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
The Manions of America (TV Miniseries)
1981 · Series · 270 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles S. Dubin
Cast Pierce Brosnan · Simon MacCorkindale · Kate Mulgrew · Linda Purl
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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