Imelda Staunton Movies

Freedom Writers

75/100

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.

The Awakening

65/100

In 1921, England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.

Pride

78/100

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Taking Woodstock

67/100

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Vera Drake

77/100

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

The Girl

63/100

The turbulent relationship between filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren.

Crush

59/100

Three female friends behave badly.

Finding Your Feet

66/100

On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.

A Deal Is a Deal

62/100

A comedy about ordinary people with unique dilemmas. How far will they go? Will the cocktail of desperation, friendship, loneliness, love and even a brush with cannibalism derail their intent?

My Family and Other Animals

75/100

An English family relocates to sunny Greece four years before WWII.

Rat

60/100

A woman becomes furious when her husband arrives home from the local pub and turns into a rat.

Another Life

64/100

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in the early 1920s, in London.

That Day We Sang

76/100

Musical set in 1969, with flashbacks to 1929. A middle-aged couple find love after meeting on a TV programme about a choir they both sang in as children.

Deadly Advice

63/100

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried...

Gypsy: Live from the Savoy Theatre

82/100

A filmed recording of a live performance of the Chichester Festival Theatre revival, which played at the Savoy from April till November 2015.

Remember Me?

55/100

A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old ... See full summary »

National Theatre Live: Follies

83/100

The former Weismann's Follies girls return to their old theatre one last time. At the core of the story are two married couples on the brink of collapse. As the night goes on, egos are unleashed, lies are exposed, and secrets are revealed.

The Virgin of Liverpool

63/100

An unwanted statue of the Virgin Mary affects an entire community after an apparent miracle in a chip shop.

A Masculine Ending

62/100

While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, ... See full summary »

Don't Leave Me This Way

59/100

British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension ... See full summary »

The Canterville Ghost

An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by the ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

66/100