Movies with Joan Plowright

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Starring: Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, Freddie Highmore, David Strathairn, Martin Short, Tyler Patrick Jones, Mary-Louise Parker

Directors: Mark Waters

Country: USA

Year: 2008

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.

 

The Return of the Native

Genres: Drama

Starring: Joan Plowright, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul Rogers, Clive Owen, Celia Imrie, Ray Stevenson, Steven Mackintosh

Directors: Jack Gold

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1994

The breathtaking English countryside sets the stage for a spellbinding triangle of love, desire and destiny in Thomas Hardy's timeless romantic classic about an ambitious beauty and the two men who will sacrifice everything to claim her. Eustacia Vye hates the rural home she shares with her grandfather and dreams of the day she can escape "this graveyard of a heath." The peasants call her a witch, for she enchants every man she meets...including her handsome suitor Damon Wildeve, who has promised to marry another. But when a well-to-do young man returns home from Paris, she sends Wildeve back to his fiancee, and uses all her seductive powers ...

 

Jane Eyre (1996)

Genres: Romance, Drama

Starring: Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin, Richard Warwick, Fiona Shaw, Geraldine Chaplin, John Wood, Billie Whitelaw

Directors: Franco Zeffirelli

Country: USA, UK, Italy, France

Year: 1996

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.

 

Last Action Hero

Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Noah Emmerich, Charles Dance, Ian McKellen, F. Murray Abraham, Joan Plowright, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Directors: John McTiernan

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Danny Madigan knows all the first 3 Jack Slater movies in and out. The 4th one is just about to be released too, and with a magical ticket Danny really gets to know that movie in and out too, literaly speaking. During one of the action climaxes Danny is transported into the movie, into a world following other rules than the real one. Benedict, one of the evil guys, gets hold of the ticket and escapes out to the real world, a world where evil guys can actually win. Danny and Jack follows him back to the real world to get back the ticket and stop Benedict from killing the actor playing Jack.

 

Stalin

Genres: Drama, Biography

Starring: Robert Duvall, Miriam Margolyes, Maximilian Schell, Joan Plowright, Frank Finlay, Jim Carter, Julia Ormond

Directors: Ivan Passer

Country: USA, Hungary

Year: 1992

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

 

Dennis the Menace

Genres: Comedy, Family

Starring: Lea Thompson, Devin Ratray, Christopher Lloyd, Walter Matthau, Joan Plowright, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Winfield

Directors: Nick Castle

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Dennis, everyone's favorite kid from the comics is back. When his parents have to go out of town, he stays with Mr and Mrs Wilson. The little menace is driving Mr Wilson crazy. But Dennis is just trying to be helpful. Even to the thief he bumps into.

 

Enchanted April

Genres: Drama

Starring: Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina, Polly Walker, Michael Kitchen, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Neville Phillips

Directors: Mike Newell

Country: UK

Year: 1992

This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has it's own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously filmed enchantment.

 

Callas Forever

Genres: Drama

Starring: Joan Plowright, Roberto Sanchez, Jeremy Irons, Stephen Billington, Jay Rodan, Fanny Ardant, Gabriel Garko

Directors: Franco Zeffirelli

Country: UK, Italy, Spain, France, Romania

Year: 2002

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Franco Zeffirelli was and is clearly in love with Maria Callas, but unlike the average Callas fan, as a movie director, he was able to do something about it. This superbly made film, about the last few months of the great soprano's life in 1977, moves easily between fact and fantasy to express that love and to give her a more upbeat ending than the one that fate actually dealt her. It is made with the attention to small details that is a hallmark of Zeffirelli's work. In reality, Callas became a recluse in her luxurious Paris apartment, mourning the loss of her voice, the breakup of her relationship to Aristotle Onassis and the disintegration...

 

The House of Bernarda Alba

Genres: Drama

Starring: Patricia Hayes, Joan Plowright, Glenda Jackson, Deborah Findlay, Suzanna Hamilton, Julie Legrand, Amanda Root

Directors: Stuart Burge

Country: UK

Year: 1991

A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.

 

Dinosaur

Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Family

Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Julianna Margulies, Alfre Woodard, D.B. Sweeney, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Samuel E. Wright

Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag

Country: USA

Year: 2000

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar. Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Sinc...

 

I Love You to Death

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Starring: Miriam Margolyes, Keanu Reeves, Heather Graham, Jack Kehler, James Gammon, Joan Plowright, William Hurt

Directors: Lawrence Kasdan

Country: USA

Year: 1990

Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious to their attempts.

 

Revolution

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Starring: Al Pacino, Joan Plowright, Donald Sutherland, Richard O'Brien, Dave King, Steven Berkoff, Paul Brooke

Directors: Hugh Hudson

Country: UK, Norway

Year: 1985

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

 

Knife Edge

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Starring: Joan Plowright, Mark Holden, Hugh Bonneville, Jamie Harris, Peter Rnic, Tamsin Egerton, Natalie Press

Directors: Anthony Hickox

Country: USA

Year: 2010

Blissfully happy in her new marriage, Emma gives up her successful Wall Street career and moves with her family to a secluded country estate. But her dream of a perfect life quickly turns into a nightmare when she begins seeing strange and terrifying visions of horrific events from the mansion’s past.

 

101 Dalmatians

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family

Starring: Jeff Daniels, John Shrapnel, Glenn Close, Hugh Laurie, Joan Plowright, Joely Richardson, Tim McInnerny

Directors: Stephen Herek

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in love and marry along with their dalmatians Perdita and Pongo. But the proud dogs' puppies are kidnapped by Anita's boss Cruella De Vil, who is stealing young dalmatians to make the coat she has set her heart on. Enlisting the help of the British animal kingdom, Pongo and Perdita set out to find and rescue all ninety-nine pups from their fearsome captors, Jasper and Horace.

 

Bringing Down the House

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Missi Pyle, Joan Plowright, Queen Latifah, Jean Smart

Directors: Adam Shankman

Country: USA

Year: 2003

Peter Sanderson is an ordinary lawyer who has an on-line buddy named Lawyer-Girl. But when Peter finally meets Lawyer-Girl, she turns out to be Charlene Morton, a convict who was arrested for armed robbery, and she needs his help because she claims she didn't do it. In the meantime, Peter is meeting his new rich client whom he tries hard not to make a bad impression on, deal with his neighbor/boss's sister, go through a divorce, and handle two kids, along with the fact that Peter's best friend has fallen in love with Charlene.

 

I Am David

Genres: Drama

Starring: Joan Plowright, James Caviezel, Lucy Russell, Francesco De Vito, Hristo Shopov, Ben Tibber, Silvia De Santis

Directors: Paul Feig

Country: USA

Year: 2003

I Am David is adapted from Anne Holm's internationally acclaimed novel of the same name (re-titled North to Freedom in the USA). It is the story of a 12-year-old boy, David, who escapes from a Communist concentration camp with little more than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into the free world for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. It is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctive mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust and ultimately, love. I Am David addresses the cruelties, polit...

 

George and the Dragon

Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure

Starring: Michael Clarke Duncan, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Simon Callow, Joan Plowright, Piper Perabo, James Purefoy, Patrick Swayze

Directors: Tom Reeve

Country: Germany, USA, UK

Year: 2004

The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that has changed forever. George, a handsome English knight, unsettled by the horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in Palestine, desires to hang up his sword and settle down to a quiet, peaceful life. On returning to England, George heads north where he's heard the land is good and the population sparse and of a kindly King named Edgaar. He finds King Edgaar in a terrible state. His beautiful daughter, Lunna has recently disappeared. In return for a small plot of land, George agrees to ...

 

Equus

Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery

Starring: Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Harry Andrews, Jenny Agutter

Directors: Sidney Lumet

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1977

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.