List of the best Peggy Ashcroft movies: Caught on a Train(1980), A Passage to India(1984), Madame Sousatzka(1988), The Nun's Story(1959), Sunday, Bloody Sunday(1971), Secret Ceremony(1968), The 39 Steps(1935), Rhodes(1936), The Pedestrian(1974) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
1980
85 Minutes
Frau Messner
Peggy Ashcroft Michael Kitchen Wendy Raebeck
An arrogant Austrian lady (Peggy Ashcroft) toys with a publicist (Michael Kitchen) and an American girl (Wendy Raebeck) on a night express.
Drama
UK|USA
1984
163 Minutes
Mrs. Moore
Judy Davis Peggy Ashcroft Victor Banerjee James Fox Alec Guinness Nigel Havers Richard Wilson Antonia Pemberton Michael Culver Art Malik Saeed Jaffrey
tourist doctor fiancé friend lawyer emotional solemn india cave courtroom court battles lawsuit class distinctions culture clash imperialism social change quest discovery underdog 1920s
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Drama
UK|Canada
1988
121 Minutes
Lady Emily
Shirley MacLaine Navin Chowdhry Peggy Ashcroft Twiggy Shabana Azmi Leigh Lawson Geoffrey Bayldon Lee Montague
pianist instructor mother protégé cheeky heartwarming inspiring london apartment concert hall music mentorship talent adolescence race relations family growing up rise underdog 1980s
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.
Drama
USA
1959
149 Minutes
Mother Mathilde (Africa)
Audrey Hepburn Peter Finch Edith Evans Peggy Ashcroft Dean Jagger Mildred Dunnock Beatrice Straight Patricia Collinge Eva Kotthaus Ruth White Niall MacGinnis
nun doctor mother superior mental patient solemn emotional melodramatic tense belgian congo africa belgium medicine religious vows world war ii virginity disease faith sacrifice transformation temptation
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK
1971
110 Minutes
Mrs. Greville
Glenda Jackson Peter Finch Murray Head Peggy Ashcroft Tony Britton Maurice Denham Bessie Love Jon Finch
artist businesswoman doctor husband wife friend moving passionate apartment england family home love triangle relationships bisexuality divorce love transformation 1970s
The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.
Drama
1968
109 Minutes
Hannah
Elizabeth Taylor Mia Farrow Robert Mitchum Peggy Ashcroft Pamela Brown Michael Strong Robert Douglas
prostitute stepfather niece aunt disturbing gritty raw intense mansion london death of a child family dysfunction insanity suicide incest transformation forbidden love temptation 1960s
A girl (Mia Farrow) looks like a London hooker's (Elizabeth Taylor) late daughter, while the hooker looks like the girl's late mother.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1935
80 Minutes
Margaret, crofter's wife
Robert Donat Madeleine Carroll Godfrey Tearle Lucie Mannheim Peggy Ashcroft Wylie Watson John Laurie Helen Haye
tourist spy bystander police officer suspenseful intricate amusing london scotland espionage murder fugitives romance escape pursuit adventure love 1930s
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
Biography
1936
94 Minutes
Anna Carpenter
Walter Huston Oscar Homolka Basil Sydney Frank Cellier Peggy Ashcroft Renee De Vaux Bernard Lee Lewis Casson Ndanisa Kumalo Glennis Lorimer
adventurer president mother partner king sweetheart confident patriotic spirited england south africa mine city office ambition diamonds prospecting mining political unrest wealth
Englishman Cecil John Rhodes (Walter Huston) finds diamonds in 1870s South Africa and builds an empire.
Drama
Switzerland|West Germany|Israel
1974
92 Minutes
Lady Gray
Gustav Rudolf Sellner Peter Hall Maximilian Schell Gila von Weitershausen Elisabeth Bergner Francoise Rosay Lil Dagover Peggy Ashcroft
industrialist son journalist father mistress wife somber dark disheartening germany greece village mediterranean coast family home court war crime suicide guilt trial dark secrets
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.