The best Joan Plowright’s movies

Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright

28/10/1929 (94 años)
Today we present the best Joan Plowright’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Joan Plowright’s movies.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles
6.5/10
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

Dinosaur

Dinosaur
6.4/10
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 23/06/1993
  • Character: Martha Wilson
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.

101 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians
5.7/10
An evil high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero
6.5/10
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to save the life of his hero and new friend.

Curious George

Curious George
6.5/10
When The Man in the Yellow Hat befriends Curious George in the jungle, they set off on a non-stop, fun-filled journey through the wonders of the big city toward the warmth of true friendship.

Dance with Me

Dance with Me
5.9/10
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
5.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/10/1995
  • Character: Harriet Hibbons
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.

Revolution

Revolution
5.3/10
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

Tea with Mussolini

Tea with Mussolini
6.9/10
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/03/2003
  • Character: Virginia Arness
When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1996
  • Character: Mrs. Fairfax
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.

I Love You to Death

I Love You to Death
6.4/10
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time, she goes to extreme lengths to punish him.

Mr. Wrong

Mr. Wrong
3.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/02/1996
  • Character: Mrs. Crawford
A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince anyone else of his Jekyll/Hyde true nature.

I Am David

I Am David
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 03/12/2003
  • Character: Sophie
Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark and a compass to help get him there.

Stalin

Stalin
7/10
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

Avalon

Avalon
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 05/10/1990
  • Character: Eva Krichinsky
Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes of Jewish assimilation into American life.

Enchanted April

Enchanted April
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/11/1991
  • Character: Mrs. Fisher
Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.

Equus

Equus
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 16/10/1977
  • Character: Dora Strang
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1988
  • Character: Cissie Colpitts 1
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love with all three women and helps to disguise the murders.

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