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Shirley Henderson has 24 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by I Swear.
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Comedy · Drama

Take Me Home
2011
Drama · Comedy

Juliet, Naked
2018
Comedy · Drama

Delicacy
2011
Drama · Comedy

Geography Club
2013
Comedy · Drama

Love Is All You Need
2012
Comedy · Romance

People, Places, Things
2015
Romance · Comedy

Admission
2013
Comedy · Drama

24 Hour Party People
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Paramount+ · Included

Rob Roy
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Prime Video · Included

Intermission
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%MUBI · Included

Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%Max · Included

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 62%Paramount+ · Included

Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.
Dir. Kirk Jones · With Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Peter Mullan

With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public
Dir. Jon S. Baird · With Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Paddy Considine

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.
Dir. Sharon Maguire · With Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!
Dir. Uwe Heidschötter, Johannes Weiland · With Helena Bonham Carter, Shirley Henderson, Robbie Coltrane

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
Dir. Bharat Nalluri · With Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.
Dir. Matteo Garrone · With Salma Hayek Pinault, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones

A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Dir. Sofia Coppola · With Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Dir. John Crowley · With Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Kelly Macdonald

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.
Dir. Mike Leigh · With Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Dir. Kelly Reichardt · With Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.
Dir. Beeban Kidron · With Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
Dir. Todd Solondz · With Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Ally Sheedy

After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn when she meets Jack. A week later, she runs into Mark before she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.
Dir. Sharon Maguire · With Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey

Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots

A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher

In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.
Dir. Charlie Stratton · With Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton, Jessica Lange

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley

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On Christmas Eve in 1920s Vienna, a young girl named Mary and her brother are visited by their eccentric uncle Albert, who gifts a magical wooden nutcracker that comes to life and takes her to a fantasy world to fight the evil Rat King.
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky · With Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro

In this two-part miniseries adaptation of the classic adventure novel, young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can direct a schooner to an island known for buried treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious man whose true motives challenge Jim's trust in the entire crew.
Dir. Steve Barron · With Suzy Eddie Izzard, Elijah Wood, Philip Glenister
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