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  • Traffik
  • Traffik review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Shooting The Past
  • Shooting The Past review by skeadugenga from Reading, England
    Rated - 5.0 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 ...   Read customer review
  • Perfect Strangers
  • Perfect Strangers review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 5.0 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 ...   Read customer review

Lindsay Duncan - filmography


  • White Heat on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Sam Claflin,  Claire Foy,  MyAnna Buring
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    White Heat is a new drama series about the interwoven lives, loves and betrayals of seven characters whose relationships are forged in the white heat of the Sixties through to the present day.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 47 members
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  • Christopher & His Kind on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Matt Smith,  Lindsay Duncan,  Imogen Poots
    Director: Geoffrey Sax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the writer Christopher Isherwood's critically acclaimed memoir, Christopher And His Kind, this landmark BBC adaptation gives a fascinating glimpse into the decadent and politically unstable world of 1930s Berlin. A young wide-eyed Christopher escapes repressive English society and arrives ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 699 members
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  • The Sinking of Laconia on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Lindsay Duncan,  Ken Duken,  Paul Hilton
    Director: Uwe Janson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Sinking Of The Laconia tells the true story of the heroism that was shown by everyday people in the face of adversity during the Second World War when the British vessel, the RMS Laconia, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 386 members
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  • Come Fly With Me - Series 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Matt Lucas,  David Walliams,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Paul King
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The BBC's cameras have been given unprecedented access to one of Britain's busiest airport terminals. For months, the producers have followed anyone and everyone to produce this portrait of life at the cutting edge of aviation. From check-in staff to cabin crew, from pilots to paparazzi, and from ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 284 members
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  • Marple - Series 5 (4 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Julia McKenzie,  Lindsay Duncan,  Joanna Lumley
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Celebrated actress Julia McKenzie (Cranford; Notes On A Scandal) stars as the world-famous crime writer, Miss Jane Marple in this stunning collection of 4 new murder mysteries. Miss Marple's sweet old lady exterior hides an excellent perception of human nature and a razor sharp intuition for ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 74 members
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  • Margaret on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Lindsay Duncan,  Ian McDiarmid,  Julian Firth
    Director: James Kent
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama charting Margaret Thatcher's astonishing fall from power, one of the most extraordinary stories of political assassination the world has seen. It took only eleven days for Thatcher to go from being the most powerful woman in the world to the tearful figure in the back of the car. A major ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 306 members
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  • Margot on DVD (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 pairing with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 277 members
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  • Lost in Austen - E01 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Lost in Austen - E02 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 3,678 members
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  • Lost in Austen - E03 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
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  • Lost in Austen - E04 (2008)
    Starring: Jemima Rooper,  Gemma Arterton,  Alex Kingston
    Director: Dan Zeff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this series, Amanda Price loves reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night she meets the novel's heroine, Lizzie - a small door links their worlds - and Amanda goes back in time. As the book's events unfold in the wrong way she tries to fix them but makes them worse and becomes trapped...
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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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 95 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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 31 members
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  • Under The Tuscan Sun (2004)
    Starring: Diane Lane,  Sandra Oh,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Audrey Wells
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Frances Mayes is a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed. Her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think that she might never recover. "Dr. Patti's" prescription: ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 11,754 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 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 care of his younger sister Roberta (Paula Sage) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 575 members
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  • Hamilton Mattress on DVD (2001)
    Starring: William Hootkins,  David Thewlis,  Lindsay Duncan
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 101 members
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  • Perfect Strangers (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Michael Gambon,  Lindsay Duncan,  Matthew MacFadyan
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Perfect Strangers is a drama about a family reunion as told from the point of view of Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen). One of Daniel's relatives, Stephen (Anton Lester), has an archive of family photographs, which he is happy to share with everyone. This leads to Daniel discovering a whole other side to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,307 members
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  • Dirty Tricks on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Martin Clunes,  James Bolam,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Paul Seed
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    'Dirty Tricks' follows the hapless exploits of an unscrupulous English tutor at a seedy language school in Oxford. On the surface he is an eternal student: charming, witty and accomplished. Beneath the facade however, he displays a brilliant and ruthless talent for lying and manipulating everyone ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 249 members
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  • An Ideal Husband on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Minnie Driver,  Rupert Everett,  Cate Blanchett
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In a moment of youthful indiscretion, Sir Robert Chiltern provided an Austrian baron with secret Foreign Office information. As payment he received the money that became the basis of his fortune and of his splendid, otherwise unimpeachable government career. Years later, he is blackmailed by a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,229 members
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  • Shooting The Past (2 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Billie Whitelaw,  Timothy Spall,  Emilia Fox
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    American property developer Christopher Anderson (Liam Cunningham) has plans to renovate an English country house in order to open a business school. However the staff of the vast photo library already housed there are determined to stop him. It soon transpires that there is a picture of Anderson's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 2,577 members
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  • Mansfield Park (1999)
    Starring: Embeth Davidtz,  Jonny Lee Miller,  Alessandro Nivola
    Director: Patricia Rozema
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This sterling adaptation of Austen's third published novel, set in early 19th century Portsmouth, England, concerns Fanny Price (O'Connor), an intelligent young woman who is sent to live with her mother's wealthy family. Settling into her new life, Fanny is treated poorly by everyone except her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4,573 members
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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Barry Lynch,  Lindsay Duncan,  Alex Jennings
    Director: Adrian Noble
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Shakespeare's comic romance is once again translated to the screen in this lively adaptation. The fantasy is brought to live by the cream of the Royal Shakespeare Company who introduce a new character, 'The Boy', to tell the tale.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 229 members
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  • Jake's Progress (4 discs) on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Robert Lindsay,  Julie Walters,  Barclay Wright
    Director: Robin Lefevre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Parenthood is not what Jamie (Robert Lindsay) and Julie Diadoni (Julie Walters) expected and son Jake is born at a time of domestic tension. Jamie - a handsome failed musician - loses his job and Julie becomes the full time breadwinner, while Jamie takes on the role of house husband. Jake grows up ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 835 members
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  • The Rector's Wife (2 discs) on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Lindsay Duncan,  Jonathan Coy,  Prunella Scales
    Director: Giles Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A four-part tale of a woman whose yearning for independence puts her at odds with her community. Barely scraping by for her family on her husband's salary, she becomes desperate and takes a job where she discovers there is much more to the world than her priggish neighbours in Cotswold Village...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 37 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? cable ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 522 members
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  • G.B.H. (4 discs) on DVD (1991)
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,777 member
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 44 members
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  • Traffik (2 discs) on DVD (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 627 members
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  • Loose Connections (1983)
    Starring: Lindsay Duncan,  Stephen Rea,  Carole Harrison
    Director: Richard Eyre
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two strangers with almost no common ground are stuck travelling across Europe together in this British comedy. Sally (Lindsay Duncan) is an ardent feminist from London who, with the help of two of her closest friends, builds her own car. Sally and her comrades are to attend a conference on women's ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 3 members
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  • Grown - Ups (1980)
    Starring: Brenda Blethyn,  Phil Davis,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Interesting comedy-drama in which Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and are besieged by some familiar faces.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 48 members
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Lindsay Duncan facts

5 most recent films

White Heat - 3.0 stars
Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror - 4.0 stars
Come Fly With Me - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Christopher & His Kind - 3.5 stars
The Sinking of Laconia - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rome - Complete Second Series - 4.5 stars
Doctor Who Waters of Mars and Final Specials - 4.0 stars
Rome - Series 1-2 - Complete - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Rome - Complete First Series - 4.0 stars
Shooting The Past - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Muck And Brass - The Complete Series - 1.0 stars
Loose Connections - 1.5 stars
Body Parts - 2.0 stars
Travelling Man - The Complete Series - 3.0 stars
The Rector's Wife - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Purefoy - 26 times - show films
Kevin McKidd - 25 times - show films
Indira Varma - 24 times - show films
Kenneth Cranham - 24 times - show films
Kerry Condon - 24 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Allen Coulter - 24 times - show films
Michael Apted - 24 times - show films
Julian Farino - 18 times - show films
none - 11 times - show films
Dan Zeff - 10 times - show films