Penelope Wilton
19 titles
Filmography
19 results

Clockwise
(1986)John Cleese, at his harried best in this hilarious British comedy, plays a school headmaster obsessed with punctuality. His best laid plans to attend a headmasters' conference go wrong when he boards the wrong train. He turns back to find alternative means of transport, hijacking one of his pupils who is taking the afternoon off school in her father's car. As the journey descends into further chaos, the head begins to lose his schoolmasterly poise.

Falling
(2005)An older man who offers to help a writer whose garden has grown wild begins a relationship with her, but his intentions are far from good.

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
(1999)In post-war Poland, an author writes the biography of composer Frédéric Chopin and meets a strange woman who claims her ancestor was his muse.

Summerland
(2020)During World War II, an Englishwoman (Gemma Arterton) opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him in this moving journey of womanhood, love and friendship.

Cry Freedom
(1987)The tension and terror that is present-day South Africa is powerfully portrayed in director Richard Attenborough's sweeping story of black activist Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington) and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.

Operation Mincemeat
(2022)During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

King Lear
(1982)The aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom in accordance with how much his three daughters say they love him. His youngest daughter refuses to answer and finds herself banished. The elder daughters plot a cruel betrayal against him which ultimately threatens the kingdom and the King's own sanity.

Iris
(2001)HD. Judi Dench gives an Oscar(R)-nominated performance in this poignant story chronicling the life of celebrated English author Iris Murdoch.

The Girl
(2012)Iconic director Alfred Hitchcock's obsessive relationship with actress Tippi Hedren is the focus of this HBO Films drama.

Eternal Beauty
(2020)When Jane’s crippling schizophrenia forces her to retreat inside her head, what pulls her out is an unlikely relationship with a quirky aging rocker.

Match Point
(2005)Chris, a former tennis player looking to work as a tennis instructor, becomes obsessed with Nola, his brother-in-law's seductive fiancée.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
(2012)British pensioners move to a retirement home in India where they get a new lease on life.

Carrington
(1995)Follow the true story of English painter Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey, who formed an unconventional relationship between 1915 and 1932.

The French Lieutenant's Woman
(1981)When two actors star in a movie about a love affair in nineteenth-century England, their off-screen life starts to resemble the film’s plot.

The BFG
(2016)An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. [YTV]

Shaun of the Dead
(2004)An aimless TV salesman (Simon Pegg) and his friend battle zombies.

Downton Abbey: A New Era
(2022)Downton Abbey: A New Era reunites the beloved cast as they go on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the Dowager Countess' newly inherited villa.

Belle
(2013)The true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay. After meeting an idealistic young man, he and Belle help shape her great-uncle's role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
(2015)Now that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is full up, Muriel and Sonny have a dream of expansion.