List of the best Wendy Hiller movies: Major Barbara(1941), I Know Where I'm Going!(1945), Pygmalion(1938), Sons and Lovers(1960), Sailor of the King(1953), The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne(1987), How to Murder a Rich Uncle(1957), A Man for All Seasons(1966), Something of Value(1957), The Elephant Man(1980), Separate Tables(1958), Making Love(1981) ... ...
6.8/10
Comedy
UK
1941
135 Minutes
Major Barbara Undershaft
Wendy Hiller Rex Harrison Robert Morley Robert Newton Emlyn Williams Sybil Thorndike Deborah Kerr David Tree Stanley Holloway
industrialist daughter boyfriend preacher witty engaging england factory social change wealth disillusionment family poverty social standing discovery quest growing up 1940s
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
Romance
1945
91 Minutes
Joan Webster
Emeric Pressburger Wendy Hiller Roger Livesey Pamela Brown Finlay Currie Valentine Dyall Petula Clark
fiancée military officer friend sailor boyfriend girlfriend airy charming lighthearted castle small town isle of mull, scotland love ambition marriage social standing love transformation 1940s
A young Englishwoman (Wendy Hiller) aims to marry a tycoon but finds love with a naval officer (Roger Livesey) instead.
7.7/10
Romance
UK
1938
96 Minutes
Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller Wilfrid Lawson Marie Lohr David Tree Scott Sunderland Jean Cadell Everley Gregg Leueen MacGrath Esme Percy
flower girl professor socialite father charming endearing witty london party household class distinctions love culture clash transformation love 1910s
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
7.1/10
Drama
UK
1960
103 Minutes
Mrs. Morel
Trevor Howard Dean Stockwell Wendy Hiller Mary Ure Heather Sears William Lucas Donald Pleasence Ernest Thesiger
miner alcoholic wife artist mother patron gritty tense emotional sultry mining town coal mine house england nottingham, england family dysfunction mother/son relationship class distinctions marital problems tragic death
A young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.
6.9/10
War
UK
1953
85 Minutes
Lucinda Bentley
In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider's at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it.
Drama
1987
116 Minutes
Aunt D'Arcy
Maggie Smith Bob Hoskins Wendy Hiller Marie Kean Ian McNeice Alan Devlin Rudi Davies Prunella Scales
spinster music teacher boardinghouse owner middle-aged man middle-aged woman boarder sad emotional tender dublin ireland boarding house movie theater dining room betrayal alcoholism deception business scheme loneliness heartbreak
A 1950s Dublin spinster (Maggie Smith) meets her landlady's brother (Bob Hoskins), who wants her to invest in a fast-food restaurant.
Comedy
1957
79 Minutes
Edith Clitterburn
Charles Coburn Nigel Patrick Wendy Hiller Anthony Newley Katie Johnson Athene Seyler
A broke British nobleman (Nigel Patrick) targets his Canadian uncle (Charles Coburn), but other relatives get in the way.
7.7/10
Drama, History
UK
1966
120 Minutes
Alice More
Paul Scofield Robert Shaw Orson Welles Wendy Hiller Leo McKern Susannah York John Hurt Nigel Davenport Vanessa Redgrave
writer king henry viii wife catherine of aragon emotional inspiring intense england royal court royalty marriage religion social change forbidden love sacrifice rivalry 16th century
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1957
113 Minutes
Elizabeth
Rock Hudson Dana Wynter Sidney Poitier Wendy Hiller Juano Hernandez William Marshall Robert Beatty Walter Fitzgerald Michael Pate Ivan Dixon Ken Renard
settler wife witch doctor tribal leader revolutionary powerful suspenseful brutal touching kenya plains jail battle race relations repression native people religion rivalry metamorphosis revenge
Although Peter and Kimani grew up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. After Kimani's father is jailed for following tribal customs, Kimani joins a band... See full summary »
8.1/10
Biography, Drama
USA|UK
1980
125 Minutes
Mothershead
John Hurt Anthony Hopkins Anne Bancroft John Gielgud Wendy Hiller Freddie Jones Michael Elphick Hannah Gordon Helen Ryan John Standing Dexter Fletcher
man doctor wife actress inspiring profound uplifting london john merrick class distinctions discrimination disfigurement transformation discovery 1880s
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1958
99 Minutes
Pat Cooper
David Niven Burt Lancaster Deborah Kerr Rita Hayworth Wendy Hiller Gladys Cooper Cathleen Nesbitt Felix Aylmer Rod Taylor Audrey Dalton May Hallatt
manager retiree major general ex-wife ex-husband daughter tender endearing intricate melodramatic england seaside hotel secret vacation loneliness love relationships discovery love
The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1981
113 Minutes
Winnie Bates
Michael Ontkean Kate Jackson Harry Hamlin Allen Alder Wendy Hiller Arthur Hill Nancy Olson John Dukakis Terry Kiser Dennis Howard Asher Brauner
doctor husband executive wife novelist gay man somber emotional los angeles family home doctor's office gay bar homosexuality coming out marriage infidelity divorce forbidden love transformation 1980s
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ... See full summary »
5.6/10
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1978
96 Minutes
Allison Crosby
Honor Blackman Michael Callan Wilfrid Hyde-White Edward Fox Wendy Hiller Olivia Hussey Beatrix Lehmann Carol Lynley Daniel Massey Peter McEnery
wealthy man relative heir heiress doctor murderer brash creepy frenetic sultry mansion secret passageway secret room dining room study inheritance death game family dysfunction family secrets schemes
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
Drama
1969
118 Minutes
Mrs. Micawber
Robin Phillips Susan Hampshire Edith Evans Michael Redgrave Ralph Richardson Wendy Hiller Corin Redgrave Pamela Franklin Ron Moody James Donald
orphan boy stepfather melodramatic england jail escape new life adaptation growing up
Dickens' Victorian orphan (Robin Phillips) drifts until he finds a friendly (Edith Evans) aunt and the girl (Susan Hampshire) he will marry.
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1974
127 Minutes
Princess Dragomiroff
Albert Finney Lauren Bacall Martin Balsam Ingrid Bergman Jacqueline Bisset Jean-Pierre Cassel Sean Connery John Gielgud Wendy Hiller Anthony Perkins Vanessa Redgrave
detective millionaire aristocrat doctor conductor hercule poirot suspenseful uneasy train train station istanbul abduction murder deception mystery 1930s
In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
6.5/10
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.
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