Cast: Brenda Blethyn

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Timothy Spall · Phyllis Logan · Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Plot This powerful drama film follows London doctor Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), an intelligent middle-class black woman who was adopted and now decides to track down her biological mother. But her daunting...

Direction Jim Henson · Steve Barron · Jon Amiel · Peter Smith

Cast John Hurt · Brian Henson · Frederick Warder · David Greenaway

Plot TV Series (1987-1988). 9 Episodes. A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a...

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · Matthew Macfadyen · Brenda Blethyn · Donald Sutherland

Plot The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when...

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · James McAvoy · Romola Garai · Saoirse Ronan

Plot On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain...

Direction Robert Dornhelm

Cast Ben Kingsley · Brenda Blethyn · Hannah Taylor Gordon · Tatjana Blacher

Plot When the war began, she was only a little girl. When it ended, she was the voice of a generation... A compassionate and sensitive televisual portrait of the Holocaust's greatest...

Direction Farren Blackburn · Peter Hoar · Paul Whittington · Adrian Shergold

Cast Brenda Blethyn · David Leon · Wunmi Mosaku · Gina McKee

Plot TV Series (2011-Present). Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she’s lonely she doesn’t show it and faces the world...

Direction Robert Dornhelm · Brendan Donnison

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Malcolm McDowell · Clémence Poésy · Alexander Beyer

Plot Leo Tolstoy's epic historical novel comes to life in this sumptuous remaking of this timeless tale of self-sacrifice and self-indulgence, set against the background of Russian social life during the...

Direction Robert Redford

Cast Craig Sheffer · Brad Pitt · Tom Skerritt · Brenda Blethyn

Plot Fly-fishing figures prominently in this poignant tale of two brothers growing up in Montana in the early 20th century under the stern rule of their minister father (Tom Skerritt). While...

Direction Gaby Dellal

Cast Peter Mullan · Brenda Blethyn · Sean McGinley · Jamie Sives

Plot Working-class Glasgow is the backdrop for this delightful and moving modern fable of healing and redemption, with a beautiful script exploring the intricate effects of repressed emotion. In On a...

Direction Nigel Cole

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Craig Ferguson · Martin Clunes · Tchéky Karyo

Plot Set in the beautiful misty fishing town of Port Liac in Cornwall England, SAVING GRACE--an easy-going comic gem--centers on Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethlyn), a sweet and modest middle-aged lady, whose...

Direction Mark Herman

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Michael Caine · Ewan McGregor · Jim Broadbent

Plot A magical musical comedy which centers on the reticent and reclusive, Laura Hoff, who lives with her mother in a small English seaside town. Her father has died, leaving her...

Direction Rachid Bouchareb

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Sotigui Kouyaté · Roschdy Zem · Sami Bouajila

Plot Shortly before nine a.m. on the morning of 7 July, 2005, and again exactly one hour later, a total of four bombs explode in London. At the height of the...

Direction Nick Hurran

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Julie Walters · Kris Kristofferson · George Costigan

Plot Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret...

Direction Kevin Spacey

Cast Kevin Spacey · Kate Bosworth · John Goodman · Bob Hoskins

Plot For BOBBY DARIN (Kevin Spacey), performing was his life. It kept his heart beating. He came alive onstage, even when he was near collapse offstage. In BEYOND THE SEA, Bobby...

Direction Benjamin Ross

Cast Liev Schreiber · James Cromwell · Melanie Griffith · Brenda Blethyn

Plot Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Direction Amma Asante

Cast Stephanie James · Brenda Blethyn · Gary Sheppeard · Nathan Jones

Plot In the real world there are no happy endings. Leigh-Anne (newcomer Stephanie James) is tough and purposeful - necessary qualities for a girl who became a single mother while still...

Direction Nicole Holofcener

Cast Catherine Keener · Brenda Blethyn · Emily Mortimer · Jake Gyllenhaal

Plot The Marks family is a tightly-knit quartet of women. Jane is the affluent matriarch whose 3 daughters seem to have nothing in common except for a peculiar sort of idealism....

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Hilary Swank · Brenda Blethyn · Sam Claflin · Frank Grillo

Plot An epic journey of two mothers, who despite the loss of their own sons, find a way to make a difference one child at a time. With little in common,...

Direction Nicolas Roeg

Cast Anjelica Huston · Mai Zetterling · Jasen Fisher · Jane Horrocks

Plot A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot...

Direction Alex De Rakoff

Cast Monet Mazur · Danny Dyer · Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson · Brenda Blethyn