Eileen Atkins

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Cranford
8.3

Cranford

Nov. 18, 2007

Cranford

A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by ...
Wicked Little Letters
7.1

Wicked Little Letters

Feb. 23, 2024

Wicked Little Letters

When deeply conservative English local Edith Swan and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious ...
Nothing Like a Dame
7.4

Nothing Like a Dame

May. 02, 2018

Nothing Like a Dame

BBC Arena’s documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on ...
The Scapegoat
7.2

The Scapegoat

Sep. 09, 2012

The Scapegoat

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 – ...
Oliver Twist
6.7

Oliver Twist

Mar. 23, 1982

Oliver Twist

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.
Equus
7.1

Equus

Oct. 16, 1977

Equus

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity ...
I Don’t Want to Be Born
4.2

I Don’t Want to Be Born

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 ...
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
7.6

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

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 ...
ChickLit
4.6

ChickLit

Sep. 02, 2016

ChickLit

ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a ...
Magic in the Moonlight
6.5

Magic in the Moonlight

Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
The Lost Language of Cranes
7.3

The Lost Language of Cranes

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 ...
Beautiful Creatures
6.1

Beautiful Creatures

Feb. 13, 2013

Beautiful Creatures

Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena’s 16th birthday ...
Wild Target
6.7

Wild Target

Jun. 17, 2010

Wild Target

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal ...
Last Chance Harvey
6.6

Last Chance Harvey

Dec. 25, 2008

Last Chance Harvey

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 ...
Robin Hood
6.6

Robin Hood

May. 12, 2010

Robin Hood

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 ...
Evening
6.4

Evening

Jun. 09, 2007

Evening

As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the ...
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
5.9

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

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 ...
Ask the Dust
5.7

Ask the Dust

Feb. 02, 2006

Ask the Dust

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a ...
What a Girl Wants
5.8

What a Girl Wants

Mar. 27, 2003

What a Girl Wants

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 ...
Wit
8

Wit

Feb. 09, 2001

Wit

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Vanity Fair
6.2

Vanity Fair

Sep. 01, 2004

Vanity Fair

Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns ...
Women Talking Dirty
6

Women Talking Dirty

Dec. 07, 2001

Women Talking Dirty

A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Cold Mountain
7.2

Cold Mountain

Dec. 24, 2003

Cold Mountain

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 ...
Jack & Sarah
6.6

Jack & Sarah

Jun. 02, 1995

Jack & Sarah

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. ...
Cold Comfort Farm
7.2

Cold Comfort Farm

Jan. 01, 1995

Cold Comfort Farm

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 ...
Wolf
6.3

Wolf

Jun. 17, 1994

Wolf

Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten ...
Let Him Have It
7.2

Let Him Have It

Oct. 04, 1991

Let Him Have It

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 ...
Titus Andronicus
7.7

Titus Andronicus

Apr. 25, 1985

Titus Andronicus

Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The ...
The Dresser
7.5

The Dresser

Dec. 06, 1983

The Dresser

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand – the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. ...