Cast: Nicholas Farrell

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


To Play the King (House of Cards II) (TV Miniseries)

1993 · Series · 220 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Michael Kitchen · Kitty Aldridge · Colin Jeavons

Plot In 'To Play The King', the second installment of this political satire, Francis Urquhart has managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. Everyone who knows...

7.4

414 votes

7.4

414 votes

Hamlet

1996 · Movie · 242 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kenneth Branagh

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

Plot 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...

7.4

8K votes

7.4

8K votes

Bloody Sunday

2002 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Greengrass

Cast James Nesbitt · Allan Gildea · Gerard Crossan · Mary Moulds

Plot In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding a peaceful protest march staged...

7.4

10K votes

7.4

10K votes

Torchwood: Children of Earth (TV Miniseries)

2009 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Russell T. Davies · Euros Lyn

Cast John Barrowman · Eve Myles · Gareth David-Lloyd · Kai Owen

Plot 44 years ago, a mysterious alien race known only as “the 456” kidnapped a group of Scottish orphans. Now the 456 are coming back, broadcasting the message of their return...

Max

7.4

893 votes

7.4

893 votes

Agatha Christie's Poirot - The ABC Murders (TV)

1992 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Donald Sumpter

Plot Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.

7.1

131 votes

7.1

131 votes

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Michael Maloney · Richard Briers · Hetta Charnley · Joan Collins

Plot Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

37 Days (TV Miniseries)

2014 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Justin Hardy

Cast Ian McDiarmid · Nicholas Farrell · Tim Pigott-Smith · Sinead Cusack

Plot TV Miniseries (2014). 3 Episodes. Unveils the behind-closed-doors story of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.

6.7

393 votes

6.7

393 votes

Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Mystery of the Blue Train (TV)

2005 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Hettie Macdonald

Cast David Suchet · James D'Arcy · Alice Eve · Nicholas Farrell

Plot Poirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.

6.6

161 votes

6.6

161 votes

The Murders at White House Farm (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 281 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Whittington

Cast Amanda Burton · Amy-Jayne Leigh · Jude Barrowcliffe · Nate Barrowcliffe

Plot TV Miniseries (2020). 6 Episodes. Based on a true story. One fateful night in August 1985, five members of the same family were found deceased at an Essex farmhouse.

Max

6.6

192 votes

6.6

192 votes

The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Miniseries)

2009 · Series · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Jones

Cast Ellie Kendrick · Kate Ashfield · Geoff Breton · Ron Cook

Plot TV mini-series based on the diary of a teenage girl in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Beautiful People

1999 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jasmin Dizdar

Cast Edin Dzandzanovic · Charlotte Coleman · Nicholas Farrell · Danny Nussbaum

Plot In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving....

6.6

191 votes

6.6

191 votes

Driving Lessons

2006 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jeremy Brock

Cast Rupert Grint · Julie Walters · Laura Linney · Nicholas Farrell

Plot This rites of passage comedy introduces a shy and downtrodden Ben (Rupert Grint) with yet another dreary school holiday coming around. Seventeen years of living in an absurdly conservative and...

6.4

607 votes

6.4

607 votes

Othello

1995 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Oliver Parker

Cast Laurence Fishburne · Irène Jacob · Kenneth Branagh · Anna Patrick

Plot Based on classic Shakepeare play. Othello, a Moor who has just eloped with the white Desdemona when the play opens, leaves Venice to command the Venetian armies in Cyprus, accompanied...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The Cry (TV Miniseries)

2018 · Series · 57 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Glendyn Ivin

Cast Jenna Coleman · Ewen Leslie · Asher Keddie · Moyo Akandé

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 4 episodes. The abduction of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young...

6.3

229 votes

6.3

229 votes

Dream Horse

2020 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Euros Lyn

Cast Toni Collette · Damian Lewis · Joanna Page · Peter Davison

Plot The film tells the true story of Jan Vokes (Toni Colette), a Welsh cleaner and bartender, who decides to breed and rear a race horse. She persuades her neighbors and...

6.3

270 votes

6.3

270 votes

Thirteen (TV Miniseries)

2016 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vanessa Caswill · China Moo-Young

Cast Jodie Comer · Natasha Little · Stuart Graham · Richard Rankin

Plot 26-year-old Ivy Moxam steps out of an ordinary house, on an ordinary street, on an ordinary day. Ivy hasn't been seen for thirteen years, she was kidnapped in 2003 at...

6.3

570 votes

6.3

570 votes

Legend

2015 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Helgeland

Cast Tom Hardy · Emily Browning · Colin Morgan · David Thewlis

Plot The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the...

5.9

8K votes

5.9

8K 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

Sparkhouse (TV)

2002 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robin Sheppard

Cast Sarah Smart · Joe McFadden · Alun Armstrong · Nicholas Farrell

Plot Delivering a modern take on Wuthering Heights, two young lovers battle against the odds to be together. Carol Bolton (Sarah Smart) is feisty, passionate and reckless. Life has dealt her...

5.9

36 votes

5.9

36 votes

The Iron Lady

2011 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Phyllida Lloyd

Cast Meryl Streep · Jim Broadbent · Anthony Head · Richard E. Grant

Plot The story of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The film opens with Thatcher, a widow in her 80s and goes...

5.8

14K votes

5.8

14K votes