Cast: Richard Griffiths

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Richard Griffiths. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Gandhi

1982 · Movie · 188 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Ben Kingsley · Roshan Seth · Martin Sheen · Ian Charleson

Plot Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed...

7.4

39K votes

7.4

39K votes

Bleak House (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Justin Chadwick · Susanna White

Cast Anna Maxwell Martin · Denis Lawson · Gillian Anderson · Charles Dance

Plot TV Mini-series (2005). 15 episodes. Based on a Charles Dickens' novel. It tells the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn,...

7.3

305 votes

7.3

305 votes

The Hollow Crown: Henry V (TV)

2012 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thea Sharrock

Cast Tom Hiddleston · John Hurt · Julie Walters · Richard Griffiths

Plot Hal is now a responsible monarch as Henry V,his rejection of Falstaff hastening the latter's death. Told by courtiers that,through Edward III,he has a claim to the French throne he...

7.3

241 votes

7.3

241 votes

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2004 · Movie · 137 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfonso Cuarón

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Rupert Grint · Emma Watson · David Thewlis

Plot Starting during the summer before Harry's third year at Hogwarts, this is the adventure that happens when he has to go on the run after an incident where he was...

Max

6.9

80K votes

6.9

80K votes

Sleepy Hollow

1999 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Tim Burton

Cast Johnny Depp · Christina Ricci · Miranda Richardson · Michael Gambon

Plot Near the end of the 18th Century. Constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) earns the disfavour of the courts in New York City for insisting that scientific methods be used to...

6.9

84K votes

6.9

84K votes

Withnail and I

1987 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bruce Robinson

Cast Richard E. Grant · Paul McGann · Richard Griffiths · Ralph Brown

Plot Two young actors - Withnail and Marwood - share a crummy London flat and are hunting vainly for work, with little luck. Withnail persuades his rich and eccentric uncle Monty...

Max

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Hugo

2011 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Asa Butterfield · Chloë Grace Moretz · Ben Kingsley · Sacha Baron Cohen

Plot Story centers on a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo, who lives in a train station and must finish what his late father started by solving the mystery of a broken robot....

6.8

59K votes

6.8

59K votes

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2001 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Columbus

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Rupert Grint · Emma Watson · Robbie Coltrane

Plot Harry Potter has learned to live with his bullying Uncle Vernon, Aunt and spoiled cousin. On his 11th birthday, Harry learns that he is the orphaned son of two powerful...

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6.8

82K votes

6.8

82K votes

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

2010 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Emma Watson · Rupert Grint · Alan Rickman

Plot Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of...

Max

6.6

65K votes

6.6

65K votes

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002 · Movie · 154 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Columbus

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Rupert Grint · Emma Watson · Kenneth Branagh

Plot Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts....

Max

6.5

72K votes

6.5

72K votes

Gormenghast (TV Miniseries)

2000 · Series · 232 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andy Wilson

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Celia Imrie · John Sessions · Warren Mitchell

Plot A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.

6.4

64 votes

6.4

64 votes

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Emma Watson · Rupert Grint · Imelda Staunton

Plot Harry has returned for his fifth year at Hogwarts after another unhappy summer with the Dursleys, only to find Dumbledore replaced by the odious Dolores Umbridge and the Ministry Of...

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6.4

71K votes

6.4

71K votes

Venus

2006 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Peter O'Toole · Leslie Phillips · Jodie Whittaker · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot Maurice (Peter O'Toole), Ian (Leslie Phillips) and Donald (Richard Griffiths) are three semi-ancient retirees who meet every day at their favourite pub to raise a glass, commiserate about the state...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Stage Beauty

2004 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Billy Crudup · Claire Danes · Rupert Everett · Ben Chaplin

Plot Actor Edward “Ned” Kynaston (Billy Crudup) may well be the most desired man in all of London. The Restoration is in full swing, and enthusiastic audiences of aristocrats and commoners...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Vatel

2000 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Uma Thurman · Tim Roth · Timothy Spall

Plot In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a...

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

Funny Bones

1995 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Chelsom

Cast Oliver Platt · Jerry Lewis · Lee Evans · Richard Griffiths

Plot Struggling comedian Tommy Fawkes (Platt) bombs in Vegas big-time while his Mr. Showbiz father George (Lewis) easily overshadows him at every turn. So Tommy decides to head back to his...

6.2

244 votes

6.2

244 votes

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Christopher Lambert · Andie MacDowell · Ralph Richardson · James Fox

Plot A shipping disaster in 1886 has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house....

5.9

7K votes

5.9

7K votes

The History Boys

2006 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nicholas Hytner

Cast Samuel Anderson · Samuel Barnett · Dominic Cooper · James Corden

Plot Based on Alan Bennett's superb screenplay, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring the original National Theatre cast members, including Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Stephan Campbell Moore and Clive...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K 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

5.7

15K votes