The best Honor Blackman’s drama movies

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman

22/08/1925- 05/04/2020
Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 - 5 April 2020) was an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers (1962–64) and Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964).
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Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary
6.8/10
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember
7.9/10
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Life at the Top

Life at the Top
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/12/1965
  • Character: Norah Hauxley
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.

The Fight for Rome

The Fight for Rome
6/10
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.

Colour Me Kubrick

Colour Me Kubrick
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/10/2005
  • Character: Madam
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.

So Long at the Fair

So Long at the Fair
7.1/10
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.

To Walk with Lions

To Walk with Lions
6.7/10
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George (Richard Harris) on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence (Ian Bannen). When drifter Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions - and, ultimately, the park itself - from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.

Quartet

Quartet
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1948
  • Character: Paula
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Age of Innocence

Age of Innocence
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/04/1977
  • Character: Mrs Boswell
A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.

Twinky

Twinky
5.2/10
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.

A Matter of WHO

A Matter of WHO
6.2/10
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

Moment to Moment

Moment to Moment
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 04/04/1965
  • Character: Daphne Fields
When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
6.2/10
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

I, Anna

I, Anna
6/10
A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.

You Pay Your Money

You Pay Your Money
4.9/10
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.

Diamond City

Diamond City
5.8/10
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

The Virgin and the Gypsy

The Virgin and the Gypsy
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1970
  • Character: Mrs. Fawcett
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice
5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/2005
  • Character: Countess Lucinda Reeves
Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.

The Rainbow Jacket

The Rainbow Jacket
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/05/1954
  • Character: Mrs Tyler
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

The Last Grenade

The Last Grenade
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 24/06/1970
  • Character: Katherine Whiteley
British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.

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