Madame Sousatzka (1988)
Drama | Music
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student – Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Shabana Azmi, Leigh Lawson, Navin Chowdhry
Director: John Schlesinger
A Passage to India (1984)
Adventure | Drama | History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Starring: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers
Director: David Lean
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | War
A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.
Starring: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Drama
A ménage à trois involving a homosexual man, a heterosexual woman, and the bisexual young man who alternates between them.
Starring: Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Glenda Jackson, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham
Director: John Schlesinger
The Nun's Story (1959)
Drama
In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent, expecting to work as nun in Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie; to her brother Pierre; and to her beloved father, and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silent and excessive humbleness and humiliation. After a long period working in a mental institution, Gaby is finally assigned to go to Congo, where she works with the Atheist and cynical, but brilliant, Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculous heals her tuberculosis. Years later, she is ordered to return to Belgium and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister…
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight
Director: Fred Zinnemann
The 39 Steps (1935)
Mystery | Thriller
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as "The 39 Steps."
Starring: Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
