Cast: Linda Bassett

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


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

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

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

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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Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

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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.

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated