By Vlad Zakh · July 19, 2026
Diana Wynyard brought a refined, dignified presence to Hollywood and British cinema and earned acclaim across decades of prestige dramas. Gaslight suspects a charming husband of driving his wife insane, An Ideal Husband threatens a politician’s guarded past, Tom Brown’s Schooldays endures bullying before finding courage, and Island in the Sun simmers with forbidden romances in the Caribbean. Cavalcade and Rasputin and the Empress round out the list.
01 Diana Wynyard is in this drama where forbidden romances and racial tensions simmer among the residents of a British Caribbean island.
Directed by Robert Rossen · 1h 59m · Rated NR
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02 Diana Wynyard is in this adaptation about a new student at a strict English boarding school who endures bullying before finding his courage and place.
Directed by Gordon Parry · 1h 33m
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03 Diana Wynyard features in this adaptation of Wilde's play about a respected politician whose carefully guarded past scandal threatens to unravel his marriage.
Directed by Alexander Korda · 1h 36m
Stream: Criterion Channel
Stream: Criterion Channel
04 Anton Walbrook plays the husband in this British thriller where a woman begins to doubt her own sanity as he manipulates her perception of reality.
Directed by Thorold Dickinson · 1h 24m
Stream: fuboTV · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
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05 An English family's fortunes rise and fall across three decades of upheaval, from the Boer War to the First World War.
Directed by Frank Lloyd · 1h 52m
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Rent: Amazon Video
Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube
06 Diana Wynyard features in this historical drama about a mystical, manipulative monk who gains dangerous influence over the doomed Russian imperial family.
Directed by Richard Boleslawski · 2h 01m · Rated NR
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Rent or buy: Amazon Video
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