Movies with Phyllida Law
Movies found: 14, viewing from 1 to 14
Peter's Friends
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1992
Country: UK
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Phyllida Law, Richard Briers
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Ten years later, Peter inherits a large estate from his father, and invites the rest of the gang to spend New Year's holiday with him. Many changes have taken place in the lives of all the friends assembled, but Peter has a secret that will shock them all.
The Secret World of Arrietty
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Year: 2010
Country: Japan
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Starring: Peter Jason, Moises Arias, Will Arnett, Saoirse Ronan, Geraldine McEwan, Mark Strong, Phyllida Law
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items that they borrow from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
Brush with Fate
Genres: Drama
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Brent Shields
Starring: Glenn Close, Ellen Burstyn, Kelly Macdonald, Kieran Bew, Phyllida Law, Patrick Bergin, Thomas Gibson
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.
Much Ado About Nothing
Year: 1993
Country: USA, UK
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Brian Blessed, Kate Beckinsale, Imelda Staunton, Emma Thompson, Phyllida Law
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, an arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner. Meanwhile, the evil Don Jon conspires to break up the wedding by accusing Hero of infidelity. In the end, though, it all turns out to be "much ado about nothing."
Saving Grace
Year: 2000
Country: UK
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Bill Bailey, Brenda Blethyn, Leslie Phillips, Jamie Foreman, Phyllida Law, Craig Ferguson, Paul Brooke
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Imagine a Cheech and Chong pothead comedy, only instead of two scruffy lowlifes, the movie is about an aimless Scottish gardener and a middle-aged British widow with a green thumb. Grace (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies and Little Voice) has just discovered that her recently deceased husband has left her with an enormous debt when her gardener Matthew (Craig Ferguson, The Big Tease) asks her to help him tend to his small, personal-use marijuana crop. Grace soon realizes that they can turn her green house into a hydroponics laboratory and turn out a profitable crop--if only they can keep the local constables at bay and then find a dealer to...
Day of Wrath
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2006
Country: UK, Hungary
Director: Adrian Rudomin
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Brian Blessed, Phyllida Law, James Faulkner, Géza Schramek, Lukács Bicskey, Blanca Marsillach
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Set in the 16th century, a sheriff working on a series of murders has to choose between his conscience and protecting his family when he's tied to the crimes.
Unleashed aka Danny the Dog
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2005
Country: USA, UK, France
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jet Li, Tamer Hassan, Bob Hoskins, Phyllida Law, Kerry Condon, Vincent Regan
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Danny is the slave of British crime boss Bart, Bart adopted Danny when he was a child and has turned him into a dog and makes him wear a collar around his neck. When Bart removes the collar from Danny's neck, Danny unleashes his lethal fighting skills and becomes a killing machine, when Bart orders Danny to attack the targets. After being wounded in a accident and Bart ends up in a coma, Danny is befriend by a American blind piano turner named Sam and his teenage stepdaughter Victoria and they welcome him into their family. Sam and Victoria decides to teach Danny about the world and being human. When Bart wakes up from his coma and he and his...
The Time Machine
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Simon Wells
Starring: Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Sienna Guillory, Alan Young, Phyllida Law
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Based on the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist and inventor, Alexander Hartdegen, is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future, where he discovers that mankind has divided into the hunter - and the hunted.
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Year: 1999
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: John Henderson
Starring: Kieran Culkin, Michael Williams, Frank Finlay, Randy Quaid, Colm Meaney, Caroline Carver, Phyllida Law
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
American businessman Jack Woods rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns. Leprechaun Seamus Muldoon's son and son's friends crash the fairies' costume ball and Muldoon's son falls in love with fairy Princess Jessica. Their love re-ignites a feud between the leprechauns and the fairies, which escalates into a war. The Grand Banshee warns of terrible consequences and Jack Woods is chosen to make peace. Woods interrupts his own romance with an Irish beauty to help, and becomes involved in a strange and wonderful magical adventure.
Copying Beethoven
Year: 2006
Country: Germany, USA, Hungary
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Matthew Goode, Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Joe Anderson, Phyllida Law, Ralph Riach, David Kennedy
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Vienna, 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts, so a promising student of composition, Anna Holtz, 23, is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes, she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the work's debut. During the next two years, the final ones of Beethoven's life, Anna provides assistance to the deaf, temperamental, ailing man. In return, he tutors her in composition and explains to her the ideas and principles of Romanticism. He tries to speak for God.
Miss Potter
Year: 2006
Country: USA, UK
Director: Chris Noonan
Starring: Ewan McGregor, David Bamber, Emily Watson, Phyllida Law, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson, Matyelok Gibbs
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne's first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents' way of life and London.
Tooth
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Edouard Nammour
Starring: Sally Phillips, Phyllida Law, Harry Enfield, Tim Dutton, Yasmin Paige, Rory Copus, Maisie Preston
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Tooth (Yasmin Paige) is a fairy from the mysterious Fairytopia land, and she is bored of her hard everyday duties in this family-friendly adventure movie. Tooth's job is to collect the teeth and to leave coins, and she suddenly leaves a big sum of money in the house of the two youngsters Tolly (Maisie Preston) and Tom (Rory Copus). Their dad and mom know nothing about the fortune and, meanwhile, Tooth finds out Fairytopia lacks Christmas money funds due to her loss. Persecuted by the evil money-craving Plug (Phyllida Law), they can save the holidays on their way to Fairyland only together.
The Waiting Room
Genres: Drama
Year: 2007
Country: UK
Director: Roger Goldby
Starring: Frank Finlay, Daisy Donovan, Phyllida Law, Rupert Graves, Allan Corduner, Peggy Batchelor, Anne-Marie Duff
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives maybe they can meet again.
Emma
Year: 1996
Country: USA, UK
Director: Douglas McGrath
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, James Cosmo, Phyllida Law, Toni Collette, Jeremy Northam, Greta Scacchi
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.