Cast: Linda Bassett
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Linda Bassett. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 26
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
Synopsis 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 apprenticeship as a postmistress.
7.5
98 votes
7.5
98 votes
The Reader
2008 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Stephen Daldry
Cast Kate Winslet · David Kross · Ralph Fiennes · Bruno Ganz
Synopsis The Reader opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her....
7.2
49K votes
7.2
49K votes
Sense and Sensibility (TV Miniseries)
2008 · Series · 174 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Alexander
Cast Hattie Morahan · Charity Wakefield · Lucy Boynton · David Morrissey
Synopsis TV Miniseries (2008). 3 Episodes. A tv adaptation of the classic Jane Austen tale of love and class conflict. Marianne Dashwood (Wakefield) has fallen deeply in love with John Willoughby (Cooper), yet despite their feelings for one another the wealthy...
7.0
841 votes
7.0
841 votes
East is East
1999 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Damien O'Donnell
Cast Om Puri · Linda Bassett · Jordan Routledge · Archie Panjabi
Synopsis Set in the early 1970s, follows the lives of a Pakistani-English family living in Northern England. George Khan (Om Puri), a proud Pakistani immigrant, and his British wife, Ella (Linda Bassett), run a fish and chip shop, while raising their...
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes
C. B. Strike: Troubled Blood (TV Miniseries)
2022 · Series · United Kingdom
Direction Susan Tully
Cast Tom Burke · Holliday Grainger · Jonas Armstrong · Linda Bassett
6.9
391 votes
6.9
391 votes
Spies of Warsaw (TV Miniseries)
2013 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Coky Giedroyc
Cast David Tennant · Janet Montgomery · Radoslaw Kaim · Burn Gorman
Synopsis TV Miniseries (2013). 2 Episodes. A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.
6.3
64 votes
6.3
64 votes
Kinky Boots
2005 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Julian Jarrold
Cast Joel Edgerton · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Sarah-Jane Potts · Jemima Rooper
Synopsis Two outcast dreamers who finally figure out how to stand up for themselves... in thigh-high leather stilettos. Inspired by a surprising true story, a young Englishman who inherits his father’s failing shoe factory joins a feisty female impersonator who turns...
6.1
2K votes
6.1
2K votes
Calendar Girls
2003 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nigel Cole
Cast Helen Mirren · Julie Walters · John Alderton · Linda Bassett
Synopsis Based on the true story of a group of women who bare all -- or nearly all -- for charity and become international celebrities as a result. The Women’s Institute, in Great Britain, encourages the ancient skills of jam-making, flower...
6.0
5K votes
6.0
5K votes
Mary Reilly
1996 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Julia Roberts · John Malkovich · Glenn Close · Kathy Staff
5.7
6K votes
5.7
6K votes
West is West
2010 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andy De Emmony
Cast Aqib Khan · Om Puri · Jimi Mistry · Linda Bassett
Synopsis Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from...
5.5
406 votes
5.5
406 votes
Effie Gray
2014 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Laxton
Cast Dakota Fanning · Emma Thompson · Claudia Cardinale · Russell Tovey
Synopsis A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
5.5
822 votes
5.5
822 votes
Haunted
1995 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Kate Beckinsale · Aidan Quinn · Anthony Andrews · John Gielgud
Synopsis 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 makes him a good choice to set her mind at...
5.3
209 votes
5.3
209 votes
Separate Lies
2005 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Julian Fellowes
Cast Tom Wilkinson · Emily Watson · Rupert Everett · Linda Bassett
Synopsis Anne (Emily Watson) is a woman who enjoys a seemingly perfect marriage to James (Tom Wilkinson), until the arrival of Bill (Rupert Everett) and a tragic accident in their idyllic country village looks set to unravel their Lies forever. On...
5.2
553 votes
5.2
553 votes
Traffik (TV Miniseries)
1989 · Movie · 315 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alastair Reid
Cast Bill Paterson · Lindsay Duncan · Fritz Müller-Scherz · Jamal Shah
Synopsis TV mini-series. 6 episodes. The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself. In Pakistan, the British home minister...
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Careful How You Go (S)
2018 · Movie · 13 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Emerald Fennell
Cast Linda Bassett · Sarah Daykin · Amy Morgan · Madeleine Power
Synopsis A darkly comic three part short film about malevolent women. Stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Daniel Rigby and Linda Bassett. Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (TV)
1998 · Movie · 54 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nicholas Renton
Cast Paloma Baeza · Nigel Terry · Nathaniel Parker · Jonathan Firth
Synopsis Bathsheba Everdene, a young vain girl, has just taken over her uncles farm. Her pretty face, wealth, and naive personality attracts three men who wish to marry her.
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Grandma's House (TV Series)
2010 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Amstell · Dan Swimer
Cast Simon Amstell · Linda Bassett · Geoffrey Hutchings · Rebecca Front
Synopsis A successful television presenter has doubts about the direction of his career in the business and decides to quit to start searching for something more meaningful to do with his life.
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Loved Up (TV)
1995 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Cattaneo
Cast Lena Headey · Ian Hart · Linda Bassett · Milly Gregory
Synopsis Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a "raver" who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs scene.
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Waiting for the Moon
1987 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jill Godmilow
Cast Andrew McCarthy · Linda Hunt · Linda Bassett · Bruce McGill
Synopsis A few months in the life of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein. During this particular summer, they fear Gertrude is ill. As they await the results of medical tests, Alice attends to Gertrude in addition to giving assistance editing...
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A Village Affair (TV)
1995 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Moira Armstrong
Cast Sophie Ward · Kerry Fox · Nathaniel Parker · Jeremy Northam
Synopsis Alice has married the rich but boring Martin. When they move to a small village Martin starts flirting with Clodagh, but she is more interested in his wife Alice..
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