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

5.2

69 votes

5.2

69 votes

Nero (TV)

2004 · Movie · 180 min. · Italy

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...

Max

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated