Acting

Jill Spurrier

Acting credits

Just Like a Woman poster
6.2

Gerald is a smart, young, high-flying American banker. Everything is great until his wife finds another woman's underwear in their bedroom and subsequently throws him out. He finds lodgings with Monica, a recently divorced 50-year old housewife, who is smitten with Gerald. But after their first night of love, Gerald avoids her. Monica feels used and betrayed until Gerald confesses he likes to dress up as a woman. Monica learns to accept and eventually support Geraldine, Gerald's alter ego.

Just Like a Woman

1992

Blood Red Roses poster
NR

A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Blood Red Roses

1986

The Sailor's Return poster
6.2

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.

The Sailor's Return

1978

Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre poster
NR

When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Growth Centre with a difference - offering sex, drugs and personalised water births.

Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre

1995

Bodywork poster
4.3

Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder. Aided by a dysfunctional family of thieves, unorthodox police procedure and some clever body work of his own, he sets out to clear his name.

Bodywork

2001

Pride and Extreme Prejudice poster
7.0

The CIA and the KGB both pursue a former operative (Dennehy) who seemingly has become unstable.

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

1990