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6.0

♡ 16

80%

38%

adultery

Joseph Losey Director

Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth

Kate Nelligan as Isabel

Michael Caine as Lewis

Helmut Berger as Thomas

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.

The Boy Friend

6.8

♡ 8

88%

Ken Russell Director

Kenneth Colley as Bearded King in fantasy sequence

Vladek Sheybal as De Thrill

Georgina Hale as Fay

Glenda Jackson as Rita Monroe

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.

The Rainbow

1989

6.3

♡ 10

63%

57%

19th century

Ken Russell Director

Glenda Jackson as Anna Brangwen

Nicola Stephenson as Ethel

Kenneth Colley as Mr. Brunt

Amanda Donohoe as Winifred Inger

Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins to feel trapped by her prim surroundings, but her life changes when she has an erotic experience with Winifred, a bisexual teacher. From then on, Ursula puts all of her passion and creativity into the pursuit of sexual fulfillment. But her insatiable quest becomes a source of anguish.

The Return of the Soldier

1982

6.7

♡ 6

42%

amnesia

Alan Bridges Director

Kevin Whately as Hostile Soldier's Mate

Glenda Jackson as Margaret Grey

Michael Cochrane as Stephen

Hilary Mason as Ward

The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

6.9

♡ 22

John Schlesinger Director

Glenda Jackson as Alex Greville

Martin Lawrence as Barmitzvah Guest

Arthur Goodman as Rabbi

Aileen Lewis as Woman Under Umbrella

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

Mary, Queen of Scots

7.1

♡ 7

67%

Charles Jarrott Director

Vernon Dobtcheff as Duc De Guise

Timothy Dalton as Henry, Lord Darnley

Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth

Trevor Howard as William Cecil

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

The Nelson Affair

1973

6.4

♡ 2

James Cellan Jones Director

Nigel Stock as George Matcham

Glenda Jackson as Lady Hamilton

Roland Culver as Lord Barham

Nicholas Lyndhurst as Shot Cabin Boy

Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Maids

1975

6.3

♡ 6

69%

based on play or musical

Drama

Romance

Christopher Miles Director

Susannah York as Claire

Vivien Merchant as Madame

Mark Burns as Monsieur

Glenda Jackson as Solange

A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.

Beyond Therapy

1987

husband wife relationship

4.8

♡ 4

17%

30%

based on play or musical

bisexual man

Comedy

manhattan, new york city

psychiatrist

therapy

Robert Altman Director

Christopher Guest as Bob

Jeff Goldblum as Bruce

Glenda Jackson as Charlotte

Tom Conti as Stuart

Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during their second date. However, Bruce's bisexual, live-in lover does not want to share Bruce and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep him to himself.

Elizabeth Is Missing

2019

7.4

♡ 6

93%

Aisling Walsh Director

Nell Williams as Katy

Michelle Duncan as Ma

Glenda Jackson as Maud

Sophie Rundle as Sukey

Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.

Salome's Last Dance

1988

6.4

♡ 6

44%

86%

based on play or musical

Ken Russell Director

Ken Russell as Cappadocian / Kenneth

Stratford Johns as Herod / Alfred Taylor

Glenda Jackson as Herodias / Lady Alice

Douglas Hodge as John the Baptist / Lord Alfred 'Bosey' Douglas

London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.

Women in Love

1969

7.1

♡ 11

83%

74%

Ken Russell Director

Glenda Jackson as Gudrun Brangwen

Vladek Sheybal as Loerke

Michael Graham Cox as Palmer

Alan Bates as Rupert Birkin

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

The Music Lovers

7.2

♡ 3

59%

Ken Russell Director

Harry Fielder as Gentleman

Kenneth Colley as Modeste

Glenda Jackson as Nina

Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.

The Triple Echo

1972

6.4

♡ 5

Michael Apted Director

Glenda Jackson as Alice

Kenneth Colley as Provo Corporal

Gavin Richards as Stan

Oliver Reed as the Sergeant / Sergeant

After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops by the farm and the pair begin a relationship. When the military police pass through the area looking for deserters, Barton is forced to disguise himself as a woman to stay with Alice. But he soon catches the eye of a sergeant posted nearby.

The Great Escaper

2023

7.0

♡ 23

Oliver Parker Director

John Standing as Arthur

Michael Caine as Bernard Jordan

Glenda Jackson as Irene Jordan

Jackie Clune as Judith

In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

A Touch of Class

1973

6.5

♡ 11

86%

Melvin Frank Director

David de Keyser as Doctor Alvarez

K Callan as Patty Menkes

Glenda Jackson as Vickie Allessio

Cec Linder as Wendell Thompson

Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.

Mothers of the Revolution

2021

6.5

♡ 2

100%

Documentary

History

Thriller

Briar March Director

Glenda Jackson as Narrator

Lucy Lawless as Self - Actor

Natalie Portman as Self - Actress & Activist

Tom Brokaw as Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

On 5th September 1981, a group of women came together to change the world. These women marched from Wales to Berkshire to protest over nuclear weapons being kept at RAF Greenham Common. The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp that followed, challenged world leaders, altering the course of history and went on to inspire millions as the world’s first and biggest female-only demonstration, preceded only by the suffragettes.

This Sporting Life

1963

7.5

♡ 10

96%

86%

Lindsay Anderson Director

Richard Harris as Frank Machin

Aileen Lewis as Lady at Party

Colin Blakely as Maurice Braithwaite

Glenda Jackson as Singer At Party

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

Marat/Sade

1967