Cast: Penny Downie
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Penny Downie. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 15
Hamlet (TV)
2009 · Movie · 182 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gregory Doran
Cast David Tennant · Patrick Stewart · Oliver Ford Davies · Mariah Gale
Synopsis Featuring the original stage cast, the drama focuses on Prince Hamlet having decisions to make following the murder of his father, the King, at the hands of his Uncle Claudius, who is now also married to Hamlet's mother. It takes...
7.4
97 votes
7.4
97 votes
The Cazalets (TV Series)
2001 · Series · United Kingdom
Direction Suri Krishnamma
Cast Hugh Bonneville · Stephen Dillane · Lesley Manville · Joanna Page
Synopsis 6 episodes. In 1937, the extended Cazalet family get together for their annual six week summer holiday at the family seat, Home Place, in Sussex. Patriarch Wiiliam Cazalet, affectionately called The Brig, travels down from London to be with his...
7.1
45 votes
7.1
45 votes
The Diplomat
2023 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Debora Cahn · Liza Johnson · Simon Cellan Jones · Alex Graves
Cast Keri Russell · Rufus Sewell · David Gyasi · Ato Essandoh
Synopsis TV Series (2023-). 2 seasons, 14 episodes. In the midst of an international crisis, Kate Wyler a career diplomat lands in a high-profile job in London for which she was not suited for, with tectonic implications for her marriage and...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
The Girl in the Café (TV)
2005 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Yates
Cast Bill Nighy · Kelly MacDonald · Meneka Das · Anton Lesser
Synopsis Commissioned as part of a range of programmes the BBC is making to celebrate Africa in 2005, the 90-minute film stars Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald and follows the story of a hard-working, shy civil servant, Lawrence, and his life-changing...
6.7
339 votes
6.7
339 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Taken at the Flood (TV)
2006 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andy Wilson
Cast David Suchet · Jenny Agutter · Patrick Baladi · Eva Birthistle
Synopsis A young widow is left in sole possession of her late husband's fortune, and her brother refuses to share it with her in-laws - so they enlist Poirot to try to prove that the widow's missing first husband might not...
6.6
127 votes
6.6
127 votes
Back (TV Series)
2017 · Series · 24 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Blackwell · Ben Palmer
Cast David Mitchell · Robert Webb · Louise Brealey · Penny Downie
Synopsis Sitcom following estranged foster-brothers Stephen (David Mitchell) and Andrew (Robert Webb) as they vow to take over the family business following the death of their father.
6.5
23 votes
6.5
23 votes
Wetherby
1985 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Hare
Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Ian Holm · Judi Dench · Marjorie Yates
Synopsis Set in the town of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the film focuses on Jean Travers, a middle-aged spinster schoolteacher. One evening, she invites married friends for a dinner party, only to have some terrible repressions and past traumas dredged up...
6.0
141 votes
6.0
141 votes
The Secret Agent (TV Series)
2016 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles McDougall
Cast Toby Jones · Raphael Acloque · Ash Hunter · Charlie Hamblett
Synopsis Verloc, the owner of a seedy shop in Victorian Soho, plays a dangerous game spying on an agitating anarchist group that will prove useful to the foreign power he is secretly working for.
5.6
29 votes
5.6
29 votes
Siblings (TV Series)
2014 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Dan Zeff
Cast Charlotte Ritchie · Tom Stourton · Stella Gonet · Matthew Steer
Synopsis Siblings living together and the various crazy situations that ensue when they interact with other people.
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Murder in Suburbia (TV Series)
2004 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roger Goldby · Edward Bennett · David Innes Edwards · Douglas Mackinnon
Cast Caroline Catz · Lisa Faulkner · Jeremy Sheffield · Glen Davies
Synopsis The series focused on various murders in the fictional suburban English town of Middleford. The crimes are solved by two female police detectives, Inspector Kate Ashurst and Sergeant Emma Scribbins, aka "Ash and Scribbs".
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Food of Love
1997 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Poliakoff
Cast Richard E. Grant · Nathalie Baye · Joe McGann · Sylvia Syms
Synopsis A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
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The Sullivans (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 30 min. · Australia
Direction John Barningham · Simon Wincer · Graeme Arthur · Pino Amenta
Cast Lorraine Bayly · John Bowman · Norman Yemm · Marcella Burgoyne
Synopsis Follows the Sullivan family during the Second World War.
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Lost for Words
1999 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alan J.W. Bell
Cast Thora Hird · Pete Postlethwaite · Penny Downie · Jennifer Luckraft
Synopsis Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which...
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Underbelly (TV Series)
1992 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nicholas Renton
Cast Jackie Morrison · Ray Winstone · David Hayman · Robbie Gee
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Direction Mark Egerton
Cast Gary Day · Penny Downie · Brian McDermott · Peter Collingwood
Synopsis A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control.
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