James FleetFilmography

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

National Lampoon's Blackball

Actors: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell, Alice Evans, Bernard Cribbins, Vince Vaughn

Synopsis: It's the weight of tradition versus youthful vigor when loudmouth Torquay lawn bowling superstar Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye) catches wind of an upcoming championship match between England and heated rivals Australia. He's determined to make the national team in a bid to bring his sport-of-choice Read More

The Phantom of the Opera

Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver

Synopsis: One of the most popular stage musicals in the history of Broadway and London's West End makes its long-awaited arrival on the motion-picture screen in this lavish adaptation directed by Joel Schumacher. Christine (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful and gifted young woman who longs to join the company of Read More

Two Men Went to War

Actors: Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek Jacobi, Rosanna Lavelle, Phyllida Law

Synopsis: A pair of dentists deal their own unique blow against the Third Reich in this low-key British comedy, which is actually based on a true story. In 1942, war rages all through Europe as Nazi Germany has taken France, attacked London, and defeated British forces at Dunkirk. In the midst of this Read More

South From Granada

Actors: Matthew Goode, Verónica Sánchez, Guillermo Toledo, Antonio Resines, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: From Spanish director Fernando Colomo comes this adaptation of Gerald Brenan's comedic autobiographical book Al sur de Granada. Matthew Goode stars as Brenan, a young Englishman of affluent and noble stock. Motivated by idealism and with a desire to become a great writer, Gerald moves to a small Read More

Charlotte Gray

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, this drama, set in Europe during World War II, stars Cate Blanchett as Charlotte, a Scottish woman living in London. Charlotte falls in love with Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), a handsome RAF pilot, and the two are soon caught up in a torrid Read More

Kevin & Perry Go Large

Actors: Kathy Burke, Rhys Ifans, Laura Fraser, James Fleet

Synopsis: Beavis and Butthead, prepare to meet your English counterparts! Kevin (Harry Enfield) and Perry (Kathy Burke) are two 15-year-old boys whose desperation to lose their virginity is so great that it inspires a sort of awe. In the rare moments when they're not thinking about girls, Kevin dreams of Read More

Dog and Duck

The Vicar of Dibley: Series 03

Actors: Dawn French, Gary Horton, Alice Tinker, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack

Synopsis: Four new episodes are on the docket as The Vicar of Dibley enters its third and final season. This time around, the episode titles reflect the four seasons in the uniquely eccentric coastal village of Dibley--and four eventful phases in the life of the town's rambunctious female Vicar, Boadicea Read More

Frenchman's Creek

Actors: Rupert Vansittart, James Fleet, Tim Dutton, Tara Fitzgerald, Anthony Delon

Synopsis: Tara Fitzgerald stars as Lady Dona St. Columb, an affluent Londoner who takes refuge from stifling London society at her family's estate on the Cornish coast. It is there that she meets Jean Aubrey (Anthony Delon), a dashing French privateer who promptly offers her a life of romance and Read More

The Vicar of Dibley: Series 02

Actors: Dawn French, Gary Horton, Alice Tinker, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack

Synopsis: Season Two of the British comedy series The Vicar of Dibley yields four new episodes, the first of which, "ngagement", finds Dibley's boisterous female Vicar "Gerry" Granger (Dawn French) helping to smooth the course of romance for Dibley's two most timid citizens, Alice Tinker (Emma Chambers) and Read More

Milk

Actors: James Fleet, Phyllida Law, Joss Ackland, Clotilde Courau, Peter Jones

Synopsis: The first feature by Bill Brookfield, Milk is an offbeat British comedy about a family in mourning. The death of an 81-year-old woman sets the scene for this tale about family funerals and the difficulty of burying one's mother. Adrian is an unmarried, unworldly, and unstable dairy farmer Read More

Remember Me?

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Rik Mayall, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Blethyn, James Fleet

Synopsis: This comedy of manners from playwright Michael Frayn, author of Noises Off (1992), was based on his teleplay for "Jamie, On a Flying Visit," a 1968 episode of the legendary BBC television series The Wednesday Play (1964-70). Middle class couple Ian (Rik Mayall) and insurance adjuster Lorna (Imelda Staunton Read More

Eskimo Day

Synopsis: Empty-nest syndrome confronts some harried parents in this BBC made-for-television movie. When two sets of parents go off to Cambridge for college enrollment interviews for their children, the realization that the kids are grown up and moving on finally hits home. The film has some touching Read More

El Efecto Mariposa

Synopsis: This Spanish-French comedy set in South London seeks to demonstrate that human relationships provide an excellent example of chaos theory. Featuring a bilingual cast, the story centers on Luis, an introverted bookworm who travels to London, accompanied by his overbearing mother, to stay with his Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier 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

The Grotesque

Actors: Alan Bates, Theresa Russell, Sting

Synopsis: The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion, aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an unusual and perversely entertaining spin on the classic tea-cup-and-intrigue mystery. Sir Hugo Coal (Alan Bates) is a grumpy, eccentric English gentleman (and Read More

The Vicar of Dibley: Series 01

Actors: Dawn French, Gary Horton, Alice Tinker, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack

Synopsis: With the dead of Dibley's ancient vicar Percy Pottle, the ultra-conservative Dibley Parish Council requests that the Bishop send out a replacement ASAP. Imagine the surprise of blustery Council Chairman David Horton (Gary Waldhorn) when the new vicar turns out to be a youthful, exuberant and Read More

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Actors: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet, John Hannah

Synopsis: This acclaimed British comedy centers on the intermittent romance between a charming (if slightly bumbling) Englishman and a beautiful American woman, who seem to always run into each other at weddings. Indeed, it is at the first of the title's four weddings that Charles (Hugh Grant) and Carrie (Andie McDowell Read More

Femme Fatale

Actors: Simon Callow, Donald Pleasence, Colin Welland, Jacqueline Tong

Synopsis: Poor Maddalena (Sophia Diaz). She's so beautiful and sexy that men in her native Italy could not stop trying to romance her. She could have gone to a convent and she would have had trouble with the priests. There was no place that she could think of that she wouldn't be constantly subject to Read More

Common Pursuit

Electric Moon

Actors: Roshan Seth

Synopsis: For those who have been there, India can be a bureaucratic nightmare, where odd and arbitrary rules are capriciously enforced by a whimsical and occasionally quite greedy series of authorities, some of them self-appointed. The situation can be considerably worsened when an honest official comes Read More

Blue Black Permanent

Actors: Jack Shepherd, Celia Imrie, James Fleet

Synopsis: In this film, Barbara, a middle-aged woman living in Edinburgh in the present, is overwhelmed by memories of Greta, her long-dead mother from the 1930s to the 1950s. Flashbacks show the girl with her poetess mother in Edinburgh and the Orkney Isles. Her mother was fascinated by the sea which would Read More

They Never Slept

Actors: Edward Fox, Emily Morgan, James Fleet

Synopsis: In this British spy spoof, the dangers to World War Two intelligence agents from interagency rivalry in London itself are nearly as great as the dangers to them from the battlefield mayhem concocted by the enemy. Rival operations by allies turn out to be equally threatening. In the story, the Read More