Direction: Richard Eyre

Direction Dominic Cooke · Richard Eyre · Rupert Goold · Thea Sharrock

Cast Ben Whishaw · Jeremy Irons · Tom Hiddleston · Anton Lesser

Synopsis A mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two, and Henry V.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Simon Russell Beale · Jeremy Irons · Tom Hiddleston · Julie Walters

Synopsis In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. The Lord Chief Justice attempts on behalf of the increasingly frail King to separate Falstaff from Prince Hal. The rebels continue to plot insurrection....

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Simon Russell Beale · Tom Hiddleston · Jeremy Irons · Joe Armstrong

Synopsis The heir to the throne, Prince Hal, defies his father, King Henry, by spending his time at Mistress Quickly's tavern in the company of the dissolute Falstaff and his companions. The King is threatened by a rebellion led by Hal's...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · Cate Blanchett · Bill Nighy · Andrew Simpson

Synopsis Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench) is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Kate Winslet · Judi Dench · Jim Broadbent · Hugh Bonneville

Synopsis Iris Murdoch (Winslet, Dench) was one of the most extraordinary women of her generation. A brilliant scholar at Oxford in the 1950s, she later became a noted philosopher and novelist. Through it all, her soulmate and husband, John Bayley (Broadbent,...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Billy Crudup · Claire Danes · Rupert Everett · Ben Chaplin

Synopsis Actor Edward “Ned” Kynaston (Billy Crudup) may well be the most desired man in all of London. The Restoration is in full swing, and enthusiastic audiences of aristocrats and commoners pack the theatres that were shuttered during the Puritans’ joyless...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Ian McKellen · Emily Watson · Sarah Lancashire

Synopsis In a touring Shakespearean theatre company, backstage hand Norman is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company, Sir. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company works to carry on during the London blitz during...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Emma Thompson · Stanley Tucci · Fionn Whitehead · Jason Watkins

Synopsis British High Court judge Fiona Maye is a judge in a life-and-death situation when her court is faced with a teenage boy whose life can be saved — decrees materia medica — only by a blood transfusion. Based on religious...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Tim Curry · Rosemary Harris · Frank Finlay

Synopsis James Penfield has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Emma Thompson · Florence Pugh · Emily Watson

Synopsis An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one. Set in the fictional present and starring Anthony Hopkins, the 80 year-old King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters,...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Liam Neeson · Laura Linney · Antonio Banderas · Romola Garai

Synopsis Peter (Liam Neeson) and Lisa (Laura Linney) are settled in the comfort of their long-term marriage. Lisa is a successful shoe designer and Peter runs his own company. It is the night of the launch of Lisa's latest collection, and...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Denholm Elliott · Emlyn Williams · Connie Booth · Joan Greenwood

Synopsis 67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Maggie Smith · Rob Lowe · Gillian Raine · Richard E. Grant

Synopsis A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly. Violet wants the operation performed in order to...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Colin Firth · Paul Rhys · David Calder · Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Synopsis This film is based on the true story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence M.C. (Colin Firth), a former British Army officer, who fought and was severely wounded in the Falklands War in the battle for Tumbledown Hill in June 1982. His...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Ian Holm · Penelope Wilton · Bill Owen · Richard Hope

Synopsis A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Lindsay Duncan · Stephen Rea · Keith Allen · Otto Bleidner

Synopsis A lesbian and feminist woman advertises for a traveling companion to accompany her in a drive across Europe. The man who answers her ad is the most helpless, chauvinistic person she's ever met.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · David Bradley · Jennifer Saunders · Derek Jacobi

Synopsis The story of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure.

Direction Simon Curtis · David Thacker · Sheree Folkson · Gregory Mosher

Cast Ronald Pickup · Ian Holm · Corin Redgrave · Jane Horrocks

Synopsis TV Series (1991-1998). 5 seasons.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · Bill Paterson · Anton Lesser · Harriet Walter

Synopsis Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage.