Direction: Stephen Frears

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Judi Dench · Bob Hoskins · Christopher Guest · Kelly Reilly

Plot In the 1930s, a wealthy widow (Judi Dench) buys a run-down London theatre and opens her own risqué revue show, with the help of a talented manager. But when World...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Meryl Streep · Hugh Grant · Simon Helberg · Nina Arianda

Plot Streep stars as a New York heiress determined to become a famous opera singer despite her lack of talent. Grant will play her partner and manager, actor St. Clair Bayfield.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Judi Dench · Ali Fazal · Eddie Izzard · Adeel Akhtar

Plot It tells the true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Shashi Kapoor · Claire Bloom · Ayub Khan-Din · Frances Barber

Plot Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Ben Foster · Chris O'Dowd · Jesse Plemons · Guillaume Canet

Plot An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Terence Stamp · John Hurt · Tim Roth · Laura del Sol

Plot In London 1973, Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) betrays his fellow crooks. In Spain 1983, Parker is violently snatched from his tranquil village retreat by hitman Braddock (John Hurt) and his...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Geena Davis · Andy García · Joan Cusack

Plot Petty thief Bernie LaPlante (Dustin Hoffman) unintentionally and anonymously saves people involved in a plane crash, an action which triggers a nationwide search for the discovery of this 'accidental hero'....

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Julia Roberts · John Malkovich · Glenn Close · Kathy Staff

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Robert Downey Jr.

Plot A man looking for "confidence" finds himself stranded in a desert town populated by himself and a Volvo station wagon. This short film is the long form of a commercial...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Christopher Plummer · Danny Glover · Frank Langella · Benjamin Walker

Plot Ali's biggest match, his fight with the US government. A film about the politics and hubris surrounding the Vietnam War and the revenge exacted on America's greatest sportsman of the...

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...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Kathy Bates · Rupert Friend · Felicity Jones

Plot Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century is the sophisticated centre of the world. The city’s artists, its fashion, the theatre and its music – everything here is at...

Direction Will Tracy · Stephen Frears · Jessica Hobbs

Cast Kate Winslet · Matthias Schoenaerts · Guillaume Gallienne · Andrea Riseborough

Plot TV Miniseries (2024). 6 Episodes. The story of a year inside the palace walls of a modern European regime as it begins to crumble.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Woody Harrelson · Billy Crudup · Patricia Arquette · Penélope Cruz

Plot An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Bruce Willis · Rebecca Hall · Catherine Zeta-Jones · Joshua Jackson

Plot A dramedy centered on a thirtysomething woman who becomes involved with a group of geeky fiftyish men who have found a way to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas...

Direction Desmond Davis · Stephen Frears · Jack Cardiff · Michael Tuchner

Cast Gillian Blake · Steve Hodson · Christian Rodska · Desmond Llewelyn

Plot Young Dora is sent to stay with her uncle on his farm in rural England while her parents travel overseas for a year. Seeing as she has a love for...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Ian McKellen · Barbara Jefford · Arthur Whybrow · Tony Melody

Plot A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.

Direction Robert Zemeckis · Luc Besson · Tony Scott · George Lucas

Plot A journey through time, a true testimony on twelve of the greatest directors of contemporary cinema. This selection of short films is a tool for understanding their work. With 3...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Dave Allen · Robert Stephens · Dominic Guard · Benjamin Whitrow

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Derrick O'Connor · Gary Holton · Richard Thomas · Peter Clark

Plot The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike...