Stephen Frears Movies

When record store owner and compulsive list-compiler Rob Gordon gets dumped by his long-time girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Cusack

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Mirren

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billy Crudup

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenn Close

Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judi Dench

An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Audrey Tautou

A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gordon Warnecke

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dustin Hoffman

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Cronkite

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Colm Meaney

The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Roberts

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Colm Meaney

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Finney

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Oldman

The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Selton Mello

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shashi Kapoor

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Morrissey

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gemma Arterton

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Anjelica Huston

A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Mottau

A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Mottau

A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian Hart

Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys - the cold,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derrick O'Connor

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Hurt

A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rebecca Hall

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian McKellen

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Palin

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey....

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Waller

A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gabrielle Daye

Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Routledge

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judi Dench

Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian McKellen

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christopher Plummer

As a traveler searches for a place called Confidence, he keeps running into other versions of himself.

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Cast: Robert Downey Jr.

Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Christoph Waltz

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dave Allen

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Foster

A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adrian Edmondson

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter

Genre: Animation

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Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it

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Cast: Neville Smith

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Meryl Streep

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Meryl Streep

A program of short films from some of the cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears. - George Lucas "1.42.08 to...

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A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Routledge

An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sally Hawkins

Janie, daughter of Commander Jackson, the head of D15, has been kidnapped and there are only two men who can save her - former agents Bonehead and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keith Allen

Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dawn French

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Neville Smith

A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Routledge

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Man

Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judi Dench

Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dawn French

The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judi Dench

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Warner

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judi Dench

Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Frears

A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.

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Cast: Leticia Garrido

Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Neville Smith

As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see more than just trains, though,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Bell

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dave Allen

Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings...

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Ritchie

A bittersweet drama on a familiar theme - the frictions forced to the surface during a Christmas family get-together - Michael Abbensetts' Black...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Norman Beaton

The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a...

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Cast: Gina McKee

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Man

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci

Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Nicholas

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.

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Cast: Jonathan Pryce

Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.

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Cast: Daniel Massey