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Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934), is an English film, stage and television actress.
She made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in...
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A Room with a View
A Room with a View is a 1986 Merchant Ivory Productions' feature film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. The film is a close adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel of the...
Chocolat
Chocolat is a 2000 romance film based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris, and was directed by Lasse Hallström. Adapted by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who...
Hamlet
Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet. It is set in the 19th century, and uses Blenheim Palace for exterior...
Home on the Range
Home on the Range is a 2004 American animated musical feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on April 2, 2004, and was named after the popular country song "Home on the Range". The 45th feature in...
Iris
Iris is a 2001 biographical film that tells the story of Irish novelist Iris Murdoch and her relationship with John Bayley. The film contrasts the start of their relationship, when Murdoch (played by Kate Winslet) was an outgoing, dominant...
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Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Charles Dance, who based his screenplay on a short story by William J. Locke.
Set in picturesque coastal Cornwall, in a tight-knit fishing village in the 1930s, Ladies in...
Pride & Prejudice
Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 film based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name. This second major motion-picture was produced by Working Title Films, directed by Joe Wright and based on a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. It was released on September...
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romantic comedy film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. Stoppard's first major success was with the Shakespeare-influenced play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are...
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 American science fiction / fantasy / thriller film. It follows the adventures of Richard B. Riddick, as he attempts to elude capture after the events depicted in the 2000 film Pitch Black, which details his...
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest is a 2002 film directed by Oliver Parker, based on Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners play The Importance of Being Earnest. The original music score is composed by Charlie Mole. The movie grossed about $8.3...
The Shipping News
The Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993. It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 2001.
The story centers on Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper reporter...
Notes on a Scandal
Notes on a Scandal is a 2006 drama film, adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Zoë Heller. The screenplay was written by Patrick Marber and the film was directed by Richard Eyre. Many parts of the film were shot in Islington Arts and Media...
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Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows...
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The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough (1999) is the nineteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Michael Apted, with the original story and screenplay written by...
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Casino Royale
Casino Royale (2006) is the twenty-first film in the James Bond series; it was directed by Martin Campbell and the first to star Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond and the first of the newly rebooted Bond timeline. Based on the 1953 novel of the...
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Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Brown (also released and advertised under the title Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown) is a 1997 British drama film starring Dame Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher and Gerard Butler. It was written by Jeremy Brock and directed by...
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a documentary film released in 2000. It was directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and narrated by Judi Dench. It tells the story of the kindertransport, an underground railroad that saved the...
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells is a 2000 British/American television movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The teleplay by Alan Plater focuses on the efforts of a recent widow to reunite the members of the World War II-era swing band with which...
Tea With Mussolini
Tea with Mussolini (1999) is a semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a kind British woman and her circle of friends.
The film begins in Florence, Italy, where a group of...
Wetherby
Wetherby is a 1985 British drama film written and directed by David Hare, known as one of the leading British playwrights of his generation.
Set in the town of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the film focuses on Jean Travers, a middle-aged spinster...
The Shipping News
The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by E. Annie Proulx.
It stars Kevin Spacey as the protagonist Quoyle, Judi Dench as Agnes Hamm and Julianne Moore as Wavey Prowse. It also...
Henry V
Henry V is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh based upon the Shakespeare play about the famous English King. Branagh stars in the title role with Derek Jacobi as the Chorus (a narrator). Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Christian Bale, Paul Scofield,...
Gnomeo and Juliet
Gnomeo and Juliet is an upcoming 2011 animated movie directed by Kelly Asbury to be released by Disney. It is an adaptation of the Shakespeare play Romeo & Juliet featuring warring garden gnomes. It stars the voices of James McAvoy as Gnomeo and...
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs Henderson Presents is a 2005 Academy Award nominated comedy film directed by Stephen Frears. It stars Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, and Will Young in his acting debut.
The film is based on the true story of the Windmill Theatre in...
Quantum of Solace
Quantum of Solace is the 22nd James Bond film by EON Productions, released in the United Kingdom on 31 October and in North America on 14 November 2008. The direct sequel to the 2006 film Casino Royale, it was directed by Marc Forster and features...
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Jack and Sarah
Jack and Sarah is a 1995 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Tim Sullivan. The film was originally released in the UK on 2 June 1995.
Jack (Richard E. Grant) and Sarah (Imogen Stubbs) are expecting a baby together, but a...
A Study in Terror
A Study in Terror is a 1965 British thriller film directed by James Hill and starring John Neville as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr. Watson. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios, London, with some location work at Osterley House in...
The Magic Roundabout
The Magic Roundabout, (released in France as Pollux, le manège enchanté and a North American version as Doogal), is a film based on the television series of the same name. The film was released on February 11, 2005 in the United Kingdom and France,...
Die Another Day
Die Another Day (2002) is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and last to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond and is also the last Bond film of the original timeline with the series being rebooted...
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Luther
Luther is the 1973 film of John Osborne's biographical play, presenting the life of Martin Luther. It was one of eight in the first season of the American Film Theater's series of plays made into films. It was produced by Ely Landau, directed by...
Rage
Rage is a 2009 film written and directed by Sally Potter starring Jude Law and Judi Dench. The movie created a new genre in filmmaking, called Naked cinema.
"The film is a bitterly funny exposé of the inner lives of individuals working at a New York...
Preeya: A True Story
Preeya: A True Story is a 1975 mystery, romance, thriller directed by Michael P. Waldman based on the true life story of Preeya Pascal. Preeya, portrayed by Dame Judi Dench,is a lonely lounge singer in downtown Chicago. Her life begins to spiral...
