Cast: Dawn French

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dawn French. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Young Ones (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rik Mayall · Lise Mayer · Ben Elton · Ed Bye

Cast Rik Mayall · Ade Edmondson · Nigel Planer · Christopher Ryan

Synopsis "A horrible, vile, disgusting sitcom about four students who live in the most revolting house in Britain", Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan are the four housemates: Rick (Cliff Richard-worshipping radical sociology student), Vyvan (violence-loving punk medical...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Direction Bill Gallagher · Susan Tully · Patrick Lau · Alan Grint

Cast Olivia Hallinan · Sarah Lancashire · Julia Sawalha · Fergus Drysdale

Synopsis An adaptation of Flora Thompson's autobiographical novel "Lark Rise To Candleford", set in 19 century Oxfordshire, in which a young girl moves to the local market town to begin an apprenticeship as a postmistress.

7.5

98 votes

7.5

98 votes

The Vicar Of Dibley (TV Series)

1994 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dewi Humphreys · Gareth Carrivick · John Howard Davies

Cast Dawn French · Gary Waldhorn · Emma Chambers · James Fleet

Synopsis Geraldine Grainger is the jolly, down-to-earth female vicar of Dibley, a small country village inhabited by oddballs. After overcoming the town's initial shock at her gender Geraldine helps to improve the village.

7.4

34 votes

7.4

34 votes

Psychoville (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve Pemberton · Reece Shearsmith · Matt Lipsey

Cast Reece Shearsmith · Steve Pemberton · Dawn French · Daniel Kaluuya

Synopsis Psychoville is a dark character comedy mystery in which different characters are strangely linked. An embittered one-handed clown who makes balloon animals with his hook; a desperately misguided midwife; a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf who’s in love with his panto Snow...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Direction Alfonso Cuarón

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Rupert Grint · Emma Watson · David Thewlis

Synopsis Starting during the summer before Harry's third year at Hogwarts, this is the adventure that happens when he has to go on the run after an incident where he was unable to control his anger... getting on a bus, he...

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6.9

80K votes

6.9

80K votes

The Wrong Mans (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Corden · Mathew Baynton · Jim Field Smith

Cast Mathew Baynton · James Corden · Sarah Solemani · Tom Basden

Synopsis TV Series (2013). 2 Seasons. 8 Episodes. Sam Pinkett (Mathew Baynton) and Phil Bourne (James Corden), Berkshire council office co-workers, abruptly become entangled in a far-fetched – but deadly serious – web of crime, conspiracy and corruption after Sam answers...

6.9

770 votes

6.9

770 votes

Psychoville Halloween Special

2010 · Movie · 48 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Matt Lipsey

Cast Matthew Fenton · Eileen Atkins · Steve Pemberton · Alex Waldmann

Synopsis Special episode of "Psychoville". Four tales of terror unfold at the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiactric hospital.

6.9

32 votes

6.9

32 votes

Direction Edward Hall

Cast Geraldine McEwan · Geraldine Chaplin · Russ Abbot · Julian Wadham

Synopsis Gwenda Halliday moves to England from India and moves into a house in a seaside village. She will soon be married and needs to renovate the house first. However, she keeps getting the strange feeling that she's been in the...

6.6

82 votes

6.6

82 votes

The Magician's Elephant

2023 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Wendy Rogers

Cast Noah Jupe · Mandy Patinkin · Brian Tyree Henry · Natasia Demetriou

Synopsis An orphaned boy is told by a fortune teller that an elephant will help him find his lost sister.

6.1

396 votes

6.1

396 votes

David Copperfield (TV Miniseries)

1999 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Curtis

Cast Bob Hoskins · Daniel Radcliffe · Maggie Smith · Michael Elphick

Synopsis A year before he played his first Quidditch match as Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe cast his spell on audiences as young David Copperfield in this stellar British miniseries based on Charles Dickens's classic novel. Vastly superior to the 2000 American-made...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

Direction Andrew Adamson

Cast Georgie Henley · William Moseley · Skandar Keynes · Anna Popplewell

Synopsis During the German air raids of WWII, the four Pevensie children -- Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy -- are sent out of London to take shelter at the country home of eccentric Prof. Digory Kirke, who happens to be the...

5.8

56K votes

5.8

56K votes

Death on the Nile

2022 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Gal Gadot · Letitia Wright · Armie Hammer

Synopsis Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping Egyptian desert vistas and the...

5.7

12K votes

5.7

12K votes

Love and Other Disasters

2006 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alek Keshishian

Cast Brittany Murphy · Matthew Rhys · Santiago Cabrera · Samantha Bloom

Synopsis Emily Jackson "Jacks" is the matchmaking queen for her lifelong friends Peter, her gay room-mate, and Tallulah, a neurotic man-eater. But, kept so busy, as she is, matchmaking everyone else, will Jacks know how to recognize true love when it...

5.2

4K votes

5.2

4K votes

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1996 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Steve Barron

Cast Martin Landau · Jonathan Taylor Thomas · Geneviève Bujold · Udo Kier

Synopsis One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film...

4.9

3K votes

4.9

3K votes

Absolutely Fabulous: The Film

2016 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mandie Fletcher

Cast Jennifer Saunders · Joanna Lumley · Julia Sawalha · June Whitfield

Synopsis Sitcom creator Jennifer Saunders has finally written an Ab Fab Movie 20 years after starting it. It is titled after the sitcom's main characters.

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3.8

341 votes

3.8

341 votes

Direction Jamie Rafn

Cast Dawn French · Alfred Molina

Synopsis TV Series (2010). 1 Season. 6 Episodes. Alfred Molina and Dawn French star as the eponymous Roger and Val Stevenson, a middle aged married couple who we see during their first half hour after work once they walk through the...

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Girls on Top (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Jackson · Ed Bye

Cast Dawn French · Jennifer Saunders · Ruby Wax · Tracey Ullman

Synopsis Amanda Ripley, a feminist writer for the women's magazine "Spare Cheeks" lucks into an apartment in Kensington. In order to pay the rent to Lady Carlton, the crazy romance novelist (with a stuffed pet dog named Josephine), who lives downstairs...

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Eat the Rich

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Richardson

Cast Kevin Allen · Ronald Allen · Dave Beard · Rowena Bentley

Synopsis Alex (Al Pillay) is a disgruntled server at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex and cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General...

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Everyman (TV Series)

1976 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Nicholson · Judy Jackson · Hugh David · Nikki Stockley

Cast Peter France · Joan Bakewell · Spike Milligan · Jeremy Paxman

Synopsis Everyman is a British television documentary series that aired on BBC One in a late-night slot on Sunday evenings between 1977 and 2000. Its subject matter tended to be focused on moral and religious issues, often in the form of...

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Happy Families (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Series · 35 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Jackson

Cast Jennifer Saunders · Adrian Edmondson · Dawn French · Stephen Fry

Synopsis Guy Fuddle (Ade Edmondson) lives with his grandmother (Jennifer Saunders). He has four sisters(Saunders) who were sent away from home as small children. Grandmother is now ill and she wants to see her granddaughters before she dies. She sends Guy...

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