The Queen (2006)
Biography | Drama | History
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam
Director: Stephen Frears
We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
Drama | Romance
A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey.
Starring: Karen Gillan, Aneurin Barnard, Helen McCrory, Frances Barber, Anna Chancellor, Allan Corduner
Director: John McKay
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
Biography
A drama based on the life of Tommy Cooper and the dilemma the married comedian faced when he fell in love with his assistant.
Starring: David Threlfall, Helen McCrory, Amanda Redman, Gregor Fisher
Director: Benjamin Caron
Flying Blind (2012)
Drama
A stylish mix of erotic love story and political thriller. Helen McCrory stars as a brilliant aerospace engineer who is drawn into a passionate affair with a younger male student while working on a government contract for an aircraft destined for military use. As the contract deadline nears, her doubts about her new lover mount, and she comes to understand the shadowy sides of her professional career and her personal life.
Starring: Helen McCrory, Najib Oudghiri, Kenneth Cranham, Tristan Gemmill, Razane Jammal
Director: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Loving Vincent (2017)
Animation | Biography | Crime | Drama
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Starring: Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Chris O'Dowd, Douglas Booth
Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Hotel Splendide (2000)
Comedy
The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It's a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanche, whose grown children now run the hotel according to her specificiations, serving up ghastly seaweed and fish-based food and enema treatments. Kath, once the sous chef, arrives when she receives an anonymous letter telling her of the matriarch's death. Will she bring light into the place with her wonderful cooking?
Starring: Toni Collette, Daniel Craig, Katrin Cartlidge, Stephen Tompkinson, Hugh O'Conor, Helen McCrory
Director: Terence Gross
A Little Chaos (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Madame Sabine De Barra is an unlikely candidate for the landscape architect of the still-to-be-completed palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical ordered designs of the man who hires her; the famous architect Le Notre. However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Notre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV. But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassionate nature help to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun King and the heart of Le Notre.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Jennifer Ehle, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Matthias Schoenaerts
Director: Alan Rickman
A Little Chaos (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Madame Sabine De Barra is an unlikely candidate for the landscape architect of the still-to-be-completed palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical ordered designs of the man who hires her; the famous architect Le Notre. However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Notre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV. But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassionate nature help to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun King and the heart of Le Notre.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Jennifer Ehle, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Matthias Schoenaerts
Director: Alan Rickman
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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Starring: Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Adrian Rawlins, Oaklee Pendergast, Ned Dennehy, Hayley Joanne Bacon
Director: Tom Harper
Peaky Blinders (TV Series 2013- )
Drama
A British ganagster saga set in 1919 post-war Birmingham. Cillian Murphy is Thomas Shelby, leader of the most feared and powerful local gang, the Peaky Blinders. Named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, they make money from illegal betting, protection and the black market. But when a crate of guns goes missing from an arms factory, their battle-hardened leader recognizes an opportunity to move up in the world.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Sam Neill, Joe Cole, Eric Campbell, Tony Pitts, Ned Dennehy, Ian Peck, Annabelle Wallis, Jeffrey Postlethwaite, Matthew Postlethwaite, Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Creator: Steven Knight
Peaky Blinders (TV Series 2013- )
Drama
A British ganagster saga set in 1919 post-war Birmingham. Cillian Murphy is Thomas Shelby, leader of the most feared and powerful local gang, the Peaky Blinders. Named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, they make money from illegal betting, protection and the black market. But when a crate of guns goes missing from an arms factory, their battle-hardened leader recognizes an opportunity to move up in the world.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Sam Neill, Joe Cole, Eric Campbell, Tony Pitts, Ned Dennehy, Ian Peck, Annabelle Wallis, Jeffrey Postlethwaite, Matthew Postlethwaite, Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Creator: Steven Knight
Skyfall (2012)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Helen McCrory, Judi Dench, Ben Whishaw
Director: Sam Mendes
