Cast: Alison Steadman

Direction Simon Langton

Cast Colin Firth · Jennifer Ehle · David Bamber · Crispin Bonham-carter

Plot An adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, set in the 19th century, about the prejudice and the class differences which would keep lovers apart.

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Michael Gambon · Patrick Malahide · Janet Suzman · Joanne Whalley

Plot Detective novelist Philip Marlow suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in...

Direction Bill Anderson · Dan Reed · Nicholas Renton · Tim Fywell

Cast Kevin Whately · Laurence Fox · Clare Holman · Rebecca Front

Plot TV Series (2006-2015). 9 Seasons. 33 Episodes. Inspector Robert Lewis steps out of the shadow of his mentor, the inimitable Inspector Morse, in this highly-acclaimed series of intricate mysteries. Together...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Alison Steadman · Tim Stern · Janine Duvitski · John Salthouse

Plot A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because...

Direction Kate Hewitt

Cast Saira Choudhry · Peter Davison · Calvin Demba · Victoria Hamilton

Plot TV Mini-Series (2020). 6 Episodes. Four people, one building, many lives. When life happens, you just have to deal with it. From the world of Doctor Foster. Gail, Belle, David,...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Alison Steadman · Jim Broadbent · Timothy Spall · Claire Skinner

Plot Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees...

Direction Moira Armstrong

Cast Geraldine McEwan · Juliet Stevenson · Denis Lawson · Alison Steadman

Plot Miss Marple is invited to the wedding of a friend, but the gaieties are interrupted when a stranger arrives; he provides the missing evidence which proves that the black sheep...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Roger Sloman · Alison Steadman · Anthony O'Donnell · Sheila Kelley

Plot Their Morris packed to the gills, the punctilious Keith and the more spontaneous Candice-Marie arrive at a Dorset campground where they pay £10 in advance for ten nights. It's peaceful:...

Direction James Corden · Ruth Jones · Christine Gernon

Cast Mathew Horne · Joanna Page · James Corden · Ruth Jones

Plot This is the story of how a nice boy from Essex and a sweet girl from Barry fell in love and got married. Only their life isn't quite so simple...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Pauline Collins · Tom Conti · Julia McKenzie · Alison Steadman

Plot Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Jim Broadbent · Allan Corduner · Timothy Spall · Lesley Manville

Plot Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director’s most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous...

Direction Chanya Button

Cast Laura Carmichael · Joe Dempsie · Chloe Pirrie · Eleanor Matsuura

Plot Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in...

Direction Stephen Hopkins

Cast Geoffrey Rush · Charlize Theron · Emily Watson · John Lithgow

Plot "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" traces the British comic's turbulent rise from popular BBC radio performer to one of the world's most gifted comedic actors. Propelled by an...

Direction Tony Marchant · Anthony Byrne

Cast Anna Friel · Sean McGinley · Millie Gibson · Lorraine Burroughs

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 3 Episodes. 11-year-old Max identifies as a girl and wants to live her life as Maxine. Her estranged parents Vicky and Stephen attempt to work out how...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Alison Steadman · Sylvestra Le Touzel · David Thewlis · Wendy Nottingham

Plot A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series...

Direction Paul Morrison

Cast Alison Steadman · Dave Johns · Rakhee Thakrar · Natalie Simpson

Plot A couple in their sixties get to know one another over the course of 23 dog walks. Set against the dramatic background of the changing seasons of one year.

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast John Cleese · Penelope Wilton · Alison Steadman · Stephen Moore

Plot Brian Stimpson is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in England. He sets himself, his staff and pupils very high standards. On the way to a conference at which...

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...

Direction John Irvin

Cast John Hurt · Edward Woodward · Jan Francis · Ben Johnson

Plot John Hurt plays the British jockey Bob Champion in this true story of how Champion overcame cancer and the rigors of chemotherapy for an impressive personal and professional comeback. Just...

Direction Matthew Vaughn

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Harris Dickinson · Djimon Hounsou · Gemma Arterton

Plot As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.