Screenplay: Rosemary Anne Sisson

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Rosemary Anne Sisson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

Elizabeth R (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roderick Graham

Cast Glenda Jackson · Ronald Hines · Robert Hardy · Anthony Ainley

Plot When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions...

7.0

90 votes

7.0

90 votes

The Six Wives of Henry VIII (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1970 · Series · 540 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Naomi Capon · John Glenister

Cast Keith Michell · Anthony Quayle · Patrick Troughton · Bernard Hepton

Plot A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.

6.9

119 votes

6.9

119 votes

The Wind in the Willows (TV)

1983 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Hall

Plot One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a...

6.6

112 votes

6.6

112 votes

The Wind in the Willows (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 22 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jackie Cockle · Chris Taylor · Francis Vose

Plot TV Serie (1984-1988). 4 Seasons. 47 episodies. The series is set at "The Riverbank", a mythical location somewhere in Berkshire. The Riverbank is where Ratty, Mole and Toad live. Nearby...

6.4

29 votes

6.4

29 votes

Mistral's Daughter (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Series · 390 min. · United States

Direction Kevin Connor · Douglas Hickox

Cast Stefanie Powers · Lee Remick · Stacy Keach · Robert Urich

Plot Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant...

6.0

56 votes

6.0

56 votes

Candleshoe

1977 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Norman Tokar

Cast David Niven · Helen Hayes · Jodie Foster · Leo McKern

Plot Small time crook, Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor where Lady St. Edmund resides, with a number of children and her butler (Priory) is the resting place for a...

5.8

143 votes

5.8

143 votes

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (TV)

2003 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Pullen Shaw

Cast Angela Lansbury · Fionnula Flanagan · Sarah-Jane Potts · Peter Donat

Plot Jessica Fletcher travels to Ireland, where she attends the reading of an old acquaintance's will. The will contains the clues to finding a secret treasure, one that will require an...

5.4

108 votes

5.4

108 votes

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series)

1992 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction George Lucas · Carl Schultz · Simon Wincer · René Manzor

Cast Sean Patrick Flanery · George Hall · Lloyd Owen · Corey Carrier

Plot The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was based on the Indiana Jones series of films. The series follows the Indiana Jones character (as a young boy and as a young man)...

5.2

3K votes

5.2

3K votes

The Watcher in the Woods

1980 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Hough

Cast Bette Davis · Carroll Baker · David McCallum · Lynn-Holly Johnson

Plot An American composer moves to England to conduct his own opera. Dark secrets from the past emerge as forces of the dark come to light.

5.2

352 votes

5.2

352 votes

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The Irish R.M. (TV Series)

1983 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker · Robert Chetwyn · John Howard · Peter Sykes

Cast Peter Bowles · Bryan Murray · Beryl Reid · Niall Toibin

Plot TV Series (1983-1985). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. A drama about a retired English army officer who becomes a resident magistrate in turn-of-the-20th-century West Ireland. When fine gentleman Major Sinclair Yeates...

Not rated

Not rated

Follyfoot (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Desmond Davis · Stephen Frears · Jack Cardiff · Michael Tuchner

Cast Gillian Blake · Steve Hodson · Christian Rodska · Desmond Llewelyn

Plot Young Dora is sent to stay with her uncle on his farm in rural England while her parents travel overseas for a year. Seeing as she has a love for...

Not rated

Not rated

A Town Like Alice (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Movie · 301 min. · Australia

Direction David Stevens

Cast Helen Morse · Bryan Brown · Gordon Jackson · Dorothy Alison

Plot Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.

Not rated

Not rated

The Littlest Horse Thieves

1976 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Alastair Sim · Peter Barkworth · Maurice Colbourne · Susan Tebbs

Plot When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to...

Not rated

Not rated

Within These Walls (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Hodson · Paul Annett · Philip Casson · Bryan Izzard

Cast Jerome Willis · Mona Bruce · Denys Hawthorne · Googie Withers

Plot Drama inside a women's prison.

Not rated

Not rated

The Duchess of Duke Street (TV Series)

1976 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction John Hawkesworth · Bill Bain · Cyril Coke · Simon Langton

Cast Gemma Jones · Victoria Plucknett · John Welsh · John Cater

Plot (1976-1977). 2 seasons. Louisa Trotter works her way up from being a skivvy to being the Queen of cooks, cook to the King, and owner of the Bentinck Hotel. Her...

Not rated

Not rated

Seal Morning (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Cobham

Cast Holly Aird · Jane Lapotaire · Graham Cull · Jack Carr

Plot An orphaned girl and her lonely aunt living in 1930s England attract the attention of a handsome naturalist when they decide to raise an abandoned seal.

Not rated

Not rated

The Talking Parcel (TV)

1978 · Movie · 40 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Cosgrove

Plot A wrapped parcel is seen floating on the sea (Song: "Mooncarrot Pie") towards a shore where a young girl, Penelope (Lisa Norris) is playing. Unwrapping it, she discovers The Parrot...

Not rated

Not rated

A Change of Place (TV)

1994 · Movie · 94 min. · Canada

Direction Donna Deitch

Cast Rick Springfield · Andrea Roth · Geordie Johnson · Stephanie Beacham

Plot Kim Jameson is a student at a prominent university while Kate Jameson also known as Dominique, Kim's twin sister, is a troubled model working for the House of Shambertin in...

Not rated

Not rated