Movies by Greta Scacchi
As part of the cast:
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Masterpiece Classic: Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
Cast: Olivia Williams, Phyllida Law, Adrian Edmondson …
Directed by: Jeremy Lovering
When her young niece (Imogen Poots) enlists her help in finding a husband, novelist Jane Austen (Olivia Williams) -- who shunned marriage for life as a single woman -- takes stock of her own…
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Cast: Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Michael Gambon …
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Impressionable Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) becomes enthralled with the lifestyle of effete Oxford schoolmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw) after spending the summer holiday at his patrician…
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The Trojan Horse (2008)
Cast: Paul Gross, Tom Skerritt, Greta Scacchi …
Directed by: Charles Biname
After Canada becomes part of the United States, former Prime Minister Tom McLaughlin (Paul Gross) hatches a plan to run for president. Backed by several European nations, Tom teams up with…
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Shoot on Sight (2007)
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Brian Cox, Om Puri …
Directed by: Jag Mundhra
To defuse public outrage at the shooting of a Muslim man suspected of terrorism, Scotland Yard assigns Muslim police commander Tariq Ali (Naseeruddin Shah) to investigate. As Ali works the…
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Hidden Love (2007)
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Greta Scacchi, Mélanie Laurent …
Directed by: Alessandro Capone
The secrets and hidden pain of a woman (Isabelle Huppert) recovering from a suicide attempt reveal themselves through a series of sessions with her psychiatrist -- flowing from her pen rather…
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Book of Revelation (2006)
Cast: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels …
Directed by: Ana Kokkinos
Daniel (Tom Long) is a dancer at the top of his form. Then, he disappears for 12 days, held hostage by a trio of women who use him for their sadistic pleasure. When he emerges from his…
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Beyond the Sea (2004)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman …
Directed by: Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey directs and stars in this biopic of Bobby Darin, a hipster in the Frank Sinatra tradition and singer of pop hits such as "Splish Splash." Darin moved on to performing jazz…
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Baltic Storm (2003)
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland …
Directed by: Reuben Leder
Exploring the worst European sea tragedy in recent history, this conspiracy drama adapts journalist Jutta Rabe's book about the alleged cover-up of events leading to the disaster. In…
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Festival in Cannes (2001)
Cast: Anouk Aimée, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell …
Directed by: Henry Jaglom
A delectable fictional drama with a documentary feel, Festival in Cannes delivers a contemptuous portrait of the movie business. Greta Scacchi plays a former actress who's written a…
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Cotton Mary (1999)
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Nina Gupta, Madhur Jaffrey …
Directed by: Ismail Merchant
Directed by Ismail Merchant (of the famed Merchant-Ivory team) and set in 1950s India, this film tells the story of a British woman (Greta Scacchi) who gives birth but can't nurse the…
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Ladies Room (1999)
Cast: Lorraine Bracco, John Malkovich, Greta Scacchi …
Directed by: Gabriella Cristiani, Penelope Buitenhuis, Nadine E. Schwartz …
Revealing conversation floods the ladies' room in this bittersweet comedy with two intertwining tales. The first vignette captures the loaded exchange between three actresses forced to…
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The Manor (1999)
Cast: Gabrielle Anwar, Peter O'Toole, Greta Scacchi …
Directed by: Ken Berry, Ken Berris
Loosely based on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, this dark comedy from Ken Berris revolves around the inhabitants of a manor who lie, cheat and ultimately find themselves embroiled in a…
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The Red Violin (1998)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Irene Grazioli, Don McKellar …
Directed by: Francois Girard
When the long-lost "red violin," a rare instrument crafted during the Italian Renaissance, shows up at a modern auction, it reveals its mysterious history -- and the lives of its previous…
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Love and Rage (1998)
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane …
Directed by: Cathal Black
Set on a remote Irish island, this disconcerting drama stars Greta Scacchi as self-possessed Agnes MacDonnell, a high-born English divorcée who begins a passionate affair with her…
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MacBeth (1998)
Cast: Sean Pertwee, Greta Scacchi
Directed by: Michael Bogdanov
English thespian Sean Pertwee plays the painfully ambitious royal who schemes to murder so he can ascend to the throne in this superior version of William Shakespeare's literary classic.…
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The Odyssey (1997)
Cast: Armand Assante, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts …
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Armand Assante stars as Odysseus in this lavish made-for-television adaptation of the classic Homer epic that chronicles the Trojan hero's adventurous, decade-long return to his Greek…
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The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Pete Postlethwaite …
Directed by: Philippe Rousselot
Renowned Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) is summoned to the secluded country estate of moneyed British aristocrat Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite), who commissions…
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Emma (1996)
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Ewan McGregor …
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
This adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about misguided matchmaking takes a comic look at the romantic meddling of Emma Woodhouse. Emma spends her time arranging friends' romances,…
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Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Cast: Nick Nolte, Gwyneth Paltrow, Estelle Eonnet …
Directed by: James Ivory
Thomas Jefferson (Nick Nolte) spent five years as the U.S. ambassador to France, where he romanced a married woman, Maria Cosway (Greta Scacchi), and began a torrid affair with a young black…
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Country Life (1994)
Cast: Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves …
Directed by: Michael Blakemore
Sam Neill and Greta Scacchi star in this adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack and his niece work hard running the family farm to support…
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The Browning Version (1994)
Cast: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine …
Directed by: Mike Figgis
Based on a play by Terence Rattigan, this drama follows Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a once-brilliant, now cold and distant classical literature teacher with a philandering wife…
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The Player (1992)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Director Robert Altman's wickedly funny masterpiece about a slick Hollywood studio executive named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) -- a hotshot whose life is falling apart -- is packed with…
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Fires Within (1991)
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Jimmy Smits, Vincent D'Onofrio …
Directed by: Gillian Armstrong
When her journalist husband Nestor is imprisoned in Cuba for his political beliefs, Isabel flees the country with her daughter. Saved off the shores of Miami by a fisherman, she soon falls…
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Shattered (1991)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins …
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
A horrific car accident destroys the face and memory of Dan Merrick (Tom Berenger), while his beautiful wife (Greta Scacchi) remains unharmed. Although plastic surgeons repair the physical…
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Presumed Innocent (1990)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia …
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Chicago prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a beautiful co-worker (Greta Scacchi). But when his fingerprints turn up at the scene,…
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A Man in Love (1987)
Cast: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis …
Directed by: Diane Kurys
While working abroad and filming a biopic of a famed Italian author, American actor Steve Elliott (Peter Coyote) falls for his sultry co-star (Greta Scacchi) and immerses himself in an erotic…
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Defense of the Realm (1986)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott …
Directed by: David Drury
Reporter Nick Mullen (Gabriel Byrne) "stumbles" on a story that links a prominent member of Parliament to a KGB agent and to a near nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an…
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Cast: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr …
Directed by: Dusan Makavejev
Before he became typecast as a B-movie villain, Eric Roberts starred in this offbeat comedy directed by Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev. Sent by his Coca-Cola bosses to do market research…
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Burke & Wills (1985)
Cast: Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi …
Directed by: Graeme Clifford
Director Graeme Clifford re-creates the tragic 1860 expedition that took the lives of explorers Robert Burke (Jack Thompson) and William Wills (Nigel Havers) in their attempt to be the first…
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Heat and Dust (1983)
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove, Julian Glover …
Directed by: James Ivory
This Merchant-Ivory film stars Greta Scacchi as Olivia, an Englishwoman embroiled in a secret romance with a local (Shashi Kapoor) in 1920s India. Decades later, Olivia's great-niece,…