Helen MirrenFilmography

Inkheart

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis

Synopsis: Author Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's novel comes to vivid life on the big screen with this family-friendly tale about a bookbinder whose storytelling skills possess the curious power to transport the characters he speaks about into the real world. When a nefarious villain from a bedtime Read More

Love Ranch

Actors: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Bryan Cranston

Synopsis: Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci star as a married couple whose faithfulness is tested with deadly results after starting Nevada's first legal brothel in this Capitol Films drama. Mark Jacobson adapts the screenplay based on a true story that ended with the death of boxer Oscar Bonavena at the Mustang Read More

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins plays the master of suspense in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, a biopic helmed by Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy. Helen Mirren plays spouse/collaborator Alma Reville from a script by John McLaughlin in this Media Rights Capital production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Read More

Phedre

Actors: Helen Mirren

The Debt

Actors: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington

Synopsis: Helen Mirren stars as an ex-Mossad agent forced to track down a Nazi war criminal before her retirement in the English-language redo of Assaf Bernstein's 2007 Israeli thriller, Ha-Hov. John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) directs from a script by Stardust screenwriters Matthew Vaughn and Jane Read More

The Tempest

Actors: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Ben Wishaw, Felicity Jones

Synopsis: Across the Universe's Julie Taymor shakes up Shakespeare with her adaptation of The Tempest, retrofitting the fantastical tale with a female lead, casting Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren in what is usually the male role of Prospero. The storyline follows the newly coined Prospera (Mirren Read More

The Last Station

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff

Synopsis: The final year of Russian Socialist writer Leo Tolstoy comes to the screen with Christopher Plummer in the lead role and Helen Mirren portraying his wife, Sofia. Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff co-star in the Warner Bros. production, directed by Michael Hoffman from the novel by Read More

Yes Madam, Sir

Actors: Helen Mirren

Synopsis: Australian documentarian Megan Doneman follows controversial Indian athlete-turned-law enforcer Kiran Bedi though the professional peaks and valleys that helped to cement her reputation as an iconic proponent of change and reform to some, and a contentious challenger to the comfortable status quo Read More

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: In this adventure-filled sequel to the 2004 blockbuster National Treasure, Nicolas Cage reprises his role as artifact hunter and archaeologist extraordinaire Ben Franklin Gates. In this outing, Gates learns of his own family's implication in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Read More

The Queen

Actors: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings

Synopsis: The British prime minister and the Royal Family find themselves quietly at odds in the wake of a national tragedy in this drama from director Stephen Frears. On August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died in an auto accident in Paris; despite the controversial breakup of her marriage to Prince Charles Read More

Shadowboxer

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, Vanessa Ferlito, Macy Gray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: A late-career change of heart leads to a dangerous life on the run for two seasoned assassins whose complex relationship masks a dark past in director Lee Daniels' pulpy film noir. When Mickey (Cuba Gooding Jr.) was just a child, his abusive father savagely murdered the young boy's mother shortly Read More

Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act

Actors: Helen Mirren, Stephen Tompkinson, Laura Greenwood, Eve Best, Gary Lewis

Synopsis: Produced and aired in 2006, the final, four-hour installment of the 15-year Granada/WGBH television series Prime Suspect -- entitled Prime Suspect: The Final Act -- nominally continues to follow author Linda La Plante's literary character, Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren), but Read More

Elizabeth I

Actors: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Hugh Dancy, Ian McDiarmid, Patrick Malahide, Toby Jones

Synopsis: Elizabeth I stars Helen Mirren as the famous monarch who often frightened her subjects with he ability to change emotions on a dime. In addition to facing a variety of political problems, the film charts some of the major relationships in her life. Jeremy Irons stars as the Earl of Leicester, the Read More

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Actors: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis

Synopsis: Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a Read More

The Clearing

Actors: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe, Alessandro Nivola, Matt Craven

Synopsis: Dutch film producer Pieter Jan Brugge makes his directorial debut with the dramatic thriller The Clearing. Affluent executive Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) and his lovely wife, Eileen (Helen Mirren), live in a beautiful home in Pittsburg. One day, Wayne is kidnapped by disgruntled employee Arnold Read More

Raising Helen

Actors: Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Helen Mirren

Synopsis: Directed by Garry Marshall, Raising Helen revolves around Helen Harris (Kate Hudson), whose successful fashion career and decadent Manhattan lifestyle are plenty in terms of keeping her occupied and content. Helen's days as a socialite are brought to a swift end, however, when she is informed not Read More

Pride

Actors: Kate Winslet, Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Sean Bean, Martin Freeman

Synopsis: Set against the awe-inspiring backdrop of East Africa, director John Downer's Pride utilizes real wildlife in detailing the communication methods of the animal kingdom. They may not be able to form actual words, but the complex sounds and actions of the animals featured in Pride enable them to Read More

Cary Grant: A Class Apart

Actors: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Lauren, Peter Bogdanovich

Calendar Girls

Actors: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie

Synopsis: Nigel Cole directs the feel-good comedy Calendar Girls, based on the true story of a group of working-class British housewives who became overnight celebrities by posing for a nude calendar in order to raise more than 500-thousand pounds for a new leukemia unit. The film follows the adventures of Read More

Prime Suspect 6

Actors: Helen Mirren, Oleg Menshikov

Synopsis: The murder of an undocumented immigrant worker leads London detective Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) to Bosnia and back in the sixth installment of the BBC crime drama Prime Suspect. Now a high-ranking official in London's police force and crankily contemplating retirement, Tennison oversees dozens Read More

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Actors: Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft, Brian Dennehy, Roger Allam

Synopsis: Tennessee Williams' 1958 novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was first filmed in 1961, with Vivien Leigh as the middle-aged title character and Warren Beatty as the callow gigolo with whom she falls in love. Since the "shocking" aspects of a May-December romance in which the woman is December Read More

No Such Thing

Actors: Sarah Polley, Robert Burke, Helen Mirren, Julie Christie, Baltasar Kormákur

Synopsis: Beauty meets the Beast, and neither is sure just what to make of the other, in a modern-dress comic variation on the ancient folk tale, written and directed by the eternally offbeat Hal Hartley. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) works with the office staff of a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a harridan Read More

Last Orders

Actors: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Ray Winstone, Helen Mirren

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker known for such classics as The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Six Degrees of Separation, Fred Schepisi tells this story about a group of lifelong chums coming to terms with their friend's death, based on a prize-winning novel by Graham Swift. When Jack Dodd (Michael Caine) Read More

Door to Door

Synopsis: Door to Door is the inspirational true story of a man who refused to let severe physical debilitation get in the way of his life's goal. William H. Macy (who also co-wrote the script) stars as Bill Porter, a Portland, OR, native born with cerebral palsy. Despite his spastic walk and oddly shaped Read More

Gosford Park

Actors: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson

Synopsis: Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British Read More

Greenfingers

Actors: Clive Owen, David Kelly, Helen Mirren, Natasha Little, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer

Synopsis: A fish-out-of-water comedy in the vein of 1997's oft-imitated The Full Monty, Greenfingers takes as its inspiration the true story of a group of British criminals who bettered themselves through the delicate art of gardening. Croupier's Clive Owen plays Colin Briggs, a taciturn inmate doing time Read More

The Pledge

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Benicio Del Toro, Dale Dickey, Aaron Eckhart

Synopsis: Sean Penn directed this tense drama of loyalty, honor, and obsession, based on a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) is a veteran police detective who lives and works in a small Nevada town. On the day of his retirement, it falls to Jerry to handle an especially unpleasant Read More

On the Edge

Crew: Director

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Paul Rudd, Anthony LaPaglia, John Goodman, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: First seen over the Showtime cable network on June 29, 2001, On the Edge is a compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant. The first segment, directed by Helen Mirren, is "Happy Birthday," in which a straight-A student (Sidney Tamilia Poitier) seeks Read More

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Actors: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann Read More

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Actors: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: The private life of celebrated author and philosopher Ayn Rand takes center stage in this film produced for the Showtime cable network. In 1951, Ayn Rand (Helen Mirren) is a best-selling author and celebrated thinker when she meets Nathaniel Branden (Eric Stoltz) and his friend Barbara (Julie Delpy Read More

French & Saunders: F&S TV

Synopsis: This French & Saunders special from May 1999 features an extended parody of the BBC TV drama Silent Witness. Here the program becomes "Witless Silence," and Jennifer Saunders steps into the forensic-pathologist part played by Amanda Burton in the actual series. In another segment, "Acting Read More

Cymbeline

Actors: Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren

The Prince of Egypt

Actors: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: Dreamworks Pictures has taken the biblical story of Exodus, put it into cartoon form, and released it on the big screen as an epic animated feature. The Prince of Egypt tells the story of Moses releasing the Jews from Egyptian slavery under the hand of the evil pharaoh Rameses. Think of The Ten Commandments Read More

Painted Lady

Crew: Producer

Actors: Helen Mirren, Franco Nero, Iain Glen, Michael Maloney, Lesley Manville

Synopsis: Helen Mirren played the title character in the two-part British miniseries Painted Lady. In the throes of poverty and drug abuse, Irish folk singer Maggie Sheridan (Mirren) pulled herself together when her wealthy and well-connected landlord was murdered and robbed of several valuable works of Read More

Critical Care

Actors: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Margo Martindale, Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet filmed this hospital satire at a Canadian studio. Alcoholic Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks in old-age makeup) advises younger Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) to only treat patients with much insurance. "When the lawyers start crawling all over you," says Butz, "that's when you know you're a Read More

Some Mother's Son

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David Patrick O'Hara, John Lynch

Synopsis: A 1981 hunger strike in a Belfast prison is the historical inspiration for the drama Some Mother's Son, which attempts to focus on the personal dimensions of the event through its portrayal of the families of the striking prisoners. Directed by Terry George, co-author of In the Name of the Father Read More

Prime Suspect 5

Actors: Steven Mackintosh, Helen Mirren, John McArdle

Synopsis: Helen Mirren returns as police detective Jane Tennison in the fifth cycle of the award-winning television series Prime Suspect. Tennison is transferred to Manchester, where her superiors, unsure of what to do with her, initially put her in the public relations department, explaining police work to Read More

Losing Chase

Actors: Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Beau Bridges, Michael Yarmush, Lucas Denton

Synopsis: Chase Phillips, a chronically depressed, emotionally exhausted mother finally hires a helper while she attempts to recover in a tiny cottage upon Martha's Vineyard where she stays with her sons. The helper is the much younger Elizabeth. At first, Chase despises her and treats her terribly. Read More

Prime Suspect 4

Actors: Philada Sewell, David Phelan, Helen Mirren, Glen Berry, Beatie Edney, Scott Neal, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: For the fourth installment of the BBC crime series Prime Suspect, the producers experimented with the show's format. Instead of following police detective Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) through a single murder investigation over the course of four hours, Prime Suspect 4 includes three 90-minute Read More

Reading Rainbow: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: The featured book of this episode is written by Marjorie Priceman, and read by Helen Mirren. When a pie maker cannot buy the ingredients needed to make an apple pie at the market, she takes an international journey to find them all. Chef Curtis Aikens shows LeVar Burton some basic cooking skills Read More

Prime Suspect 3

Actors: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, David Thewlis

Synopsis: Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) investigates the connection between a teen's murder and a pedophile ring in this third installment of the acclaimed BBC series Prime Suspect. Reassigned to a new district and a new department -- vice -- Tennison is drawn back to homicide when Read More

Royal Deceit

Actors: Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Steven Waddington

Synopsis: This European historical saga presents the true tale of intrigue, regicide, incest, and insanity on which Shakespeare based Hamlet. It begins in the ancient Danish kingdom of Jutland in the sixth century. There ambitious Prince Fenge (Gabriel Byrne) murders his brother the king and one of his Read More

The Madness of King George

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett, Rupert Graves

Synopsis: Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king (Nigel Hawthorne, reprising Read More

Prime Suspect 2

Actors: Helen Mirren

Synopsis: Helen Mirren repeats her role as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the British miniseries Prime Suspect 2. The investigation at hand concerns the murder of a Caribbean girl. The catch: the murder took place several years ago, and only recently has the body turned up. Tennison must come to Read More

Prime Suspect 1

Actors: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, John Bowe, Zoë Wanamaker

Synopsis: Helen Mirren delivers a standout performance in this TV miniseries as Jane Tennison, a London police detective. Tennison is trying to track down a sex-crazed killer who is murdering prostitutes, while at the same time doing battle with her male colleagues for her fair share of respect and Read More

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Barbara Jefford

Synopsis: A wealthy, upper-class British widow marries a much younger Italian man with disastrous results in this turn-of-the-century costume drama based on the E.M. Forster novel. After marrying into a wealthy family and then losing her husband, middle-aged Lilia Herriton (Helen Mirren) suffers under the Read More

The Hawk

Actors: Helen Mirren, George Costigan, Rosemary Leach, Owen Teale

Synopsis: The British psychological thriller The Hawk stars Helen Mirren as Anne Marsh, a housewife with a history of mental illness who begins to suspect that her husband (George Costigan) is a hunted serial killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Comfort of Strangers

Actors: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquo

Synopsis: In this erotic thriller, a young English couple on vacation in Venice find themselves seduced by a mysterious older couple. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) have come to Italy to chart the future of their troubled relationship. They soon meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the Read More

Prime Suspect [TV Series]

Actors: Helen Mirren, John Benfield, John McArdle, Tom Bell, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: Created by Lynda La Plante, the sporadically broadcast British TV series Prime Suspect succeeded in bestowing international stardom upon actress Helen Mirren. Set in London, the series dealt with female homicide detective Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren), who did her best to do her job in the face of Read More

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth

Synopsis: This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a Read More

When the Whales Came

Actors: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, David Suchet, Helen Pearce

Synopsis: In this English drama, set during World War I, a strange, deaf man, known to all as "The Birdman" (Paul Scofield), must enlist the help of young Daniel Pender (Max Rennie) and Gracie Jenkins (Helen Pearce) to prevent the narwhal whales from suffering abuse at the hands of the local islanders. Read More

Red King, White Knight

Actors: Helen Mirren, Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Tom Skerritt plays an end-of-tether CIA agent in Red King, White Knight. His superiors persuade Skerritt to take one last assignment: to prevent the assassination of the Russian president. Max Von Sydow plays Skerritt's opposite number at the KGB, who despite orders to kill the American agent Read More

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore, Harrison Liu, Anouk Aimée, James Pax

Synopsis: Having previously essayed the role of real-life Canadian physician/political activist Norman Bethune in a 1977 TV movie, Donald Sutherland returns to the role in the 1989 theatrical feature Bethune: The Making of a Hero. Over a period of several decades, Dr. Bethune grows increasingly disenchanted Read More

Pascali's Island

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren, George Murcell, Sheila Allen

Synopsis: The year is 1908; after centuries of unchecked power, the Ottoman empire is rapidly crumbling. As a result, Turkey's secret agents--those that haven't already been eliminated by downsizing or death--operate in a vacuum, their superiors knowing little and caring less about their activities. One Read More

People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe

Synopsis: Until Jane Goodall came along, field studies of the life-cycles of major primates and mammals were a rare thing. Arrogant biologists somehow imagined that they understood all there was to know about these beings from their captive behaviors. This lavishly filmed documentary, sponsored by the Read More

Cause Célèbre

Actors: Helen Mirren, David Suchet

Synopsis: When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of Read More

Invocation: Maya Deren

Synopsis: A documentary video that tells the history of the films by Maya Deren. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Mosquito Coast

Actors: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Hilary Gordon

Synopsis: Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Read More

The Gospel According to Vic

Actors: Tom Conti, Helen Mirren, David Hayman, Brian Pettifer, Jennifer Black

Synopsis: Vic Mathews (Tom Conti) is a Glasgow teacher who works in a Catholic school for backward students. Though the school is named for Edith Semple, a long-dead Scotswoman who supposedly performed several miracles in her lifetime, Vic is doggedly nonreligious, insisting that it's miracle enough that Read More

White Nights

Actors: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini Read More

Coming Through

Synopsis: The romantic entanglements of renowned author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branaugh) and Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) become intertwined with the life of a man in present day who is obsessed with the noted writer. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: The Little Mermaid

Synopsis: Mork and Mindy's Pam Dawber plays the title role in this hour-long adaptation of The Little Mermaid. This is the tale of a beautiful young mermaid with an exquisite singing voice, who falls in love with a human being. To gain "human-hood" herself, she must give up all that she holds dear-including Read More

Cal

Actors: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: In the opening scenes of this politically-oriented drama, a killer enters the home of a policeman and in a shocking sequence murders him in cold blood -- an act that becomes the key to the rest of this film about the conflict between politics and life. Young Catholic, Cal (John Lynch) works in a Read More

2010

Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001 Read More

Priest of Love

Actors: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: The later years of the life of author D.H. Lawrence are dramatized in this screen biography. Following the controversial reception of his novel The Rainbow, David Herbert Lawrence (Ian McKellen) and his wife Frieda (Janet Suzman) leave England for the U.S., where they hope that Lawrence's bold Read More

Excalibur

Actors: Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Nicholas Clay, Helen Mirren, Cherie Lunghi

Synopsis: John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel Le Morte d'Arthur. By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than compelling. Nigel Terry is perfectly cast as Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Helen Mirren

Synopsis: This play gets its title from the name of a British holiday called Midsummer Day, the feast of John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24 with merrymaking. On Midsummer Night, witches, goblins, and fairies materialized to hold a festival of their own. Shakespeare's play capitalizes on the magic of Read More

Mrs. Reinhardt

The Long Good Friday

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Eddie Constantine, Dave King, Brian Hall

Synopsis: John Mackenzie's masterfully directed British crime drama features a star-making performance by Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand, a successful London gangster whose world falls apart over the course of one weekend. Shand controls the London docks and is planning a big real estate deal, financed by Read More

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Actors: Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, Simon Williams

Synopsis: Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax Rohmer's infamous stories of Asian super-villian Fu Manchu. The 168-year-old Fu Manchu (Sellers) is starting to run out of the youth-preserving formula that has kept him alive and kicking for the past Read More

Hussy

Actors: Helen Mirren, John Shea, Jenny Runacre, Murray Salem, Paul Angelis

Synopsis: Matthew Chapman wrote and directed this hackneyed love story with Helen Mirren as Beaty, a nightclub hostess who turns tricks. Emory (John Shea) is an expatriate American who works the lights at Beaty's nightclub and is in love with her. But Beaty cannot deal in flowery sentiment, especially since Read More

Caligula

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, John Gielgud

Synopsis: This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza. The star-studded cast, perhaps lured by the high-profile involvement of producer Bob Guccione and screenwriter Gore Vidal, includes such luminaries as John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole Read More

S.O.S. Titanic

Actors: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: An Anglo-American co-production, S.O.S. Titanic is a costly, 150-minute reenactment of the infamous sea disaster of 1912. Heading the cast is David Janssen as millionaire John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic, and Cloris Leachman as raucous Denver dowager Molly Brown, who didn't Read More

As You Like It

Actors: Helen Mirren, Richard Pasco

Synopsis: The second presentation of the BBC/PBS 37-installment project The Shakespeare Plays was the Bard's As You Like It. The plot, borrowed from Thomas Lodge's romance tale "Rosalynde", takes place in the forest of Arden. Rosalind (Helen Mirren) is forced by various political intrigues to disguise Read More

Blue Remembered Hills

Actors: Helen Mirren

Synopsis: The title derives from A.E. Housman's 1896 poem: "Into my heart an air that kills; From yon far country blows; What are those blue remembered hills . . ." On a sunny, summer afternoon in 1943, seven children (two girls, five boys) play in the hills, fields, and forests of bucolic England. They Read More

The Country Wife

Hamlet

Actors: Helen Mirren, Anthony Meyer

Synopsis: This is one of the most surreal versions of the popular Shakespearian play on film. It approaches the story of the troubled prince from a Freudian perspective. Hamlet is seen a schizophrenic (played by identical twins). The Oedipal overtones of his relationship with his mother, Queen Gertrude, are Read More

The Collection

Synopsis: Listed variously as a 1975 and 1978 release (it was actually produced in 1976), The Collection is a videotaped staging of the play by Harold Pinter. Described by one observer as the theatrical equivalent to a musical chamber work, this production stars Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren Read More

Caesar and Claretta

The Philanthropist

The Little Minister

The Apple Cart

Kiss, Kiss, Kill, Kill

Synopsis: The British-taped A Coffin for the Bride stars Michael Jayston as physical fitness nut Mark Walker. It turns out that Walker is a nut in more ways than one: His primary method of keeping financially fit is to commit murder. His modus operandi is to work his way into the confidence of out-of-shape Read More

The Changeling

The Long Goodbye

Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell

Synopsis: "It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton Read More

O Lucky Man!

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren

Synopsis: One man's dreams of success take him on a Byzantine journey through the various stations of the British class system in this politically charged black comedy from director Lindsay Anderson. Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is an ambitious young man who is looking to get his foot on the first rung of Read More

Savage Messiah

Actors: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough

Synopsis: Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great early 20th century artist who died tragically young. Henri Gaudier (Scott Anthony) is only 18 years old, a self-taught Parisian sculptor of enormous talent but prone to rash Read More

Miss Julie

Synopsis: Based upon the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie is concerned with the torturous relationship between the aristocratic title character and Jean (Donal McCann), a mere servant of her father's house. As the play opens, most of the servants are outside celebrating midsummer's eve with dancing Read More

Cousin Bette

Synopsis: An embittered spinster rains vengeance upon her wealthy family after a beautiful niece steals her handsome protégé in this classic BBC drama based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac and starring revered British actress Helen Mirren in her very first mini-series. Cousin Bette is approaching Read More

Age of Consent

Actors: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glyn, Antonia Katsaros

Synopsis: James Mason is Bradley Morahan, an Australian artist far away from home and trying to prod his muse in the bowels of New York City. Disgusted with life in the big city, Bradley decides to return to his roots and heads back home to Australia. Once there, he decides to become a Gauguin primitive and Read More

Herostratus

Actors: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Anthony Paul, Peter Stephens

Synopsis: A disillusioned poet decides that he has had enough of life and begins to plan his suicide. Rather than go quietly, he decides to make a "statement" by making it a media event in this ponderous drama. He heads straight for a public relations company and tells them that he is famous and from a Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Hugh Sullivan, Nicholas Selby, David Warner

Synopsis: British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the Royal Shakespeare Company, is faithful to the text and to the main plot, which involves the "bewitching" of several groups of mortals by a covey of mischievous invisible fairies. So why did Read More