Cast: Pauline Collins

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Pauline Collins. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett

Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley

Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Dickensian (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Jordan · Harry Bradbeer · Mark Brozel · Andy Hay

Cast Stephen Rea · Pauline Collins · Caroline Quentin · Ben Starr

Plot TV Series (2015-2016). 20 Episodes. BBC One‘s 20-part drama series brings together some of the most iconic characters from the mind of Charles Dickens, including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham....

6.7

109 votes

6.7

109 votes

Miss Marple: The Pale Horse (TV)

2010 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andy Hay

Cast Julia McKenzie · Nicholas Parsons · Lynda Baron · Elizabeth Rider

Plot Miss Marple's priest friend is battered to death after visiting a dying woman. Seeking justice, she becomes entangled in an organization centered around an inn run by purported witches.

6.6

79 votes

6.6

79 votes

Shirley Valentine

1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Pauline Collins · Tom Conti · Julia McKenzie · Alison Steadman

Plot Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current...

6.5

727 votes

6.5

727 votes

City of Joy

1992 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Patrick Swayze · Pauline Collins · Om Puri · Shabana Azmi

Plot Disillusioned American heart surgeon Swayze flees to India after losing a patient. In Calcutta he is beaten by a street gang and loses his money and passport, but finds help...

6.4

5K votes

6.4

5K votes

Paradise Road

1997 · Movie · 114 min. · Australia

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Glenn Close · Frances McDormand · Pauline Collins · Cate Blanchett

Plot The group of women from different countries and social levels are prisoners in a Japanese POW camp, where one of them, Adrienne, who is a graduate of the Royal Academy...

6.2

876 votes

6.2

876 votes

Quartet

2012 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dustin Hoffman

Cast Maggie Smith · Tom Courtenay · Billy Connolly · Pauline Collins

Plot Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean,...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2010 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Josh Brolin · Anthony Hopkins · Naomi Watts · Freida Pinto

Plot A little romance, some sex, some treachery and apart from that, a few laughs. The lives of a group of people whose passions, ambitions and anxieties force them all into...

5.9

21K votes

5.9

21K votes

Albert Nobbs

2011 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodrigo García

Cast Glenn Close · Mia Wasikowska · Aaron Taylor-Johnson · Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Plot Glenn Close plays a brave woman struggling to get on in life in the sexist patriarchal society of Ireland in the 19th century pretending to be a man to get...

5.9

5K votes

5.9

5K votes

From Time to Time

2009 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julian Fellowes

Cast Alex Etel · Maggie Smith · Carice van Houten · Timothy Spall

Plot A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family...

5.5

240 votes

5.5

240 votes

Dough

2015 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Goldschmidt

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Philip Davis · Ian Hart · Malachi Kirby

Plot An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.

5.3

546 votes

5.3

546 votes

The Time of Their Lives

2017 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Goldby

Cast Joan Collins · Pauline Collins · Franco Nero · Ronald Pickup

Plot Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Ile-de-Re, former Hollywood siren Helen (Joan Collins) escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla (Pauline Collins), a...

4.7

54 votes

4.7

54 votes

Sparkling Cyanide (TV)

2003 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tristram Powell

Cast Pauline Collins · Oliver Ford Davies · Kenneth Cranham · Jonathan Firth

Plot A dinner is held to honour the triumph of a sports team. There are seven guests. They start to chat and George Balton proposes a toast to his marriage to...

4.7

78 votes

4.7

78 votes

The Last Dragonslayer (TV)

2016 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jamie Magnus Stone

Cast Adeel Akhtar · Matt Berry · Danielle Bjelic · John Bradley

Plot In a fantasy world where magic is being superseded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.

4.2

118 votes

4.2

118 votes

Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Askey · Gareth Gwenlan · Michael Mills

Cast John Alderton · P.G. Wodehouse · Pauline Collins · William Mervyn

Plot (1974-1978). 21 episodes. A series of dramatisations of some of P.G. Wodehouse's comic short stories - in which P.G. Wodehouse, himself, introduced some of the early episodes.

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Country Matters (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Donald McWhinnie · Barry Davis · David Giles · Peter Wood

Cast Peter Firth · Ian McKellen · Prunella Ransome · Stephan Chase

Plot TV Series (1972-1973). 2 Seasons, 13 Episodes. Country Matters portrays several romance stories, set in rural England just after the first World War. Each episode provides accurate and fascinating costume...

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Not rated

My Mother's Courage

1995 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

Direction Michael Verhoeven

Cast George Tabori · Pauline Collins · Ulrich Tukur · Simon Verhoeven

Plot The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some...

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Not rated

Thomas and Sarah (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Shaughnessy · David Askey · Christopher Hodson · John Davies

Cast John Alderton · Pauline Collins · Graham Cull · Maria Charles

Plot Thomas & Sarah is a British drama series that aired on ITV in 1979. The only spin-off from the BAFTA Award-winning series Upstairs, Downstairs, it stars John Alderton and Pauline...

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Not rated

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones (TV)

1967 · Movie · 144 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Mill

Cast Patrick Troughton · Michael Craze · Anneke Wills · Frazer Hines

Plot The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1966 - on a runway at Gatwick airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer...

Not rated

Not rated

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

2002 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian Sharp

Cast Pauline Collins · Peter Capaldi · Anna Wilson-Jones · Gwenllian Davies

Plot Not so aged widow Thelma Caldicot is coerced into a resthome by her manipulative son and daughter-in-law after the death of her bullying husband. Apathy turns to anger and then...

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Not rated