Stephen Frears
The Lost King
An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Victoria and Abdul
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Florence Foster Jenkins
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
The Program
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong’s performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that…
Philomena
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector…
Lay the Favorite
A former stripper’s talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Tamara Drewe
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Cheri
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the…
The Queen
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to…
Mrs Henderson Presents
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose…
Dirty Pretty Things
An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay,…
High Fidelity
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn’t changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an…
The Hi-Lo Country
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big…
The Van
Set in ”Barrytown”, a fictitious working-class quarter of Dublin. ”Bimbo” Reeves gets laid off from his job. With his redundancy, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with…
Hero
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He’s divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top…
The Grifters
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de…
Prick Up Your Ears
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the…
My Beautiful Laundrette
A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
The Hit
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former ”colleagues” and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance…