Phyllida Law Filmography

Miss Austen Regrets

Actors: Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Pip Torrens, Jack Huston

Synopsis: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Read More

Miss Potter

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson

Synopsis: The true story of the woman who created some of the most beloved characters in children's literature comes to the screen in this drama leavened with elements of comedy and romance. Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) is a imaginative but gently eccentric woman living in the socially and Read More

Copying Beethoven

Actors: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode, Joe Anderson, Bill Stewart

Synopsis: When a young Vienna Music Conservatory student and aspiring composer accepts a job as a copyist for Ludwig von Beethoven, she soon finds her destiny forever interlinked with that of the legendary classical musician in director Agnieszka Holland's romantic period drama. Beethoven (Ed Harris)'s Read More

Nanny McPhee

Actors: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly MacDonald, Patrick Barlow, Thomas Sangster

Synopsis: A nanny reveals ways of making children behave that are much more effective than a time-out in this fantasy comedy based on the "Nurse Matilda" books for children by Christianna Brand. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) is a widower who must tend to his business as an Read More

Pinochet's Last Stand

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Peter Capaldi, Phyllida Law, Jessica Stevenson

Unleashed

Actors: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon

Synopsis: Two men cut off from the world in different ways become unlikely friends and protectors in this offbeat action drama. Danny (Jet Li) is a physically powerful but emotionally stunted man; never given any sort of proper education, Danny has learned little in his lifetime but how to fight, and his Read More

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Magder

Synopsis: After many aborted attempts, Sean Campbell (Bruce Greenwood) has finally cleared his relentlessly busy schedule to take his son, Mac (Daniel Magder), on an oft-delayed trip to Disney World. Unfortunately, his bosses at Arctic Oil have other ideas. It seems that a helicopter carrying an extremely Read More

A Little Trip to Heaven

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Jeremy Renner, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this dry comedy drama from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. Holt (Forest Whitaker) is an insurance investigator who is sent to Minnesota to look into a bus accident; the bus seems to have had significantly more passengers after 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

Brush With Fate

Actors: Glenn Close, Thomas Gibson, Ellen Burstyn, Phyllida Law, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Susan Vreeland's novel The Girl in Hyacinthn Blue was the source for this made-for-TV drama. Utilizing a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, the film chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The story is framed by the Read More

The Time Machine

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory, Phyllida Law

Synopsis: The classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells becomes this big-budget adventure directed by the author's great-grandson Simon Wells. Guy Pearce stars as Alexander Hartdegen, a scientist, professor, and inventor in 1895 New York City who believes that time travel is possible. The sudden and Read More

The Swap

Actors: Jemma Redgrave, Michael Maloney, Jonathan Cake

Saving Grace

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Jamie Forman

Synopsis: Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful upper-class housewife and gardening enthusiast who is blithefully unaware of business matters. This all changes when she learns that her husband Read More

The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Laurels Are Poison

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Actors: Randy Quaid, Whoopi Goldberg, Roger Daltrey, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin

Synopsis: An American businessman rents a cottage in Ireland, only to find the cottage is also inhabited by leprechauns as well. Soon, the American finds himself embroiled in a fierce dispute between the leprechauns and their enemies, the fairies, that only he can help settle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

L'Amante Perduto

Actors: Ciarán Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Stuart Bunce, Phyllida Law, Erick Vasquez

Synopsis: Italian director Roberto Faenza creates this complex psychological drama about love and tragedy in the cultural minefield of the Middle East. Thirteen years ago, Asya (Juliet Aubrey) and Adam (Ciaran Hinds) witnessed the violent death of their three-year old son in London. Though the couple Read More

I Want You

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Luka Petrusic, Labina Mitevska, Carmen Ejogo

Synopsis: This neo-noir British crime drama, set at a decaying English beach resort, begins with a body dropped from a pier. Hairdresser Helen (Rachel Weisz) goes with local deejay Bob (Ben Daniels), but mute bicyclist Honda (Luka Petrusic), who secretly tapes people's conversations, meets Helen at the 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

Mad Cows

Actors: Anna Friel, Joanna Lumley, Anna Massey, Phyllida Law, Greg Wise

Synopsis: Mad Cows is a slapstick comedy about sex and the singles scene. Single and confused Maddy has just had a baby. The first day that she goes out with her baby, she gets arrested at Harrods for shoplifting. While in detention at the Holloway Prison's Mother and Baby Unit, she smuggles Jack out in her Read More

Anna Karenina

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner, James Fox

Synopsis: Leo Tolstoy's classic novel is brought to the screen once again in what was the first American-based production of this story to be filmed on location in Russia. Anna (Sophie Marceau) is married to Alexei (James Fox), but while their relationship is not outwardly unhappy, it's clear that neither Read More

The Winter Guest

Actors: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood, Arlene Cockburn, Sheila Reid

Synopsis: Adapted from a stage play by Sharman McDonald, this film marks the directorial debut of British character actor Alan Rickman. Set against a bleak winter landscape of rural Scotland, the story centers around the recently widowed Frances (Emma Thompson) and a visit from her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law Read More

Emma

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, Greta Scacchi, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jane Austen (who in the '90s seemed to be in the running alongside William Shakespeare and Stephen King for the honors of most adapted author in Hollywood), this period romantic comedy stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse, a young woman who imagines herself an authority on Read More

Before the Rain

Actors: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Silvija Stojanovska

Synopsis: Milcho Manchevski's first feature film is a three-part story of the violence and political chaos tearing apart the newly independent nation of Macedonia (former Yugoslavia). In part one, Kiril (Grégoire Colin), an Orthodox monk, encounters Zamira (Labina Mitevska), a Muslim from Albania. Zamira is Read More

The Blue Boy

Actors: Emma Thompson, Adrian Dunbar

Synopsis: The ghost of a dead child preoccupies a woman in this British made-for-television supernatural thriller. Emma Thompson stars as Marie, a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage to philandering husband Joe (Adrian Dunbar). When the couple goes on holiday, Marie gets obsessed with the ghost of a little Read More

Much Ado About Nothing

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: Actor Kenneth Branagh made his directorial debut with a rousing screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. Four years later, he returns to the bard's work with this lively version of one of Shakespeare's best comedies. Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), the Prince of Aragon, returns Read More

All or Nothing at All

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Bob Monkhouse, Pippa Guard, Steve Steen, Caroline Quentin, Phyllida Law

Synopsis: A charming grifter who boldly feeds off the greed of others must straighten up before he loses everything in this British crime drama featuring House M.D. star Hugh Laurie. Leo Hopkins (Laurie) is the kind of con man who can sweet talk his way out of even the tightest of jams; he isn't afraid to Read More

Peter's Friends

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Phyllida Law, Rita Rudner, Imelda Staunton

Synopsis: This comedy drama, a sort of British version of The Big Chill (1983), was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton (Stephen Fry) Read More

Innocent Victim

Actors: Helen Shaver, Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Stoddard, Peter Firth, Paul McGann

Synopsis: Innocent Victim is a psychological thriller based on the Ruth Rendell novel Tree of Hands. London based, best-selling author, Benet (Helen Shaver), who has just written a controversial novel, lives alone with her young son. Benet's mother, Marsha (Lauren Becall), visiting from the United States Read More

Till We Meet Again

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Lucy Gutteridge, Mia Sara

Synopsis: Originally titled Judith Krantz' Till We Meet Again, this two-part soaper covers forty-three years in the lives of three women. In 1913, French chanteuse Lucy Gutteridge embarks upon a successful showbiz career. She marries a champaigne heir and bears two daughters, played by Courtney Cox and Mia Read More

Come Back Lucy

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Actors: Richard Fescud, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: Alec Guinness plays against stereotype, imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity in Ennio De Concini's Hitler: The Last Ten Days. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker, the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Read More

Otley

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers, Leonard Rossiter

Synopsis: Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a British secret agent called in to investigate the murder of a suspected influence pedlar and document smuggler. He trails double agents and double martinis at a posh cocktail party before discovering the villains have the cooperation of top government Read More