Judi Dench

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Dir. Joe Wright · With Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

Dir. Martin Campbell · With Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen

When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.

Dir. Sam Mendes · With Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

Dir. Lasse Hallström · With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Dir. Stephen Frears · With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark

When a powerful secret defense system is stolen, James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using it.

Dir. Martin Campbell · With Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Dir. Tim Burton · With Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

Dir. Oliver Parker · With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

Dir. David Hugh Jones · With Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench

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

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

Dir. Trevor Nunn · With Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes

After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.

Dir. David Twohy · With Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandiwe Newton

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Dir. Richard Eyre · With Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Jude Hill, Jamie Dornan, Caitríona Balfe

Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson 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 money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add risqué burlesque acts similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

Dir. Stephen Frears · With Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young

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 Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

Dir. James Ivory · With Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith

Retired bachelor Mr Hoppy is hopelessly in love with his neighbour Mrs Silver, but she is only interested in her pet tortoise Alfie - until Mr Hoppy hatches an audacious plan.

Dir. Dearbhla Walsh · With James Corden, Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Michelle Pfeiffer

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Dir. Stephen Frears · With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.

Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright

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

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

Dir. Andy Goddard · With Suzy Eddie Izzard, Carla Juri, James D'Arcy

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.

Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle

Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.

Dir. Charles Dance · With Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.

Dir. Marc Forster · With Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric

An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

Dir. Justin Chadwick · With Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Christoph Waltz