Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

January 30, 1937 · 89 years old

Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and political activist. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Br…

Known For

67 titles
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Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

1996 · 1h 50m · Movie

An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.

7.2
2
Atonement

Atonement

2007 · 2h 3m · Movie

Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

7.8
3
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999 · 2h 7m · Movie

Directionless teenager Susanna is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.

7.3
4
Deep Impact

Deep Impact

1998 · 2h 0m · Movie

A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.

6.3
5
Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher

2014 · 2h 14m · Movie

U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-d...

7.0
6
The Butler

The Butler

2013 · 2h 12m · Movie

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

7.2
7
Cold Storage

Cold Storage

2026 · 1h 39m · Movie

When a highly dangerous fungus escapes from a secret laboratory, a former bioterrorism agent is called back into action. Alongside two young employees, he must confront an invisible and out-of-control threat.

5.6
8
Letters to Juliet

Letters to Juliet

2010 · 1h 45m · Movie

Sophie travels to Verona where she finds an old unanswered letter asking for love advice. She answers it and when the recipient shows up along with her grumpy grandson, they head off to find the old long lost love while a young lo...

6.5
9
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

1974 · 2h 8m · Movie

Returning home from Istanbul on the Orient Express, renowned Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called upon to solve the murder of an American businessman aboard the train. The suspects are numerous and the clues confusing.

7.2
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Blow-Up

Blow-Up

1966 · 1h 51m · Movie

A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.

7.4
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The Pledge

The Pledge

2001 · 2h 4m · Movie

A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

6.7
12
Anonymous

Anonymous

2011 · 2h 10m · Movie

The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

6.8
13
Howards End

Howards End

1992 · 2h 22m · Movie

Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.

7.4
14
The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower

2010 · 1h 52m · Movie

A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.

7.1
15
Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife

2012 · 1h 0m · TV Show

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

8.6
16
Coriolanus

Coriolanus

2011 · 2h 3m · Movie

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

6.1
17
The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

1993 · 2h 25m · Movie

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.

6.9
18
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017 · 1h 45m · Movie

A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.

6.7
19
The Devils

The Devils

1971 · 1h 51m · Movie

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

7.7
20
Wilde

Wilde

1997 · 1h 58m · Movie

The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.

6.9
21
Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997 · 2h 1m · Movie

A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.

6.3
22
The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture

2017 · 1h 48m · Movie

A woman keeps a diary of her extended stay at a mental hospital.

6.5
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Evening

Evening

2007 · 1h 57m · Movie

Suffering from a terminal illness, an elderly woman recalls in delirium a tragedy from her youth, when her brief romance with a young doctor has unforeseeable consequences for a mutual friend secretly in love with her.

6.4
24
Venus

Venus

2006 · 1h 35m · Movie

Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.

7.1
25
Julia

Julia

1977 · 1h 57m · Movie

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

7.1
26
Finding You

Finding You

2021 · 1h 59m · Movie

Violinist Finley Sinclair travels to an Irish coastal village to begin a semester of studying abroad. At the B&B run by her host family, she encounters gregarious, persistent heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush.

5.7
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Little Odessa

Little Odessa

1994 · 1h 38m · Movie

A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.

6.7
28
Cradle Will Rock

Cradle Will Rock

1999 · 2h 12m · Movie

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

6.8
29
Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard

1996 · 1h 51m · Movie

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."

7.3
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Unfinished Song

Unfinished Song

2012 · 1h 30m · Movie

Grumpy pensioner Arthur honors his recently deceased wife's passion for performing by joining the unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James.

6.9
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Camelot

Camelot

1967 · 2h 59m · Movie

The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of the illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "Round Table" of...

6.6
32
The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm

2002 · 1h 36m · Movie

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

7.4
33
Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

1987 · 1h 45m · Movie

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.

7.1
34
Restraint

Restraint

2008 · 1h 32m · Movie

A young couple on the run hole up in a country estate with a hostage in tow.

6.0
35
Georgetown

Georgetown

2019 · 1h 39m · Movie

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

6.2
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The Thief Lord

The Thief Lord

2006 · 1h 38m · Movie

After their mother dies, two boys flee their mean aunt and head for Venice, Italy, where they meet Scipio, the mysterious "Thief Lord." Along with a small gang of abandoned kids, the boys start robbing the rich to support themselves.

5.9