Miranda Richardson

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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.
Lost Prince, The (2003): Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Gina McKee, Miranda Richardson, Bibi Andersson…; A sumptuous BBC production concerning Prince John, the youngest son of King George V of England, whose autism and mild epilepsy embarrassed the…
Rage in Placid Lake, The (2003): Dir. Tony McNamara
Feat. Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda Richardson…; Tale of an eccentric bullied teenager, this mordant comedy executes its satire of abnormality without mercy. The titular Lake (Ben Lee)…
Actors, The (2003): Dir. Conor McPherson
Feat. Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Miranda Richardson…; Top brass actors grace this amiable comic caper about two struggling theatre players whose "talents" get them mixed up in London's criminal…
Prince and Me, The (2004): Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Julia Stiles, Miranda Richardson, James Fox; Solid 'Cinderella' updating, with Stiles playing a student who becomes romantically entwined with Crown Prince of Denmark. Fairly playful, and Stiles…
Phantom of the Opera, The (2004): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Gerard Butler, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson…; An opulently kitschy version of the amazingly successful Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, in which the shadowy, disfigured 'phantom' (Butler) tries to…
Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004): Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Christian Slater, Neve Campbell, Miranda Richardson…; A satirical swipe at Hollywood's tendency to Americanize history, with Christian Slater playing an American GI who supposedly impersonated British PM…
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005): Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman…; The fourth chapter in the unfolding Harry Potter series marks a devastating plunge into raw suspense and truly epic adventure for the young wizard…
Wah-Wah (2005): Dir. Richard E. Grant
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson…; A caustic memoir of colonial growing pains from actor Richard E. Grant (WITHNAIL AND I), chronicling his own adolescence in Swaziland during the…
Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter & Friends and Crocodiles (2005): Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson; Two BBC dramas from commended writer–director Stephen Poliakoff – 'Friends and Crocodiles' confronts the changing power balance between a…
Final Chance to Save (TV Series) (2005-2006): Feat. Joanna Lumley, Bill Bailey, Vic Reeves…; An eight–part series focused on efforts to save various endangered species from extinction, with a team of experts assisted by a celebrity…
Provoked (2006): Dir. Jag Mundhra
Feat. Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews…; Provocative indeed, this is the true story of an Indian woman (played by Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai) who radically changed how the British public…
Merlin's Apprentice (2006): Feat. Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson; Fantastical sequel to the popular mini–series version of MERLIN, this also stars Sam Neill as the legendary wizard, now mentoring a young…
Fred Claus (2007): Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson…; Middling Chrissie comedy centred on Santa's troublemaking big brother (Vaughn) and his misplaced attempts to help spread Christmas cheer at the North…
Young Victoria, The (2009): Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany…; Emily Blunt radiates in this elegant if corseted biopic of Queen Victoria's early years as she deals with royal power struggles while being wooed by…
Made in Dagenham (2010): Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson…; Nostalgic, uplifting dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford car plant in Dagenham, where female machinists famously walked out in protest…
World Without End (TV Series) (2012): Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Ben Chaplin, Charlotte Riley, Nora von Waldstätten…; Thinly drawn companion piece to THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH nonetheless makes for essential viewing for fans of the original historical series. Also…
Belle (2013): Dir. Amma Asante
Feat. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Tom Wilkinson…; Exemplary costume piece about the true story of a mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral who is raised by her aristocratic great–uncle in…
Mapp and Lucia (TV Mini-series) (Mapp & Lucia) (2014): Feat. Miranda Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Poppy Miller; Sprightly re–take on E.F. Benson's classic comedy of manners, that deftly charts the social rivalry between two women in the 1930s when Lucia…
Testament of Youth (2015): Dir. James Kent
Feat. Alicia Vikander, Kit Harrington, Taron Egerton…; Vera Brittain's acclaimed coming–of–age memoir is given the cinematic treatment in this fine adaptation, with Alicia Vikander (EX…
And Then There Were None (Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody…; A three–part miniseries based on the popular Agatha Christie novel, perhaps her darkest and most sinister work. Ten strangers are invited to an…
Churchill (2017): Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery; Brian Cox delivers an impressive performance as iconic Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the days before the D–Day landings in June 1944.
Stronger (2017): Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson…; The inspirational real–life story starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, a 27–year–old working class man who tragically lost both…
Girlfriends (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Kay Mellor
Feat. Phyllis Logan, Miranda Richardson, Zoe Wanamaker; British TV comedy following a trio of middle–aged woman who were friends in childhood, and who are coping with divorce, age discrimination,…
Rams (2020): Dir. Jeremy Sims
Feat. Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson…; Aussie re–imagining of the hit Icelandic comedy RAMS (2016), with Sam Neill the obvious choice to play a farmer in a decades long war with his…

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