Cast: Roger Allam
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Roger Allam. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 34
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
Synopsis 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 lie, backstab and hopelessly bluff their way through gaffes, crises,...
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
Synopsis In V for Vendetta (2005), a masked vigilante known only as "V" emerges in a dystopian, totalitarian Britain. With a flair for theatrics and a thirst for justice, V embarks on a mission to overthrow the oppressive regime that controls...
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
Synopsis 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 the police, working with CID and developing the notable personality...
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
Synopsis 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 investigation into the disappearance of schoolgirl Mary Tremlett. By deciphering...
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
Synopsis 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 into the crowd of a busy French street.
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
Synopsis 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 brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of...
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
Synopsis Tetris (2023) tells the gripping true story behind the iconic video game's creation and global phenomenon. Set during the Cold War, it follows Henk Rogers, a determined game designer, as he discovers Tetris in the Soviet Union. Battling political tensions...
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
Synopsis 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 to their two young children. But when Freya's own political...
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
Synopsis The Angels' Share (2012) follows Robbie, a young troublemaker in Glasgow, who narrowly avoids prison by agreeing to community service. Under the guidance of his supervisor, he discovers a passion for whiskey tasting. When Robbie learns about a rare, valuable...
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
Synopsis 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 flounders almost as soon as it begins. He falls in...
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
Synopsis 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 out to adapt it. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses....
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
Synopsis The Queen (2006) follows Queen Elizabeth II in the days following the tragic death of Princess Diana in 1997. As the nation mourns, the Queen faces immense public pressure to address the tragedy, balancing her duty to tradition with the...
6.4
15K votes
6.4
15K votes
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (TV Miniseries)
2009 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alex Hardcastle
Cast Sean Maguire · Matt Lucas · India de Beaufort · Kevin Hart
6.4
405 votes
6.4
405 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
Synopsis Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
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
Synopsis 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. His partner, Dr. Watson, is no longer with him. And...
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
Synopsis 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 his sorrows at his old friend's country estate, Swafford Hall....
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
Synopsis 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 back through her youth as the daughter of a grocer;...
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
Synopsis 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 flings with gigolos found for her by an aging contessa....
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
Synopsis 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 a Londoner returning home to the country - and to...
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
Synopsis 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