Tetris (2023)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
The story of how one of the world's most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the masses.
Starring: Taron Egerton, Toby Jones, Nikita Efremov, Togo Igawa, Roger Allam, Matthew Marsh
Director: Jon S. Baird
Say Your Prayers (2020)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate Professor John Huxley, famed atheist writer.
Starring: Harry Melling, Tom Brooke, Derek Jacobi, Anna Maxwell Martin, Roger Allam, Vinette Robinson
Director: Harry Michell
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
The Hippopotamus (2017)
Comedy
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Starring: Matthew Modine, Russell Tovey, Adrian Bouchet, Fiona Shaw, Roger Allam, Emily Berrington
Director: John Jencks
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
Mr. Holmes (2015)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
The story is actually set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.
Starring: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hattie Morahan, Patrick Kennedy, Hiroyuki Sanada, Roger Allam
Director: Bill Condon
A Royal Night Out (2015)
Drama | Romance
On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.
Starring: Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Bel Powley, Rupert Everett, Jack Reynor, Roger Allam
Director: Julian Jarrold
Endeavour (TV Series 2013- )
Drama | Mystery
Set in 1965, the series centres around the early career of Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) after leaving his Oxford college without taking a degree, spending a short time in the Royal Corps of Signals as a cipher clerk, and then joining the police. Soon disillusioned with law enforcement, he begins writing a resignation letter but is sent with other detectives from Carshall Newtown Police to the Oxford City Police to assist in investigating the case of a missing fifteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Starring: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, Sean Rigby, Jack Laskey, James Bradshaw, Abigail Thaw, Sara Vickers, Caroline O'Neill
Creator: Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis
The Angels' Share (2012)
Comedy | Drama
This bitter sweet comedy follows protagonist Robbie as he sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time. Overwhelmed by the moment, he swears that Luke will not have the same tragic life he has had. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, he's given one last chance……While serving a community service order, he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo who, like him, find it impossible to find work because of their criminal records. Little did Robbie imagine how turning to drink might change their lives – not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. Will it be 'slopping out' for the next twenty years, or a new future with 'Uisge Beatha' the 'Water of Life?' Only the angels know……..
Starring: Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, William Ruane, Roger Allam, Siobhan Reilly
Director: Ken Loach
The Woman in Black (2012)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Young lawyer Arthur Kipps travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client's papers, where he encounters the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger Allam, Sophie Stuckey, Misha Handley
Director: James Watkins
