List of the best Janet Suzman movies: Nicholas and Alexandra(1971), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg(1972), Priest of Love(1981), Leon the Pig Farmer(1992), The Draughtsman's Contract(1982), And the Ship Sails On(1983), Nuns on the Run(1990), The Black Windmill(1974), Max(2002), Nijinsky(1980), Voyage of the Damned(1976) ... ...
Drama, History
UK
1971
183 Minutes
Alexandra
Michael Jayston Janet Suzman Tom Baker Roderic Noble Harry Andrews Irene Worth Ania Marson Lynne Frederick Candace Glendenning Fiona Fullerton Jack Hawkins
czar nicholas ii princess daughter secret agent aristocrat rasputin emotional gripping moving russia siberia castle execution revolution mutiny family historical events exile fall escape
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1972
107 Minutes
Alan Bates Janet Suzman Peter Bowles Sheila Gish Joan Hickson Elizabeth Robillard Murray Melvin Fanny Carby
mother father daughter friend bleak offbeat shocking family home england parenthood mother/daughter relationship cerebral palsy family transformation quest 1970s
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »
Biography
UK|Mexico|Italy
1981
125 Minutes
Ian McKellen Janet Suzman Ava Gardner Penelope Keith Jorge Rivero John Gielgud Sarah Miles Maurizio Merli
author wife crusader lover aldous huxley passionate creative italy england mexico united states controversy censorship marriage d.h. lawrence exile sexual taboo adventure rise love
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1992
100 Minutes
Judith Geller
Gary Sinyor Mark Frankel Janet Suzman Brian Glover Connie Booth David de Keyser Maryam d'Abo Gina Bellman
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish man from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
Comedy, Drama
1982
103 Minutes
Anthony Higgins Janet Suzman Anne Louise Lambert Dave Hill Hugh Fraser Neil Cunningham David Gant David Meyer
artist wealthy woman mother wealthy man father daughter crafty intricate suspenseful sultry england estate house moat art infidelity murder schemes investigation wealth
An artist (Anthony Higgins) trades 12 drawings for sex with the mistress (Janet Suzman) of a 17th-century English estate.
Comedy
Italy|France
1983
128 Minutes
Edmea Tetua
Freddie Jones Barbara Jefford Victor Poletti Janet Suzman Peter Cellier Elisa Mainardi Norma West Sarah-Jane Varley
journalist singer refugee sailor sea captain aristocrat offbeat unrestrained bleak amusing lighthearted striking cruise ship italy lifeboat surrealism battleship funeral opera destruction
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
Crime, Comedy, Drama
UK
1990
90 Minutes
Sister Superior
Eric Idle Robbie Coltrane Camille Coduri Janet Suzman Doris Hare Lila Kaye Robert Patterson Robert Morgan Winston Dennis Tom Hickey
crime boss petty criminal partner girlfriend nun police officer madcap lighthearted playful cheeky bank convent hospital shower classroom fugitives robbery double-cross assumed identity set-up
2 criminals want out but their boss kills those leaving. When the men are ordered to rob the triad, they keep the money and hide from the boss, triad and police at a convent, dressed as nuns.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|France
1974
106 Minutes
Alex Tarrant
Michael Caine Donald Pleasence Delphine Seyrig Clive Revill John Vernon Joss Ackland Janet Suzman Catherine Schell Joseph O'Conor Denis Quilley Derek Newark
A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Drama
2002
109 Minutes
Mrs. Rothman
John Cusack Noah Taylor Leelee Sobieski Molly Parker Ulrich Thomsen David Horovitch Janet Suzman Peter Capaldi Kevin McKidd John Grillo Caroleen Feeney
artist art expert father love interest adolf hitler dark intense fascinating germany school temple art politics racism adultery violence revenge rivalry transformation 1930s
In 1918 a Jewish art dealer (John Cusack) pushes young Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor) to channel his rage into his paintings.
Biography, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1980
125 Minutes
Emilia Marcus
Alan Bates George De La Pena Leslie Browne Ronald Pickup Alan Badel Colin Blakely Ronald Lacey Carla Fracci Jeremy Irons Janet Suzman Sian Phillips
Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant, but headstrong ... See full summary »
War, Drama
UK|USA
1976
158 Minutes
Faye Dunaway Max von Sydow Oskar Werner Malcolm McDowell Orson Welles James Mason Lee Grant Ben Gazzara Katharine Ross Luther Adler Paul Koslo
nazi captain jew sailor refugee brutal bleak disturbing boat cuba germany world war ii emigration death escape pursuit 1940s
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.