One Life (2023)
Biography | Drama | History
The story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Jonathan Pryce
Director: James Hawes
Vanity Fair (2004)
Drama
Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Angelica Mandy, Gabriel Byrne, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd Pack, Romola Garai
Director: Mira Nair
Amazing Grace (2006)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N'Dour, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Michael Apted
Amulet (2020)
Horror | Mystery
An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on.
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu, Angeliki Papoulia, Paul O'Kelly, Amanda Quach
Director: Romola Garai
The Windermere Children (2020)
Drama | War
This is the stark, moving ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.
Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Iain Glen, Tim McInnerny, Marcel Sabat, Philipp Christopher, Anna Schumacher
Director: Michael Samuels
I Capture the Castle (2003)
Drama | Romance
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.
Starring: Romola Garai, Sophie Stuckey, Bill Nighy, Rose Byrne, Tara Fitzgerald, Henry Cavill
Director: Tim Fywell
Suffragette (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Sarah Gavron
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The Last Days on Mars / Last Days on Mars (2013)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Goran Kostic, Johnny Harris, Tom Cullen
Director: Ruairi Robinson
Junkhearts (2011)
Drama
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine – smart and successful… on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. Lynette, a young rough sleeper watches Christine stumble out of a club whilst she sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; her luck seems to change when she meets Frank who despite his misgivings, offers her a place to stay.
Starring: Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge, Romola Garai, Candese Reid, Shaun Dooley, Bhasker Patel
Director: Tinge Krishnan
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights / Dirty Dancing 2 (2004)
Drama | Romance
An american teenager, Katey Miller, has moved with her family to Havana In 1958. They are lodged at a fancy hotel, where Katey accidentally meets a local teenage waiter named Javier Suarez. Later she encounters Javier dancing in a public square and they become friends, but he is fired from the hotel because her acquaintances have seen them together. Katey invites Javier to enter a Latin Ballroom Contest with her in the local Palace club to help him win the prize money. To do so, she secretly meets him in the La Rosa Negra nightclub where he teaches her the Cuban "dirty dancing" style. They become closer and closer, but when Castro takes over, Katey's family decides to flee for the U.S. leaving Katey to make the ultimate decision.
Starring: Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Jonathan Jackson, Mya
Director: Guy Ferland
