Cast: Judi Dench

Direction Simon Evans

Cast David Tennant · Michael Sheen · Georgia Moffett · Lucy Eaton

Synopsis David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans - also...

Direction Simon Curtis · Steve Hudson

Cast Judi Dench · Imelda Staunton · Michael Gambon · Simon Woods

Synopsis Based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, it is a five-part period drama set in the 1840s which follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town on the cusp of...

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Derek Jacobi · Kate Winslet · Julie Christie

Synopsis When Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) returns from his studies to find his father dead, and his mother married to his uncle, he grows suspicious. After being visited by his dead father as a ghost, his suspicions are confirmed and Hamlet falls...

Direction Dominic Cooke

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Keeley Hawes · Ben Daniels · Geoffrey Streatfield

Synopsis After a long civil war between the royal families of York and Lancaster, England enjoys a period of peace under King Edward IV. But Edward’s younger brother, Richard, resents the power and happiness around him. Malicious, power-hungry, and bitter about...

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · Matthew Macfadyen · Brenda Blethyn · Donald Sutherland

Synopsis The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend...

Direction Simon Curtis

Cast Judi Dench · Imelda Staunton · Francesca Annis · Lisa Dillon

Synopsis The two-part saga 'Return to Cranford' opens to a struggling Cranford, a traditional village that in autumn 1844 is airing the conflicts that accompany progress. Miss Matty Jenkyns (Judi Dench), after having closed her business in the last series, is...

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Emma Thompson · Paul Scofield · Derek Jacobi

Synopsis The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Anne Bancroft · Anthony Hopkins · Judi Dench · Jean De Baer

Synopsis True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · Cate Blanchett · Bill Nighy · Andrew Simpson

Synopsis Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench) is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care...

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Maggie Smith · Judi Dench · Eileen Atkins · Joan Plowright

Synopsis Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that goes back more than half a century. The four acting greats discuss their careers and reminisce about their humble beginnings in...

Direction Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast Mia Wasikowska · Michael Fassbender · Judi Dench · Jamie Bell

Synopsis After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane...

Direction Martin Campbell

Cast Daniel Craig · Eva Green · Mads Mikkelsen · Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis James Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar, where he is to spy on a terrorist Mollaka. Not everything goes as planned and Bond decides to investigate, independently of the MI6 agency, in order to track down the rest...

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Jude Hill · Caitriona Balfe · Jamie Dornan · Judi Dench

Synopsis A coming-of-age drama set during the tumult of late-1960s Northern Ireland, the film follows young Buddy as he navigates a landscape of working-class struggle, sweeping cultural changes, and sectarian violence. Buddy dreams of a glamorous future that will whisk him...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Stephen Boyd · Jack Hawkins · Richard Attenborough · Diane Cilento

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Judi Dench · Steve Coogan · Sophie Kennedy Clark · Charlie Murphy

Synopsis A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.

Direction James Ivory

Cast Helena Bonham Carter · Maggie Smith · Denholm Elliott · Julian Sands

Synopsis Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), travel to Florence, they meet an unconventional Englishman, Mr. Emerson (Denholm Elliott), and his romantically unhappy son, George (Julian Sands)....

Direction Lasse Hallström

Cast Juliette Binoche · Judi Dench · Alfred Molina · Lena Olin

Synopsis In the 1950s, single mother Vianne Rocher (Binoche) and her 6-year-old daughter move to the small French town of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, where Vianne opens a chocolate shop, during Lent, across from the town's church (and she's open on Sundays). As you'd...

Direction Sam Mendes

Cast Daniel Craig · Judi Dench · Javier Bardem · Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. Skyfall will tell a standalone story not...

Direction John Madden

Cast Gwyneth Paltrow · Joseph Fiennes · Judi Dench · Geoffrey Rush

Synopsis In 1590s London, amid the great heyday of Elizabethan entertainment, two rival theaters — The Curtain, owned by Richard Burbage and The Rose owned by Philip Henslowe — competed passionately for the same audience to fill their playhouses. Under pressure...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Kate Winslet · Judi Dench · Jim Broadbent · Hugh Bonneville

Synopsis Iris Murdoch (Winslet, Dench) was one of the most extraordinary women of her generation. A brilliant scholar at Oxford in the 1950s, she later became a noted philosopher and novelist. Through it all, her soulmate and husband, John Bayley (Broadbent,...