Cast: Francesca Annis

Direction Simon Curtis · Steve Hudson

Cast Judi Dench · Imelda Staunton · Michael Gambon · Simon Woods

Synopsis Based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, it is a five-part period drama set in the 1840s which follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town on the cusp of...

Direction Bruce Goodison · Robert Quinn

Cast Samantha Bond · Francesca Annis · Clare Calbraith · Brian Fletcher

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2016). 2 Seasons. 12 Episodes. Following a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community during World War II.

Direction Susanna White

Cast Ruth Wilson · Toby Stephens · Francesca Annis · Christina Cole

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2006). 4 Episodes. After a wretched childhood, orphaned Jane Eyre yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at Thornfield Hall, where she tutors a lively French girl named Adele. She soon finds herself falling in love...

Direction Simon Curtis

Cast Judi Dench · Imelda Staunton · Francesca Annis · Lisa Dillon

Synopsis The two-part saga 'Return to Cranford' opens to a struggling Cranford, a traditional village that in autumn 1844 is airing the conflicts that accompany progress. Miss Matty Jenkyns (Judi Dench), after having closed her business in the last series, is...

Direction Nicholas Renton

Cast Justine Waddell · Bill Paterson · Francesca Annis · Keeley Hawes

Synopsis Set in the early 1800s, the story takes place in a small, gossip-driven English town. Upon the remarriage of her father, heroine Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell) isn't quite sure how to "take" to her modish stepmother, Hyacinth (Francesca Annis), and...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jon Finch · Francesca Annis · Martin Shaw · Nicholas Selby

Synopsis Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king's son conspires to attack MacBeth and...

Direction Dan Zeff

Cast Geraldine McEwan · Francesca Annis · Hannah Spearritt · Vincent Regan

Synopsis Miss Marple finds herself on a bit of a holiday and staying at the very posh Bertram's Hotel, where she stayed as a child and for which she has very fond memories. Things take a sinister turn when a hotel...

Direction Louise Hooper

Cast Imelda Staunton · Francesca Annis · Claudie Blakley · Russell Tovey

Synopsis Lives of three siblings are disrupted when their recently widowed mother declares she's in love with a new man. Tangled web of secrets, lies, rivalries and betrayals eventually leads to a murder.

Direction Howard Davies

Cast Stephen Rea · Daniel Craig · Francesca Annis

Direction Christopher Hodson · Paul Annett · Tony Wharmby

Cast Francesca Annis · James Warwick · Reece Dinsdale · Arthur Cox

Synopsis Dame Agatha Christie 's husband-and-wife sleuthing team take on a series of short whodunits.

Direction David Lynch

Cast Kyle MacLachlan · Francesca Annis · Jürgen Prochnow · Patrick Stewart

Synopsis Political ripples are caused when the Padishah Emperor hands ownership of the planet Arrakis from the House of Harkonnen and to their bitter enemies the Atreides family. Arrakis or ‘Dune’ is a desert planet and source of the all-important drug...

Direction Eran Creevy

Cast Riz Ahmed · Daniel Mays · Jason Flemyng · Nitin Ganatra

Direction Julia Ford

Cast Michael Socha · Adeel Akhtar · Nathalie Armin · Francesca Annis

Synopsis Second Season. 5 Episodes. When the high-profile climate activist Marcus Calderwood is left for dead in a violent hit and run, he uses his dying moments to identify his killer - a serving policeman. But who is this unnamed ‘Officer...

Direction Tony Wharmby

Cast James Warwick · Francesca Annis · George Baker · Gavan O'Herlihy

Synopsis After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.

Direction Sean Mathias

Cast Ian McKellen · Jonathan Hyde · Jenny Seagrove · Steven Berkoff

Direction Guy Ritchie

Cast Ray Liotta · Jason Statham · André Benjamin · Vincent Pastore

Synopsis Gambler Jake Green (Statham) did seven years of solitary thanks to his dealings with short-fused gangster Dorothy Macha (Liotta). Now he’s out and wants payback. Just as well his cell happened to be situated between a pair of mysterious criminal...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Ken Marshall · Freddie Jones · Lysette Anthony · Liam Neeson

Synopsis Fantasy meets science fiction in this visually spectacular tale of valiant Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall) and Lyssa (Lysette Anthony), his young bride-to-be, who dwell in the mythical kingdom of Krull. During their wedding ceremony the Beast, a monstrous dark force...

Direction John Davies · Tony Wharmby

Cast Francesca Annis · Leigh Lawson · James Warwick · Connie Booth

Synopsis While out playing golf with his friend Dr. Thomas, Bobby Jones finds a man who has apparently fallen over the side of a cliff onto the seaside rocks below. His dying words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?". The dead...

Direction Brian Helgeland

Cast Francesca Annis · Christopher Cazenove · Elizabeth Spriggs · Patrick Barlow

Synopsis A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist and her jealous former husband when he accuses her of having a love affair with her nosy neighbor's son.

Direction Jaime Chávarri

Cast Ángela Molina · Bruno Ganz · Francesca Annis · Stefan Gubser