Cast: Roger Allam

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


The Thick of It (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 29 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Armando Iannucci · Natalie Bailey

Cast Chris Addison · Peter Capaldi · James Smith · Rebecca Front

Plot TV Series (2005-2012). Four seasons. Welcome to the Ministry for Social Affairs and Citizenship, essentially the dumping ground for poorly-conceived policies from other departments. Successive ministers and their backroom team...

7.8

514 votes

7.8

514 votes

V for Vendetta

2005 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction James McTeigue

Cast Natalie Portman · Hugo Weaving · Stephen Rea · John Hurt

Plot Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation...

7.5

129K votes

7.5

129K votes

Endeavour (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Russell Lewis · Edward Bazalgette · Colm McCarthy · Tom Vaughan

Cast Shaun Evans · Roger Allam · Anton Lesser · Sean Rigby

Plot TV Series (2013-Present Day). Set in 1965, the series centers on the early career of Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) after leaving his Oxford college without taking a degree and joining...

7.5

550 votes

7.5

550 votes

Endeavour (TV)

2012 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Colm McCarthy · Shaun Evans

Cast Shaun Evans · Roger Allam · Jack Ashton · James Bradshaw

Plot In Oxford, 1965, Endeavour Morse is a teetotaler and a classical music loving young constable who considers leaving the force after an unhappy affair but stays to join Inspector Thursday's...

7.4

334 votes

7.4

334 votes

The Missing (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 480 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Williams · Jack Williams · Tom Shankland · Ben Chanan

Cast Tchéky Karyo · James Nesbitt · Frances O'Connor · Anastasia Hille

Plot TV Series (2014). 2 Seasons. 16 Episodes. When Tony and Emily Hughes travel to France with their 5-year-old son Oliver, their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

2006 · Movie · 127 min. · Ireland

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Cillian Murphy · Padraic Delaney · Liam Cunningham · William Ruane

Plot Two Irish brothers join the guerilla armies formed to battle the British Black & Tan squads that tried to prevent Ireland's bid for independence in 1919. Damien and Teddy are...

7.1

21K votes

7.1

21K votes

Tetris

2023 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Jon S. Baird

Cast Taron Egerton · Nikita Efremov · Oleg Shtefanko · Igor Grabuzov

Plot In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

The Politician's Husband (TV Miniseries)

2013 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Cellan Jones

Cast David Tennant · Emily Watson · Ed Stoppard · Roger Allam

Plot TV Miniseries (2013). 3 Episodes. Aiden Hoynes is a senior cabinet minister who has always put his career before family, with the support of Freya, his devoted wife and mother...

6.6

64 votes

6.6

64 votes

The Angels' Share

2012 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Paul Brannigan · Roger Allam · John Henshaw · William Ruane

Plot A bittersweet comedy about a Glasgow boy locked in a family feud who just wants a way out. When Robbie sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend...

6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K votes

Parade's End (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Series · 290 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Susanna White

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Rebecca Hall · Adelaide Clemens · Stephen Graham

Plot TV Miniseries (2012). 5 Episodies. Story is set against the backdrop of WWI and follows Christopher Tietjens, a top civil servant from a background of wealth and privilege, whose marriage...

Max

6.6

435 votes

6.6

435 votes

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

2005 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winterbottom

Cast Steve Coogan · Rob Brydon · Naomie Harris · Kelly MacDonald

Plot Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, "Tristram Shandy", a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. Then into a group of actors and filmmakers set...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

The Queen

2006 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Helen Mirren · James Cromwell · Michael Sheen · Alex Jennings

Plot The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to...

6.4

15K votes

6.4

15K votes

RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (TV)

1999 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Ross

Cast Liev Schreiber · James Cromwell · Melanie Griffith · Brenda Blethyn

Plot Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Max

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

Mr. Holmes

2015 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Condon

Cast Ian McKellen · Milo Parker · Laura Linney · Hattie Morahan

Plot The story picks up with the detective at age 93, long-ago retired to the rural area of Sussex, where he is haunted by an unresolved case from a half-century ago....

6.0

9K votes

6.0

9K votes

The Hippopotamus

2017 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Jencks

Cast Roger Allam · Tim McInnerny · Fiona Shaw · Matthew Modine

Plot It centers on a lapsed poet, failed drama critic, redundant husband and hard-working drunk, Ted Wallace (Roger Allam). Fired from his newspaper job, Ted leaps at the chance to drown...

5.9

136 votes

5.9

136 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

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (TV)

2003 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Robert Allan Ackerman

Cast Helen Mirren · Olivier Martínez · Anne Bancroft · Rodrigo Santoro

Plot A failing star is faced with a life-style change when her rich husband suddenly dies while they are en route to Italy. She then sets off in a series of...

5.6

41 votes

5.6

41 votes

Tamara Drewe

2010 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Gemma Arterton · Luke Evans · Dominic Cooper · Roger Allam

Plot A young newspaper writer named Tamara Drew returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. This is the contemporary tale of...

5.6

3K votes

5.6

3K votes

The Woman in Black

2012 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Watkins

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Ciarán Hinds · Roger Allam · Sophie Stuckey

Plot Young lawyer Arthur Kipps travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client's papers, where he encounters the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.

5.5

17K votes

5.5

17K votes