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Caligula

Caligula (1979) more movies like this

directed by Tinto Brass
featuring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, John Steiner

This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza. The star-studded cast, perhaps lured by the high-profile involvement of producer Bob Guccione and screenwriter Gore Vidal, includes such luminaries as John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, and Helen Mirren. Director Tinto Brass, ...

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (2006) more movies like this

directed by Tom Hooper
featuring Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Hugh Dancy, Ian McDiarmid, Patrick Malahide, Toby Jones

Elizabeth I stars Helen Mirren as the famous monarch who often frightened her subjects with he ability to change emotions on a dime. In addition to facing a variety of political problems, the film charts some of the major relationships in her life. Jeremy Irons stars as the Earl of Leicester, the queen's longtime companion. Hugh Dancy portrays the ...

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Excalibur

Excalibur (1981) more movies like this

directed by John Boorman
featuring Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Nicholas Clay, Helen Mirren, Cherie Lunghi

John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel Le Morte d'Arthur. By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than compelling. Nigel Terry is perfectly cast as Arthur, whose unwavering trust and faith are shown to ...

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White Nights

White Nights (1985) more movies like this

directed by Taylor Hackford
featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page

The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini as Raymond's wife, Helen Mirren as Nikolai's ...

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Gosford Park

Gosford Park (2001) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson

Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British socialites who have invited a variety of friends, ...

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The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George (1994) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Hytner
featuring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett, Rupert Graves

Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king (Nigel Hawthorne, reprising his stage role) begins to show signs of increasing ...

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Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls (2003) more movies like this

directed by Nigel Cole
featuring Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie

Nigel Cole directs the feel-good comedy Calendar Girls, based on the true story of a group of working-class British housewives who became overnight celebrities by posing for a nude calendar in order to raise more than 500-thousand pounds for a new leukemia unit. The film follows the adventures of best friends Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) and Annie ...

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The Queen

The Queen (2006) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Frears
featuring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings

The British prime minister and the Royal Family find themselves quietly at odds in the wake of a national tragedy in this drama from director Stephen Frears. On August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died in an auto accident in Paris; despite the controversial breakup of her marriage to Prince Charles, she was still one of the most famous and ...

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2010

2010 (1984) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hyams
featuring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea

This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001. Scheider's polyglot crew includes Americans John ...

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The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast (1986) more movies like this

directed by Peter Weir
featuring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Hilary Gordon

Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Phoenix), "Look around you. It's a toilet." He moves his ...

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Prime Suspect 1 (1993) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Menaul
featuring Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, John Bowe, Zoe Wannamaker

Helen Mirren delivers a standout performance in this TV miniseries as Jane Tennison, a London police detective. Tennison is trying to track down a sex-crazed killer who is murdering prostitutes, while at the same time doing battle with her male colleagues for her fair share of respect and responsibility on the force. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Prime Suspect 3 (1994) more movies like this

directed by David Drury
featuring Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, David Thewlis

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) investigates the connection between a teen's murder and a pedophile ring in this third installment of the acclaimed BBC series Prime Suspect. Reassigned to a new district and a new department -- vice -- Tennison is drawn back to homicide when her squad discovers the immolated body of rent boy ...

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Prime Suspect 4 (1995) more movies like this

directed by John Madden, Paul Marcus
featuring David Phelan, Philada Sewell, Helen Mirren, Beatie Edney, Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Stuart Wilson

For the fourth installment of the BBC crime series Prime Suspect, the producers experimented with the show's format. Instead of following police detective Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) through a single murder investigation over the course of four hours, Prime Suspect 4 includes three 90-minute, stand-alone mysteries. In "The Lost Child," Tennison ...

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Prime Suspect 2 (1993) more movies like this

directed by John Strickland
featuring Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren repeats her role as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the British miniseries Prime Suspect 2. The investigation at hand concerns the murder of a Caribbean girl. The catch: the murder took place several years ago, and only recently has the body turned up. Tennison must come to grips with the racism that probably motivated the ...

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Prime Suspect 5 (1996) more movies like this

directed by Philip Davis
featuring Steven Mackintosh, Helen Mirren, John McArdle

Helen Mirren returns as police detective Jane Tennison in the fifth cycle of the award-winning television series Prime Suspect. Tennison is transferred to Manchester, where her superiors, unsure of what to do with her, initially put her in the public relations department, explaining police work to schoolchildren. Tennison wants a more substantial ...

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Royal Deceit (1994) more movies like this

directed by Gabriel Axel
featuring Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Steven Waddington

This European historical saga presents the true tale of intrigue, regicide, incest, and insanity on which Shakespeare based Hamlet. It begins in the ancient Danish kingdom of Jutland in the sixth century. There ambitious Prince Fenge (Gabriel Byrne) murders his brother the king and one of his sons, but masks it as the casualty of a highway ...

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Raising Helen (2004) more movies like this

directed by Garry Marshall
featuring Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Helen Mirren

Directed by Garry Marshall, Raising Helen revolves around Helen Harris (Kate Hudson), whose successful fashion career and decadent Manhattan lifestyle are plenty in terms of keeping her occupied and content. Helen's days as a socialite are brought to a swift end, however, when she is informed not only of the death of her sister and brother-in-law, ...

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The Long Good Friday (1980) more movies like this

directed by John MacKenzie
featuring Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Eddie Constantine, Dave King, Brian Hall

John Mackenzie's masterfully directed British crime drama features a star-making performance by Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand, a successful London gangster whose world falls apart over the course of one weekend. Shand controls the London docks and is planning a big real estate deal, financed by money from the American mob and given the okay by the ...

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990) more movies like this

directed by Peter Greenaway
featuring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth

This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy French restaurant that he has recently bought. ...

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Shadowboxer (2006) more movies like this

directed by Lee Daniels
featuring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, Vanessa Ferlito, Macy Gray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A late-career change of heart leads to a dangerous life on the run for two seasoned assassins whose complex relationship masks a dark past in director Lee Daniels' pulpy film noir. When Mickey (Cuba Gooding Jr.) was just a child, his abusive father savagely murdered the young boy's mother shortly before being gunned down by Rose (Helen Mirren), ...

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No Such Thing (2002) more movies like this

directed by Hal Hartley
featuring Sarah Polley, Robert Burke, Helen Mirren, Julie Christie, Baltasar Kormákur

Beauty meets the Beast, and neither is sure just what to make of the other, in a modern-dress comic variation on the ancient folk tale, written and directed by the eternally offbeat Hal Hartley. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) works with the office staff of a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a harridan producer (Helen Mirren) eager for something other ...

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Greenfingers (2001) more movies like this

directed by Joel Hershman
featuring Clive Owen, David Kelly, Helen Mirren, Natasha Little, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer

A fish-out-of-water comedy in the vein of 1997's oft-imitated The Full Monty, Greenfingers takes as its inspiration the true story of a group of British criminals who bettered themselves through the delicate art of gardening. Croupier's Clive Owen plays Colin Briggs, a taciturn inmate doing time for murder. When it's suggested he transfer to a ...

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Critical Care (1997) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Margo Martindale, Jeffrey Wright

Sidney Lumet filmed this hospital satire at a Canadian studio. Alcoholic Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks in old-age makeup) advises younger Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) to only treat patients with much insurance. "When the lawyers start crawling all over you," says Butz, "that's when you know you're a doctor." Ernst, a second-year resident working in ...

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Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) more movies like this

directed by Kevin Williamson
featuring Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlan

After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann Warren), a waitress, struggles to make ends meet, ...

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The Comfort of Strangers (1991) more movies like this

directed by Paul Schrader
featuring Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquo

In this erotic thriller, a young English couple on vacation in Venice find themselves seduced by a mysterious older couple. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) have come to Italy to chart the future of their troubled relationship. They soon meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the enigmatic owner of a picturesque watering hole. He ...

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