The best Diana Rigg’s drama movies

Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

20/07/1938- 10/09/2020
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Breathe

Breathe
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/10/2017
  • Character: Lady Neville
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun
7/10
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/01/2006
  • Character: Mother Superior
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Heidi

Heidi
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 19/08/2005
  • Character: Grandmamma
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.

The Hospital

The Hospital
7.1/10
A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.

Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood
7.1/10
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah
5.8/10
Mara and Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines. One day, a mysterious stranger appears to Mara and promises her that she will bear a son whom she is to call Samson.

Danielle Steel's Zoya

Danielle Steel's Zoya
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1995
  • Character: Evgenia
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.

A Good Man in Africa

A Good Man in Africa
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/07/1994
  • Character: Chloe Fanshawe
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.

Burial

Burial
A small group of Russian soldiers have the task of taking Hitler's discovered remains back to Stalin in Moscow.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
6.1/10
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
7.7/10
In her filthy cell in Newgate prison Moll Flanders, dubbed 'the wickedest woman in England' tells her story. Born in the gaol, after her mother is transported Moll is raised by the kindly mayor of Colchester and his wife, whose two sons lust after her. She enjoys sex with handsome Rowland, who teaches her that money talks, but, realizing he only wants her as a mistress, she marries his duller brother Robin, who conveniently dies after five years, leaving her wealthy. She goes to London, briefly meeting highwayman Jemmy Seagrove, and marries parvenu draper Daniel Dawkins, but he has huge debts and must flee to France, leaving Moll alone and poor. Moll meets handsome young American sea captain Lemuel Golightly, who marries her and takes her to Virginia and a good life style, along with his mother. They have two children and are blissfully happy until Moll discovers her mother-in-law is also her birth mother. She has married her own brother. She returns to England and poses as wealthy ...

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution
7.1/10
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.

A Hazard of Hearts

A Hazard of Hearts
6.8/10
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.

King Lear

King Lear
7.6/10
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

The American

The American
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1998
  • Character: Madame de Bellegarde
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/03/1981
  • Character: Hedda Gabler
Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman (Denis Lill), the ambitious Hedda Gabler (Diana Rigg) hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former flame, the successful Eilert (Philip Bond), enters the picture, violence and blackmail aren't far behind. Diana Rigg is the manipulative Hedda, who will not or cannot conform to what society considers "normal" for a woman. The arrival of her ex-lover gives her the opportunity to determine someone else's fate.

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/12/1992
  • Character: Mme. Colbert
Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation is a little harder than simply plunking down cash. Along the way to her goal, she manages to befriend a count, unite young lovers, and dodge customs.

Little Eyolf

Little Eyolf
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/07/1982
  • Character: Rita Allmers
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 Alfred shifts his focus between his book, their son Eyolf, and his half-sister Asta. As Allmers slowly feels trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, emotions and a painful past threaten to boil over into a terrible finale.

In This House of Brede

In This House of Brede
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/02/1975
  • Character: Dame Philippa
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.

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