Peggy Ashcroft

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband

In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.

Эксцентричная мадам Сузацка, в прошлом блестящая пианитска, а теперь преподаватель музыки, соглашается взять нового ученика, подающего большие надежды пятнадцатилетнего индийца Манека Сена, живущего с матерью в Лондоне. Властная и переменчивая мадам Сузацка, став педагогом, превращается в деспота и требует полного и безоглядного подчинения со стороны учеников. Она считает, что может превратить его в гениального музыканта, начав с самых азов и вылепив из него то, что ей кажется необходимым. «Я учу не только тому, как играть на фортепьяно, но и тому, как жить», - утверждает мадам, но сможет ли она добиться этого от Манека?

С помощью выпущенных правительством брошюр, пожилая британская пара строит убежище и готовится к нависшему ядерному нападению.

The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director Jimmy T. Murakami and writer Raymond Briggs

Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.

Действие этого фильма происходит в двадцатые годы двадцатого века. Столкновение культур Востока и Запада показано на материале нетривиальной поездки молодой своенравной англичанки в Индию.

Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as Alfred shifts his focus between his book, their son Eyolf, and his half-sister Asta. As Allmers slowly feels trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, emotions and a painful past threaten to boil over into a terrible finale.

Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."

British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter (Michael Kitchen), an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine (Wendy Raebeck). But Peter's hope for romance is soon dampened by Lorraine's xenophobia and the arrival of a haughty Viennese aristocrat (Peggy Ashcroft).

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple—nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess—they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharaja’s beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.

Трагикомедия по одноименному роману Генри Филдинга. Молодой слуга Джозеф Эндрюс верой и правдой служит сэру Томасу Буби. Но на свою беду Джозеф влюбляется в служанку, в то время как им заинтересовалась сама леди Буби. И когда он отказывает хозяйке, та решает отомстить.

Когда германский бизнесмен становится виновником аварии с человеческими жертвами, пресса, чтобы раздуть скандал, начинает копаться в его прошлом. То, что удается найти, заставляет его посмотреть другими глазами на поступки, совершенные им в Греции во время Второй мировой войны...

Апатию, охватившую английское общество в начале 70-х годов, Джон Шлезингер тонко отразил в своем фильме 1971 года «Воскресенье, проклятое воскресенье», который можно воспринимать как метафорическую картину горького пробуждения после бума 60-х, когда англичане вдруг увидели, что живут в захудалой стране, где люди согласны даже на «половину куска». Фильм повествует об одной неделе из жизни респектабельного пожилого доктора и интеллигентной женщины средних лет, которые не только пользуются одной телефонной службой, но и, как выясняется, делят одного любовника - амбициозного молодого изобретателя, в конце концов бросающего их обоих и уезжающего в Америку в поисках лучшей жизни.

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.

Леонора потеряла дочь, а Ченси не может прийти в себя после смерти матери. Этих женщин свела случайная встреча в автобусе. Но в бегстве от призраков безумия невозможно найти безопасный уголок.

Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.

French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage from both World Wars are included with 30 minutes of new scenes filmed especially for the project. The historical timeline is traced from the time Czar Nicholas II is crowned. The emergence of Lenin, his death in 1924, and the later contributions of Trotsky and Stalin give the viewer a sense of death, betrayal, and ideological devotion to the communist agenda. Rossif effectively uses scenes from the landmark 1929 film The Man With A Movie Camera by celebrated director Dziga Vertov. Rossif researched the film archives from several countries in his meticulous gathering of materials for this timely historical feature.

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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 pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station.

Габриэль ван дер Маль, дочь известного бельгийского врача, мечтает уехать в Конго, чтобы лечить местных жителей. Приняв постриг в монастыре и получив новое имя — сестра Люк — она прибывает в Конго для работы в госпитале.

Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.

Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.

Ричард знакомится в Лондонском мюзикхолле с Аннабеллой, которая просит укрыть ее от идущих по ее следу убийц. Ричард не воспринимает это всерьез, но разрешает ей переночевать у него. Той же ночью девушка вваливается в его спальню с ножом в спине… Бегущего в панике Ричарда принимают за убийцу-маньяка и полиция всей Англии начинает охоту. Чтобы доказать свою невиновность, ему придется пройти все круги Ада…

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.