Peggy Ashcroft Movies

  • 1935
    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps

    7.41935HD

    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...

    The 39 Steps
  • 1959
    The Nun's Story

    The Nun's Story

    The Nun's Story

    7.1261959HD

    After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World...

    The Nun's Story
  • 1984
    A Passage to India

    A Passage to India

    A Passage to India

    6.761984HD

    Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a...

    A Passage to India
  • 1986
    When the Wind Blows

    When the Wind Blows

    When the Wind Blows

    7.41986HD

    With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that...

    When the Wind Blows
  • 1971
    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    6.61971HD

    Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also...

    Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • 1968
    Secret Ceremony

    Secret Ceremony

    Secret Ceremony

    5.91968HD

    A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.

    Secret Ceremony
  • 1968
    Tell Me Lies

    Tell Me Lies

    Tell Me Lies

    6.31968HD

    Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop...

    Tell Me Lies
  • 1988
    Madame Sousatzka

    Madame Sousatzka

    Madame Sousatzka

    6.6841988HD

    In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays...

    Madame Sousatzka
  • 1977
    Joseph Andrews

    Joseph Andrews

    Joseph Andrews

    4.71977HD

    Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...

    Joseph Andrews
  • 1986
    Murder by the Book

    Murder by the Book

    Murder by the Book

    31986HD

    Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which...

    Murder by the Book
  • 1978
    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    101978HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson
  • 1933
    The Wandering Jew

    The Wandering Jew

    The Wandering Jew

    7.61933HD

    Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His...

    The Wandering Jew
  • 1980
    Caught on a Train

    Caught on a Train

    Caught on a Train

    3.81980HD

    British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train....

    Caught on a Train
  • 1965
    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses

    8.51965HD

    A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the...

    The Wars of the Roses
  • 1989
    She's Been Away

    She's Been Away

    She's Been Away

    5.41989HD

    A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in...

    She's Been Away
  • 1962
    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    81962HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

    The Cherry Orchard
  • 1980
    Cream in My Coffee

    Cream in My Coffee

    Cream in My Coffee

    61980HD

    Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit...

    Cream in My Coffee
  • 1942
    We Serve

    We Serve

    We Serve

    01942HD

    Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.

    We Serve
  • 1941
    Quiet Wedding

    Quiet Wedding

    Quiet Wedding

    4.21941HD

    A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

    Quiet Wedding
  • 1963
    Britain Welcomes the President of India

    Britain Welcomes the President of India

    Britain Welcomes the President of India

    01963HD

    An account of the state visit to Britain by the President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in June 1963. In London he accompanied the Queen on...

    Britain Welcomes the President of India