Trumbo (2015)
Biography | Drama
The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, comes to an end when he's blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist.
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman
Director: Jay Roach
Woman in Gold (2015)
Drama
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons
Director: Simon Curtis
Calendar Girls (2003)
Comedy | Drama
When twelve ordinary members of the Women's Institute, a prim and proper ladies' club, decide they need to find a more compelling way to raise money for a new charity, they turn to their traditional annual calendar and give it a very untraditional twist. Behind the usual baked goods, the apple pressing and the flower arrangements are the women – completely nude! Starring Golden Globe nominee Helen Mirren (Gosford Park) and Julie Walters (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets) Calendar Girls is a terrifically entertaining comedy — and that's the naked truth.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett, Ciarán Hinds, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie
Director: Nigel Cole
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Drama
A story centered on an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Charlotte Le Bon, Manish Dayal, Rohan Chand, Juhi Chawla
Director: Lasse Hallström
State of Play (2009)
Drama | Mystery
Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels
Director: Kevin Macdonald
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden
Director: Lindsay Anderson
The Clearing (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wayne Hayes is a well-off business executive with his own personal slice of the American dream: a beautiful wife, Eileen, two grown-up children, a lovely home in Pittsburg and a successful business built up from scratch. The Hayes' perfect world is turned upside down when Wayne is kidnapped by one of his employees and held ransom in remote woodlands. Eileen must deal with a houseful of FBI agents, and Wayne must draw on his powers of negotiation as never before…
Starring: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
The British Academy Film Awards (TV 2014)
Awards
The 67th British Academy Film Awards more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 16 February 2014 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2013. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), accolades are handed out for the best in feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality, that were screened at British cinemas during 2013. The British-American film Gravity won six of its eleven nominations, including Outstanding British Film, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music, Best Sound, Best Special Visual Effects and Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. 12 Years a Slave won Best Film. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cate Blanchett won the Best Actor and Best Actress in a Leading Role awards, respectively while Barkhad Abdi and Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actor and Best Actress in a Supporting Role awards, respectively.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Poulter, Peter Greenaway, Jennifer Lawrence, Barkhad Abdi, Kieran Evans, Helen Mirren
The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014)
Awards
The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2013, were presented on January 18, 2014, at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles for the nineteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast simultaneously by TNT and TBS.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, Lupita Nyong'o, Bryan Cranston, Maggie Smith, Ty Burrell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Douglas, Helen Mirren
Red 2 (2013)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they抣l need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Anthony Hopkins, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Byung-hun Lee
Director: Dean Parisot
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Inkheart (2008)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
When Mo Folchart reads a story, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. Mo must somehow use his special powers to send the interlopers back to their world… and save ours. If ever a task was easier read than done, this is it. Mo and his daughter Meggie, aided by friends real and fictional, plunge into a thrilling quest that pits them against diabolical villains, fantastic beasts and dangers at every turn.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
Hitchcock (2012)
Biography | Drama
Hitchcock centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of Psycho, spanning from Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for the character of Norman Bates, to the release of the groundbreaking film in 1960.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, Michael Stuhlbarg, Toni Collette
Director: Sacha Gervasi
The Comfort of Strangers / Etrange séduction (1990)
Drama | Thriller
An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. One evening, they lose their way looking for a restaurant, and a stranger invites them to accompany him. He plies them with wine and grotesque stories from his childhood. They leave disoriented, physically ill, and morally repelled. But, next day, when the stranger sees them in the piazza, they accept an invitation to his sumptuous flat. After this visit, the pair find the depth to face questions about each other, only to be drawn back into the mysterious and menacing fantasies of the stranger and his mate.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquo
Director: Paul Schrader
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Phoenix), "Look around you. It's a toilet." He moves his wife (Helen Mirren) and kids — Charlie, Jerry (Jadrien Steele), April (Hilary Gordon), and Clover (Rebecca Gordon) — to the rain forests of Central America, where he plans to create a new civilization starting with his own nuclear family.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Martha Plimpton, Dick O'Neill
Director: Peter Weir
2010: The Year We Make Contact / 2010 (1984)
Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov will rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000.
Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain
Director: Peter Hyams
Red (2010)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
The Debt (2010)
Drama | Thriller
In 1997, shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stefan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds
Director: John Madden
Brighton Rock (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. Rose — an apparently innocent young waitress who stumbles on evidence linking Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing that Pinkie commits. After the murder, Pinkie seduces Rose, first in an effort to find out how much she knows and latterly to ensure she will not talk to the police. A love story between a murderer and a witness; can Pinkie trust Rose or should he kill her before she talks to the police? Can Rose trust Pinkie or is she next in line?
Starring: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Philip Davis, Andy Serkis
Director: Rowan Joffe
The Tempest (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
The sorceress Prospera spirals through vengeance to forgiveness as she reigns over a magical island, cares for her young daughter, Miranda, and unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Jude Akuwudike, Reeve Carney, David Strathairn
Director: Julie Taymor
Arthur (2011)
Comedy
Irresponsible charmer Arthur Bach faces his biggest challenge — choosing between an arranged marriage or an uncertain future with the only woman he has ever loved.
Starring: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner
Director: Jason Winer
