Frances Barber Movies

In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stephen Rea

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valentine Nonyela

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frances Barber

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuno Becker

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet -...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuno Becker

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Oldman

Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Timothy Spall

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Caine

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shashi Kapoor

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian McKellen

Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gary Oldman

Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Auteuil

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mylène Farmer

A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.

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Cast: Katrin Cartlidge

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Bates

A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.

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Cast: Kevin Bishop

When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Capaldi

19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames. Is seems as if Julie possesses rare telepathic...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mark Strong

Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced...

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Cast: Michel Blanc

Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at first like a perfect solution, soon takes a messy turn...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kate Ashfield

Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Marc Barr

A film based on Townshend's album "White City: A Novel". The story is based on the area where Townshend was raised. The drama is directed by Richard...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pete Townshend

The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Briers

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toby Stephens

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Oliver Reed

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Capaldi

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Richard

Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the peak of his powers as Britain's number one comedian...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfred Molina

A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frances Barber

A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Knapman

In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian McKellen

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Palin

We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen Gillan

A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: John Thaw

The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Richard E. Grant

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian McKellen

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Bates

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfonso Herrera

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Annette Bening

He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sam Rockwell

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gemma Arterton

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emily Mortimer

A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War II begins.

Genre: War

Cast: Benedict Taylor

Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian McKellen

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frances Barber

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Summer Phoenix

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Samantha Bond

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Adshead

Adrian Savage will have to marry if he wants to inherit his father's estate and he plans to marry Lola. However Lola loves Russell; a man she met in...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Frances Barber

Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zoë Nathenson

A boozy barmaid (Frances Barber) and her newly found gay friend (Con O’Neill) quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the lookout...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frances Barber

Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan just...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kris Marshall

Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998...

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Cast: Gerard Horan

A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Frances Barber

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kevin McNally

Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.

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Cast: Lesley Manville

Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frances Barber

At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul McGann

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Cast: Frances Barber

1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Rory Kinnear

An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terence Cooper

It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frances Barber

A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

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Cast: Rik Mayall

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Malcolm McDowell

This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Graham Linehan

An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frances Barber

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young...

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Cast: Anne Brochet

Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Glenister

Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to keep casual. Frank's secret is a burden he bears...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gerard McSorley

A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian McKellen

A middle-aged woman and a young man drink tea and discuss masturbation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frances Barber

With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert Popper's iconic comedy, from celebrity fans to Paul...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tamsin Greig