Vivien Merchant
7 titles
Filmography
7 results

The Offence
(1973)Exhausted after years spent investigating violent crimes, a detective is driven over the edge while interrogating a suspected child molester.

The Maids
(1975)Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Paris maids who tend to a cruel socialite's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainful mistress they serve. Adapted from Jean Genet's absurdist play into a riveting cinematic experience.

A Tale of Two Cities
A BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction concerning a duplicitous love triangle set during the French Revolution.

Frenzy
(1972)The Necktie Murderer has the London Police on red alert, and an innocent man is on a desperate quest to find the real serial rapist-murderer and clear his own name.

The Man in the Iron Mask
(1977)The Musketeers’ plot to replace Louis XIV with the rightful heir to his throne backfires when the cruel king locks up his twin in the Bastille.

The Homecoming
(1973)A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, but the family reunion has unexpected and disturbing consequences. Based on one of Harold Pinter's greatest plays, director Sir Peter Hall re-renders his original Royal Shakespeare Company London stage triumph as a bleached, claustrophobic delirium as no theater staging could.

Alfie
(1966)Alfie is not really a bad sort. It’s just that he has this overwhelming desire for the opposite sex. You might say that “birds’ are irresistible to him, sort of second nature.