Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
- Bernard Shaw Collection, The (The Millionairess; Mrs. Warren's Profession; The Apple Cart ; Pygmalion; Heartbreak House; You Never Can Tell; The Man of Destiny; Androcles and the Lion; The Devil's Disciple; Arms and the Man) (1972-1989)
- Dir. David Jones
Feat. Maggie Smith, John Gielgud, Patrick Stewart…
- Star–studded BBC adaptations of ten masterpieces of the stage by George Bernard Shaw. This set includes, over 8 discs the following…
- Lady Jane (1985)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter
- Helena Bonham–Carter leads a Royal Shakespeare Co. cast for this historical pageant about the shortest reigning British monarch.
- Room with a View, A (1985)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott
- One of the better Merchant–Ivorys, this light–toned adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel sets an array of well–to–do English…
- Barbara Cartland Collection, The (A Hazard of Hearts, The Lady and the Highwayman, A Ghost in Monte Carlo, Duel of Hearts) (1987-1991)
- Feat. Hugh Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael York…
- Four made–for–TV adaptations from the prolific romance novel oeuvre of British writer and media personality Barbara Cartland.
A HAZARD…
- Francesco (1989)
- Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter
- Mickey Rourke and Helena Bonham–Carter star in this lavish yet clunky Italian production of the story of Francis of Assisi, the 13th Century…
- Hamlet (1990)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates…
- Mel Gibson pulls off a creditable lead performance as the melancholy Dane, certainly aided by the director's eye for detail, and top supporting…
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
- Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Judy Davis, Helena Bonham Carter, Rupert Graves…
- An untimely death in the family spurs Judy Davis, Helena Bonham–Carter and Rupert Graves to squabble it out in…
- Howards End (1992)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter
- Merchant/Ivory's E.M. Forster adaptation is so exquisite it pales their previous efforts. Forster's usual themes of class injustice and emotional…
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Branagh swamps the gothic classic with theatricality and allows himself far too much screen time, impressing on us that his ego that is the real…
- Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, Mira Sorvino…
- An ironic Greek chorus punctuates Woody Allen's familiar Manhattan–set comedy of betrayals and affairs. This time though, the implications of…
- Margaret's Museum (1995)
- Dir. Mort Ransen
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Craig Olejnik…
- Crisply shot costume drama with Helena Bonham–Carter, determined to marry outside her dreary 1940s Nova Scotia coal–mining hometown. Has…
- Twelfth Night (1996)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne…
- William Shakespeare is rediscovered yet again, in one of his wittier flights of fancy, served up with such 90s icons as Helena Bonham Carter, Richard…
- Wings of the Dove, The (1997)
- Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Charlotte Rampling…
- Helena Bonham–Carter, back in costume, shines in this adaptation of the Henry James novel, playing a 19th century gentlewoman on the…
- Merry War, A (Keep the Aspidistra Flying) (1997)
- Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter
- A literate, aware version of George Orwell's early comic novel set in a stagnating 1930s Britain. Richard E Grant plays Orwell's self–parody of…
- Theory of Flight, The (1998)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh
- Helena Bonham–Carter plays a misery–guts in a wheelchair, crippled by motor–neuron disorder, who gets a companion in the form of an…
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth
- Attempting to “re–imagine” (rather than merely ape) the 1968 original, dir. Burton ups the ante with fiercer simians and darker…
- Novocaine (2001)
- Dir. David Atkins
Feat. Steve Martin, Laura Dern, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Dentist Steve Martin is singled out for bad luck in this noir black comedy, that conflates Coen Bros–type weird mishaps, great casting and a…
- Till Human Voices Wake Us (2001)
- Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter
- A supernaturally–tinged drama in which psychiatrist Guy Pearce returns his hometown and the spectres of a doomed teenage romance.
Mourning…
- Sweet Revenge (The Revenger's Comedies) (2002)
- Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas…
- A blackly comic caper, this adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s “Revenger’s Comedies” concerns two would–be suicides who, on…
- Heart of Me, The (2002)
- Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams
- A moody, though slightly outmoded period drama set in London between the wars in which two sisters become involved with the same man, as wife and…
- Live From Baghdad (2002)
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard…
- Media drama set in war–time Iraq tracking a gutsy group of CNN journalists who are among the few to choose to remain in Baghdad to capture the…
- Big Fish (2003)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup…
- A fantasy of substance from dir. Tim Burton, set around a dying father (Finney) and his son (Crudup), who relives the father's tall stories, piecing…
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Lavish with magnificent visual icing, this version of Roald Dahl's classic childrens' story is a pretty tasty updating of the story of young Charlie…
- Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
- Triumphant big–screen leap for the amiably English claymation heroes – Wallace and Gromit – with this effort finding them running…
- Corpse Bride (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) (2005)
- Dir. Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson
- An animated tour–de–force from dir. Burton which fuses spindley puppetry and subtle CGI for its mythic tale of a sallow young bridegroom…
- Conversations with Other Women (2005)
- Dir. Hans Canosa
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Helena Bonham Carter
- An innovative, bittersweet romantic two–hander that uses split screen for its entire running time to explore the contrasting…
- Sixty Six (2006)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Rea…
- Gentle, uplifting British comedy–drama about a young boy preparing for his Bar Mitzvah in North London, which just happens to clash with the…
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Robbie Coltrane, Helena Bonham Carter…
- The fifth movie of the Harry Potter franchise finds the Wiz–kid struggling with adolescent hormones, a blind bureaucracy and most memorably,…
- Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman…
- Johnny Depp is centre stage once again for dir. Tim Burton in this fiendish screen rendition of Stephen Sondheim's twisted musical about a…
- Terminator Salvation (2009)
- Dir. McG
Feat. Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood…
- Po–faced fourth installment in the TERMINATOR franchise sees a grizzly John Connor (Bale) lead the resistance against SKYNET and its army of…