Miranda Richardson
Actor
- Blackadder - The Ultimate Edition Boxset (1983-1989)
- Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny…
- All four "Blackadder" series (24 episodes), plus the specials ("Christmas Carol", "Back & Forth", "The Cavalier Years") remastered in a 6–disc…
- Dance with a Stranger (1985)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett
- A considered and compelling account of the final years of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain to be hanged by the state, featuring a mesmerizing…
- Blackadder 2 (TV Series) (1986)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny…
- Definitive, bloody hilarious second series set in England, 1558–1603. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tape volumes: 'Bells', 'Head',…
- Eat the Rich (1987)
- Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders…
- Terrific second feature from the COMIC STRIP players makes a spectacular mockery of the British class structure and Thatcherist politics. It's a…
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson…
- A much–admired Spielberg epic in which a young boy witnesses the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. Based on the memoirs of sci–fi…
- After Pilkington (1987)
- Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. Bob Peck, Miranda Richardson, Barry Foster
- The exhilirating complications and barbed wit of Simon Gray's stageplay survive this BBC thriller, about an Oxford professor (Bob Peck) drawn into a…
- Ghosts (1987)
- Dir. Elijah Moshinsky
Feat. Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh…
- BBC television adaptation of Ibsen's great, once–controversial play about secrets and lies, sex and hypocrisy, starring Judy Dench as Mrs…
- Crying Game, The (1992)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker…
- An IRA terrorist attempts to shrug off his past but becomes involved with the chantreuse sister of the man he was obliged to murder. Surprise hit…
- Damage (1992)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
- Jeremy Irons plays a Tory cabinet minister who becomes entangled, (especially physically) with his son's fiancee – a chic,…
- Enchanted April (1992)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker…
- A gentle, lucid ensemble piece about four women who escape the constrictions of Edwardian London for a month in a castle on the Riviera.
- Century (1993)
- Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Charles Dance
- Medical researchers agonize over love, ethics and the future at the turn of the twentieth century. Though a period picture, it captures an excitable…
- Fatherland (1993)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson
- Ambitious film posits an alternative history in which Germany controls Europe and is locked in a cold war with the U.S. twenty years after winning…
- Tom and Viv (1994)
- Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson
- A moving exploration of the intense yet painful relationship between Nobel prize–winning poet T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe) and his lovably…
- Saint-Ex (1995)
- Dir. Anand Tucker
Feat. Bruno Ganz, Miranda Richardson
- Bruno Ganz is Antoine de Saint–Exupery, a wartime aviator whose reconnaissance aircraft mysteriously vanished into thin air. Miranda Richardson…
- Kansas City (1996)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
- An all–star cast jam out on the multiple storylines of Robert Altman's homage to the 30s jazz–mecca of Kansas City. The old master stirs…
- Evening Star, The (1996)
- Dir. Robert Harling
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Juliette Lewis, Bill Paxton…
- Long touted 'sequel' to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, continues the smalltown odyssey of feisty, eccentric Aurora Greenway (Shirley Maclaine), now bedevilled…
- Minette Walters - The Collection (The Ice House, The Echo, The Dark Room, The Sculptress, The Scold's Bridle) (1996-1999)
- Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence, David Thacker
Feat. Daniel Craig, Corin Redgrave, Clive Owen…
- A box–set of five film adaptations of murder mysteries by English crime writer Minette Walters, from the BBC. All are psychological thrillers…
- Apostle, The (1997)
- Dir. Robert Duvall
Feat. Robert Duvall, Miranda Richardson, Billy Bob Thornton
- Labour of love – in the best possible sense – for Robert Duvall (as Actor/Writer/Director), raising hellfire as a repentant…
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
- Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. John Gielgud, Miranda Richardson, Alan Bennett…
- Adapted from Anthony Powell's 12 volume sequence of novels which begins among the aspiring classes of Edwardian Britain and continues across the…
- Merlin (1998)
- Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Rutger Hauer…
- Playing the titular wizard, Sam Neill lends his talents to a well thought–out, monster–filled variation on the King Arthur cycle. Other…
- Alice in Wonderland (1999)
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley…
- The creators of the MERLIN TV–series pull–off another updating, this time Lewis Carroll's childrens' classic. Seamless special effects…
- Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken…
- The oft–filmed short story 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is fashioned by illustrious iconoclast Tim Burton as the goriest, most…
- Big Brass Ring, The (1999)
- Dir. George Hickenlooper
Feat. William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob…
- Curiosity–piece that updates a dusty Orson Welles script from 1980. William Hurt plays a US presidential candidate, whose murky past is being…
- Blackadder - Back and Forth (1999)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry…
- The old gang return for a one–off episode, whereby a present–day Lord Blackadder steps into a time–machine for a jaunt back through…
- Chicken Run (2000)
- Dir. Nick Park, Peter Lord
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson
- Britain's Aardman animation studio make the feature film leap with the aid of Hollywood and pull it off with wit and spirit in tact, while making…
- Miracle Maker, The (2000)
- Dir. Stanislav Sokolov, Derek Hayes
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Julie Christie, William Hurt…
- Once you get used to the jerky, THUNDERBIRDS puppet–style, this version of the Bible–story is something quite unique, allowing the…
- Snow White - The Fairest of Them All (2001)
- Dir. Caroline Thompson
Feat. Miranda Richardson, Kristin Kreuk, Vera Farmiga…
- When baby Snow's father frees a bewitched djinn, he is granted three wishes: nourishment for his child, a kingdom in which to raise her, and a queen…
- Hours, The (2002)
- Dir. Stephen Daldry
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore…
- Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer–prize winning novel is brought to the screen with excellent performances, and though simplified and not for all…
- Spider (2002)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne…
- One to relish for those with a taste acquired for the stark, uncompromising visions of David Cronenberg (CRASH, NAKED LUNCH, etc.), this is both…
- Blackadder's A Christmas Carol (2002)
- Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Robbie Coltrane…
- Version of Charles Dickens' Christmas classic, completely Blackadder–ised for your viewing pleasure.