Cast: Claire Bloom

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Synopsis Limelight (1952) is a poignant drama directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film follows Calvero, a once-famous but now washed-up clown, who saves a young ballerina, Terry, from a suicide attempt. As he nurses her back to health, Calvero...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Alan Alda · Claire Bloom · Anjelica Huston

Synopsis In Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), a gripping moral drama by Woody Allen, intertwines two contrasting stories. One follows a successful ophthalmologist whose life unravels when his extramarital affair threatens his reputation. Desperate, he considers drastic measures to silence his mistress....

Direction Charles Sturridge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Andrews · Diana Quick · Laurence Olivier

Synopsis TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly falls in love with this odd group, but their embrace...

Direction Euros Lyn

Cast David Tennant · John Simm · Bernard Cribbins · Timothy Dalton

Synopsis Schemes set in motion long ago lead to the resurrection of the Master, albeit in a form that hovers between life and death. He sets his sights on the Immortality Gate, an alien device which has fallen into the hands...

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Colin Firth · Helena Bonham Carter · Geoffrey Rush · Michael Gambon

Synopsis The King's Speech (2010) follows Prince Albert, Duke of York, who struggles with a debilitating stammer. As the second son of King George V, he never expects to rule. However, after his brother abdicates the throne, Albert is reluctantly crowned...

Direction Richard Schickel

Cast Sydney Pollack · Bill Irwin · Norman Lloyd · David Thomson

Synopsis American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. Schickel offers an exploration into Chaplin's life, from his childhood in London until his death in 1977. The film also contains insight...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Mira Sorvino · Woody Allen · F. Murray Abraham · Helena Bonham Carter

Synopsis In Mighty Aphrodite (1995), a New York sportswriter, Lenny, becomes obsessed with finding the biological mother of his adopted son, who shows remarkable intelligence. His search leads him to Linda Ash, a kind-hearted but dim-witted prostitute with a tumultuous life....

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · John Gielgud · Claire Bloom

Synopsis The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Mary Ure · Edith Evans

Synopsis Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) alternates between hugs and kisses...

Direction Peter Jones

Cast Claire Bloom · Syd Chaplin · Milos Forman · Peter Graves

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Oskar Werner · Peter van Eyck

Synopsis When a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires if he is tired, burnt out, ready to come in...

Direction Edgardo Cozarinsky

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Claire Bloom · Sydney Chaplin

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Alberto Sordi · Claire Bloom · Anna Carena · Gustavo D'Arpe

Direction Gene Feldman

Cast Jessica Lange · Garson Kanin · Claire Bloom · Radie Harris

Synopsis Documentary on the life and career of Vivien Leigh.

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against their wealthy, overbearing father. When the eldest brother, Dmitri, falls...

Direction Gerd Oswald

Cast Curd Jürgens · Claire Bloom · Hansjörg Felmy · Mario Adorf

Synopsis In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any...

Direction Patrick Garland

Cast Claire Bloom · Anthony Hopkins · Ralph Richardson · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast James Mason · Claire Bloom · Hildegard Knef · Geoffrey Toone

Synopsis Young english Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) on visit to Berlin becomes involved with political racketeer in elaborate plot to lure espionage agent from the Western to the Eastern sector.

Direction Henry Levin · George Pal

Cast Laurence Harvey · Karlheinz Böhm · Claire Bloom · Walter Slezak

Synopsis Big-budget fantasy based very loosely on the Grimm Brothers' lives and three of their stories: "The Dancing Princesses," "The Cobbler and the Elves," and "The Singing Bone." Good, fun Puppetoon scenes, but leaves much else to be desired. A megawatt...

Direction Desmond Davis

Cast Harry Hamlin · Laurence Olivier · Judi Bowker · Claire Bloom

Synopsis The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, and answering riddles. The...