Movies with Vanessa Redgrave
Movies found: 33, viewing from 1 to 20
Steaming
Genres: Drama
Year: 1985
Country: UK
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Diana Dors, Patti Love, Anna Tzelniker, Sarah Miles, Felicity Dean, Brenda Bruce
Available Quality: DivX
A film about self-discovery and triumph based on the popular play.
Nip/Tuck - Season Seven
Genres: Drama
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Ryan Murphy, Jamie Babbit, Nelson McCormick, Jeremy Podeswa, Craig Zisk
Starring: Dylan Walsh, Roma Maffia, Vanessa Redgrave, Famke Janssen, Valerie Cruz, Sanaa Lathan, Portia de Rossi
Available Quality: DivX
The Parents Television Council (PTC) has criticized the show. The show is shown at a late hour with multiple 'Viewer Discretion Advised' warnings between every commercial break. A particular scene involving a foursome pushed the PTC into starting a campaign to get the show taken off the air by writing to the sponsors of the show and threatening to boycott their products. Another scene the PTC criticized depicted a funeral home worker removing and assembling body parts from dead women, including his sister's head, then sewing them together to make "the ideal woman." The PTC President described it in a decency hearing as "incestuous necrophilia...
Nip/Tuck - Season Six
Genres: Drama
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Ryan Murphy, Jamie Babbit, Nelson McCormick, Jeremy Podeswa, Craig Zisk
Starring: Dylan Walsh, Roma Maffia, Vanessa Redgrave, Famke Janssen, Valerie Cruz, Sanaa Lathan, Portia de Rossi
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy. Each episode typically involves the cosmetic procedures of one or more patients, and also features the personal and professional lives of its main cast.
Julia (1977)
Genres: Drama
Year: 1977
Country: USA
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Cathleen Nesbitt, John Glover
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
From "Pentimento," the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play "The Childrens' Hour" on Broadway. Not surprisingly, it centers on Lillian's relationship with her lifelong friend, Julia. It is a relationship that goes beyond mere acquaintance and one for which the word "love" seems appropriate. While Julia attends the University in Vienna, studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, Lillian suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometimes lover Dashiel Hammett at a New England beachhouse. After b...
The Whistleblower
Genres: Drama
Year: 2010
Country: Germany, Canada
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Starring: William Hope, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Hewlett
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Inspired by true events, Kathy (Rachel Weisz) is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic doubletalk.
Miral
Genres: Drama
Year: 2010
Country: Italy, France, India, Israel
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave, Jamil Khoury, Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Asma Al Shiukhy, Neemeh Khalil
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
The Devils
Genres: Horror, Drama, History
Year: 1971
Country: UK
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Andrew Faulds, Kenneth Colley, Michael Gothard, Gemma Jones, John Woodvine, Dudley Sutton
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.
Hell on Earth
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2002
Country: UK
Director: Paul Joyce
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Georgina Hale, Ken Russell, Murray Melvin, Judith Paris, Izabella Telezynska
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Goergina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
Deep Impact
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1998
Country: USA
Director: Mimi Leder
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Blair Underwood, Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, James Cromwell
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A teenage astronomer and his teacher discover an object amongst the stars at night. Little do they know that it's a comet on a direct collision course for earth. After the teacher dies in a car crash trying to report his findings the President announces the comet's existence. He also states that there is no need to panic, because NASA is going to send astronauts on the space mission, Messiah. Their mission is to destroy the comet before it gets too close to the earth. When Messiah backfires, the President announces that special caves will have to be built, and the government will have to have a lottery-of-fate to randomly select 800,000 ordin...
Crime and Punishment
Genres: Drama
Year: 2002
Country: USA, Poland, Russia
Director: Menahem Golan
Starring: John Hurt, Margot Kidder, Theodore Bikel, Crispin Glover, Vanessa Redgrave, Patricia Hayes, Clive Revill
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
John Simm (LIFE ON MARS) stars as antihero Raskolnikov in this 2002 BBC adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel.
The Fever
Genres: Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA, UK
Director: Carlo Gabriel Nero
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Genres: Drama
Year: 1991
Country: USA, UK
Director: Simon Callow
Starring: Lanny Flaherty, Vanessa Redgrave, Joe Stevens, Austin Pendleton, Rod Steiger, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. He suggests they open a café in the downstairs of her large house. Marvin Macy gets out of prison and returns to town; turns out he was married to Amelia but it wasn't consummated. He pleaded, then got angry. Is he back for revenge? Eventually, Amelia and Marvin stage a no-holds-barred fight in the café. Lymon's complicated response to Marvin and to Cousin Amelia figures in the resolution.
Camelot
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Year: 1967
Country: USA
Director: Joshua Logan
Starring: Estelle Winwood, Lionel Jeffries, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Bromilow, Laurence Naismith, David Hemmings, Richard Harris
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot. The plot of illegitimate Modred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, whom she at first abhors, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights who would use their might for right.
Orpheus Descending
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Peter Hall
Starring: Miriam Margolyes, Vanessa Redgrave, Brad Sullivan, Manning Redwood, Kevin Anderson, Sloane Shelton, Pat McNamara
Available Quality: DivX
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Playing for Time
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Daniel Mann
Starring: Will Lee, Melanie Mayron, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Christine Baranski, Marcell Rosenblatt, Robin Bartlett
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Letters to Juliet
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan, Marcia DeBonis, Amanda Seyfried, Gael Garcia Bernal, Giordano Formenti, Paolo Arvedi
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
The Day Of The Triffids
Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror
Year: 2009
Country: UK
Director: Steve Sekely
Starring: Brian Cox, Rosalind Halstead, Vanessa Redgrave, Dougray Scott, Nora-Jane Noone, Eddie Izzard, Joely Richardson
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the population go blind. In the original novel, this chaos results in the escape of some Triffids: experimental plants that are capable of moving themselves around and attacking people. In the film version, however, the Triffids are not experimental plants. Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in an earlier meteor shower.
Mission: Impossible
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Dale Dye, Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave, Marcel Iures, Henry Czerny, Kristin Scott Thomas
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A big-screen remake of a prior American television show, modernized and updated with all of the eye-popping special effects that a Hollywood mega-budget can buy. The show's Jim Phelps is the leader of the 'Impossible Missions Force.' In this 'episode,' Ethan Hunt is the point man for an IMF mission to catch a spy in the act of stealing information about the 'covers' of many other covert operatives. In the tradition of the TV show, the viewer is led down many plot twists, turns, and reversals, while the IMF members employ the latest in technology, disguises, and spy gadgetry to accomplish their mission.HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPAT...
The Gathering Storm
Genres: Drama, History, Biography
Year: 2002
Country: USA, UK
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Anthony Brophy, Lena Headey, Tom Wilkinson, Vanessa Redgrave, Gottfried John, Albert Finney
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Albert Finney offers an excellent presentation of Winston Churchill in the years immediately before World War II. Facing a rising Nazi Germany, most of the British Parliament chooses to look the other way in hopes of peace. Parliament even votes to send Germany airplane engines. Against the wisdom of the other party members, Churchill preaches against the Nazi threat. But the aspect of the film that makes the story a standout is the personal relationship and love he had with his wife, Clementine. Churchill's arrogance strains his family and personal relationships, including his wife. When she announces she wants to go on a trip, Churchill acc...
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Genres: Adventure, Family, Drama
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: Kayvan Mashayekh
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Bruno Lastra, Rade Serbedzija, Christopher Simpson, Moritz Bleibtreu
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations. The film takes us from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam, Hassan Sabbah (the original creator of the sect of Assassins) and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from their eternal bond of friendship. Filmed almost entirely on location in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan.