John Madden

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Dir. John Madden · With Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and Shakespeare's play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship intensifies, the comedy soon transforms into tragedy.

Dir. John Madden · With Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.

Dir. John Madden · With Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil to the monarchy.

Dir. John Madden · With Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.

Dir. John Madden · With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Worthington

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

Dir. John Madden · With Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

Dir. John Madden · With Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Richard Gere

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

Dir. John Madden · With Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal

Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.

Dir. John Madden · With Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Thomas Jane

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Dir. John Madden · With Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt