Cast: Penny Downie

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


Hamlet (TV)

2009 · Movie · 182 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gregory Doran

Cast David Tennant · Patrick Stewart · Oliver Ford Davies · Mariah Gale

Plot 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,...

7.4

97 votes

7.4

97 votes

The Cazalets (TV Series)

2001 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Suri Krishnamma

Cast Hugh Bonneville · Stephen Dillane · Lesley Manville · Joanna Page

Plot 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...

7.1

45 votes

7.1

45 votes

The Diplomat (TV Series)

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

Plot TV Series (2023-). 8 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...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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,...

Not rated

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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

Plot A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.

Not rated

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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

Plot Follows the Sullivan family during the Second World War.

Not rated

Not rated

Lost for Words

1999 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan J.W. Bell

Cast Thora Hird · Pete Postlethwaite · Penny Downie · Jennifer Luckraft

Plot 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...

Not rated

Not rated

Underbelly (TV Series)

1992 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

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Crosstalk

1982 · Movie · 83 min. · Australia

Direction Mark Egerton

Cast Gary Day · Penny Downie · Brian McDermott · Peter Collingwood

Plot 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...

Not rated

Not rated