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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
7.8/10
Director: Mark Jonathan Harris
Starring: Narrated by, Judi Dench
In the months before WW2, an extraordinary rescue operation aided the youngest victims of Nazi terror. Ten thousand Jewish and other children were tra... Read more
Philomena (2013)
7.6/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan
Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a "fallen woman". When her baby... Read more
Her Majesty Mrs Brown (1997)
Director: John Madden
Starring: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer
Dame Judi Dench is flawless as the morose Queen Victoria mourning the death of spouse Albert. Billy Connelly plays the plain-speaking John Brown, the... Read more
84 Charing Cross Road (1986)
7.5/10
Director: David Jones
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
A charming adult drama about a 20 year correspondence between a budding New York writer and an English dealer in Antiquarian books. Anne Bancroft and... Read more
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Dearbhla Walsh
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench, James Corden
An utterly, completely, inescapably beguiling adaptation of Roald Dahl's book by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer. A slow, wrinkly Mr Hoppy (Dus... Read more
Langrishe, Go Down (1978)
Director: David Jones
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Judi Dench, Harold Pinter
In 1930s Dublin, German scholar Otto Peck (Jeremy Irons) is writing his precious thesis with excrutiating preciousness and cynicism. He plunges into a... Read more
Jack and Sarah (1995)
Director: Tim Sullivan
Starring: Richard E Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench
A recently widowed London attorney (Richard E Grant) impulsively hires an American waitress (Samantha Mathis) as nanny to his infant daughter. This le... Read more
Iris (2001)
7.1/10
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
This compassionate true-life story centres on Iris Murdoch, the gifted British novelist and philosopher, whose latter years were ravaged by Alzheimer'... Read more
Luther (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Stacy Keach, Patrick Magee, Hugh Griffith, Judi Dench
It seems fitting that theatre's protesting, angry young man John Osborne ("Look Back in Anger", "The Entertainer") should write a play about one of hi... Read more
Red Joan (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Trevor Nunn
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Judi Dench
Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge:... Read more