Eileen Atkins Movies

Cold Mountain

72/100

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

What a Girl Wants

59/100

An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes it could cause a scandal and cost him the election.

Last Chance Harvey

67/100

In London for his daughter's wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.

Ask the Dust

58/100

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

Wit

81/100

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

Cold Comfort Farm

73/100

A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

61/100

Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?

Jack & Sarah

66/100

A young American woman becomes a nanny in the home of a recent British widower.

The Scapegoat

72/100

Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.

Gib's Ihm Chris!

73/100

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship... See full summary »

Sharon's Baby

39/100

A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange ... See full summary »

David Copperfield

73/100

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

Madame Bovary

66/100

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent.... See full summary »

Women Talking Dirty

63/100

A lively, outspoken single mother in Edinburgh, Scotland, develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Bertie and Elizabeth

72/100

A chronicle of the life of George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.

The Lost Language of Cranes

59/100

A young gay man comes out to his middle-class parents, which has repercussions for his father who has long since been trying to repress his own sexuality.

The Lady from the Sea

75/100

A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.

The Lady's Not for Burning

92/100

A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman already accused of witchcraft who wants to live.

Nelly's Version

71/100

She remembers nothing before standing at a hotel reception and signing the first, and only, name that comes into her head - Nelly Dean...

The Lives of Animals

80/100

A Better Class of Person

72/100

An Extract of Autobiography for Television

The Children's Rebellion

Raku Fire

Eileen Atkins plays a middle aged woman determined to make her own life in the way she wants and has always dreamed about.

Major Barbara

Barbara is a girl of unbending principle, a Major in the Salvation Army. Andrew Undershaft is a wealthy armaments manufacturer. Their clash has unexpected results.