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Eileen Atkins

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Atkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. more

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The Hours
(2002)
Drama
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Stephen Daldry
Cast:
Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson
7.5
79%
80
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Cold Mountain
(2003)
Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep thei...
Runtime:
154 min
Director:
Anthony Minghella
Cast:
Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson
7.2
70%
73
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Gosford Park
(2001)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1930’s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Runtime:
131 min
Director:
Robert Altman
Cast:
Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Maggie Smith, Geraldine Somerville, Charles Dance
7.2
86%
90
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Paddington 2
(2017)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Runtime:
104 min
Cast:
Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris
7.9
N/A
88
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Robin Hood
(2010)
Adventure
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Runtime:
140 min
Director:
Ridley Scott
Cast:
Russell Crowe, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong
6.6
43%
53
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Magic in the Moonlight
(2014)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Runtime:
98 min
6.6
N/A
54
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Wild Target
(2010)
Action, Comedy
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victo...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Jonathan Lynn
Cast:
Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, Eileen Atkins
6.9
33%
41
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Wolf
(1994)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Jack Nicholson, Christopher Plummer, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Michelle Pfeiffer
6.2
63%
N/A
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What a Girl Wants
(2003)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes ...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Dennie Gordon
Cast:
Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver James
5.8
36%
41
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Last Chance Harvey
(2008)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between t...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Joel Hopkins
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, Liane Balaban
6.6
71%
57
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Suite Française
(2015)
Drama, Romance, War
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the vill...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Saul Dibb
Cast:
Michelle Williams, Margot Robbie, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley
6.9
75%
63
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Vanity Fair
(2004)
Drama, Romance
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky...
Runtime:
141 min
Director:
Mira Nair
Cast:
Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Romola Garai, Gabriel Byrne
6.2
50%
53
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Wit
(2001)
Drama, TV Movie
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M. Woodward
8.1
80%
N/A
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Evening
(2007)
Drama, Romance
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick W...
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Lajos Koltai
Cast:
Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy
6.5
27%
45
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Ballet Shoes
(2008)
Drama, Family, TV Movie
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Sandra Goldbacher
Cast:
Emilia Fox, Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Emma Watson, Lucy Boynton
6.6
100%
N/A
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Cold Comfort Farm
(1995)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she se...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
John Schlesinger
Cast:
Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones
7.3
83%
82
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The Dresser
(1983)
Drama
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool tha...
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Peter Yates
Cast:
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough
7.7
100%
N/A
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Smiley's People
(1982)
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and ...
Runtime:
360 min
Director:
Simon Langton
Cast:
Alec Guinness, Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins, Vladek Sheybal, Andy Bradford
8.7
N/A
N/A
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Ask the Dust
(2006)
Drama, Romance
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Robert Towne
Cast:
Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel
5.8
35%
58
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Jack & Sarah
(1995)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spo...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Tim Sullivan
Cast:
Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Cherie Lunghi
6.7
74%
N/A
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The Scapegoat
(2012)
Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Charles Sturridge
Cast:
Andrew Scott, Jodhi May, Eileen Atkins, Matthew Rhys, Sheridan Smith
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Murder on the Orient Express
(2010)
Crime, Mystery
Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Philip Martin
Cast:
David Suchet, Tristan Shepherd, Sam Crane, Toby Jones, Brian J. Smith
7.8
N/A
N/A
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Let Him Have It
(1991)
Drama
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Peter Medak
Cast:
Christopher Eccleston, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Serena Scott Thomas, Michael Gough
7.3
81%
N/A
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
(2006)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Ed Blum
Cast:
Holly Aird, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hardy, Douglas Hodge
6.0
50%
N/A
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
(2017)
Comedy, Science Fiction
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Runtime:
65 min
Cast:
Simon Amstell, Linda Bassett, Martin Freeman, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Lumley
7.8
N/A
N/A
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A Hazard of Hearts
(1987)
Drama, Romance, TV Movie
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham....
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
John Hough
Cast:
Diana Rigg, Edward Fox, Christopher Plummer, Helena Bonham Carter, Neil Dickson
7.2
N/A
N/A
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David Copperfield
(2001)
Drama, TV Movie
After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother dies shortly after the death of another child, whereupon Mr. Murdstone sends David to London, where he has to work for a starvation wage.Here he makes some new friends, but soon flees fro...
Runtime:
180 min
7.3
N/A
N/A
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The Lost Language of Cranes
(1992)
Drama
When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Nigel Finch
Cast:
Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, Angus Macfadyen, Rene Auberjonois, Corey Parker
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Madame Bovary
(2000)
Drama, Romance
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again wit...
Runtime:
180 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Oliver Twist
(1982)
Crime, Drama
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Clive Donner
Cast:
George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern, Timothy West, Eileen Atkins
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Women Talking Dirty
(2001)
Comedy
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Coky Giedroyc
Cast:
Helena Bonham Carter, Gina McKee, Eileen Atkins, Kenneth Cranham, James Nesbitt
6.3
N/A
N/A
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An Age of Kings
(1960)
Drama, History
Adaptations of the eight sequential history plays of William Shakespeare (Richard II, Henry IV: Part 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry VI: Parts 1, 2, & 3 and Richard III).
Runtime:
960 min
Director:
Michael Hayes
Cast:
David William, Tom Fleming, Robert Hardy, Sean Connery, Terry Scully
8.5
N/A
N/A
The Lady's Not for Burning
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The Lady's Not for Burning
(1974)
Comedy, Romance, TV Movie
A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman already accused of witchcraft who wants to live.
Director:
Joseph Hardy
Cast:
Eileen Atkins, Jacques Aubuchon, John Carradine, Richard Chamberlain, Keene Curtis
9.1
N/A
N/A
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Inadmissible Evidence
(1968)
Drama
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Anthony Page
Cast:
Nicol Williamson, Peter Sallis, Eileen Atkins
6.9
N/A
N/A
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She Fell Among Thieves
(1978)
Drama, TV Movie
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaught...
Runtime:
78 min
Cast:
Malcolm McDowell, Eileen Atkins
7.4
N/A
N/A
The Maitlands
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The Maitlands
(1993)
Family saga written by Ronald Mackenzie.
Director:
Lindsay Posner
Cast:
Eileen Atkins, Jennifer Ehle
8.5
N/A
N/A
A Better Class of Person
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A Better Class of Person
(1985)
Autobiographical look at growing up in wartime suburbia.
Director:
Frank Cvitanovich
Cast:
Eileen Atkins, Spencer Banks, John Osborne
7.2
N/A
N/A
Fable
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Fable
(1965)
Drama
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
Runtime:
75 min
N/A
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Double Bill
(1969)
Drama
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he b...
Runtime:
70 min
Cast:
Marty Feldman, Joby Blanshard, Eileen Atkins, Donald Gee, Diane Aubrey
N/A
N/A
N/A
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I Don't Want to Be Born
(1975)
Horror, Thriller
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Peter Sasdy
Cast:
Joan Collins, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bates, Caroline Munro, Eileen Atkins
3.9
N/A
N/A