Cast: Liz Smith
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Liz Smith. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Lark Rise to Candleford (TV Series)
2008 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Gallagher · Susan Tully · Patrick Lau · Alan Grint
Cast Olivia Hallinan · Sarah Lancashire · Julia Sawalha · Fergus Drysdale
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
7.4
34 votes
7.4
34 votes
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
1989 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Greenaway
Cast Richard Bohringer · Michael Gambon · Helen Mirren · Alan Howard
Plot One of the most controversial films of all time, the title of this Jacobean revenge-tragedy, set in an upscale French restaurant, says it all. The restaurant is visited nightly by...
7.1
6K votes
7.1
6K votes
Everything Is Copy
2015 · Documentary · 89 min. · United States
Direction Jacob Bernstein · Nick Hooker
Cast Tom Hanks · Reese Witherspoon · Steven Spielberg · Meryl Streep
Plot A look at the life and work of writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron.
6.9
24 votes
6.9
24 votes
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Karel Reisz
Cast Meryl Streep · Jeremy Irons · Hilton McRae · Emily Morgan
Plot A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah,...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Tim Burton
Cast Johnny Depp · Freddie Highmore · David Kelly · Deep Roy
Plot Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) and Charlie, a...
6.6
93K votes
6.6
93K votes
Bleak Moments
1972 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mike Leigh
Cast Anne Raitt · Sarah Stephenson · Eric Allan · Joolia Cappleman
Plot Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her retarded sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizzare neighbour and irritating workmate.
6.4
96 votes
6.4
96 votes
The Magic Flute
2006 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kenneth Branagh
Cast Joseph Kaiser · Amy Carson · Benjamin Jay Davis · Lyubov Petrova
Plot A spectacular epic interpretation of Mozart's classic opera. On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit...
6.2
536 votes
6.2
536 votes
Keeping Mum
2005 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Niall Johnson
Cast Maggie Smith · Rowan Atkinson · Kristin Scott Thomas · Patrick Swayze
Plot The sleepy English hamlet of Little Wallop is about to receive a rude awakening, as the absent-minded Reverend Walter Goodman (Rowan Atkinson), his dissatisfied wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas), and...
5.9
4K votes
5.9
4K votes
Apartment Zero
1988 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin Donovan
Cast Colin Firth · Hart Bochner · Dora Bryan · Liz Smith
Plot Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane...
5.9
74 votes
5.9
74 votes
A Private Function
1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Malcolm Mowbray
Cast Michael Palin · Maggie Smith · Denholm Elliott · Richard Griffiths
Plot Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire where strict post-war rationing is putting the squeeze on the townspeople. But when a married working-class couple (Palin and Smith) discovers that the town...
5.7
131 votes
5.7
131 votes
A Christmas Carol (TV)
1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction David Hugh Jones
Cast Patrick Stewart · Richard E. Grant · Joel Grey · Ian McNeice
Plot Adaptation of Charles Dickens' story "A Christmas Carol." A crotchety, old misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, experiences an epiphany on Christmas Eve when he revisits his wretched past and is permitted to...
5.7
312 votes
5.7
312 votes
Haunted
1995 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Kate Beckinsale · Aidan Quinn · Anthony Andrews · John Gielgud
Plot Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon...
5.3
209 votes
5.3
209 votes
A Merry War
1997 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Bierman
Cast Richard E. Grant · Helena Bonham Carter · Jim Carter · Harriet Walter
5.2
69 votes
5.2
69 votes
Nero (TV)
2004 · Movie · 180 min. · Italy
Direction Paul Marcus
Cast Hans Matheson · Laura Morante · Rike Schmid · Simón Andreu
5.2
88 votes
5.2
88 votes
High Spirits
1988 · Movie · 97 min. · Ireland
Direction Neil Jordan
Cast Steve Guttenberg · Daryl Hannah · Peter O'Toole · Beverly D'Angelo
Plot When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to...
4.7
2K votes
4.7
2K votes
Son of the Pink Panther
1993 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast Roberto Benigni · Herbert Lom · Claudia Cardinale · Nicoletta Braschi
Plot A princess who is in France to accompany her father on a diplomatic mission. She is kidnapped by people who wants her father to abdicate, which he will not do...
3.4
1K votes
3.4
1K votes
Tube Tales
1999 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gaby Dellal · Stephen Hopkins · Bob Hoskins · Menhaj Huda
Cast Jason Flemyng · Dexter Fletcher · Kelly MacDonald · Denise Van Outen
Plot Nine stories based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers.
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Crapston Villas (TV Series)
1995 · Series · 10 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sarah Ann Kennedy · Peter Boyd Maclean
Cast Jane Horrocks · Alison Steadman · Morwenna Banks · John Thomson
Plot A black comedy satire based in London suburbs: an extreme and lowlife group of characters living in a grim apartment building in the fictional postcode of SE69, who were plagued...
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The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (TV Miniseries)
1986 · Movie · 229 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Philip Saville
Cast Dennis Waterman · Patricia Hodge · Juliet Wallace · Paul Herzberg
Plot A highly unattractive woman who goes to great lengths to take revenge on her husband and his attractive lover.
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