Movies: Peggy Ashcroft

  • 1935
    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps (1935)

    The 39 Steps

    7.31935HD

    Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy...

    The 39 Steps
  • 1959
    The Nun's Story

    The Nun's Story (1959)

    The Nun's Story

    7.11959HD

    After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II....

    The Nun's Story
  • 1986
    When the Wind Blows

    When the Wind Blows (1986)

    When the Wind Blows

    7.41986HD

    With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II....

    When the Wind Blows
  • 1971
    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    6.61971HD

    Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents...

    Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • 1984
    A Passage to India

    A Passage to India (1984)

    A Passage to India

    6.71984HD

    Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. Sh...

    A Passage to India
  • 1968
    Secret Ceremony

    Secret Ceremony (1968)

    Secret Ceremony

    61968HD

    A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness....

    Secret Ceremony
  • 1933
    The Wandering Jew

    The Wandering Jew (1933)

    The Wandering Jew

    7.61933HD

    Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the...

    The Wandering Jew
  • 1968
    Tell Me Lies

    Tell Me Lies (1968)

    Tell Me Lies

    6.31968HD

    Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – rem...

    Tell Me Lies
  • 1962
    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard (1962)

    The Cherry Orchard

    81962HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the ho...

    The Cherry Orchard
  • 1973
    The Pedestrian

    The Pedestrian (1973)

    The Pedestrian

    6.41973HD

    When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece....

    The Pedestrian
  • 1988
    Madame Sousatzka

    Madame Sousatzka (1988)

    Madame Sousatzka

    6.71988HD

    In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to becom...

    Madame Sousatzka
  • 1965
    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses (1965)

    The Wars of the Roses

    8.51965HD

    A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict ...

    The Wars of the Roses
  • 1989
    The Heat of the Day

    The Heat of the Day (1989)

    The Heat of the Day

    01989HD

    In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him....

    The Heat of the Day
  • 1977
    Joseph Andrews

    Joseph Andrews (1977)

    Joseph Andrews

    4.71977HD

    Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belong...

    Joseph Andrews
  • 1941
    Quiet Wedding

    Quiet Wedding (1941)

    Quiet Wedding

    4.21941HD

    A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day....

    Quiet Wedding
  • 1978
    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    101978HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Ed...

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson
  • 1986
    Murder by the Book

    Murder by the Book (1986)

    Murder by the Book

    31986HD

    Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,”...

    Murder by the Book
  • 1982
    Little Eyolf

    Little Eyolf (1982)

    Little Eyolf

    61982HD

    Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as A...

    Little Eyolf
  • 1978
    Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

    Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)

    Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

    5.31978HD

    This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come...

    Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
  • 1969
    3 Into 2 Won't Go

    3 Into 2 Won't Go (1969)

    3 Into 2 Won't Go

    51969HD

    Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's hou...

    3 Into 2 Won't Go