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
The Dresser (1983)
Drama
Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough, Cathryn Harrison
Director: Peter Yates
Gumshoe (1971)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley fulfills his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye.
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay
Director: Stephen Frears
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Biography | Drama | History
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Starring: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey, Derek Jacobi
Director: Richard Loncraine
Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
Drama | Romance
In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a much-travelled and still married land-owner.
Starring: Albert Finney, Rita Tushingham, Shirley Anne Field, Edith Evans, Avis Bunnage, George Devine
Director: Desmond Davis
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman, which eventually leads to citywide gang war.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, Steve Buscemi
Director: Joel Coen
A Good Year (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
This romantic drama tells the story of an Englishman (Russell Crowe) who finds his soul when he loses his heart to a French beauty (Marion Cotillard). Crowe stars as ruthless businessman Max Skinner, a man whose sole raison d'être is the acquisition of wealth at the expense of the other guy. But when he inherits a vineyard in the south of France, hard-driving, fast-talking Skinner begins to slow down and embrace the simple – and most precious – pleasures of life.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Freddie Highmore, Rafe Spall
Director: Ridley Scott
Two for the Road (1967)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Stanley Donen's popular 1960s romantic comedy-cum-road movie chronicling the ups and downs of a marriage. Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn star as the Wallaces, a couple who have been together with varying degrees of satisfaction for the last 12 years. Architect Mark (Finney) and musician Joanna (Hepburn) first met in Europe, where Mark was backpacking and Joanna was studying music – and over the years they have continued to love each other, but are unsure if they are still 'in love'.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels, Claude Dauphin, Nadia Gray
Director: Stanley Donen
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Director: Sidney Lumet
Big fish (2003)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures in this marvel of a movie.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Washington Square (1997)
Drama | Romance
Passionate tale of a young heiress who must choose between love or money. Based on the 1880 Henry James novel.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Ben Chaplin, Judith Ivey
Director: Agnieszka Holland
The Duellists / Duellists (1977)
Drama
Two officers in Napoleon's army violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 30 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story.
Starring: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Robert Stephens, Tom Conti
Director: Ridley Scott
Annie (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Broadway musical based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip. A young orphan girls adventures in finding a family that will take her.
Starring: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Aileen Quinn
Director: John Huston
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Based on the true story of a twice-divorced mother working as a low-level secretary at a Los Angeles law firm, a chronicle of a woman, without a law degree, who takes it upon herself to fight powerful corporate forces. Hired out of sympathy after her lawyer lost her personal injury suit, Brockovich stumbled upon the cover-up involving contaminated water in a small desert community, while working at the small law firm. Brockovich tracks a case of water poisoning created by PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) and champions it all the way up the judicial ladder– becoming instrumental in rallying the over 600 plaintiffs and in helping them win the largest class-action suit of its type.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Valente Rodriguez, Conchata Ferrell
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris
Director: Sidney Lumet
