Movies: Penny Downie

  • 2016
    London Has Fallen

    London Has Fallen (2016)

    London Has Fallen

    6.22016HD

    In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders....

    London Has Fallen
  • 2009
    Invictus

    Invictus (2009)

    Invictus

    7.12009HD

    Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union...

    Invictus
  • 2016
    Jackie

    Jackie (2016)

    Jackie

    6.42016HD

    An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963....

    Jackie
  • 2017
    Breathe

    Breathe (2017)

    Breathe

    7.42017HD

    Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed....

    Breathe
  • 2011
    W.E.

    W.E. (2011)

    W.E.

    6.42011HD

    In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involv...

    W.E.
  • 2000
    The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth (2000)

    The House of Mirth

    6.22000HD

    In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society....

    The House of Mirth
  • 2009
    Hamlet

    Hamlet (2009)

    Hamlet

    7.32009HD

    David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny....

    Hamlet
  • 2005
    The Girl in the Café

    The Girl in the Café (2005)

    The Girl in the Café

    7.12005HD

    Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations....

    The Girl in the Café
  • 1998
    A Certain Justice

    A Certain Justice (1998)

    A Certain Justice

    51998HD

    The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily prove that her clients are innocent, she simply dispr...

    A Certain Justice
  • 2004
    Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

    Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

    Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

    6.42004HD

    The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose end...

    Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
  • 1985
    Wetherby

    Wetherby (1985)

    Wetherby

    61985HD

    The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents....

    Wetherby
  • 1998
    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment (1998)

    Crime and Punishment

    6.61998HD

    This is the story of Rodya Raskalnikov (Patrick Dempsey), an intellectual who is suspended from University and is living in poverty in 19th century Russia. Raskalnikov believes that in order for great men like Napoleon to accomplish great things, the...

    Crime and Punishment
  • 1987
    Lionheart

    Lionheart (1987)

    Lionheart

    5.21987HD

    A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety....

    Lionheart
  • 1982
    Crosstalk

    Crosstalk (1982)

    Crosstalk

    4.61982HD

    A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control....

    Crosstalk
  • 2020
    The Jester from Transylvania

    The Jester from Transylvania (2020)

    The Jester from Transylvania

    62020HD

    What happens when you pick up a hitchhiker? Michael, an American scriptwriter, soon finds out when he picks up an Englishman in the middle of a Transylvanian forest. Touchstone - in fact the ghost of a former court jester - places him in some unimagi...

    The Jester from Transylvania
  • 2003
    Byron

    Byron (2003)

    Byron

    52003HD

    Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years...

    Byron
  • 2005
    Murder in Rome

    Murder in Rome (2005)

    Murder in Rome

    72005HD

    Cicero, the future Consul of Rome, is just starting out as a trial lawyer in crime-ridden Rome where assassinations for political advantage and for estate grabbing had become de rigueur. The matriarch of a prominent family hires him to defend a relat...

    Murder in Rome
  • 2005
    Falling

    Falling (2005)

    Falling

    6.72005HD

    Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures of her busy London life, but doesn't expect her new home to come complete with a would-be suitor. Th...

    Falling
  • 1999
    Lost for Words

    Lost for Words (1999)

    Lost for Words

    71999HD

    Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?...

    Lost for Words
  • 1991
    Ex

    Ex (1991)

    Ex

    01991HD

    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....

    Ex