Cast: Renée Asherson

Direction Alejandro Amenábar

Cast Nicole Kidman · Fionnula Flanagan · Christopher Eccleston · Alakina Mann

Synopsis The Others (2001) is a haunting psychological thriller set in a secluded mansion on the Isle of Jersey in 1945. Grace, a devoutly religious mother, lives with her two photosensitive children, Anne and Nicholas, who must avoid sunlight. When strange...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Bonar Colleano · Earl Cameron · Susan Shaw · Renée Asherson

Synopsis Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands.

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Newton · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer

Synopsis In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast David Farrar · Kathleen Byron · Jack Hawkins · Leslie Banks

Synopsis Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain...

Direction John Boulting

Cast Robert Donat · Margaret Johnston · Maria Schell · Renée Asherson

Synopsis Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he...

Direction Val Guest

Cast Janet Munro · Leo McKern · Edward Judd · Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis Journalists of the London Daily Express investigate reports of strange phenomena occurring all over the world, such as flooding in the Sahara, unseasonable blizzards in New York, and violent tornadoes in the Soviet Union. All over England, temperatures are on...

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · John Mills · Rosamund John · Douglass Montgomery

Synopsis Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh...

Direction David Giles

Cast Joan Hickson · Ursula Howells · Renée Asherson · Samantha Bond

Synopsis A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock's two distant cousins, Patrick and...

Direction Douglas Hickox

Cast Vincent Price · Diana Rigg · Jack Hawkins · Ian Hendry

Direction Carol Reed

Cast David Niven · Stanley Holloway · James Donald · Peter Ustinov

Synopsis A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. At first they appear a hopeless bunch but their sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them and mould them into a good team. When they go into action...

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · Anthony Steel · Muriel Pavlow

Synopsis In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the...

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Christopher Lee · Barbara Shelley · Richard Pasco · Derek Francis

Synopsis The wild and filthy monk Grigori Rasputin stumbles into an inn. Upon learning that the innkeeper’s wife is ill with a fever that no doctors can cure, Rasputin heals her with his hands. But immediately after doing so Rasputin drinks...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Annie Galipeau · Graham Greene · Renée Asherson

Synopsis In the 1930s, young Englishman Archibald Belaney (Pierce Brosnan) emigrates to Canada, and decides to live as a Native American named Grey Owl. While travelling as a trapper he meets Pony, a young Mohawk woman who is immediately enamored with...

Direction Peter Carter

Cast David Niven · Michael York · Barbara Hershey · Paul Harding

Synopsis During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Alec Guinness · Renée Asherson · Paul Rogers

Synopsis Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.

Direction John Davies · David Reid

Cast Peter McEnery · Janet Suzman · Thelma Whiteley · Louise Purnell

Synopsis A coming-of-age story set in the 19th century England about Edwin Clayhanger, a young man who wants to be an architect, but it is expected of him to continue the family's printing business which he accepts for the time being.

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Bonar Colleano · Bill Owen · Renée Asherson

Synopsis Set in the 1930s, factory worker Bill Fox quits his job and becomes a speedway rider the Cobra Speedway. Thetrack owner, Rowton, puts Fox in a novice race that he subsequently wins.

Direction Robert Tronson · Moira Armstrong · Donald McWhinnie · Robert D. Cardona

Cast Frank Duncan · Maria Aitken · Benjamin Whitrow · Zena Walker

Synopsis TV Series (1967; 1978-1980). Suspense and mystery-themed anthology series.

Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark

Cast Cheryl Ladd · Stuart Wilson · Renée Asherson · Ralph Michael

Synopsis Lily, an American traveling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice to Paris, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, whom they met and had a tender romance 10 years earlier while vacationing in France which ended abruptly when...

Direction Arthur Crabtree · Michael McCarthy · Lance Comfort · Joseph Sterling

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Christopher Lee · Ron Randell · Barbara Mullen

Synopsis TV Series (1953-1957). 156 episodes. Fairbanks narrated, produced and frequently starred in this anthology series which presented everything from drama to mystery to farce. Filmed in England, usually with lesser known actors.