Cast: Helen Mirren

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


Prime Suspect (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 207 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Menaul

Cast Helen Mirren · Tom Bell · John Benfield · John Bowe

Synopsis TV Series (1991-2006). 7 seasons. 12 episodes. Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, as she...

7.5

373 votes

7.5

373 votes

Prime Suspect 2 (TV)

1992 · Movie · 203 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Strickland

Cast Helen Mirren · Colin Salmon · John Benfield · Jack Ellis

Synopsis Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison now deals with a racially charged murder. The long-dead body of a young black woman is discovered in a district recently convulsed by police brutality and which now is in the midst of a highly-charged...

7.5

114 votes

7.5

114 votes

1923 (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Taylor Sheridan · Ben Richardson

Cast Harrison Ford · Helen Mirren · Marley Shelton · Robert Patrick

Synopsis TV Series (2022-). 1 Season. 8 Episodes. 1923 will follow a new generation of Duttons during the time of Western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression. Renewed for a second and final season.

7.4

865 votes

7.4

865 votes

Prime Suspect (TV)

1991 · Movie · 207 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Menaul

Cast Helen Mirren · Tom Bell · John Benfield · John Bowe

Synopsis DCI Jane Tennison has been passed over time and again to lead a murder investigation, so when one of her fellow DCIs has a heart attack just before he's ready to charge their prime suspect, Jane sees her chance to...

7.4

136 votes

7.4

136 votes

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Direction Philip Martin

Cast Helen Mirren · Stephen Tompkinson · Laura Greenwood · Eve Best

Synopsis Helen Mirren returns for the final time as Jane Tennison in the long-awaited Prime Suspect 7. Retirement looms for Detective Superintendent Tennison, but as her career draws to a close, the body of a missing schoolgirl is found, and the...

7.3

183 votes

7.3

183 votes

Prime Suspect: The Lost Child (TV)

1995 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Madden

Cast Helen Mirren · Beatie Edney · Robert Glenister · Lesley Sharp

Synopsis Jane Tennison's promotion to Superintendent turns out to put her in charge of an investigation and search for an abducted baby. She gets more involved in it than she intended considering that she just had an abortion. However, she turns...

7.3

108 votes

7.3

108 votes

Excalibur

1981 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boorman

Cast Nicol Williamson · Nigel Terry · Cherie Lunghi · Nicholas Clay

Synopsis Forged by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a King. An epic tale steeped in magic, Excalibur chronicles the life of Arthur beginning with his birth and ending with his climactic battle with his illegitimate son, the evil...

7.3

25K votes

7.3

25K votes

Direction Paul Marcus

Cast Helen Mirren · Pip Donaghy · Tim Woodward · Stephen Boxer

Synopsis A series of horrific murders of women in a pattern very similar to a previous series of murder Police Detective Jane Tennison investigated lends support to a growing popular feeling that she arrested the wrong man, who has always claimed...

7.3

100 votes

7.3

100 votes

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Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Helen Mirren · Oleg Menshikov · Ben Miles · Robert Pugh

Synopsis Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, Gosford Park) is back as Inspector Jane Tennison in an eagerly awaited new episode of the Emmy award-winning series Prime Suspect on ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre. It's been seven years since Tennison put the handcuffs on a...

7.3

132 votes

7.3

132 votes

Prime Suspect 3 (TV)

1993 · Movie · 207 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Drury

Cast Helen Mirren · Peter Capaldi · Michael Shannon · Greg Saunders

Synopsis Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered...

7.3

110 votes

7.3

110 votes

Direction Phil Davis

Cast Helen Mirren · David O'Hara · Julia Lane · John Brobbey

Synopsis Tennison on a new beat investigates the killing of a drug runner, with the runner's employer, "The Street," as her prime suspect. Meanwhile, The Street is conducting his own investigation into the killing, with the help of his team of...

7.2

84 votes

7.2

84 votes

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Richard Bohringer · Michael Gambon · Helen Mirren · Alan Howard

Synopsis One of the most controversial films of all time, the title of this Jacobean revenge-tragedy, set in an upscale French restaurant, says it all. The restaurant is visited nightly by the sadistic Thief (a ferocious Gambon). His battered Wife (Mirren...

7.1

6K votes

7.1

6K votes

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Cary Grant: A Class Apart (TV)

2004 · Documentary · 87 min. · United States

Direction Robert Trachtenberg

Cast Helen Mirren · Jeremy Northam · Cary Grant · Barbara Harris

Synopsis Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews.

7.1

64 votes

7.1

64 votes

O Lucky Man!

1973 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Ralph Richardson · Rachel Roberts · Arthur Lowe

Synopsis This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.

7.0

667 votes

7.0

667 votes

Trumbo

2015 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Jay Roach

Cast Bryan Cranston · Diane Lane · Helen Mirren · John Goodman

Synopsis The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, comes to an end when he's blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist. Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) has a successful career as one of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood. When he...

7.0

14K votes

7.0

14K votes

Prime Suspect: Inner Circles (TV)

1995 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sarah Pia Anderson

Cast Helen Mirren · Thomas Russell · James Laurenson · Helene Kvale

Synopsis Superintendent Jane Tennison, on loan to another jurisdiction, is sent in to investigate a murder of a businessman. It looks like a fairly obvious sex murder, but the facts prove otherwise. Now as Tennison investigates, she uncovers the crime's link...

6.9

87 votes

6.9

87 votes

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Door to Door (TV)

2002 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Steven Schachter

Cast William H. Macy · Helen Mirren · Kyra Sedgwick · Kathy Baker

Synopsis Based on true events, "Door to Door" is the story about a man with cerebral palsy who is determined to become a salesman.

6.9

185 votes

6.9

185 votes

6.8

3K votes

Elizabeth I (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 223 min. · United States

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Helen Mirren · Jeremy Irons · Hugh Dancy · Patrick Malahide

Synopsis Emmy®-winner Helen Mirren and Oscar®-winner Jeremy Irons star in Elizabeth I, a two-part HBO Films miniseries event that explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I (Mirren) in the latter half of her reign, offering a...

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6.8

637 votes

6.8

637 votes

The Long Good Friday

1980 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Mackenzie

Cast Bob Hoskins · Helen Mirren · Eddie Constantine · Dave King

Synopsis Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they...

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6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

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