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Penelope Wilton has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Shaun of the Dead.
Little Women
2019
Drama · Romance
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Netflix · Included
Downton Abbey
2010 · Series · Actor
Top 9%Peacock · Included
Match Point
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Prime Video · Included
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Netflix · Included
Zoo
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 46%Prime Video · Included
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Netflix · Included
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Dir. Edgar Wright · With Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Dir. Mike Newell · With Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Dir. Julian Fellowes · With Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Dir. Jessica Swale · With Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.
Dir. Simon Curtis · With Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Jim Carter
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
Dir. Amma Asante · With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
Dir. Richard Attenborough · With Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Dir. John Madden · With Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
Dir. Colin McIvor · With Art Parkinson, Emily Flain, Toby Jones
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.
Dir. Hettie Macdonald · With Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Linda Bassett
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.
Dir. Christopher Morahan · With John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Rebecca Hall
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Dir. John Madden · With Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Dir. Nigel Cole · With Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
Dir. Karel Reisz · With Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Dir. Richard Eyre · With Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Dir. John Madden · With Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Richard Gere
Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model given her big break when Hitchcock’s wife saw her on a TV commercial. Brought to Universal Studios, Hedren was shocked when the director, at the peak of his career, quickly cast her to star in his next feature, 1963’s The Birds. Little did Hedren know that as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot, the most daunting aspect of the film ended up coming from behind the camera.
Dir. Julian Jarrold · With Sienna Miller, Toby Jones, Imelda Staunton
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