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You in Your Small Corner (1962)
Character: Mum
Barry Reckord adapted his stage play for TV and his brother Lloyd plays the central character – a Jamaican new to London. When he begins a relationship with a white woman, he finds himself in conflict with his mother, who has great expectations for him. The very early intimate portrayal of this interracial relationship broke new ground, and is believed to feature one of the world's first examples of an interracial kiss on TV.
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Three Sisters (2003)
Character: Anfisa
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
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Father's Day (1979)
Character: Mrs Rice-Davies
Teenager Philip has a day out with his father, whom he has not seen since he was two years old. His mother is not keen to hand her son over to the man who deserted them.
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£60 Single, £100 Return (1971)
Character: Mrs Bray
A play by Bill Lyons. Encouraged by his adventurous friend Des, Pete wants to holiday in India. But can he convince his fretful mother, and what does Des' family think anyway?
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A Martyr to the System (1976)
Character: Mrs Harvey
'You said I'm a teacher as if that makes me into a boss. I'm just someone who has to be here, same as you.' Redfern, a student teacher, thinks today's educational system is all wrong...
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Keeping in Touch (1982)
Character: Mother
When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she has suffered for the years since her husband's death. Somehow she has managed to keep all the family ties intact.
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Reckless: The Sequel (1998)
Character: Myrtle Fairley
One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other idea. He schemes to rip the couple apart. Can Anna and Owen survive this emotional trauma to become man and wife?
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Wall of Tyranny (1988)
Character: Lina
A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.
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Walk a Crooked Path (1969)
Character: N/A
Set in an exclusive boy's school, about a man who plans to kill off his wealthy teacher wife by encouraging her to drink and pushing her into suicide. To assist him he recruits a young student who will claim that he was sexually assaulted by her. (from: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/390627)
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Misterioso (1991)
Character: Mrs Jackson
On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.
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Still Waters (1972)
Character: Maud
A middle-aged couple who are fairly tired of each other go out on a picnic for the day. However, they row, and Maud wanders off and talks to other people she meets. Eventually, the couple come together again, and the day has helped them to understand each other a little better.
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With My Little Eye (1982)
Character: Gran
Pete sees an old man mugged and recognises the mugger. But if he tells the police, will the mugger come after him too?
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Long Live the Babe (1984)
Character: Mrs. Maloney
Play about a pregnant cleaner in a North Country museum who becomes entranced by one of the exhibits, a baby's lace christening cap, and its dead maker.
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The Floater (1975)
Character: Mrs. Miller
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
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A Beginners Guide to Freud (1989)
Character: Martha Freud
An exploration of Sigmund Freud, including his relationship to German nose and throat specialist Dr. Wilhelm Fliess.
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Femme Fatale (1993)
Character: Mrs. Armitage
Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the villagers makes them drop dead.
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Ex (1991)
Character: Joan
Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break his ties with his ex-wife and their children.
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The Evacuees (1975)
Character: Mrs. Graham
The experiences of two young Jewish boys evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool during the Blitz.
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Soft Targets (1982)
Character: Celia's Mother
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Character: Food Trolley Lady
When his name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools. Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as Harry's friends help him prepare for the Triwizard Tournament.
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The Princess Bride (1987)
Character: The Ancient Booer
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Character: Teacher's Wife
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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The Raging Moon (1971)
Character: Matron
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
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Charlie Bubbles (1968)
Character: Mrs. Noseworthy
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
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Made (1972)
Character: Mrs Marshall
This compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself caught between two people – a local priest and a folk singer – each of whom wants to convert her to his own worldview. An elegy to a younger generation looking for something to believe in, Made co-stars hugely influential folk-rock musician Roy Harper in his screen debut. Produced by Joseph Janni – who previously made the astonishingly successful Poor Cow with White – directed by The Long Good Friday's John Mackenzie and featuring new songs specially composed by Harper.
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Hennessy (1975)
Character: Housekeeper
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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Howards End (1992)
Character: Wedding Guests
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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The Hawk (1993)
Character: Greengrocer
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
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Love Actually (2003)
Character: Harris Street Old Lady
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
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101 Dalmatians (1996)
Character: Woman On Park Bench
An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.
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