Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Comedy | Drama
A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.
Starring: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Ellen Thomas, Jason Isaacs
Director: Anthony Fabian
Let Him Go (2020)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Jeffrey Donovan, Booboo Stewart, Lesley Manville, Will Brittain
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Ordinary Love / Normal People (2019)
Drama | Romance
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, Amit Shah, David Wilmot, Lalor Roddy
Director: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Misbehaviour (2020)
Drama | History
A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Lesley Manville, Greg Kinnear
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Phantom Thread (2017)
Drama | Romance
Set in 1950's London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Richard Graham, Vicky Krieps, Camilla Rutherford, Brian Gleeson
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Hampstead (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home.
Starring: Brendon Gleeson, Diane Keaton, James Norton, Simon Callow, Lesley Manville
Director: Joel Hopkins
Rupture (2016)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare, Michael Chiklis, Kerry Bishé, Lesley Manville, Ari Millen
Director: Steven Shainberg
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
A Five Star Life / Viaggio sola (2013)
Drama
Forty-something Irene had a dream job that made her life easy: she was indeed a luxury hotel inspector and her work got carried out in a wonderful ever-renewed setting, from Paris to Gstaad to Berlin to Morocco to China… But does a dream job necessarily mean a dream life?
Starring: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Lesley Manville
Director: Maria Sole Tognazzi
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An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Drama
A dramatic re-telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963, travel back in time to witness the dramatic birth of Doctor Who. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of tough-guy roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry’s glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday afternoon drama, time travel and monsters! Allied with a brilliant creative team, they went on to introduce the world to the longest running science fiction series ever, currently in its 50th year and counting.
Starring: David Bradley, Jessica Raine, Brian Cox, Sacha Dhawan, Lesley Manville, Jamie Glover
Director: Terry McDonough
Womb / Clone (2010)
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Starring: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville, Peter Wight
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
Another Year (2010)
Comedy | Drama
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends…
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman
Director: Mike Leigh
