Rita Tushingham
Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942) is an English actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), and Being Julia (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rita Tushingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she...
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Boudica
as Green DruidInspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni...
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Doctor Zhivago
as The GirlThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a...
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The Owners
as Ellen HugginsA group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of...
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Mysteries
as Martha GudeIn the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His...
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Being Julia
as Aunt CarrieJulia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all -...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
as Aunt LilyLiverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
as Nancy JonesA nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to...
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The Bed Sitting Room
as PenelopeIn the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is...
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Black Journal
as MariaA mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by...
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A Taste of Honey
as JoWhile out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old...
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The Trap
as EveA fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in...
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
as MediumSet against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first...
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
as Self (archive footage)Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with...
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Straight On Till Morning
as Brenda ThompsonBrenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her...
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Under the Skin
as MumAlthough married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris...
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The Leather Boys
as DotAn immature, brassy teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities...
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The Wee Man
as Rita ThompsonThe true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
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Elicit
as FelicityAbout the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the...
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My Name Is Lenny
as Reenie JoyceThe life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also...
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The Hideout
as Paula HardynA mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her...
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Girl with Green Eyes
as Kathleen "Kate" BradyA naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author...
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The Guru
as JennyBritain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play...
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Resurrected
as Mrs. DeakinA Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Alice ToklasLarger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles...
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Outside Bet
as MarthaA group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
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Spaghetti House
as Kathy CeccacciThree black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims...
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Gospel According to Harry
as MyrnaKaren and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to...
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The Human Factor
as JaniceAfter his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to...
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Puffball
as MollyPowerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving...
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Swing
as Mags LuxfordWhen Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been...
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Diamonds for Breakfast
as Bridget RaffertySwinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were...
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Flying
as Jean StollerRobin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot...
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Rachel's Man
as LeahThe Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces...
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A Place to Go
as Catherine DonovanSet in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that...
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Smashing Time
as BrendaTwo young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money...
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Out of Depth
as Margaret NixonBased on a true story and in the same mould as Get Carter and Nil by Mouth, Out of Depth is a...
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Red Riding Hood
as GraceA repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn...
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The Boy from Mercury
as May CroninSet in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes...
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The Stretford Wives
as Marilyn MasseyThe film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook,...
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The American Backyard
as La madre di BarbaraA troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year...
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Green Eyes
as Margaret SheenDisillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among...
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A Judgment in Stone
as EuniceAn English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to...
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Sunday Pursuit
as Alice FletcherThomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his...
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Paper Marriage
as Lou, gospodyni AlicjiAlice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an...
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Moscow in Madrid
as SelfWhen David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to...
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Slaughter Day
as RitaMichael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as SelfIn this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean...
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The Rapture of Deceit
as uncreditedHungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her...
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Seamonsters
as RoseTwo teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new...
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The Athena Syndrome
as VivianTwo untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent...
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Fischia Il Sesso
as Carol HoustonA girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who...
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Vera
as Audrey LathamA sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England,...
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Agatha Christie's Marple
as Miss Elizabeth PercehouseThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...
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The Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
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New Tricks
as uncreditedNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...
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The Marlow Murder Club
as Mrs. EddinghamRetired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of...
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Bread
as Celia HigginsBread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on...
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The Responder
as June CarsonUnder pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired...
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The Human Jungle
as JoyThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
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Lady Killers
as Charlotte BryantCompelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...
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Still Open All Hours
as AnnieStill Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All...
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The Pale Horse
as Bella WebbAfter a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins...
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Ridley Road
as Nettie JonesDuring London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and...
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Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
as uncreditedA unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman,...
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Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as SelfFive programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with...
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