Artemis Fowl (2020)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Artemis Fowl, a young criminal prodigy, hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father.
Starring: Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozie, Colin Farrell, Judi Dench
Director: Kenneth Branagh
All Is True (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Kathryn Wilder, Jack Colgrave Hirst
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
When a murder occurs on the train he's travelling on, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucy Boynton, Judi Dench
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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
Wild Wild West (1999)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Western
The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a 19th century inventor-villain.
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, M. Emmet Walsh, Ted Levine
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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
Dead Again (1991)
Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Mike Church is a policeman turned private detective in Los Angeles. He specializes in finding missing persons and agrees to investigate a mysterious woman called Grace. She has amnesia and no memories of her own. Her troubled life may be connected to a sensational 1949 trial in which a respected composer was found guilty of murdering his wife.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy García, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams, Wayne Knight
Director: Kenneth Branagh
The 68th Annual Tony Awards (TV 2014)
Awards
The 68th Annual Tony Awards were held June 8, 2014, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2013–14 season. The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and was televised live on CBS. Hugh Jackman was the host, his fourth time hosting. The 15 musical Tony Awards went to seven different musicals, and six plays shared the 11 play Tony Awards. The nominations were announced on April 29, 2014 by Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu. Audra McDonald won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In just her ninth Broadway engagement, McDonald established two records as the first actor to win six Tony Awards for acting and the first to win in all four categories, lead and featured in both a play and a musical. In its seventh Broadway incarnation, The Glass Menagerie won its first Tony Award (Lighting Design).
Starring: Terence Archie, Brooks Ashmanskas, Kevin Bacon, Jenni Barber, Samuel Barnett, Fantasia Barrino, Beth Behrs, Reed Birney, Orlando Bloom, Matt Bomer, Wayne Brady, Zach Braff, Kenneth Branagh, Adam Brody, Krystal Joy Brown
Creator: Glenn Weiss
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit / Jack Ryan: Shadow One (2014)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
In an update of Tom Clancy's classic character, ex-Marine and Moscow-based financial analyst Jack Ryan uncovers a plot by his employer to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy. Ryan must race against time to save America and his wife.
Starring: Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Nonso Anozie, Colm Feore
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Othello (1995)
Drama | Romance
The evil Iago pretends to be a friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irène Jacob
Director: Oliver Parker
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Adventure | Drama | History
In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Starring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Jason Clarke, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Phillip Noyce
The Magic Flute (2006)
Music
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.
Starring: Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, René Pape, Lyubov Petrova, Benjamin Jay Davis, Silvia Moi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Harry returns for his second year at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with his best friends Hermione and Ron. He ignores warnings not to go back to Hogwarts by a mysterious house elf named Dobby. Soon into the school year strange things start happening. Students are found in a petrified state, messages written in blood appear on the walls and Harry starts to hear voices in his head. It becomes apparent that someone has opened The Chamber of Secrets… but who is responsible and can the dark forces that lurk there be stopped?
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Chris Columbus
Peter's Friends (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Years Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton
Director: Kenneth Branagh
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Romance
The story is about two swindlers who get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado while pulling off some sort of scam. Their plan goes bad and the rogues end up lost at sea after a number of misfortunes. Oddly enough, they end up on the shores of El Dorado and are worshiped by the natives for their foreign appearance.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assantem Edward James Olmos, Jim Cummings, Elton John
Director: Bibo Bergeron, Will Finn, Don Paul, David Silverman
Conspiracy (2001)
Drama | History | War
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Director: Frank Pierson
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Biography | Drama
Colin Clark met Marilyn Monroe while working as a young assistant on Laurence Olivier's "The Prince and the Showgirl." When Marilyn experienced emotional difficulties during shooting, the 23-year-old third assistant director came to her aid and romance developed. But one week of honesty and fun was not enough to save the doomed star from self-destruction.
Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Watson, Judi Dench
Director: Simon Curtis
Thor (2011)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Valkyrie / Walküre (2008)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
Tom Cruise stars in the true story of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg and the daring plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten
Director: Bryan Singer
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Comedy | Romance | War
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson
Director: Kenneth Branagh
