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  • Traffik
  • Traffik review by from London
    Rated - 5 stars A magnificent piece of television 14 May 2004
    ...s developed concerning two German cops who arrest a druglord prompting his wife(Lindsay Duncan)to take matters into her own hands. The real loss to the remake is the stran...  
  • Shooting The Past
  • Shooting The Past review by skeadugenga from Reading, England
    Rated - 5 stars I love this film 14 October 2005
    ...Spall stands out, but couldn't have done so without the support of the others. Lindsay Duncan and Liam Cunningham are marvellous, Billie Whitelaw sublime. And the story is ...  
  • Perfect Strangers
  • Perfect Strangers review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 5 stars Every family has its good stories! 15 June 2009
    ...rade and a bemused Doctor Watson. With a cast that included Michael Gambon, Lindsay Duncan, Matthew Macfadyen, Claire Skinner, Toby Stephens and Timothy Spall this three ...  

Lindsay Duncan - filmography


  • Margot (2009)
    Starring: Penelope Wilton,  Anne-Marie Duff,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Otto Bathurst
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Margot examines the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain’s first international ballet superstar. At the age of 40, Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne-Marie Duff – The Virgin Queen; Shameless) was seemingly at her creative peak and under mounting pressure to retire gracefully. Her unexpected ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 16th November 2009
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  • Lost In Austen (2 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Riley,  Alex Kingston,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) is a devoted Jane Austen fan; often immersing herself into a world of dashing gents, elegant corsets and picturesque manor houses. Unsatisfied with her life and relationship in modern day London, Amanda's ordinary existence is changed forever when she discovers ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 2,530 members
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  • Frankenstein on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Helen McCrory,  James Purefoy,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Jed Mercurio
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Victoria Frankenstein is conducting ground breaking, but highly controversial work in the field of stem cell research and medical biotechnology. She is obsessed with her research, The Universal Xenograft Project (UX), generating a multi-organ bank to create organs which are fit for human transplant...read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 67 members
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  • Longford (2006)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Lindsay Duncan,  Kika Markham
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Mere mention of convicted child murderer Myra Hindley's name is enough to send shivers down the spines of most people in her native U.K. This HBO drama concerns the strange friendship Hindley struck up with a British Lord, Frank Aungier Pakenham (the seventh Earl of Longford), after she was ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 15 members
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  • Under The Tuscan Sun on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Diane Lane,  Sandra Oh,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Audrey Wells
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this acclaimed feel-good romantic drama based on the memoirs of Frances Mayes, Academy Award nominee, Diane Lane, plays Frances, the West-Coast American writer battling against writers block and depression after her marriage breaks down. Her impulsive purchase of a dilapidated villa in Tuscany ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 10,854 members
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  • AfterLife on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Lindsay Duncan,  Kevin McKidd,  Paula Sage
    Director: Alison Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On the verge of a breakthrough of his career, ambitious young journalist Kenny (Kevin McKidd: Kingdom of Heaven, Trainspotting) learns that his mother May (Lindsay Duncan) is dying of cancer. The discovery forces him to re-evaluate his life and responsibilities - particularly when he inherits the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 494 members
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  • Hamilton Mattress on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Thewlis,  Henry Goodman,  William Hootkins
    Director: Barry Purves
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Sludger is that rarest of creatures, an interesting aardvark, who along with his best friend, a caterpillar called Feldwick, heads off to the bright lights of Beak City, the glamorous world of the birds. There he becomes a rock drummer and changes his name to Hamilton Mattress but not all the birds ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 95 members
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  • Dirty Tricks on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Martin Clunes,  James Bolam,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Paul Seed
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three features. In 'Adrift', Katie and Guy Nash set off on a second honeymoon aboard a luxury yacht in an effort to overcome their relationship problems. However, their plans take a drastic turn when they encounter a derelict vessel. They board the drifting boat to search for survivors...Also ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 211 members
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  • A Year In Provence on DVD (1992)
    Starring: John Thaw,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: David Tucker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A YEAR IN PROVENCE is the four-part adaptation of Peter Mayle's true-life bestseller about the first year he and his wife (played by John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan) spent in a 200-year-old French farmhouse, and the gastronomical splendours they experienced. Originally produced for the A&E cable ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 386 members
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  • The Reflecting Skin (1990)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Lindsay Duncan,  Jeremy Cooper
    Director: Philip Ridley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. But far more ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 33 members
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  • Traffik (2 discs) (1989)
    Starring: Bill Paterson,  Lindsay Duncan,  Julia Ormond
    Director: Alastair Reid
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    TRAFFIK is the 5 1/2 hour miniseries that provided the basis for Stephen Soderbergh's Oscar-winning film TRAFFIC, and its length provides the production with an opportunity to delve more deeply into the drug trade and addiction, making it a more complete film than its Hollywood incarnation. TRAFFIK ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 496 members
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  • G.B.H. (4 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Robert Lindsay,  Michael Palin,  Julie Walters
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alan Bleasdale’s GBH is an epic, darkly humorous story of power, corruption and madness played out in the conflict between the enigmatic politician, Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) and his nemesis, schoolteacher Jim Nelson (Michael Palin). Nelson accidentally defies a Murray-inspired 24-hour strike ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,612 member
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Lindsay Duncan - watch online


  • Lost In Austen, Episode 1 to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Reinvention of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', where Amanda Price, disillusioned with her life in London and disenchanted with her boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet in her bathroom and goes back in time and swapping place with Lizzie, enters the 'real' fictional world of Pride and ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 69 members
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  • Lost In Austen, Episode 2 to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Reinvention of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', where Amanda Price, disillusioned with her life in London and disenchanted with her boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet in her bathroom and goes back in time and swapping place with Lizzie, enters the 'real' fictional world of Pride and ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 83% from 65 members
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  • Lost In Austen, Episode 3 to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Reinvention of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', where Amanda Price, disillusioned with her life in London and disenchanted with her boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet in her bathroom and goes back in time and swapping place with Lizzie, enters the 'real' fictional world of Pride and ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 83% from 59 members
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  • Lost In Austen, Episode 4 to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Run time: 50 minutes
    Reinvention of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', where Amanda Price, disillusioned with her life in London and disenchanted with her boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet in her bathroom and goes back in time and swapping place with Lizzie, enters the 'real' fictional world of Pride and ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 67 members
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Lindsay Duncan facts

5 most recent films

Margot - 3 stars
Lost In Austen - 4.0 stars
Rome - Complete Second Series - 4.5 stars
Frankenstein - 2.5 stars
Longford - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rome - Complete Second Series - 4.5 stars
Shooting The Past - 4.0 stars
Rome - Complete First Series - 4.0 stars
Lost In Austen - 4.0 stars
Perfect Strangers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Margot - 3 stars
Body Parts - 2.0 stars
Grown - Ups - 3.0 stars
The Reflecting Skin - 3.0 stars
Longford - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Purefoy - 16 times - show films
Kevin McKidd - 15 times - show films
Ciarán Hinds - 14 times - show films
Polly Walker - 14 times - show films
Tobias Menzies - 14 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Apted - 14 times - show films
Allen Coulter - 14 times - show films
Julian Farino - 8 times - show films
none - 6 times - show films
Dan Zeff - 6 times - show films