Vanessa Redgrave

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Blow Up (Blow-Up) (1966): Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles…; Nothing–is–what–it–seems in this slow yet absorbing account of a fashion photographer's suspicion that he may have witnessed…
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens…; David Warner as Morgan goes to eccentric extremes to try to win back his wife (Vanessa Redgrave) after she divorces him. Quaintly weird comic tale is…
Camelot (1967): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero…; This King Arthur musical was a disastrous, expensive–looking flop. Good performances though.
Isadora (1968): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox…; Vanessa Redgrave is memorable as Isadora Duncan in this watchable biopic of the iconic free–style dancer's flamboyant youth and radical…
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969): Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…; Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
Devils, The (1971): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave; Ken Russell's subversive foray into Catholic guilt is as bold and disturbing as it is brilliant. Amidst the witch trials of medieval France, Oliver…
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971): Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan…; Historical epic the maps the power struggle between the last Catholic ruler of Scotland and her cousin, the Queen of England.
Trojan Women, The (1972): Dir. Michael Cacoyannis
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Magee…; Filmed on location in Greece, this star–powered version of Euripedes play is a patchy but earnest attempt to convey the power of the classical…
Seven Percent Solution, The (1976): Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall…; Intriguing re–imagining of the Sherlock Holmes legend has the master sleuth fighting his own drug addiction under the guidance of Sigmund…
Julia (1977): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr.…; Dramatising the 1930s memories of playwright Lillian Hellman (THE LITTLE FOXES), this Oscar–winning classic centres on the relationship between…
Agatha (1979): Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton…; Speculating over the 11 days in 1926 when detective–writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) went missing, this gently–toned drama sees…
Wagner (1983): Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…; Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
Bostonians, The (1984): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy…; Set in post–Civil War Boston, this slow, though beautifully shot drama is a sturdy version of Henry James' famous novel. Concerning the…
Steaming (1985): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Brenda Bruce…; A low–rent London bathhouse is the setting for six women’s weekly get–togethers, in this adaptation of Neil Dunn’s stageplay. Often…
Wetherby (1985): Dir. David Hare
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench…; Haunting psychodrama with Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench as guests at a dinner party that is overshadowed by a repressed tragedy which threatens to…
Second Serve (1986): Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Louise Fletcher, Martin Balsam; Vanessa Redgrave gives a remarkable performance in this TV–movie true–story as a transexual…
Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series) (1986): Feat. Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif…; Emmy Award–winning mini–series about Peter I, Tsar of Russia from 1682, and his efforts to transform Russia in an "all European" country,…
Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991): Dir. Simon Callow
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger…; Backwoods America sets the peculiar scene for an uneasy romance between Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine that evolves into a visceral…
Little Odessa (1994): Dir. James Gray
Feat. Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave…; Fugutive assassin Tim Roth returns home to the Russian quarter of New York, where personal problems compound the stresses of the job. Portrait of a…
Month by the Lake, A (1996): Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman; The second H.E. Bates adaptation of 1996 (after FEAST OF JULY) is a lush autumnal romance set on the shores of Italy's Lake Como. Vanessa Redgrave…
Mrs. Dalloway (1997): Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves; Light adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 20s novel about a serene society lady in late–life crisis, reflecting on her choices some thirty years…
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000): Dir. Martha Coolidge, Jane Anderson, Anne Heche
Feat. Ellen DeGeneres, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny…; Critically well–received compendium of three tales charting the lesbian experience in 20th century America. Among the prestigious cast, Vanessa…
Pledge, The (2000): Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren…; Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson. As…
Jack and the Beanstalk - The Real Story (2001): Dir. Brian Henson
Feat. Matthew Modine, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave…; TV sequel to the fairytale of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in which a descendant of Jack (Modine) must lift a family curse by returning the world of the…
Gathering Storm, The (2002): Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent…; Critically acclaimed telemovie depicts the life of Winston Churchill during his 'wilderness years', the turbulent 1930s, centred by a mighty…
White Countess, The (2005): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave…; Set in the tumult of 1930s Shanghai, when China was threatened with Japanese invasion, this final Merchant–Ivory production (producer Ismail…
Thief Lord, The (2006): Dir. Richard Claus
Feat. Jasper Harris, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jim Carter…; A delightful HARRY POTTER–esque fantasy chronicling the adventures of two runaways who join a scalawag band of abandoned kids in search of a…
Venus (2006): Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Jodie Whittaker, Leslie Phillips…; The writer and dir. of THE MOTHER reteam for a companion piece to that film, this time inverting its premise to detail a relationship between a…
Evening (2007): Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave…; All–star, womanly melodrama unveils the secret life of an ailing matriarch (Redgrave), whose remembrance of an intense, tragic love fifty years…
Atonement (2007): Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai…; Keira Knightley and James McAvoy play out a twisted, unrequited wartime love in this Bafta–adorned tragic–romance from the dir. of PRIDE…
How About You? (2008): Dir. Anthony Byrne
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Fricker, Imelda Staunton…; Hardcase comedy adapted from a short story by Maeve Binchy, in which a young woman unexpectedly put in charge of a retirement home owned by her…
Day of the Triffids (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Nick Copus
Feat. Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard…; This second–stab by the BBC excitingly updates John Wyndham's cautionary sci–fi novel with a big budget and spectacular special effects.…
Letters to Juliet (2010): Dir. Gary Winick
Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal…; Picturesque romance set in Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet, where a young American tourist discovers a love letter that will change her life.
Whistleblower, The (2010): Dir. Larysa Kondracki
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci…; Uncompromising drama with Rachel Weisz as an American cop whose stint as a Bosnian peacekeeper exposes her to a human trafficking ring run from…
Animals United (2010): Dir. Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
Feat. James Corden, Stephen Fry, Andy Serkis…; Comedy and environmentalism combine in this safari story about the survival of a group of animals whose food and water supply has been affected by…
Robinson in Ruins (2010): Dir. Patrick Keiller
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave; Patrick Keiller's cine–essay follow–up to LONDON and ROBINSON IN SPACE is an intelligent and poetic tour around England, narrated by…
Anonymous (2011): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis…; Enjoyable hokum posits that the true writer of Shakespeare's plays was in fact the Earl of Oxford. Some of Britain's finest thesps – including…
Coriolanus (2011): Dir. Ralph Fiennes
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Jessica Chastain…; Ralph Fiennes directs this fierce adaptation of Shakespeare's second–longest play, transposing the Bard's text to modern day Rome, where…
Call the Midwife (TV Series) (2012): Feat. Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart…; Immensely popular BBC series follows – in fashionable period detail – the trials and tribulations of a newly–qualified midwife, who begins…
Song for Marion (Unfinished Song) (2012): Dir. Paul Andrew Williams
Feat. Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Arterton…; A dying woman (Vanessa Redgrave) inspired by her Young at Heart–style choir convinces her depressed husband to join the group as an ode to her…
Butler, The (2013): Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey…; A stagy but sincere history of post–war Black America from the point of view of a White House servant (played by Forest Whitaker). It works as…
Thirteenth Tale, The (2013): Dir. James Kent
Feat. Olivia Colman, Vanessa Redgrave, Sophie Turner…; An ageing novelist (Vanessa Redgrave) enlists the help of a biographer (Olivia Colman) to tell her life story, including her childhood in a decaying…
Foxcatcher (2014): Dir. Bennett Miller
Feat. Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo…; A serious, fact–based drama that examines the tragedy that struck wrestling team Foxcatcher led by eccentric multimillionaire sponsor John E.…
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Vanessa Redgrave…; Romantic drama based on the 1986 memoir of Peter Turner, the lover of actress Gloria Grahame, who was 28 years his senior. Explores the…
Mrs Lowry & Son (2019): Dir. Adrian Noble
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall; The life of the renowned British artist L. S. Lowry is the subject of this entertaining biopic, with Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave superb as the…

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