Ian Hart Filmography

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Raymond Waring, Dylan Moran, Keeley Hawes, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis: A group of actors and filmmakers set out to adapt an "unfilmable" classic novel -- but find that their own petty concerns get in the way -- in this satirical comedy. Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman told the story of its priggish title Read More

Breakfast on Pluto

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, Eva Birthistle

Synopsis: An Irish boy becomes an emotional and sexual outcast as the 1960s fade into the 1970s in this period drama from director Neil Jordan. When he was just a baby in the early '60s, Patrick Braden (Conor McEvoy) was abandoned by his mother and left on the doorstep of a church overseen by Father Bernard Read More

Ripley Under Ground

Actors: Barry Pepper, Tom Wilkinson, Claire Forlani

Rag Tale

Actors: Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen

Actors: Anne-Marie Duff, Tom Hardy, Hans Matheson, Ian Hart, Dexter Fletcher

Synopsis: The shrewd, 44-year reign of coquettish Queen Elizabeth I is explored in vivid detail in this lavish historical drama starring Anne-Marie Duff in the title role and directed by Coky Giedroyc. Imprisoned in the Tower of London after being charged with treason and conspiracy by Queen Mary, young Read More

Finding Neverland

Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman, Freddie Highmore

Synopsis: Following up his critically acclaimed Monster's Ball, director Marc Forster took on this biography of playwright James Matthew Barrie, the scribe who penned the children's classic Peter Pan. Johnny Depp stars as the turn-of-the-century writer as the film follows Barrie as he struggles to write and Read More

Cheeky

Actors: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Ian Hart, Trudie Styler, Johnny Vegas

Strings

Actors: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart

Synopsis: Anders Ronnow Klarlund's fantasy-action film Strings tells the tale of Hal Tara, the son of a slain ruler who sets out to settle the score with those who dispatched his father. Interestingly, all of the characters in the film are marionettes, explaining the title of the film to some degree. Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

Synopsis: The similarities between the murder of a lowly shop-girl and a glamorous debutante spark legendary detective Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) to break out his famous magnifying glass and crack the case in this mystery directed by Simon Cellan Jones and co-starring Ian Hart as Holmes' faithful Read More

Blind Flight

Actors: Ian Hart, Linus Roache, Bassem Breish, Ziad Lahoud, Mohamad Chamas

Synopsis: Brian Keenan, from Belfast, was in Beirut teaching English in 1986 when he was taken hostage by the Islamic Jihad. Blind Flight tells the story of his imprisonment. After his abduction, Keenan (played by Ian Hart) is held alone in a tiny, dark cell for a long time. He's ordered to cover his eyes Read More

Den of Lions

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Bob Hoskins, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: Den of Lions stars Stephen Dorff as an undercover agent who infiltrates the criminal empire of Darius Paskevic (Bob Hoskins), a kingpin in the Russian mafia. Complicating the agent's work is his romantic relationship with the criminal mastermind's daughter. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Eroica

Actors: Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Frank Finlay, Claire Skinner, Jack Davenport

Synopsis: British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV movie concerns the first performance of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 3" on June 9, 1804, in Vienna. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited all his Read More

Killing Me Softly

Actors: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes

Synopsis: The director of such highly regarded films as Yellow Earth (1984) and Farewell, My Concubine (1993), Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige makes his English-language debut with this erotic thriller adapted from the novel by Nicci French. Alice (Heather Graham) is an American Web designer living in Illinois Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Richard Roxburgh, Ian Hart, Richard E. Grant, Matt Day

Synopsis: Probably the most filmed of all Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1901 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles was given another go-round with this BBC television production. Richard Roxburgh, best known as the libidinous nobleman in the 2001 theatrical feature Moulin Rouge, is cast as The Read More

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris

Synopsis: The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high-stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped-for franchise of Read More

Liam

Actors: Ian Hart, David Hart

Synopsis: A young boy struggles with his family during England's pre-war depression in this drama directed by Stephen Frears. Liam (Anthony Borrows) is a seven-year-old growing up in a working-class family in Liverpool during the early 1930s. Liam's dad (Ian Hart) and older brother Con (David Hart) both Read More

Aberdeen

Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: Set in Norway and Scotland, Aberdeen is a road movie that is as concerned with the geography of the heart as that of a topographical map. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is an ambitious lawyer who has just celebrated her recent promotion by having dominant sex with a man whose name she has no interest in Read More

Born Romantic

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Ian Hart, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester, Catherine McCormack, Olivia Williams

Synopsis: In modern-day London, three men and three women fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers (Ian Hart and John Thomson), who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. In one pairing, Eleanor (Olivia Williams), a sophisticated and slightly anal Read More

Strictly Sinatra

Actors: Ian Hart, Kelly MacDonald, Alun Armstrong, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan

Synopsis: A nobody walks a dangerous path in a bid to become a big-shot in this gritty drama from the United Kingdom. Tony Cocozza (Ian Hart) is a small-time Scottish vocalist with a gimmick -- he loves the music of Frank Sinatra, and his repertoire consists almost entirely of songs associated with Ol' Blue Read More

Spring Forward

Actors: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Playwright and character actor Tom Gilroy made his feature directorial debut with this dialogue-driven character study set against the backdrop of the changing seasons. Liev Schreiber plays Paul, a short-fused ex-con who finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job Read More

Wonderland

Actors: Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Ian Hart, John Simm

Synopsis: The members of a British working-class family see their lives starting to come apart as the Nation prepares to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day (named for an anarchist who tried to blow up Parliament) in Michael Winterbottom's drama Wonderland. Eileen (Kika Markham) and Bill (Jack Shepherd) are a married Read More

The Closer You Get

Actors: Ian Hart, Sean McGinley, Niamh Cusack, Ruth McCabe, Ewan Stewart

Synopsis: In a small Irish village where herding sheep is still one of the major industries, the largely male, unmarried population has grown dissatisfied with their lot in life; when a shipping error sends the wrong film to the local movie house, the citizens are treated to a racy item from the United Read More

Best

Actors: John Lynch, Ian Bannen, Jerome Flynn, Ian Hart, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Mary McGuckian directs this bleak biopic about famed Manchester United soccer star George Best, who dumped his career down the drain with booze, brawling, and drugs. The film charts Best's (John Lynch) rise from Belfast, to fame, to dissipation. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The End of the Affair

Actors: Heather-Jay Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Sam Bould

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this romantic drama stars Ralph Fiennes as Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who, during World War II, had an affair with Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore), the wife of his best friend Henry (Stephen Rea). Sarah abruptly broke off the romance in 1944, but two years later Read More

Frogs For Snakes

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Robbie Coltrane, Harry Hamlin, Ian Hart, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: This "neo-noir comic thriller" from director Amos Poe focuses on struggling actress Eva (Barbara Hershey), a waitress who moonlights by making collections for her ex-husband, loan shark Al (Robbie Coltrane). Her day job is at a Lower Manhattan diner owned by Quint (Ian Hart). Others on the scene Read More

B. Monkey

Actors: Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Tim Woodward

Synopsis: In this witty romantic thriller, Alan (Jared Harris) is a London schoolteacher who leads a quiet, mildly stuffy life. As a hobby, he serves as a jazz disc jockey, spinning tunes for a hospital's public address system, but he craves danger and excitement. One night, Alan stops into a bar for a Read More

This Year's Love

Actors: Kathy Burke, Jennifer Ehle, Ian Hart, Douglas Henshall, Catherine McCormack

Synopsis: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a Read More

Enemy of the State

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King

Synopsis: The action producing-directing team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott is back with another thrill-a-minute ride called Enemy of the State. Taking its "innocent man accidentally caught up in political corruption" story from such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Alfred Hitchcock's Read More

Monument Ave.

Actors: Denis Leary, Jason Barry, Billy Crudup, John Diehl, Greg Dulli, Famke Janssen

Synopsis: This crime drama takes place among Irish-American toughs in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood. Car-thief Bobby O'Grady (Denis Leary) belongs to a gang run by bully Jackie O'Hara (Colm Meaney). Bobby's cousin Seamus (Jason Barry) is a recent arrival from Dublin. When Teddy (Billy Crudup) gets Read More

The Butcher Boy

Actors: Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Andrew Fullerton

Synopsis: Neil Jordan directed this adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a boy's struggles with violence and mental illness. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a young boy growing up in Dublin in the early 1960s, where his life is dominated by his active imagination and his best friend Joe (Alan Boyle). Read More

Mojo

Actors: Ian Hart, Ewen Bremner, Aidan Gillen, Martin Gwynn Jones, Hans Matheson

Synopsis: Jez Butterworth directed this adaptation of his own play about the 1958 rock scene in London's Soho. Silver Johnny (Hans Matheson) performs at the Atlantic Club where he catches the eye of big-shot Sam Ross (Harold Pinter). Ross invites Johnny and Johnny's manager Ezra (Ricky Tomlinson) for a Read More

Gold in the Streets

Actors: Jared Harris, Ian Hart, James Belushi, Louise Lombard, Karl Geary, Andrea Irvine, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: An illegal immigrant who imagined America to be the land of opportunity finds that good fortune does not come as easily as he thought in this drama. Liam (Karl Geary) is a man from Ireland who has grown tired of the poverty and limited opportunities of his homeland, so he smuggles himself into the Read More

Hollow Reed

Actors: Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Ian Hart, Jason Flemyng, Sam Bould

Synopsis: Violence and anti-gay prejudice combine to make a heated custody battle all the more ugly in this tense domestic drama. Hannah Wyatt (Joely Richardson) is a single mother who lives with her nine-year-old son Oliver (Sam Bould) and her boyfriend Frank Donally (Jason Flemyng). Hannah was married to Read More

Robinson Crusoe

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan, best known for his suave and sophisticated roles, takes on a new screen personality in this adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic novel. Robinson Crusoe (Brosnan) is an adventurer who hopes to find fame and fortune on the high seas, but a fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and Read More

Michael Collins

Actors: Paul Hickey, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: The rise and fall of one of the most important and controversial figures in Ireland's struggle for independence is chronicled in this biographical drama. In 1916, the British government ruled Ireland with a firm and cruel hand, as they had for 700 years. When a group of Irish rebels staged a Read More

The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain

Actors: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian Hart

Synopsis: A proud Welsh community finds their civic pride and sense of community threatened by a team of surveyors in this charmingly eccentric comedy. Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) and George Garrard (Ian McNeice) are a pair of British cartographers with Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey Office, who arrive in Read More

Land and Freedom

Actors: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martinez

Synopsis: A reflective look at an idealistic young man's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom combines wartime drama with impassioned political debate. Director Ken Loach, better known for his intimate portraits of working-class British life, begins on familiar turf in the present day Read More

Clockwork Mice

Actors: Ian Hart, Catherine Russell, Ruaidhri Conroy, Art Malik, Claire Skinner

Synopsis: This syrupy British drama stars Ian Hart as an English teacher assigned to a "special needs" school. Faced with a classroom full of angry, unruly children, Hart hopes to bring about order and unity by sharing his love of cross-country running. As is generally the case in films of this ilk, the Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon, Gary Lydon

Synopsis: Northern Ireland's civil unrest is the backdrop for this tense drama. In Belfast in 1975, a bomb blast rips open a pub in a Protestant neighborhood, killing the patrons inside. Following this attack, representatives from the Irish Republican Army and local Loyalist forces call a mutual truce Read More

Loved Up

Synopsis: This youthful British romance chronicles the love affair between an 18-year old waitress and a freewheeling 21-year old who in one night draws her into an exciting world of sex and drugs. The waitress is Sarah, who feels oppressed by living with her alcoholic mother and dreams of excitement. Tom Read More

Backbeat

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Stephen Dorff, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell, Chris O'Neill

Synopsis: The Beatles' early days as a struggling bar band are depicted in this fact-based drama, which tells the little-known story of original member Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff). A close friend of John Lennon, Sutcliffe acts as the band's original bassist, accompanying them on their early gigs in Read More

The Hours and Times

Actors: David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack, Robin McDonald

Synopsis: The relationship between John Lennon and Brian Epstein, the manager of The Beatles, is fictionalized in writer-director Christopher Munch's acclaimed The Hours and Times. The basis of the film is a real-life event from 1963, when Epstein and Lennon left the rest of the Beatles behind to spend an Read More

No Surrender

Actors: Michael Angelis, Avis Bunnage, J.G. Devlin, James Ellis, Tom Georgeson

Synopsis: A moribund nightclub on the fringes of Liverpool's sprawl is the primary setting for this frenetic, dark, and confusing comedy done in a heavy regional "dialect" by director Peter Smith. Set on New Year's Eve, the film chronicles the rivalry between elderly Irish Catholic and Protestant attendees Read More