Judi Dench Filmography

Quantum of Solace

Actors: Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko

Synopsis: A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he Read More

Cranford

Actors: Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis, Michael Gambon, Simon Woods

Synopsis: The small town gossip, secrets, and romance of Mary Gaskells' popular series of novels comes to the small screen in this BBC drama series from director Simon Curtis. The year is 1842, and Cranford is a modest Cheshire market town on the verge of great change. The railway is reaching to Cranford Read More

Notes on a Scandal

Actors: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Phil Davis

Synopsis: Lust, jealousy, and revenge come cloaked in the guise of friendship in this psychological drama. Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a history teacher at a high school in London; while elderly Barbara is very bright, she's also severe and domineering, with a strong personality that tends to put people Read More

Casino Royale

Actors: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino

Synopsis: Actor Daniel Craig assumes the role formerly occupied by such screen greats as Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton to set out on the character's very first 007 mission. James Bond has earned his "00" status by masterfully executing a pair of death-defying professional assassinations. Now Read More

Mrs. Henderson Presents

Actors: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, William Young, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly, Thelma Barlow

Synopsis: A recently widowed eccentric with money to burn and no intentions of settling down enlists the aide of a showbiz professional to transform a run-down theater in Soho into London's most innovative entertainment hot spot in director Stephen Frears' cinematic account of the groundbreaking Windmill Read More

Pride & Prejudice

Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennetts (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their Read More

Doogal

Actors: Tom Baker, Jon Stewart, Robbie Williams, Daniel Tay, Jimmy Fallon, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, William H. Macy, Whoopi Goldberg, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: A plucky little girl and her dog join their magical pals to save the world in the computer-animated comedy-adventure for the whole family. The Enchanted Village is a happy place ruled by the good-natured wizard Zebedee where young Florence and her dog, Doogal, come to play with their friends Read More

We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom

Actors: Judi Dench

Synopsis: Award-winning Well TV contributor Kevin P. Miller explores the ongoing attempts made by multinational pharmaceutical and giant food companies, the World Trade Organization, and the World Health Organization in limiting public access to vitamins, herbs, and other alternative therapies that may not Read More

Ladies in Lavender

Actors: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Miriam Margolyes, Natascha McElhone

Synopsis: Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and Janet Widdington (Maggie Smith) and her sister, Ursula (Judi Dench), are a pair of elderly spinsters who share a home in Cornwall on the coast of England. After a storm, the Read More

The Chronicles of Riddick

Actors: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos

Synopsis: Vin Diesel returns as the nocturnally gifted antihero Riddick in this sequel to the 2000 cult item Pitch Black. Riddick, on the run from the law and evading mercenaries eager to claim the price on his head, seeks refuge on the planet of Helion, only to discover he's walked into a world in chaos. Read More

Home on the Range

Actors: Roseanne, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Disney presents the animated musical Western Home on the Range, featuring an original musical score by Alan Menken. The Little Piece of Heaven family farm is about to go under and outlaw cattle rustler Alameda Slim (voice of Randy Quaid) sets his sights on it. Three dairy cows -- tough Maggie Read More

Bugs!

Actors: Judi Dench

Synopsis: Bugs! is a live-action 40-minute nature documentary filmed in the large IMAX format in 3-D. Shot on-location in the jungles of Borneo, the film follows the life cycles of the caterpillar known as Papilio and the praying mantis known as Hierodula. As a caterpillar, Papilio dines on leaves, builds a Read More

Die Another Day

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan makes his fourth appearance as suave super-spy James Bond in this espionage thriller, the 20th film in the official Bond series. While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond finally wins his Read More

The Importance of Being Earnest

Actors: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench

Synopsis: A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady, but charming gentlemen from a wealthy family who Read More

Bond Girls Are Forever

Actors: Maryam D'Abo, Jill St. John, Halle Berry, Lois Chiles, Samantha Bond

Synopsis: First screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival, the 60-minute documentary Bond Girls Are Forever made its cable TV debut a mere 16 days before the premiere of the newest James Bond theatrical feature, 2002's Die Another Day. (Coincidence? We don't think so) Through vintage film clips Read More

Angelina Ballerina: Arthur the Butterfly

Angelina Ballerina: The Lucky Penny

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Surprise

Angelina Ballerina: The Gymnastics Championship

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina and Anya

As Time Goes By: Season 09

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of As Time Goes By finds Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) trying to smooth the rocky romantic path for his stepdaughter Judy (Moira Brooker), who has become re-engaged to Lionel's publisher Alistair (Philip Bretherton). Emboldened by the Alistair-Judy example, policeman Harry (David Michaels Read More

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On - Christmas in Mouse Land

Synopsis: Based on the stories by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig,Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On features the titular mouse losing out on the chance to play the lead in a school production. She selfishly quits the play when given a secondary part, but after an accident she learns her lesson and Read More

Angelina Ballerina: Treasure Tandems

Angelina Ballerina: Two Mice In a Boat

Angelina Ballerina: The Cheese Ball Cup

Angelina Ballerina: The Ballet Tickets

Angelina Ballerina: Midnight Muddle

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina at the Fair

The Shipping News

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries Read More

Iris

Actors: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton

Synopsis: Based on a pair of memoirs by her husband John Bayley, this biographical portrait of writer Iris Murdoch stars both Judi Dench and Kate Winslet as the philosophical author at different stages of her life. When the young Iris (Winslet) meets fellow student Bayley (Hugh Bonneville) at Oxford, he's a Read More

Angelina Ballerina [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Judi Dench, Finty Williams, Jo Wyatt

Synopsis: "A little star with big dreams," Angelina Ballerina was introduced in a series of children's books written by Katharine Holabird and illustrated by Helen Craig. Angelina's real last name was Mouseling, altogether fitting, in that she was a cute little female mouse (albeit one dressed in ballet Read More

Chocolat

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina

Synopsis: The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are Read More

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Actors: Judi Dench

Synopsis: On November 9, 1938, Adolph Hitler's ugly war against the Jews began in earnest with the "Kristallnacht," in which Nazi troops joined with angry mobs to attack synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses, and residents of predominantly Jewish neighborhoods. While Hitler did not initially make clear his Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 08

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The eighth season of As Time Goes By finds golden-age sweethearts Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean (Judi Dench) fretting over the breakup of the romance between Lionel's publisher Alistair (Philip Bretherton) and Jean's daughter Judy (Moira Brooker). At the same time, Jean's employee Sandy (Jenny Funnell Read More

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Actors: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine

Synopsis: A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the premium cable network HBO. In the 1940s, the Blonde Bombshells were the finest all-female jazz band in the U.K., playing hot swing music that helped raise England's Read More

The World Is Not Enough

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench

Synopsis: James Bond, the world's greatest secret agent, is sent once more into the breach in the name of Queen, Country, and a dry martini. In the 19th Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) must resolve a potentially deadly power struggle between two unstable nations, with control of the world's oil supply Read More

Tea With Mussolini

Actors: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time." Read More

Shakespeare in Love

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench

Synopsis: William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theatre whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic creditors, but he's got a nasty case of writer's block. Shakespeare hasn't written a hit in years. In Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 07

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: Season seven of As Time Goes By details the future misadventures of golden-age lovers Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean (Judi Dench), beginning with Jean's efforts to do something about Lionel's encroaching deafness, even as he frets about her (supposedly) failing eyesight. In other episodes Read More

Tomorrow Never Dies

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Roger Spottiswoode (Air America) directed this film, the 18th chapter in the 35-year-old James Bond series (excluding Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again). James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) is manipulating world events via an exclusive Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 06

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The sixth season of As Time Goes By finds senior-citizen newlyweds Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) more or less adjusted to their marital status. Still, Lionel remains a blustery blowhard, the better to make a fool of himself when trying to prove that he's just Read More

Mrs. Brown

Actors: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, David Westhead, Gerard Butler

Synopsis: The ruler of England discovers the value of common friendship in this historical drama. After the death of her husband Prince Albert, Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) is despondent, and she remains in mourning for two years after Albert's passing. When one of her servants suggests that a daily ride on Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 05

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: Season five of As Time Goes By picks up where the previous season left off: with sixtysomething newlyweds Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) adjusting to life together after years of contented loneliness. Jean is in for a shock early in the season when she comes Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Brian Blessed, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers

Synopsis: At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the first to preserve Shakespeare's entire text, uncut and unabridged. Moving the action into the 19th century, Branagh cast himself in the title role Read More

GoldenEye

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 04

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The fourth season of As Time Goes By finds acerbic author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) upset over the fact that his sweetheart, Jean Parteger (Judi Dench), with whom he has moved in as a means of rekindling their romance from four decades earlier, has invited lovelorn employee Sandy (Jenny Funnell Read More

Jack and Sarah

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins

Synopsis: A temperamental London lawyer adapts to the challenges of fatherhood when he is left with sole responsibility for his infant daughter in this well-performed British comedy-drama. Richard E. Grant stars as Jack, a high-pressure attorney who believes his life is on the right track: a successful Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 03

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: Season three of As Time Goes By finds sixtyish author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and like-vintage businesswoman Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) deciding to pick up their romance where they left off four decades earlier by moving in together, a decision that leads to a comedy of errors and Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 02

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: In the second season of As Time Goes By, author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and businesswoman Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) are still toying with the notion of resuming their romance which had been interrupted years earlier. In the course of the season's half-dozen episodes, Jean expresses Read More

As Time Goes By: Season 01

Actors: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Philip Bretherton, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell

Synopsis: Season one of As Time Goes By begins as acerbic author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) is unexpectedly reunited with implacable businesswoman Jean Parteger (Judi Dench), with whom he had an affair some 38 years earlier. Upon realizing who Jean is, Lionel would just as soon leave the past Read More

Absolute Hell

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

Henry V

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: Kenneth Branagh makes his feature film directorial debut with this adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. After the Chorus (Derek Jacobi) introduces the play, young king of England Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) begins an angry dialogue with King Charles of France (Paul Scofield). The king's son Read More

Look Back in Anger

Crew: Director

Actors: Siobhan Redmond, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: Made for British television, 1989's Look Back in Anger is the third film adaptation of John Osborne's legendary "kitchen sink" stage drama. Kenneth Branagh plays working-class roisterer Jimmy Porter, the archetypal "angry young man" whose college education has led nowhere. Stuck in a go-nowhere Read More

A Handful of Dust

Actors: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's 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

84 Charing Cross Road

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean de Baer, Maurice Denham, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 Read More

Make and Break

Ghosts

Actors: Kenneth Branagh

A Room With a View

Actors: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis

Synopsis: Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost. Set during the Edwardian Era, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, who like all proper Read More

Wetherby

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Stuart Wilson, Marjorie Yates, Tim McInnerny

Synopsis: In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that ostensibly focuses on an innocent dinner party but is really about something else. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is an old-maid schoolmarm who has lived in Wetherby, a Read More

The Angelic Conversation

Synopsis: Through a symbolic visual language that may be misunderstood by some, director and writer Derek Jarman has created an experimental film that at first appears to be the internal fantasy of one man. In reality, the story is about the love between two gay men (portrayed by Paul Reynolds and Philip Williamson Read More

Saigon: Year of The Cat

Actors: Judi Dench, Frederic F