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Anne Frank (2001)

8/10
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn

Based on Melissa Muller's critically acclaimed book, 'Anne Frank' goes beyond the story you already know and paints the true portrait of Anne both bef... Read more

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

7.9/10
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone, Judi Dench, Tom Hollander, Keira...

A polished and well-acted version of Jane Austen's perennially popular tale of love in the upper classes. Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland are th... Read more

Vera: Series 1 (2011)

7.8/10
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Jon Morrison

Academy Award-nominee and BAFTA Award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn stars as DCI Stanhope in critically acclaimed crime drama, Vera, based on the nov... Read more

Atonement (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn

Based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan ('Enduring Love', 'The Comfort of Strangers'), this epic war-time romance is one of the finest studies of f... Read more

Atonement ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, S...

Based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan ('Enduring Love', 'The Comfort of Strangers'), this epic war-time romance is one of the finest studies of f... Read more

Ethel & Ernest (2016)

7.8/10
Director: Roger Mainwood
Starring: Simon Day, Peter Wight, Luke Treadaway, Roger Allam, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbe...

The true story of British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs's parents, Ethel and Ernest, two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraor... Read more

Secrets and Lies (1996)

7.7/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rus...

A 27 year old black London Optometrist decides to seek out the woman who gave her up for adoption after she was born. The search leads to a surprising... Read more

Between the Sheets (2003)

7.6/10
Director: Robin Sheppard, Jane Prowse
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Alun Armstrong, James Thornton, Sally Walsh, Liz Smith, Norman W...

From the award-winning writer Kay Mellor, comes this cross-genre comedy series about a group of people who are confronting their sexual problems. Wit... Read more

A River Runs Through It (1992)

7.3/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Emily Lloyd, Craig Sheffer, Brenda Blethyn, Brad Pitt

Robert Redford's elegiac coming-of-age story is based on the memoir by Norman MacLean. Brad Pitt is the young man who finds peace and comradeship in f... Read more

A River Runs Through It ( Blu-ray ) (1992)

7.3/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Brad Pitt, Brenda Blethyn, Craig Sheffer, Emily Lloyd, Tom Skerritt

Robert Redford's elegiac coming-of-age story is based on the memoir by Norman MacLean. Brad Pitt is the young man who finds peace and comradeship in f... Read more

On A Clear Day (2005)

7/10
Director: Gaby Dellal
Starring: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Benedict Wong, Billy B...

Made redundant after a lifetime's work in the Glasgow shipyards, Frank (Peter Mullan) feels lost and discarded. His wife (Brenda Blethyn) and son are... Read more

Saving Grace (1999)

6.9/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo

On discovering she is left penniless after her husband's death, Grace turns for comfort to the one thing she loves - her greenhouse. But even Grace's... Read more

War and Peace (TV Mini-series) (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Malcolm McDowell, Alexander Beyer, Clemence Poesy, Violante Plac...

In the sweeping tradition of historical drama, Leo Tolstoy's grand masterpiece WAR AND PEACE is in a league of its own, considered a touchstone of mod... Read more

A Way of Life (2004)

6.7/10
Director: Amma Asante
Starring: Stephanie James, Gary Sheppeard, Nathan Jones, Dean Wong, Oliver Haden, Brenda B...

A moving and unavoidably grim look at the life of a teen mother and her friends who can see no way out of the poverty cycle they are in, though they l... Read more

Beyond the Sea (2004)

6.7/10
Director: Kevin Spacey
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Sc...

Kevin Spacey's unusual ode to crooner Bobby Darin is a stylised, though warts-and-all, portrayal of a man who simply wanted to be bigger than Sinatra.... Read more

The Sleeping Dictionary (2002)

6.6/10
Director: Guy Jenkin
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Bob Hoskins

Exotic drama set in the 1930s in the rainforests of Borneo. Englishman Hugh Dancy takes a job in the British colonial outpost of Sarawak and is given... Read more

Music From Another Room (1998)

6.5/10
Director: Charlie Peters
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly, Jude Law, Martha Plimpton

"Love at first sight" takes on a new meaning in this offbeat romantic comedy/drama about a young man's search for the girl whom he helped deliver when... Read more

In The Winter Dark (1998)

6.4/10
Director: James Bogle
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett, Richard Roxburgh

This intelligent, taut, psychological thriller focuses on a group of residents living in a secluded valley haunted by something or someone that is kil... Read more

Pumpkin (2002)

6.2/10
Director: Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Starring: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan,...

Silly, sweet, farcical and subversive, "Pumpkin" pushes the boundaries of teen melodrama to an absurd pitch, resulting in a film that is bracing, hila... Read more

On the Nose (2001)

6.1/10
Director: David Caffrey
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Brenda Blethyn, Dan Aykroyd

Robbie Coltrane is at his best playing a college porter addicted to gambling who finds a very unique way of picking winning race horses. Filled with a... Read more

Piccadilly Jim (2004)

6.1/10
Director: John McKay
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Frances O'Connor, Tom Wilkinson, Brenda Blethyn, Allison Janney, A...

Based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse, Sam Rockwell is American ne'er-do-well Jim Crocker, living in London with his social-climbing mother (Allison Ja... Read more

Sonny (2002)

5.7/10
Director: Nicolas Cage
Starring: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton, Mena Suvari, Seymour Cassel, B...

Meet Sonny (James Franco) and his mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn). Sonny has returned from the Army to his mother's loving arms, to the sultry, sordid s... Read more

Two Men in Town (Blu-ray) (2014)

5.7/10
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Ellen Burstyn, Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Luis Guzman

Forest Whitaker plays a parolee, who finds Allah inside, and tries to get his life on track after 18 years. He's off to a good start with a job, a ban... Read more

Daddy and Them (1999)

5.7/10
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Laura Dern, Andy Griffith, Diane Ladd, Kelly Preston, Billy Bob...

Welcome to the family reunion from Hell, location Little Rock, Arkansas... C'mon over and meet the whole clan - there's feuding lovers, Claude (Billy... Read more

Two Men in Town (2014)

5.6/10
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Ellen Burstyn, Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Luis Guzman

Forest Whitaker plays a parolee, who finds Allah inside, and tries to get his life on track after 18 years. He's off to a good start with a job, a ban... Read more

Clubland (2007)

5.4/10
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden, Richard Wilson, Rebecca Gibney, Russell Dykstra...

Moving to Australia after separating from her husband, Jeannie Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) pursues her dream of becoming a successful comedienne. Meanwhil... Read more

Lovely and Amazing (2001)

Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Jake Gyllenhaal, James LeGros,...

Nicole Holofcener's follow-up feature to her critically acclaimed debut "Walking and Talking", "Lovely and Amazing" is an intimate family portrait of... Read more

Plots With A View ( aka Undertaking Betty ) (2002)

Director: Nick Hurran
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken, Rober...

A delightfully offbeat romantic comedy about Boris Plots (Alfred Molina), a Welsh funeral director who reconnects with his lifelong crush, Betty (Bren... Read more