The best Peter Sallis’s drama movies

Peter Sallis

Peter Sallis

21/02/1921- 02/06/2017
Today we present the best Peter Sallis’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 Peter Sallis’s movies.
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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/06/1970
  • Character: Mr. Shielders
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor. Written by Marg Baskin

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1963
  • Character: Doctor
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

Full Circle

Full Circle
6.2/10
After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/10/1960
  • Character: Man in Suit (uncredited)
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat
6.8/10
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

Rapture

Rapture
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/08/1965
  • Character: Armand
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Frankenstein: The True Story

Frankenstein: The True Story
7.2/10
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.

Colour Me Kubrick

Colour Me Kubrick
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/10/2005
  • Character: Patient
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.

The Mouse on the Moon

The Mouse on the Moon
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/05/1963
  • Character: Russian Delegate
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.

The Third Secret

The Third Secret
6.5/10
A prominent London Psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.

My Lover, My Son

My Lover, My Son
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/05/1970
  • Character: Sir Sidney Brent
A woman deals with an unhappy marriage, the death of her lover, and her son's involvement in a crime.

Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/02/1968
  • Character: Solicitor
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.

The Moonstone

The Moonstone
7.5/10
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.

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.

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/02/1961
  • Character: M.P.
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

Belonging

Belonging
7/10
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.

The Road Builder

The Road Builder
6.3/10
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye. Based on the novel *Nest in a Fallen Tree* by Joy Cowley.

Inadmissible Evidence

Inadmissible Evidence
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1968
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.

Who Killed Lamb?

Who Killed Lamb?
6.6/10
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.

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