Frances BarberFilmography

Goal!

Actors: Leonardo Guerra, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Kuno Becker, Jorge Cervera, Jr.

Synopsis: One young man's dream takes him on a remarkable journey in this sports-themed drama. Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) was born in Mexico, and came to California with his family when he was just a boy. One of the few things Santiago brought with him was a love for soccer, and while he holds down two Read More

Suzie Gold

Actors: Summer Phoenix, Leo Gregory, Stanley Townsend, Rebecca Front, Frances Barber

Evilenko

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Frances Barber, John Benfield

Synopsis: The psychological thriller Evilenko tells the story of arguably the most infamous serial killer in the history of the Soviet Union. Malcolm McDowell portrays Andrei Evilenko, a man responsibly for the deaths of about 50 kids. An intrepid cop and a gifted psychological profiler team up to try and Read More

Red Siren

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Alexandra Negrao, Asia Argento

Synopsis: Oliver Megaton's action thriller Red Siren, an adaptation of Maurice G. Dantec's La Sirene Rouge, concerns the unusual friendship that develops between a 12-year-old girl, Alice (Alexandra Negrao) and a jaded, 40-year-old hired killer, Hugo (Jean-Marc Barr), who finds, in her, a new lease on life. Read More

Shiner

Actors: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber, Claire Rushbrook, Frank Harper

Synopsis: A minor-league criminal suddenly finds himself in deep trouble in this thriller. Billy "Shiner" Simpson (Michael Caine) is a man who has spent much of his life making a living by skirting the law, but he thinks he may finally have a legitimate path to the big time managing his son Eddie (Matthew Read More

Esther Kahn

Actors: Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, Frances Barber, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: The English-language debut of French director Arnaud Desplechin, Esther Kahn charts the ascension of a lower-class Jewish girl from a turn-of-the-century London ghetto to one of the stage's leading actresses. Esther (Summer Phoenix) feels set apart from her large, raucous family, who are all Read More

Plastic Man

Actors: John Thaw, Sorcha Cusack, Frances Barber, Phillipa Peak, Stuart Piper

Synopsis: John Thaw of Inspector Morse fame starred in this two-part British miniseries as renowned plastic surgeon Joe MacConnell. His torrid affair with his client Louise Ferman (Frances Barber) ended up having disastrous consequences on his wife and grown children. The story came to a head when Read More

Still Crazy

Actors: Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy, Juliet Aubrey

Synopsis: Still Crazy is a film that looks back at the "rock band" era of the 1970s. Brian Gibson, who has directed musical biographies on Josephine Baker and Tina Turner, sets his narrative on a rock group, Strange Fruit, who are attempting a comeback twenty years after a bolt of lightening literally ended Read More

Rhodes

Actors: Russell Baker, Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Joe Shaw, Patrick Shai

Synopsis: Filmed in South Africa, this lengthy biographical drama details events in the life of 19th-century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (Martin Shaw) through an extensive series of overlapping flashbacks. The BBC original ran for eight hours, but for telecasting in the United States, the BBC edited Read More

The Ice House

Synopsis: Three women who are viewed with suspicion by their neighbors become the center of an investigation with deadly consequences in this made-for-TV drama. Anne (Kitty Aldridge), Diana (Frances Barber), and Phoebe (Penny Downie) share a large old estate in a quiet rural community. The women are Read More

Photographing Fairies

Actors: Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber, Philip Davis

Synopsis: Featuring neat special effects, this romantic fantasy is loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies, a tale of two cousins who, in 1917, swore that they had photographed the magical wee folk dancing in their garden. The story the girls told captured the war-weary imagination of Read More

3 Steps to Heaven

Synopsis: In this artful blend of suspense and black comedy, a woman who wants to find out the truth about the murder of her boyfriend finds out more than she ever suspected. When Sean (Stuart Laing) is found dead after attending a particularly uninhibited party, his girlfriend finds it hard to believe that Read More

Du Fond du Coeur: Germaine et Benjamin

Actors: Anne Brochet, Benoit Regent, Frances Barber, Francois-Regis Marchasson, Sophie Broustal, Thibault de Montalembert

Synopsis: This film which dramatizes the tempestuous love affair between Benjamin Constant, a Franco Swiss author and statesman, and Madame de Stael was shot with a unique and innovative process. The movie was first in high-definition digital video which was subsequently transferred to 35mm. The film begins Read More

Giorgino

Actors: John Abineri, Jeff Dahlgren, Mylene Farmer, Joss Ackland, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This lush French melodrama set in post World War I Europe was filmed on location in remote areas of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The film is set in October 1918 and follows the return of Giorgino, a French lieutenant, as he searches a strange and spooky village for the retarded children he Read More

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Actors: Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: Gavin Bellini is half Scottish, half Italian. Perhaps that blend of two of the most romantic sensibilities in the world accounts for his being in London, scraping out a living as an illustrator. One day he runs into his father's brother and learns that, if he high-tails it to Glasgow in time to Read More

Secret Friends

Actors: Alan Bates, Gina Bellman, Frances Barber, Tony Doyle, Joanna David

Synopsis: During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions. Potter viewed John as "a victim Read More

Young Soul Rebels

Actors: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Frances Barber

Synopsis: This largely character-driven thriller-drama is the feature-film debut of British documentary filmmaker Isaac Julien, and provides viewers with an insider's look at the diverse lifestyles of hip, young black immigrants who lived upon the fringes of 1977 London society. The film begins in a Read More

Chambre à Part

Actors: Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Lio, Frances Barber, Catherine Frot

The Grasscutter

Red Dwarf: Series 03

Actors: Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Hattie Hayridge

We Think the World of You

Actors: Alan Bates, Gary Oldman, Max Wall, Liz Smith, Frances Barber

Synopsis: Set in sexually repressive 1950's London, We Think the World of You features actor Alan Bates as Frank, a gay middle-aged businessman whose lover Johnny (Gary Oldman) is married and in jail for burglary. While Johnny (Oldman) is behind bars, his beloved German shepard Evie becomes the center of a Read More

Behaving Badly

Actors: Judi Dench, Douglas Hodge, Gwen Watford, Ronald Pickup, Joely Richardson

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Catherine Heath, the four-part British miniseries Behaving Badly starred Judi Dench as Bridget, a typically dutiful upper middle-class wife and mother. Upon learning that her husband is a philanderer, Bridget is shocked but willing to forgive. But when hubby walks out, she Read More

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Actors: Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan Din, Roland Gift

Synopsis: In this alternately comic and grave reflection on the effects of Thatcherism on polyethnic England, middle-class liberals Rosie (Frances Barber) and Sammy (Ayub Khan Din) engage in an openly adulterous marriage while living in a lower-class neighborhood in London. When they're not hiding their Read More

Castaway

Actors: Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale, Frances Barber

Synopsis: Nicolas Roeg directed this dreamy erotic adventure film based on two Australian non-fiction best-sellers -- Lucy Irvine's Castaway and Gerald Kingsland's The Islander. Both best-sellers concern former clerk and waitress Lucy Irvine's response to an advertisement placed by writer Gerald Kingsland Read More

Prick Up Your Ears

Actors: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Read More

A Zed & Two Noughts

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky Read More

Twelfth Night

Actors: Frances Barber, Tim Barker, Richard Briers, Caroline Langrishe, Julian Gartside, Christopher Hollis

Synopsis: Part of the Thames Shakespeare Collection, this production of Twelfth Night was adapted for television by renowned actor and director Kenneth Branagh in 1988. Performed by the Renaissance Theatre Company, this classic comic tale of romance and confused identities features performances by acclaimed Read More

Pete Townshend: White City

Synopsis: Pete Townsend of The Who is star of this hybrid music video. Why call it a hybrid? Well, at times it seems to want to be a music video pure and simple, with several top Townsend tunes given emphasis. At other times, it veers towards straight drama, illustrating an incident that reportedly happened Read More

White City - Pete Townshend

Acceptable Levels

Actors: Andy Rashleigh

Synopsis: Acceptable Levels begins when a London TV crew interviews the grieving family of a Belfast youth, accidentally killed by a British soldier. Chief reporter Kay Adshead wants to explore the political ramifications of the incident, but is prevented from doing so by her timorous producer Andy Read More

Home Sweet Home

Synopsis: Stan (Eric Richard), Gordon (Timothy Spall), and Harold (Tim Barker) are postmen who work together as they sort the mail each morning before they go on their rounds. They chat a little about their home lives, and Harold tells terrible riddles and recites song lyrics in a monotone. Harold dotes on Read More

The Missionary

Actors: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native village. Upon arriving in London, he finds that his new assignment is to take charge of a slum mission Read More