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1	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 ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $16.11!
2	Dangerous Liaisons (1988) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Uma Thurman, Mildred Natwick Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past century, French author Francois Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liasons Dangeureuses was the basis for this Academy Award-winning Stephen Frears film. The plot is motivated by a cruel wager between the beautiful but debauched Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and her misogynistic former ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.07!
3	Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, William Young, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly, Thelma Barlow A recently widowed eccentric with money to burn and no intentions of settling down enlists the aide of a showbiz professional to transform a run-down theater in Soho into London's most innovative entertainment hot spot in director Stephen Frears' cinematic account of the groundbreaking Windmill Theater. The year is 1937 and, despite having ... see all copies from $2.74! new only from $2.74!
4	Dirty Pretty Things (2002) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Audrey Tautou, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sergi López, Benedict Wong, Sophie Okonedo Director Stephen Frears returns to the grittier themes of his earlier films for the urban thriller Dirty Pretty Things. Residing in London, the medically trained Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Nigerian immigrant working as a taxi driver and a hotel concierge, but he still lives on the edge of poverty. He shares a room with Senay (Amélie's Audrey ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $10.69!
5	High Fidelity (2000) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet A man discovers that there's more to love than a good mixed tape in this dramatic comedy about music and relationships. Rob (John Cusack), an obsessive record collector in his mid-thirties, is struggling to reconcile his adolescent enthusiasm for pop music with adult responsibilities and a more mature outlook. He runs a record shop with his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97!
6	Mary Reilly (1996) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Linda Bassett, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, George Cole, Kathy Staff Based on the novel by Valerie Martin, this gothic suspense story offers a fresh perspective on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by presenting the material from a different viewpoint -- that of Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts), an Irish servant girl who has come to work for esteemed surgeon Dr. Henry Jekyll (John ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50!
7	The Snapper (1993) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Fionnula Murphy, Pat Laffan The Snapper is Stephen Frears' adaptation of the second book in Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy. The Curley family is a poor but eccentric and loving Irish family. Oldest daughter Sharon (Tina Kellegher) announces she is pregnant, but refuses to reveal the identity of the father to anyone. Her father, Dessie (Colm Meaney), is supportive, but ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $10.69!
8	Saigon: Year of The Cat (1983) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, E.G. Marshall, Josef Sommer, Wallace Shawn Saigon: Year of the Cat is a low-budget drama about the fall of Saigon. The film was made for the BBC in 1983. It was one of many television projects that director Stephen Frears (High Fidelity) worked on in the early part of his career. Playwright David Hare (Plenty) wrote the script. Judi Dench plays Barbara Dean, a depressed loan officer ... see all copies from $1.99!
9	Hero (1992) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack, Kevin J. O'Connor Stephen Frears' Hero is a contemporary re-working of a Frank Capra-styled fable about a two-bit criminal named Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) who saves several passengers from a plane crash and leaves the scene without being identified, leaving only a lost shoe for identification. One of the passengers happens to be news-reporter Gale (Geena Davis) who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.81!
10	The Grifters (1990) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is a simple, two-bit con, whose life is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.42!
11 view cover	The Hi-Lo Country (1998) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Billy Crudup, Patricia Arquette, Penélope Cruz, Robert Knott, Sam Elliott, Woody Harrelson Cowboys live again in this 20th century Western about two World War II veterans living on the lush, open New Mexico countryside. Based on the classic American novel by Max Evans about those struggling to continue living the Old West lifestyle in the early Cold War days, the film stars Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup as two lifelong friends who ... see all copies from $5.42!
12 view cover	My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Ann Field After the death of his wife and his subsequent descent into alcoholic near-agoraphobia, a crotchety Pakistani intellectual convinces his shady entrepreneur brother to provide work for his son in this multi-layered portrait of the immigrant experience in Great Britain. Young Londoner Omar (Gordon Warnecke) isn't sure what he wants out of life, but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.05!
13 view cover	Prick Up Your Ears (1987) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Loot and What the Butler Saw is evenly balanced by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20!
14 view cover	The Van (1996) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan, Caroline Rothwell, Neili Conroy This is the third film adapted from a fictional trilogy by Irish writer Roddy Doyle about families living in a working-class Dublin neighborhood. The first was director Alan Parker's smashing music mockumentary The Commitments and the second was the hilarious comedy The Snapper, directed by Stephen Frears. Frears also directs this film, which is ... see all copies from $17.90!
15 view cover	The Hit (1984) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Terence Stamp, Bill Hunter In this offbeat crime film, Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) an English mobster turned informant, has been given a new identity and has been living in a small, isolated village in Spain for 10 years. Unfortunately for Parker, the men he has betrayed have ascertained his whereabouts and send Braddock (John Hurt), a professional hitman, and his ... see all copies from $3.32! new only from $3.32!
16 view cover	Fail Safe (2000) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Hank Azaria, Brian Dennehy A seemingly-minor electronic error sets the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (which was previously filmed in 1964). Due to the burn-out of a piece of circuitry, a computer orders a U.S. Air Force jet on a strategic bombing raid, destroying targets in Russia ... see all copies from $11.87! new only from $15.48!
17 view cover	Liam (2001) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Ian Hart, David Hart A young boy struggles with his family during England's pre-war depression in this drama directed by Stephen Frears. Liam (Anthony Borrows) is a seven-year-old growing up in a working-class family in Liverpool during the early 1930s. Liam's dad (Ian Hart) and older brother Con (David Hart) both work at the nearby shipyards, and his sister Teresa ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.82!
18 view cover	Loving Walter (1986) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Ian McKellen, Sarah Miles, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow, Paula Tilbrook Director Stephen Frears' Loving Walter combines 1982's Walter, produced for Britain's Channel Four, and its sequel, 1983's Walter and June. Based on the best-selling book by David Cook, the story details the plight of Walter (Ian McKellan), a moderately retarded man, after the deaths of his parents. No concrete provisions have been made for Walter ... see all copies from $6.97! new only from $18.12!
19 view cover	Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) more movies like this directed by Stephen Frears featuring Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan Din, Roland Gift In this alternately comic and grave reflection on the effects of Thatcherism on polyethnic England, middle-class liberals Rosie (Frances Barber) and Sammy (Ayub Khan Din) engage in an openly adulterous marriage while living in a lower-class neighborhood in London. When they're not hiding their troubled marriage behind a series of "enlightened" ... see all copies from $8.25!

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