Cast: Frances Barber
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frances Barber. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Doctor Who (TV Series)
2005 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Russell T. Davies · Graeme Harper · Euros Lyn · James Strong
Cast David Tennant · Matt Smith · Christopher Eccleston · Peter Capaldi
Plot TV Series (2005-Present). 12 Seasons. Christopher Eccleston's Doctor is wise and funny cheeky and brave. An alien and a loner his detached logic gives him a vital edge when the...
7.6
6K votes
7.6
6K votes
McKellen: Playing the Part
2017 · Documentary · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joe Stephenson
Cast Ian McKellen · Scott Chambers · Luke Evans · Milo Parker
Plot Feature documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen.
7.2
103 votes
7.2
103 votes
Great Expectations (TV Miniseries)
2011 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Kirk
Cast Douglas Booth · Gillian Anderson · Ray Winstone · Vanessa Kirby
Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 3 Episodes. In the 1810s orphan boy Pip Pirrup lives on the Kent marshes with his shrewish sister and her kindly husband,farrier Joe Gargery. On Christmas eve,whilst...
7.1
573 votes
7.1
573 votes
Silk (TV Series)
2011 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Moffat · Catherine Morshead · Michael Offer · Peter Hoar
Cast Maxine Peake · Rupert Penry-Jones · Neil Stuke · Theo Barklem-Biggs
Plot TV Series (2011-2014). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. Silk follows a group of barristers from a chambers in London. The series' main focus is on Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and her...
7.1
126 votes
7.1
126 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Clocks (TV)
2009 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Palmer
Cast David Suchet · Olivia Grant · Anna Skellern · Tom Burke
Plot Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is...
6.9
147 votes
6.9
147 votes
Esther Kahn
2000 · Movie · 142 min. · France
Direction Arnaud Desplechin
Cast Summer Phoenix · Fabrice Desplechin · Ian Holm · Emmanuelle Devos
Plot In the late 19th Century, Esther Kahn (Summer Phoenix) and her immigrant Jewish family settle in the East End of London. Whilst the rest of her family occupy themselves with...
6.9
138 votes
6.9
138 votes
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Greenaway
Cast Andrea Ferréol · Brian Deacon · Eric Deacon · Frances Barber
Plot Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large...
6.8
612 votes
6.8
612 votes
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (TV)
2004 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Strickland
Cast Geraldine McEwan · Christian Coulson · Cherie Lunghi · Robert Pugh
Plot The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert in the local newspaper that a murder will take place the following Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Little Paddocks,...
6.7
92 votes
6.7
92 votes
The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV Series)
1990 · Series · 24 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Garfath · John Madden · Tony Smith · Paul Weiland
Cast Michael Gambon · Brian Henson · Mark Ashman · Frances Barber
Plot A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus & Euridyce.
6.7
494 votes
6.7
494 votes
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul McGuigan
Cast Annette Bening · Jamie Bell · Julie Walters · Vanessa Redgrave
Plot Based on Peter Turner's memoir, the film follows the relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
Friday Night Dinner (TV Series)
2011 · Series · 20 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Popper · Steve Bendelack · Martin Dennis
Cast Simon Bird · Tom Rosenthal · Tamsin Greig · Paul Ritter
Plot TV Series (2011-Present). Every Friday night, twenty-something brothers Adam (Bird) and Jonny (Rosenthal) Goodman return to their parents' home for dinner. Adam and Jonny think of the weekly event as...
6.4
89 votes
6.4
89 votes
King Lear (TV)
2008 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Trevor Nunn
Cast Ian McKellen · William Gaunt · Philip Winchester · Ben Meyjes
Plot King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Including in the "Great Performances" Series, this television production includes the same cast and director as the...
6.3
36 votes
6.3
36 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Veiled Lady (TV)
1990 · Movie · 49 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edward Bennett
Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran
Plot Poirot becomes a criminal himself when he agrees to help a beautiful woman recover a letter written in her youth that is being used to blackmail her.
6.3
120 votes
6.3
120 votes
The Bookshop (La librería)
2017 · Movie · 115 min. · Spain
Direction Isabel Coixet
Cast Emily Mortimer · Patricia Clarkson · Bill Nighy · Honor Kneafsey
Plot Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a young woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision...
6.2
10K votes
6.2
10K votes
Photographing Fairies
1997 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nick Willing
Cast Toby Stephens · Emily Woof · Ben Kingsley · Frances Barber
Plot After the sudden death of his young wife, Charles Castle devotes himself to his work as a photographer in World War I. After the war he works in trick photography...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
Mr. Holmes
2015 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Condon
Cast Ian McKellen · Milo Parker · Laura Linney · Hattie Morahan
Plot The story picks up with the detective at age 93, long-ago retired to the rural area of Sussex, where he is haunted by an unresolved case from a half-century ago....
6.0
9K votes
6.0
9K votes
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Shashi Kapoor · Claire Bloom · Ayub Khan-Din · Frances Barber
Plot Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except...
6.0
255 votes
6.0
255 votes
Young Soul Rebels
1991 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Isaac Julien
Cast Valentine Nonyela · Mo Sesay · Dorian Healy · Frances Barber
6.0
30 votes
6.0
30 votes
The Chosen
2016 · Movie · 122 min. · Spain
Direction Antonio Chavarrías
Cast Alfonso Herrera · Hannah Murray · Julian Sands · Elvira Mínguez
Plot A man named Jacques Mornard arrives in Mexico in 1940, claiming to be a Belgian who is fleeing the war in Europe to join his girlfriend, one of refugee Leon...
6.0
1K votes
6.0
1K votes
We'll Take Manhattan (TV)
2012 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom
Direction John McKay
Cast Karen Gillan · Aneurin Barnard · Helen McCrory · Joseph May
Plot A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama...
5.9
29 votes
5.9
29 votes