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...

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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

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