The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)
Drama
Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day…and just keeps walking.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Joseph Mydell
Director: Hettie Macdonald
The Young Victoria (2009)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Art School Confidential (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Starring: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, Ethan Suplee
Director: Terry Zwigoff
The Duke (2020)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode
Director: Roger Michell
A Boy Called Christmas (2021)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
In this origin story of Father Christmas, an ordinary boy sets out on an extraordinary adventure to find his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of Elfhelm.
Starring: Henry Lawfull, Toby Jones, Sally Hawkins, Kristen Wiig, Michiel Huisman, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Stephen Merchant, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith
Director: Gil Kenan
Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Drama | Thriller
UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear on a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job 6 days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.
Starring: Eddie Izzard, Carla Juri, James D'Arcy, Celyn Jones, David Schofield, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench
Director: Andy Goddard
Bright Young Things (2003)
Comedy | Drama | War
An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Guy Henry, James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Fenella Woolgar, Peter O'Toole
Director: Stephen Fry
And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
Biography | Drama
The writer Blake Morrison has a non-resolved relationship with his bragger and wolf father Arthur Morrison. However, when Arthur is diagnosed with a terminal intestine cancer, Blake leaves his wife and children and travel to the village where he spent his childhood and adolescence to help his mother and his sister to take care of Arthur along his last days. The location brings recollections of his problematic relationship with his father.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee, Sarah Lancashire, Claire Skinner, Carey Mulligan
Director: Anand Tucker
King of Thieves / The King of Thieves (2018)
Crime | Drama
A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on infamous true events.
Starring: Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Francesca Annis, Tom Courtenay, Paul Whitehouse, Martha Howe-Douglas
Director: James Marsh
Black '47 (2018)
Action | Drama
Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.
Starring: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent
Director: Lance Daly
King Lear (2018)
Drama
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Starring: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Andrew Scott, Christopher Eccleston, Emily Watson, Florence Pugh, Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Karl Johnson
Director: Richard Eyre
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 Sense of an Ending (2017)
Drama
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode, Emily Mortimer
Director: Ritesh Batra
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
Bridget Jones's Baby / Bridget Jones 3 (2016)
Comedy | Romance
Bridget's focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch … she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Patrick Dempsey, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Shirley Henderson, Jim Broadbent
Director: Sharon Maguire
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History | Music | Musical
In 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, Gilbert and Sullivan's latest work, "Princess Ida," receives lukewarm press. Sullivan rejects Gilbert's next idea as "topsy-turvy" and unbelievable, and although Gilbert tries to accomodate him, they cannot agree. Mired at a creative impasse, Gilbert and Sullivan can barely converse. Then, Gilbert's wife, Lucy "Kitty" Gilbert, drags him along to a Japanese exhibition–exposure to the very different culture begins inspiration to embark on the production of "The Mikado."
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Lesley Manville, Eleanor David, Ron Cook, Timothy Spall
Director: Mike Leigh
The Lady in the Van (2015)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Alan Bennett’s big-screen comedic adaptation of his own memoir and stage play. Bennett’s story is based on the true story of Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who “temporarily” parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. What begins as a begrudged favor becomes a relationship that will change both their lives.
Starring: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Frances de la Tour, Roger Allam
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Brooklyn (2015)
Drama | Romance
The profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Emory Cohen, Emily Bett Rickards
Director: John Crowley
Get Santa (2014)
Comedy | Family
A father and son who team up to save Christmas once they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage after crashing his sleigh and finding himself on the run from the police.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Warwick Davis
Director: Christopher Smith
The Borrowers (1997)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
They're charming and small and live behind the wall. They're The Borrowers, tiny people whoese big family adventure is filled with some of the most eye-popping effects ever seen on film. Based on the beloved classic novels by Mary Norton, and starring John Goodman, The Borrowers is a film treat to be enjoyed by people of all sizes!
Starring: John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Tom Felton, Bradley Pierce
Director: Peter Hewitt
Tales of the Riverbank (2008)
Animation | Family
Tales of the Riverbank tells the story of three friends – Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat and GP the Guinea Pig – who, having swept down the river in a violent storm, embark on an epic journey in search of their lost homes. Their journey, full of comic incident and dramatic danger, becomes even more precarious when they discover that the whole riverbank is threatened by a waffle, Marmalade and Doughnut (WMD) factory which, owned by the evil Fat Cats, is polluting the countryside with increasingly dangerous emissions…the Big Dirt!
Starring: Stephen Fry, Peter Serafinowicz, Miranda Hart, Morwenna Banks, Jim Broadbent, Steve Coogan, Ardal O'Hanlon
Director: John Henderson
