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
The Bookshop / La libreria (2017)
Drama
Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Isabel Coixet
The Boat That Rocked / Pirate Radio (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Music
A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Charlie Rowe
Director: Richard Curtis
The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Horror | Thriller
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical so-called Golem – must be responsible.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, María Valverde, Eddie Marsan, Adam Brown
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
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Their Finest (2016)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | War
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Paul Ritter, Rachael Stirling
Director: Lone Scherfig
Dad's Army (2016)
Comedy
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Starring: Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Bill Paterson, Tom Courtenay, Blake Harrison
Director: Oliver Parker
Norm of the North (2016)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Displaced from their Arctic home, a polar bear named Norm and his three lemming friends wind up in New York City, where Norm becomes the mascot of a corporation he soon learns is tied to the fate of his homeland.
Starring: Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Bill Nighy, Colm Meaney, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton
Director: Trevor Wall
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Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
The Johnny Worricker Spy trilogy concludes with Salting the Battlefield, in which our hero with his ex girlfriend, Margot are criss-crossing Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the security services and a vengeful Prime Minister. Worricker is being watched – His family and friends are being watched – He is running out of cash and he needs to make a move to reach an endgame.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Anna Böger, Shazad Latif, Felicity Jones, James McArdle, Bill Nighy
Director: David Hare
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel / Indian Palace: Suite royale (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Two hopeful new arrivals at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful quickly learn that there is only a single room left to rent.
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton
Director: John Madden
Turks & Caicos (2014)
Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Warricker is a retired spy living in the Caribbean. He realizes he is in trouble when four "businessmen" show up. They look like mob bosses, but one actually works for the CIA. He gets help from two former MI5 colleagues back in London.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder, Helena Bonham Carter, Meredith Eaton
Director: David Hare
Pride (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A true story. It's the summer of 1984. Margaret Thatcher is in power, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike, and at the Gay Pride March in London a group of gay and lesbian activists are campaigning to raise money, to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. Undeterred, the activists decide to ignore the Union and approach the miners directly. Identifying a tiny mining village in Wales, the group sets off to make their donation in person…
Starring: Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Paddy Considine, George MacKay
Director: Matthew Warchus
Pride (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A true story. It's the summer of 1984. Margaret Thatcher is in power, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike, and at the Gay Pride March in London a group of gay and lesbian activists are campaigning to raise money, to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. Undeterred, the activists decide to ignore the Union and approach the miners directly. Identifying a tiny mining village in Wales, the group sets off to make their donation in person…
Starring: Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Paddy Considine, George MacKay
Director: Matthew Warchus
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Flushed Away / Ratropolis (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
An uptown English rat (Jackman) gets flushed down the toilet into the sewers below and tries to find his way back.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy
Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell
I, Frankenstein (2014)
Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Many decades after his creation, Adam Frankenstein is still hunted through modern city streets, although now his pursuers are opposing clans of demons who want to uncover the secret of his longevity and use it to sustain their own immortality.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto, Yvonne Strahovski, Jai Courtney, Kevin Grevioux
Director: Stuart Beattie
Stormbreaker / Alex Rider: Stormbreaker (2006)
Action | Adventure | Family | Thriller
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Missi Pyle, Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Drama | Thriller
Barbara Covett is a domineering and solitary teacher who rules with an iron fist over her classroom at a decaying, state-run, secondary school in London. Save for her cat, Portia, Barbara lives alone, without friends or confidantes – but her world changes when she meets the school's new art teacher, Sheba Hart, who appears to be the kindred spirit and loyal friend Barbara has always been seeking. But when she discovers that Sheba is having an incendiary affair, with one of her young students, their budding relationship takes an ominous turn. Now, as Barbara threatens to expose Sheba's terrible secret to both her husband and the world, Barbara's own secrets and dark obsessions come tumbling to the fore, exposing the deceptions at the core of each of the women's lives.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Juno Temple, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
Director: Richard Eyre
About Time (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
At the age of 21, Tim is told an incredible family secret by his father – that all the men in his family have the ability to travel in time. He can relive any moment in his life to try things differently until he gets them perfectly right.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan
Director: Richard Curtis
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Comedy | Horror
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend and reconciling his relationship with his mother. Oh, and fighting off the entire town that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Lucy Davis, Bill Nighy
Director: Edgar Wright
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Adventure | Fantasy
An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend… and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy, Ewan McGregor
Director: Bryan Singer
Page Eight (2011)
Drama | Mystery
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced to walk out of his job, and then out of his identity to find out the truth. Set in London and Cambridge, PAGE EIGHT is a contemporary spy film for the BBC, which addresses intelligence issues and moral dilemmas peculiar to the new century.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Judy Davis, Michael Gambon, Ewen Bremner, Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Director: David Hare
