Penelope Wilton
17 titles
Filmography
17 results

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
(2023)A man who's always lived life on the sidelines becomes an unlikely media sensation when he embarks on a walk across England to reach a dying friend.

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.

Summerland
(2020)SUMMERLAND follows the story of fiercely independent folklore investigator, Alice (Gemma Arterton). When spirited young Frank, an evacuee from the London Blitz, is dumped into her irritable care, his innocence and wonder unlock deeply buried and painful secrets in Alice's past, and make her re-evaluate what it really means to free your imagination.

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.

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.

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.

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 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]

Zoo
(2018)Based on a true story, this charming tale follows Tom, a 12-year-old determined to save a baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.

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.

Victoria & Albert
(2001)The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert...

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.