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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) more movies like this

directed by Chris Columbus
featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris

The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high-stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped-for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros. Upon his ...

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A Room With a View

A Room With a View (1986) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis

Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost. Set during the Edwardian Era, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, who like all proper young British ladies is compelled to tour Europe in ...

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden (1993) more movies like this

directed by Agnieszka Holland
featuring Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Laura Crossley

The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden is a beautifully produced rendition of the classic Frances Hodgon Burnett novel about a young girl (Kate Maberly) who discovers an abandoned garden on her uncle's large Victorian country estate, as well as an invalid cousin she didn't realize she had. With the help of a local boy, the girl sets out to restore ...

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Sister Act

Sister Act (1992) more movies like this

directed by Emile Ardolino
featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes

A sleeper hit that received a lukewarm reception from critics but was a success with audiences, Sister Act (1992) was star Whoopi Golberg's first bona fide smash after her Oscar victory for Ghost (1990). Goldberg stars as Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who accidentally witnesses a brutal murder carried out by her gangster boyfriend ...

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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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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) more movies like this

directed by Callie Khouri
featuring Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Fionnula Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Cherry Jones, Shirley Knight, James Garner

Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms with her estranged, boozy mother, Vivi (Ellen ...

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Hook

Hook (1991) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of being Peter Pan, and he is also in danger of losing ...

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Tea With Mussolini

Tea With Mussolini (1999) more movies like this

directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin

Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time." Luca (played by Charlie Lucas) is a boy living in ...

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Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans (1981) more movies like this

directed by Desmond Davis
featuring Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith

The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen was a delightful highlight of this action adventure that attempted to give Greek mythology the Star Wars (1977) treatment. Harry Hamlin stars as Perseus, a mortal who, due to the interference of the mighty ...

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Murder by Death

Murder by Death (1976) more movies like this

directed by Robert Moore
featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith

As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In Ten Little Indians fashion, the gathered sleuths are locked into the forbidding mansion, and subject to various death-dealing devices. While struggling for their ...

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Ladies in Lavender (2004) more movies like this

directed by Charles Dance
featuring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Miriam Margolyes, Natascha McElhone

Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and Janet Widdington (Maggie Smith) and her sister, Ursula (Judi Dench), are a pair of elderly spinsters who share a home in Cornwall on the coast of England. After a storm, the sisters discover that someone has been washed up on ...

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson

Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie stars Maggie Smith in the title role. Smith won an Academy Award for her delicately textured portrayal of an eccentric teacher at an exclusive Scottish girl's school. Miss Jean exhorts her "gels" to follow their hearts and never lose their youthful idealism. Unfortunately for her, ...

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My House in Umbria (2003) more movies like this

directed by Richard Loncraine
featuring Maggie Smith, Ron Barker, Chris Cooper, Bernard Furmann, Giancarlo Giannini

Adapted from William Trevor's novella of the same name, the made-for-cable My House in Umbria stars Dame Maggie Smith as Mrs. Emily Delahunty, a British romance novelist living in Italy. While on a shopping excursion to Milan, Emily barely survives a terrorist train bombing. Though she recovers fairly rapidly from her ordeal, three others -- a ...

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Othello (1965) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Burge
featuring Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi

The 1965 Othello is literally a photographed stage play: a filmed record of the National Theatre Production of 1964, as staged by John Dexter and starring Laurence Olivier. As the easily led, fatally jealous Moor of Venice, Olivier wears thick black-faced makeup and speaks in an uncharacteristically deep, bellow-like voice. Some considered his ...

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The Last September (2000) more movies like this

directed by Deborah Warner
featuring Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Jane Birkin, Fiona Shaw, Lambert Wilson

Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In 1920, Ireland is in the midst of a political upheaval, as upper class Anglo-Irish Protestants are driven from the country by the nation's increasingly vocal wishes Irish Catholic majority. Sir Richard Naylor (Michael Gambon) and his wife ...

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California Suite (1978) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor, Maggie Smith

Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie. In the first episode, the divorced couple of Bill and Hannah Warren (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda) have rented a ...

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David Copperfield (1999) more movies like this

directed by Simon Curtis
featuring Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Ciarán McMenamin

A distinguished cast highlights this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved novels. Young David Copperfield (Daniel Radcliffe) is loved by his mother Clara (Emilia Fox), but does not get along with his foul-tempered stepfather, Murdstone (Trevor Eve). After biting Murdstone during a fight, David is forced to attend a boarding ...

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A Private Function (1984) more movies like this

directed by Malcolm Mowbray
featuring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths

A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this satirical comedy set in post-World War II England. The couple's scheme centers on a massive hog which has been illegally raised by a local farmer. Seeing a chance to capitalize on pork's scarcity, the ambitious Joyce Chilvers ...

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Washington Square (1997) more movies like this

directed by Agnieszka Holland
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith, Judith Ivey

This film is the second effort to bring to the screen the 1880 Henry James novel of the same title (the first was The Heiress in 1949). Set in 1850 among the aristocracy of New York, Washington Square examines the inhibitions of Catherine Sloper (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the only child of wealthy Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney). Catherine is ...

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The Missionary (1982) more movies like this

directed by Richard Loncraine
featuring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern

Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native village. Upon arriving in London, he finds that his new assignment is to take charge of a slum mission for prostitutes. He obtains money for the running of ...

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All the King's Men (1999) more movies like this

directed by Julian Jarrold
featuring David Jason, Patrick Malahide, Maggie Smith, Ian McDiarmid, David Troughton

Originally produced for the BBC and broadcast in the U.S. as part of the PBS series Masterpiece Theatre, this drama tells the story of the Sandringham Company, one of the most unusual teams of fighting men to march on the battlefields of World War I; under the leadership of Captain Frank Beck, the Sandringhams were made up entirely of servants and ...

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Curtain Call (1998) more movies like this

directed by Peter Yates
featuring James Spader, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Polly Walker, Buck Henry

In this romantic comedy with supernatural touches, Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) works for a large publishing house, editing and acquiring new projects. Lowe's new boss is after him to buy fewer books that are good and more books that will sell, while his girlfriend Julia (Polly Walker) is trying to convince him that marriage might not be such a ...

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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) more movies like this

directed by Jack Clayton
featuring Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean, Ian McNeice

Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith) is a middle-aged "maiden lady" piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. Timid and self-deprecating, Judith permits herself to yearn over her new boarding-house neighbor, hotel entrepreneur Bob Hoskins. Hoskins thinks that Judith has enough money to bankroll his latest scheme, so he decides to return her affections. Judith ...

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Quartet (1981) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins, Daniel Chatto

No relation to the 1949 Somerset Maugham "omnibus" film of the same name, 1981's Quartet is based on the roman a clef by Jean Rhys. Though the names are changed, it is clearly the story of Rhys' romance with Ford Maddox Ford in 1920s Paris. The titular quartet consists of novelist Isabelle Adjani, her Polish husband Anthony Higgins, wealthy ...

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Becoming Jane (2007) more movies like this

directed by Julian Jarrold
featuring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith

Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James Cromwell), a minister who looks after a flock in a small rural community in Southern ...

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