Rita Tushingham
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1942-03-14
Place of Birth:Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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Elicit (2023)
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.

An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...

The Human Factor (1975)
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

A Taste of Honey (1961)
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and...

Puffball (2007)
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...

Straight On Till Morning (1972)
Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a...

The Hideout (2007)
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years...

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men...

Flying (1986)
Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives...

Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

Moscow in Madrid (1965)
When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

The Trap (1966)
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

A Judgment in Stone (1986)
An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a...

Under the Skin (1997)
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death....

The Wee Man (2013)
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.

The Leather Boys (1964)
Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to...

Smashing Time (1967)
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

The Guru (1969)
Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

Mysteries (1978)
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants,...

Fischia Il Sesso (1974)
A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant...

A Place to Go (1963)
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British...

Boudica (2023)
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies...

The Calling (2010)
Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling (2023)
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A...

The Boy from Mercury (1996)
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury...

Resurrected (1989)
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

Spaghetti House (1982)
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns...

Rachel's Man (1976)
The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but...

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean (1965)
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

The Athena Syndrome (1970)
Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They are both about to be...

Gospel According to Harry (1994)
Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get...

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1988)
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his...

Swing (1999)
When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack....

Spending Nights with Joan (1998)
A drama directed by Horst Königstein.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship...

Green Eyes (1977)
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.

Seamonsters (2011)
Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl comes between them the friendship is torn apart...

Being Julia (2004)
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her...

Angel Cake (2006)
A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially...

Outside Bet (2012)
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.

Out of Depth (2000)
Seeking to avenge an attack on his mother, Paul decides to hire a local villain, Lenny, to give the attacker a beating. Lenny however has also been...

Black Journal (1977)
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow...

Sunday Pursuit (1990)
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new...

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who...

Red Riding Hood (1973)
A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might...

My Name Is Lenny (2017)
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".

Paper Marriage (1992)
Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in...

Last Night in Soho (2021)
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But...

Slaughter Day (1972)
Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know...

The Rapture of Deceit (1992)
Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with the daughter of an influential...

The Owners (2020)
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there...

The Stretford Wives (2002)
The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in...

The American Backyard (2025)
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first...

Broken Lines (2008)
After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.

Mystery at the Prospect Hotel (1970)
The Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen the murder of visiting jazz singer...

The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

New Tricks (2004)
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service....

No Strings (1974)
In BBC sitcom No Strings mismatched Leonara (Rita Tushingham) and Derek (Keith Barron) share a flat. This early Carla Lane series began life as a...

Vera (2011)
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder,...

Ridley Road (2021)
During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds...

The Responder (2022)
Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories (2016)
A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by...

The Human Jungle (1963)
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and...

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (1993)
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.

Bread (1986)
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series...

Still Open All Hours (2014)
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke...

The Marlow Murder Club (2024)
Retired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the...

The Pale Horse (2020)
After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home...

Lady Killers (1980)
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the...

The Famous Five (2023)
There's adventure around every corner with The Famous Five! Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy as they uncover mystery and excitement.