake is MissingBunny Lake is Missing (1965) Recommended
Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier
Deeply eccentric chiller centred on the hunt for a missing child who the police begin to suspect may never have existed at all. Both a finely…
FrenzyFrenzy (1972) Recommended
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster
Hitchcock's last really great thriller, concerning a Cockney strangler plaguing the streets of London and setting up Jon Finch as the wrong man.…
A Doll's HouseA Doll's House (1973)
Dir. Patrick Garland
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson
A stagey, though strongly acted version of Henrik Ibsen's renowned proto–feminist stageplay set in a 19th century household beset by personal…
Pallisers, The (TV Series)Pallisers, The (TV Series) (1974)
Dir. Hugh David
Feat. Phillip Latham, Barbara Murray, Susan Hampshire
Substantial saga of wealth, passion, power, and scandal set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid–Victorian England,…
Mayor of Casterbridge, TheMayor of Casterbridge, The (1978)
Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Bates, Anna Massey, Anne Stallybrass
Dennis Potter–scribed Victorian saga sees Alan Bates, battling alcoholism, sell his wife and daughter under the influence, before resolving to…
Little Romance, ALittle Romance, A (1979)
Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Anna Massey, Arthur Hill
Sweet minor comedy in which aged charmer Olivier persuades two teenage lovers – American boy, French girl – to run off together.…
Cherry Orchard, TheCherry Orchard, The (1981)
Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall
BBC television drama based on the classic 1904 play by Anton Chekhov about the decline of the Russian aristocracy in general and one high–born…
Barchester Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series)Barchester Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series) (1982)
Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Rickman, Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne
Scandal inflames the once placid town of Barchester, in this typically astute BBC production of Anthony Trollope's novel. A young Alan Rickman holds…
Sacred Hearts (1985)
Dir. Barbara Rennie
Feat. Anna Massey
Earnest drama set in a repressive convent (run by Anna Massey) during the Blitz.
Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series)Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series) (1989)
Dir. Philippe Monnier
Feat. James Wilby, John Mills, Jean-Pierre Aumont
BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' great, historical novel of the French Revolution, in the shadow of which two, very different men fall for the…
Beckett on FilmBeckett on Film (Waiting for Godot, et al.) (2001) Recommended
Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Walsh
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Kelly, Jeremy Irons
An ambitious anthology of Samuel Beckett's nineteen stageplays, filmed here creatively by a roster of prestige actors and directors. Disc…
Agatha Christie - A Life in PicturesAgatha Christie - A Life in Pictures (2004)
Dir. Richard Curson Smith
Feat. Olivia Williams, Anna Massey
BBC teledrama that focuses on the real life disappearance of detective–writer Agatha Christie in 1926, which has already spawned at least one…
He Knew He Was RightHe Knew He Was Right (2004)
Dir. Tom Vaughan
Feat. Bill Nighy, Laura Fraser, Anna Massey
This dexterous, Dickens–esque romance from the quill of Anthony Trollope follows the marital adventures of Louis and Emily Trevelyan, with the…
Pinochet's Last StandPinochet's Last Stand (Pinochet in Suburbia) (2006)
Dir. Richard Curson Smith
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Anna Massey, Phyllida Law
Drama about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, following attempts that were made to extradite him to Spain after he was arrested for human…
Oxford Murders, TheOxford Murders, The (2008)
Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical…

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