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Stephen Fry has 23 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including V for Vendetta.
Ip Man 2
2010
Action · History

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Red, White & Royal Blue
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Prime Video · Included

Blackadder
1983 · Series · Actor
Top 12%Hulu · Included

The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%AMC+ · Included

A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989 · Series · Actor · Creator
Top 27%Peacock · Included

Peter's Friends
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Prime Video · Included

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Dir. James McTeigue · With Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea

The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage

After an altercation between Alex, the president's son, and Britain's Prince Henry at a royal event becomes tabloid fodder, their long-running feud now threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations. When the rivals are forced into a staged truce, their icy relationship begins to thaw and the friction between them sparks something deeper than they ever expected.
Dir. Matthew López · With Taylor Zakhar Perez, Nicholas Galitzine, Uma Thurman

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace

Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.
Dir. Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson, Ben Elton · With Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Dir. Clive Exton · With Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.
Dir. Paul Weiland · With Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Dir. Matt Brown · With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones

A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Dir. Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry · With Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.
Dir. Chris Butler · With Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldaña, Zach Galifianakis

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Dir. James Bobin · With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway

In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
Dir. Dave McKean · With Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon

Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, John Lithgow

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a chat at the theatre with Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas leads to a full-fledged romance. However, this affair leads to a legal dispute with Lord Alfred's oppressive father, the Marquess of Queensberry, and, given the local anti-gay laws, Wilde is jailed. Wilde's vast intellect helps him survive until he regains his freedom.
Dir. Brian Gilbert · With Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave

One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
Dir. Damon Gameau · With Damon Gameau, Stephen Fry, Brenton Thwaites

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau
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

From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.
Dir. Whit Stillman · With Kate Beckinsale, Xavier Samuel, Morfydd Clark

After he’s grounded by an injury, a high-flying bachelor is saddled with two wide-eyed orphans as they come face-to-face with the dangers and beauty of the outside world.
Dir. Christopher Jenkins · With Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya, Lance Lim

After the death of his uncle, 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of the UK's secret intelligence service, MI6, into a mission which will save millions of lives.
Dir. Geoffrey Sax · With Alex Pettyfer, Sarah Bolger, Ewan McGregor
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
Dir. James Oakley · With Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Alice Eve