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…
Enid (2009)
- Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew MacFadyen, Denis Lawson…
- Sober biopic of famed children's author Enid Blyton is less than flattering in its portrayal with Bonham Carter giving a masterclass in…
Gruffalo, The (2009)
- Dir. Max Lang, Jakob Schuh
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt…
- Delightful adaptation of the bestselling children's book about the brave little mouse who uses his wits and imagination to thwart predators.
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Dir. Tim Burton goes down the rabbit hole in this feverish retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic tale told with his customary visual brio.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane…
- Seventh and penultimate film in the H.K. Rowling–penned franchise now finds Harry and pals Ron and Hermione on the lam as Lord Voldemort…
King's Speech, The (2010)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Justly acclaimed tale of King George VI, his nervy, impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become…
Toast (2010)
- Dir. S.J. Clarkson
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott, Freddie Highmore…
- Heartily nostalgic adaptation of chef and author Nigel Slater's best–selling memoir, about growing up in a stodgy British household in the 60s…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane…
- This eighth and final Harry Potter installment concludes the boy wizard's epic journey from Hogswart apprentice to world savior.
Gruffalo's Child, The (2011)
- Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt…
- Charming sequel sees the Gruffalo's daughter setting off into the woods to discover the 'big bad mouse' – the only thing her father is afraid…
Dark Shadows (2012)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Tim Burton directs Johnny Depp (for the eight time) in the cult role of Barnabas Collins, a 200–year–old vampire who reawakens in the…
Les Miserables (2012)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway…
- Victor Hugo's classic novel set during the French revolution receives its latest big screen musical adaptation courtesy of dir. Tom Hooper (THE…
Great Expectations (2013)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Holliday Grainger…
- Dir. Mike Newell utilises incredible art direction and a wardrobe for the ages while offering nothing unexpected in this professionally delivered…
Lone Ranger, The (2013)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner…
- Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer bring TV western heroes Tonto and the Lone Ranger to the big screen in this splashy, rumble–and–rumble…
Burton and Taylor (2013)
- Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Dominic West
- A spot–on insight into the relationship of glamour couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – played uncannily by Helena Bonham Carter…
Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, The (2013)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis…
- The director of AMELIE's first American–set feature is another fairy–dusted vision brimming with child–like wonder and as a road…
Cinderella (2015)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden…
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh re–imagines the classic tale of young Ella who finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters, and…
Suffragette (2015)
- Dir. Sarah Gavron
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Rousing account of the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain seen through the eyes of a working mother who's galvanized into political action by…
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
- Dir. James Bobin
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Effects heavy sequel to Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND has Alice returning to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travelling back in time to help…
Ocean's 8 (Ocean's Eight) (2018)
- Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway…
- A star–studded ensemble cast deliver a slick heist caper in the vein of previous installments. A team of crooks go for a 150 million dollar…
Crown, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Third season of the sumptuous costume drama, with Olivia Colman replacing Claire Foy's Queen Elizabeth II, now in her 40's. Covers such events as the…
Crown, The - Season 4 (TV Series) (2020)
- Feat. Emma Corrin, Gillian Anderson, Olivia Colman…
- Season 4 of the sumptuous costume drama is considered by some to be the best yet, though also the one with the most controversy surrounding…
One Life (2023)
- Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn…
- the true story of a London broker Nicholas Winton; who secretly organised the rail transport of hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe…