Allelujah (2022)
Drama
The story of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure.
Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, David Bradley, Russell Tovey, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench
Director: Richard Eyre
Say Your Prayers (2020)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate Professor John Huxley, famed atheist writer.
Starring: Harry Melling, Tom Brooke, Derek Jacobi, Anna Maxwell Martin, Roger Allam, Vinette Robinson
Director: Harry Michell
Dead Again (1991)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams, Wayne Knight
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Come Away (2020)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
When their eldest brother dies, Peter and Alice seek to save their parents from despair until they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Caine, Derek Jacobi, David Oyelowo, David Gyasi
Director: Brenda Chapman
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi / Swords and Sceptres: The Rani of Jhansi (2019)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | War
A tale of women's empowerment, The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
Starring: Jodhi May, Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Nathaniel Parker, Ben Lamb, Devika Bhise
Director: Swati Bhise
Tolkien / A Light in the Darkness (2019)
Biography | Drama | War
The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Pam Ferris, Derek Jacobi, Genevieve O'Reilly, Craig Roberts
Director: Dome Karukoski
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
The History of Love (2016)
Drama | Romance | War
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Sophie Nélisse, Gemma Arterton, Elliott Gould, Torri Higginson
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Cinderella (2015)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But, when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Grace of Monaco / Grace de Mónaco (2014)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella, Parker Posey, Milo Ventimiglia, Derek Jacobi
Director: Olivier Dahan
Two Men Went to War / 2 Men Went to War (2002)
Comedy | Drama | War
This heart-warming comedy tells the true story of two members of England's Army Dental Corps, Sgt. Peter King (Kenneth Cranham of HOT FUZZ), a World War I veteran who wishes to die fighting, and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO), a wet-behind-the-ears trainee. Inspired to leave their posts and sneak into occupied territory, the two dentists find love and friendship, and ultimately learn that to be a true hero all intentions must come from the heart.
Starring: Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek Jacobi, Rosanna Lavelle, Phyllida Law, Phyllida Law, James Fleet, Julian Glover
Director: John Henderson
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The Human Factor (1979)
Drama | Thriller
When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service's African section, is seen taking a file with him -to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may be the leak to Moskow, and allows Dr. Percival to terminate the 'risk factor' by poisoning to avoid a scandal. In fact Davis's desk chief, Maurice Castle, is the double agent since the South African communists helped him smuggle out his black lover Sarah M., meanwhile his wife and mother of schoolboy Sam, to force him to cooperate with the Apartheid government. When Cornelius Muller, the South African official who failed to get him in Pretoria's power, visits London for the anti-communist operation Uncle Remus, he points out Castle still is the natural suspect…
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Robert Morley, Nicol Williamson
Director: Otto Preminger
Strings (2004)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
Hal Tara is the son of The Kahro of the city of Hebalon and heir to the throne. When The Kahro kills himself, Hal is chosen to taken his place to rule Hebalon. But the discovery of The Kahro's suicide letter, that his father's death was no suicide, and was conducted by rivals of the city known as The Zeriths, Hal disguising himself as a commoner leaves the city and sets out to find the Zeriths and avenge his father. But Nezo, The Kahro's evil advisor who discovered the Kahro's body sends a warrior known as Erito to join Hal and to kill him. Entering the Zerith's camp, unaware of his identity, Hal falls in love with Zita, a Zerith female warrior, unaware Nezo has evil schemes to take over ruler ship of the city and Erito's wife Eike and Hal's sister Jhinna have uncovered his evil plot.
Starring: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart, Claire Skinner, David Harewood, Samantha Bond
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
The King's Speech (2010)
Biography | Drama | History
Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
Starring: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Robert Portal, Richard Dixon, Geoffrey Rush
Director: Tom Hooper
Anonymous (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, "Anonymous" speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud, namely: who actually created the body of work credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories…
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Joely Richardson, Xavier Samuel, Derek Jacobi
Director: Roland Emmerich
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
In this sequel to the 2003 cult favorite, Beckinsale returns as werewolf-hunter Selene, a vampire now involved with a half-werewolf, half-vampire. They are both on the run, as they are the target of vampires, werewolves and humans.
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy
Director: Len Wiseman
Ironclad (2011)
Action | Adventure | History | Romance
It is the year 1215 and the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal to the Magna Carta, a noble, seminal document that upheld the rights of free-men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel's momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
Starring: Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox, James Purefoy, Derek Jacobi
Director: Jonathan English
