Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Comedy | Drama
Three generations of women share the same problem–marriage woes–and want to put an end to it.
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bryan Pringle, Trevor Cooper
Director: Peter Greenaway
I Love You to Death (1990)
Comedy | Crime
Joey Boca owns a pizza parlor, and is married to Rosalie. He's also a serial womanizer. Rosalie goes to extremes when she finds he has been cheating.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix, Joan Plowright, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
Comedy | Drama
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Starring: Joan Plowright, Rupert Friend, Zoë Tapper, Robert Lang, Marcia Warren, Anna Massey, Georgina Hale, Millicent Martin
Director: Dan Ireland
Knife Edge (2008)
Horror | Thriller
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
Starring: Natalie Press, Hugh Bonneville, Matthieu Boujenah, Joan Plowright
Director: Anthony Hickox
Avalon (1990)
Drama
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Eve Gordon, Lou Jacobi, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright
Director: Barry Levinson
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
From the beloved best-selling series of books comes The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy adventure that reveals the rest of the world around us. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mom) leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great-great-uncle, Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the siblings investigate what's really going on and uncover the extraordinary truth of the Spiderwick estate and the creatures that inhabit it.
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger, Andrew McCarthy, Joan Plowright
Director: Mark Waters
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Drama | Romance
In a time when adultery is punishable by death, Hester Prynne becomes involved in a risky and scandalous affair with her town's handsome minister. But when their secret passion results in a child, Hester is confronted with the town's overwhelming scorn… and is condemned to forever wear the scarlet letter "A" as a public brand of shame.
Starring: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Robert Prosky, Joan Plowright, Edward Hardwicke
Director: Roland Joffé
101 Dalmatians (1996)
Adventure | Comedy
A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals then gang up against her and get their revenge in slapstick fashion.
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie, John Shrapnel
Director: Stephen Herek
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Comedy | Family
Dennis, everyone's favorite kid from the comics is back. When his parents have to go out of town, he stays with Mr and Mrs Wilson. The little menace is driving Mr Wilson crazy. But Dennis is just trying to be helpful. Even to the thief he bumps into.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Joan Plowright, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Robert Stanton
Director: Nick Castle
I Am David (2003)
Drama
David, a 12-year-old, escapes from a Communist concentration camp with little more than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into the free world for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. His spiritual voyage of discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctive mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust and ultimately, love, addresses the cruelties, politics, and suffering of warfare while celebrating the resilience of youth and the unbreakable spirit of a child.
Starring: Ben Tibber, Jim Caviezel, Joan Plowright
Director: Paul Feig
