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Helen Mirren
Born 26 July 1945, in Ilford, Essex – Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov (dad is of Russian origin) is now more commonly known (but not, you know, commonly) as Blighty’s second-most famous acting Dame, Helen Mirren.
But at least she's played Her Majesty more often than Dame Judi – in The Madness Of King George as Queen Charlotte, wife of George III; Elizabeth I in the TV series of the same name; and a BAFTA-winner as our current monarch in The Queen.
By her early 20s, Mirren was a star of the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company, which meant much Bard work, on both stage and screen. And while enjoying a variety of film and telly work, she's perhaps best known as detective Jane Tennyson in the highly-rated Prime Suspect crime drama series.
Wise Words: "In England, becoming a Dame is a big deal. I do feel it's a great honour. But I had to think about it quite seriously for a couple of weeks. It does sort of squash you into the establishment thing. In the end, my baser feelings got the better of me. I succumbed to Pride."
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Helen Mirren - news / articles
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Dame Helen Mirren regrets snubbing Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee -
4 May 2012
-Dame Helen Mirren refused to take part in the Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977 because she was a "grumpy anti-monarchist".-The veteran star sneered at the parties marking the 25th anniversary of the royal's accession to the throne because she didn't approve of the
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Mirren learns how to save a life -
30 March 2012
-Dame Helen Mirren has learned how to give CPR after signing up to become a patron for an ambulance organisation.-The Queen star toured the London Ambulance Voluntary Responder Group this week (begs26Mar12) after agreeing to become the group's new spokesperson.- Duri
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Mirren to join Glee -
21 December 2011
-Dame Helen Mirren has signed up to lend her voice to an upcoming episode of Glee, according to a U.S. report.-The Queen star is slated to provide the "inner voice" of one of the characters, reports TVLine.com.- A source tells the website, "Helen came in and secretly
Helen Mirren - what members say
review by A customer from Chelmsford, Essex
Worth waiting for. 26 September 2005
review by A customer from Essex, UK
Still A great film after 25 years 9 January 2004
review by Hayden from stevenage
First Class !!! 22 February 2007
Helen Mirren - filmography
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Arthur
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner
Director: Jason Winer
Certificate: 
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Russell Brand reinvents the role of lovable billionaire Arthur Bach, an irresponsible charmer who has always relied on two things to get by: his limitless fortune and lifelong nanny Hobson (Academy Award® winner* Helen Mirren) to keep him out of trouble. Now he faces his biggest challenge: choosing ..read more »
 
65%
from 7,981 members
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Arthur - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner
Director: Jason Winer
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Arthur is a sweet but wildly irresponsible playboy whose millions have left him lonely and with no motivation in life. On the threshold of an arranged marriage with a simpering socialite whom he does not love, Arthur meets the spunky, blue-collar waitress Linda Marolla, and falls head over heels. ..read more »
66%
from 3,442 members
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The Tempest
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Alfred Molina
Director: Julie Taymor
Certificate: 
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In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-..read more »
51%
from 1,429 member
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RED - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
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Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents - but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork ..read more »
72%
from 18,925 members
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Love Ranch
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren
Director: Taylor Hackford
Certificate: 
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"Love Ranch" is a bittersweet love story that turns explosive when the players in a romantic triangle lose control and cross the line. Set in the late-1970s, the film depicts larger than life personalities living on the edge, Grace Bontempo and Charlie Bontempo, the husband and wife team who own ..read more »
57%
from 310 members
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RED
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
Certificate:
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Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents - but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork ..read more »
72%
from 56,261 members
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The Debt
(2010)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren
Director: John Madden
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In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth.
69%
from 256 members
Not available for rental
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The Debt - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren
Director: John Madden
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In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth.
66%
from 38 members
Not available for rental
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Brighton Rock - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren
Director: Rowan Joffe
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The year is 1964. The place is Brighton. A once quiet seaside town is suddenly overrun by gangs of sharp suited Mods and greasy Rockers looking for a riot. Amongst the chaos lurks top Mod and gangster Pinkie Brown. Ruthless, ambitious and horrifically violent, Pinkie will stop at nothing in his ..read more »
57%
from 2,724 members
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Brighton Rock
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren
Director: Rowan Joffe
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The year is 1964. The place is Brighton. A once quiet seaside town is suddenly overrun by gangs of sharp suited Mods and greasy Rockers looking for a riot. Amongst the chaos lurks top Mod and gangster Pinkie Brown. Ruthless, ambitious and horrifically violent, Pinkie will stop at nothing in his ..read more »
58%
from 11,660 members
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The Last Station
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti
Director: Michael Hoffman, Sebastian Edschmid
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Set in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his ..read more »
63%
from 6,645 members
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State Of Play - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Jason Bateman, Robin Wright, Russell Crowe
Director: Kevin Macdonald
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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND director Kevin McDonald teams with screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan for this American adaptation of the hit BBC miniseries concerning the suspicious circumstances that set a rising congressman and a dogged reporter on a dangerous collision course. U.S. congressman ..read more »
71%
from 9,238 members
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State of Play
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe
Director: Kevin Macdonald
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Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder ..read more »
71%
from 45,316 members
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The Jazz Baroness
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes
Director: Hannah Rothschild
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The true story of a Jewish British Baroness who fell in love with the musical genius Thelonious Monk.
Helen Mirren is the voice of the Jazz Baroness and Sonny Rollins, TS Monk Junior, The Duchess of Devonshire, Quincy Jones, Lord Rothschild, Roy Haynes, Chico Hamilton help recreate her story. The ..read more »
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from 15 members
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Inkheart
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
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A girl's father has the ability to summon book characters to life by reading aloud. When a nasty, rotten pack of rogues from a fable kidnap Pops, our heroine must join forces with her fictional friends and rescue him.
66%
from 30,377 members
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Inkheart - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
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A girl's father has the ability to summon book characters to life by reading aloud. When a nasty, rotten pack of rogues from a fable kidnap Pops, our heroine must join forces with her fictional friends and rescue him.
62%
from 2,758 members
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The Queen
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Roger Allam, Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen
Director: Stephen Frears
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A taut, intimate and revealing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family in turmoil during the days immediately following the death of Princess Diana.
When news of the death of Princess Diana, undoubtedly the most famous woman in the world, breaks upon a shocked and disbelieving British ..read more »
69%
from 68,935 members
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Elizabeth I
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Patrick Malahide
Director: Tom Hooper
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Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, reunited a nation divided by religious strife, faced down the Spanish Armada and, after an unprecedented 45-year reign, died one of England's best-loved monarchs. During her time as Queen, poets and playwrights wrote about her, artists painted her, composers ..read more »
71%
from 3,683 members
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Elizabeth I - Part 2
(2005)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Hugh Dancy, Toby Jones
Director: Tom Hooper
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In this drama about Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, who re-united a divided country, sent the Armada packing and encouraged a flowering of poetry, prose, art and music, we see the grimy, lustful underbelly behind the opulence and formality of the English court - and the men she loved...
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Shadowboxer
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff
Director: Lee Daniels
Certificate: 
When Rose (Helen Mirren), a female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer; she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey (Cuba Gooding Jr).
53%
from 8,933 members
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Elizabeth I - Part 1
(2005)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Hugh Dancy, Toby Jones
Director: Tom Hooper
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The story of Elizabeth I's love life is told in this drama of the life of Britain's most famous queen, which looks at the woman behind the crown. Her thoughts of marrying a French prince, being refused permission to marry the man she loved and her passionate affair with a younger man are all revealed.
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Raising Helen
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack
Director: Garry Marshall
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Helen Harris (Kate Hudson) is a rising star in the New York City fashion world, just on the brink of being promoted to agent at a premiere modeling agency. The sudden death of her older sister (Felicity Huffman) and her brother-in-law shocks Helen from her exciting life of photo shoots, nightclubs, ..read more »
61%
from 20,621 members
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The Clearing
(2004)
Starring: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
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Wayne and Eileen live the American Dream; they've raised two children and have built up a successful business. Their harmony is suddenly disrupted, however, when Wayne is kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote forest. While Wayne negotiates for his life, Eileen must work with the FBI to secure ..read more »
50%
from 10,910 members
Not currently released
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Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ben Miles, Mark Strong
Director: Tom Hooper
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Detective Superintendent Tennison takes over a murder investigation by pulling rank on a junior officer. Her team identify a chief suspect but are unable to find enough evidence for an arrest. When another murder occurs the arrest is secured, but Tennison is convinced that there's more here than ..read more »
77%
from 1,874 member
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Calendar Girls
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Julie Walters, Helen Mirren, Linda Bassett
Director: Nigel Cole
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Based on a true story, Nigel Cole's CALENDAR GIRLS has a mix of comedy and heart-tugging emotion that compares with the comedies FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and THE FULL MONTY. Annie (Julie Walters) and Chris (Helen Mirren), of bucolic Yorkshire, belong to the Women's Institute (WI), which ..read more »
69%
from 32,860 members
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Gosford Park
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant
Director: Robert Altman
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In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE ..read more »
65%
from 16,401 members
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No Such Thing
(2001)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Helen Mirren
Director: Hal Hartley
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Disgusted with human evolution, a foul mouthed monster (Robert John Burke) kills anyone who crosses his path. When a news crew sent to investigate the monster disappears, a guileless young woman (Sarah Polley) is dispatched to follow up on the story. She befriends the monster and becomes his only ..read more »
75%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Last Orders
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Graham Swift's prize-winning novel is a quietly graceful portrait of four working-class Brits, bound by years of friendship, that unites some of England's finest actors in a powerful and deeply moving ensemble production. Michael Caine stars as Jack Dodd, the ..read more »
64%
from 3,795 members
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The Pledge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Mirren, Michael O'Keefe
Director: Sean Penn
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Director Sean Penn's (THE INDIAN RUNNER, THE CROSSING GUARD) third film features Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black, a retired detective whose final case ultimately causes his slow descent into madness. In the midst of his retirement party, Black decides to join Detective Stan Krolak (Aaron Eckhart) on ..read more »
63%
from 3,487 members
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Greenfingers
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly
Director: Joel Hershman
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Colin Briggs is a man who has given up on life. Nearing the end of a long sentence for murder, Colin is transferred to Edgefield, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds. Once there, Colin meets Fergus Wilks, an eccentric "lifer" who gives Colin an unwanted packet of seeds as a Christmas present...read more »
68%
from 2,123 members
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Teaching Mrs Tingle
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Katie Holmes
Director: Kevin Williamson
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From the king of teen angst and horror Williamson comes this story of straight-A student Leigh Ann (Holmes) whose hopes for a scholarship are in jeopardy thanks to the tyrannical Mrs. Tingle (Mirren). When Leigh Ann and her friends confront Mrs. Tingle about their grades, a series of mishaps lead ..read more »
53%
from 1,043 member
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The Passion Of Ayn Rand
(1999)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Peter Fonda
Director: Christopher Menaul
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Ayn Rand, author of THE FOUNTAINHEAD and founder of the philosophical sect known as Objectivism, may have been a genius, but her personal life played out like a plot from a pulp romance novel. This film is the story of Rand's affair with a man 25 years her junior, Nathaniel Branden (Stoltz), a ..read more »
52%
from 311 members
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Teaching Mrs Tingle - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Katie Holmes
Director: Kevin Williamson
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From the king of teen angst and horror Williamson comes this story of straight-A student Leigh Ann (Holmes) whose hopes for a scholarship are in jeopardy thanks to the tyrannical Mrs. Tingle (Mirren). When Leigh Ann and her friends confront Mrs. Tingle about their grades, a series of mishaps lead ..read more »
49%
from 13 members
Due for release on 25th June 2012
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The Prince Of Egypt
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren
Director: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
Certificate: 
"My son, I have nothing I can give, but this chance that you may live." With these words, Yocheved, a Hebrew mother, places her infant son in a basket and sets him adrift on the Nile River. His sister Miriam follows him along the riverbank to ensure its safety. After a perilous journey, the basket ..read more »
68%
from 2,834 members
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Critical Care
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren
Director: Sidney Lumet
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CRITICAL CARE, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader, focuses on a young medical doctor, Werner Ernst, who rebels against the hospital that employs him when he realises that the doctors favour wealthy patients and those with generous medical insurance.
45%
from 163 members
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Prime Suspect 5 - Errors Of Judgement
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Helen Mirren, John McArdle, Julia Lane
Director: Phil Davis
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Indomitable Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison confronts new and unfamiliar worlds in this fifth outing of Masterpiece Theater's award-winning, remrkably bold police detective series. When she is transferred to Manchester, Jane becomes mired in a murder to which an adolescent boy has confessed, ..read more »
76%
from 1,763 member
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Some Mother's Son
(1996)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen
Director: Terry George
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Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of ..read more »
77%
from 53 members
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Losing Chase
(1996)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Elva Mai Hoover, Helen Mirren
Director: Kevin Bacon
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Chase (Mirren), a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard, married Richard (Bridges), and like the area, grew into the Upper-Middle-Class. Her distaste for artificiality leads her to a wild breakdown, and Richard dutifully tries to restore their family unit as best he knows how by hiring a 'Mother's ..read more »
90%
from 6 members
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Prime Suspect 4 - The Lost Child
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Stuart Wilson, Beatie Edney
Director: John Madden
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In this episode of the highly-acclaimed British detective series, Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) investigates the disappearance of a young child in London's Southampton Row. During her investigation, where she follows a child sex offender who has recently been released from a treatment ..read more »
76%
from 1,527 member
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Prince of Jutland
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren
Director: Gabriel Axel
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The 6th Century story which inspired William Shakespeare to write Hamlet. An all-star cast bring to life murder, madness and revenge in the Danish royal court.
51%
from 111 members
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Prime Suspect - S03 E01
(1993)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Peter Capaldi
Director: David Drury
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Transferred to a new station with the new job of ‘cleaning up the streets’ of Soho, DCI Jane Tennison and her new team become involved in the seedy underworld of vice involving rent boys and transvestites, pornography and sickening abuse.
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Prime Suspect 3
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Peter Capaldi
Director: David Drury
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PRIME SUSPECT 3 takes detective Superintendent Jane Tennison to the Soho Vice Squad, where she is involved in cleaning up the neighborhood known for male and female prostitutes. A young boy-for-hire dies in a fire at the home of transsexual cabaret artiste Vera (Peter Capaldi) and Jane again must ..read more »
77%
from 2,186 members
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Prime Suspect - S03 E04
(1993)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Peter Capaldi
Director: David Drury
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All evidence is pointing to a cover up for something more sinister and Jane’s suspicions are mounting that someone in the department is involved. Will Jane capture them before more teenagers are abused?
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The Hawk
(1992)
Starring: Helen Mirren, George Costigan, Rosemary Leach
Director: David Hayman
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A woman's life is plunged into fear when she suspects her husband is The Hawk, a local serial killer who has left a trail of victims in their area. A number of coincidences sow the seed of doubt in her mind and slowly her distrust and turmoil start to get the better of her.
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from 111 members
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Prime Suspect 2
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Benfield, Andrew Tiernan
Director: John Strickland
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In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean ..read more »
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Prime Suspect - S02 E01
(1992)
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Benfield, Andrew Tiernan
Director: John Strickland
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When a corpse is discovered in an Afro-Caribbean neighbourhood, the controversial subject of racism in the police force rears its head. DCI Jane Tennison is called in to head a sensitive enquiry into how the corpse came to lie in its burial place.
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Prime Suspect - S01 E02
(1991)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Christopher Menaul
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When another body is discovered on a golf course with exactly the same markings as Karen Howard, Tennison takes part in a TV reconstruction of the murder in a desperate attempt to motivate any witnesses to come forward.
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Prime Suspect 1
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Christopher Menaul
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Called in to head a murder enquiry, D.C.I. Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is immediately confronted by hostility and aggression from her male colleagues. With her strength of character and skills as a detective continually tested to the limit, she exposes a far-reaching cover-up within the force. ..read more »
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from 3,312 members
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The Comfort Of Strangers
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren
Director: Paul Schrader
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In this erotic thriller, a young English couple on vacation in Venice find themselves seduced by a mysterious older couple. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) have come to Italy to chart the future of their troubled relationship. They soon meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the ..read more »
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from 1,310 member
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When The Whales Came
(1989)
Starring: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren
Director: Clive Rees
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A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the narwhals who sometimes come.
Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
Based on story by Children'..read more »
83%
from 6 members
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The Mosquito Coast
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory
Director: Peter Weir
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Based on the novel by Paul Theroux, an inventor disillusioned by the growing bureaucracy of America uproots his family to build a utopia in the jungle of Central America. There he finds new threats to his freedom and peace of mind, with tragic results.
64%
from 1,986 member
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Heavenly Pursuits
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tom Conti, Helen Mirren, David Hayman
Director: Charles Gormley
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An engaging satire on the miracle business, set in a Catholic school in Glasgow whose status-seeking authorities are much taxed by the problem of canonisation for their patron, the Blessed Edith Semple, who died in 1917 with one authenticated miracle to her credit. She needs two more, the Vatican ..read more »
60%
from 7 members
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White Nights
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov
Director: Taylor Hackford
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When Nikolai Kolya Rodchenko's plane makes an emergency landing in the Soviet Union, the world-famous dancer, played by Mikhail Baryshnikov, has reason to feel terrified: now that the defector is back on Russian soil, the authorities may refuse to let him leave again. But the KGB actually has a ..read more »
66%
from 430 members
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2010 - The Year We Make Contact
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Roy Scheider, Keir Dullea, John Lithgow
Director: Peter Hyams
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A team of American and Soviet astronauts travel in search of the lost ship "Discovery" as Cold War strife boils over back on Earth. A breathtaking if far less allegorical sequel to the sci-fi classic 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. Academy Award Nominations: 5.
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from 7,045 members
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Cal
(1984)
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann
Director: Pat O'Connor
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Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
52%
from 4 members
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Cymbeline
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Richard Johnson, Helen Mirren, Michael Pennington
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Cymbeline, the ..read more »
62%
from 141 members
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Excalibur
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren
Director: John Boorman
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Director John Boorman's passionate adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's LE MORTE D'ARTHUR stars Nigel Terry as the faithful King Arthur. Necromancer Merlin (Nicol Williamson) offers the magic sword Excalibur to the warlike Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) in exchange for a promise that he'll make peace ..read more »
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from 6,112 members
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Hussy
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Shea, Patti Boulaye
Director: Matthew Chapman
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Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the oddness of the way she expresses her affection. For ..read more »
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The Long Good Friday
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: derek tho, derek thomp, Pau
Director: John Mackenzie
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John Mackenzie's rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating a deal with an American organised crime organisation to develop the barren Docklands section of London, his ..read more »
71%
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SOS Titanic
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Susan Saint James
Director: William Hale
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April 15th 1912 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in history, the day the Titantic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Of the 2, 206 passengers and crew only 703 survived that fateful journey and this is their story. Based on eyewitness accounts S.O.S Titanic is one ..read more »
46%
from 15 members
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Caligula - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole
Director: Tinto Brass
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A reputedly faithful cinematic depiction of the historical events of Caligula's Rome, including the decadence and debauchery that marked his reign. This notorious release has faced rather hysterical hostility from would-be censors. Financed by Penthouse Magazine magnate Bob Guccione, who was ..read more »
49%
from 276 members
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Caligula
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole
Director: Tinto Brass
Certificate:
A reputedly faithful cinematic depiction of the historical events of Caligula's Rome, including the decadence and debauchery that marked his reign. This notorious release has faced rather hysterical hostility from would-be censors. Financed by Penthouse Magazine magnate Bob Guccione, who was ..read more »
39%
from 3,025 members
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As You Like It
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, James Bolam
Director: Basil Coleman
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Banished young ..read more »
60%
from 254 members
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O Lucky Man!
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Arthur Lowe, Ralph Richardson
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Lindsay Anderson, working again with Malcolm McDowell and Robert Sherwin, continues his comic comment on corruption in British society when Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), the school boy from IF. . ., sets out, like a modern Candide, to make his way in the business world. Anderson stretches the ..read more »
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from 1,126 member
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Miss Julie
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Donal McCann
Director: Robin Phillips, John Glenister
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In this Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play, Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren gives an acclaimed performance as the bored and restless daughter of a Count who finds herself getting involved with the arrogant and forceful Jean (Donal McCann), her father's ..read more »
54%
from 59 members
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Age Of Consent
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran
Director: Michael Powell
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Disillusioned with life, celebrated artist Bradley Morahan (James Mason) retreats to the solitude of a tropical island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The island, however, turns out to be far from uninhabited. Bradley soon stumbles upon Cora, played by Helen Mirren (The Queen), a beautiful, ..read more »
56%
from 207 members
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Herostratus
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Mona Chin, Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi
Director: Don Levy
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
A young man wants to commit suicide publicly and in the presence of as many people as possible so persuades a public relations firm to exploit the event. Later, he changes his mind but finds that by this time he is no longer in control of the situation.
58%
from 95 members
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Herostratus And Don Levy Shorts - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Mona Chin, Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi
Director: Don Levy
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
A young man wants to commit suicide publicly and in the presence of as many people as possible so persuades a public relations firm to exploit the event. Later, he changes his mind but finds that by this time he is no longer in control of the situation.
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from 29 members
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Alan Plater at ITV
Starring: Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh, James Bolam
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Jarrow-born Alan Plater was one of Britain s most cherished playwrights. Equally at home either adapting existing works or crafting his own stories, the pinnacle of his prolific output is arguably the highly successful Beiderbecke trilogy starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. Plater excelled in ..read more »
26%
from 3 members
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Helen Mirren At The BBC
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Helen Mirren, Stanley Baker, Brian Cox
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Set Comprises:
1. The Changling (1974)
2. The Apple Cart (1975)
3. Caesar & Claretta (1975)
4. The Philanthropist (1975)
5. The Little Minister (1975)
6. The Country Wife (1977)
7. Blue Remembered Hill (1979)
8. Mrd Reinhardt (1981)
9. A Midsummer Nights Dream (1981)
10. Cymbeline (1983)
11. The ..read more »
59%
from 119 members
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Thriller - The Complete Series
(15 discs)
Starring: Robert Powell, Jeremy Brett, John Le Mesurier
Director: Bill Hays, John Cooper, John Sichel
Certificate:
Features the complete forty-three episodes from the 70's series. Episodes include: 'Lady Killer', 'Possession', 'An Echo Of Theresa', 'The Colour Of Blood', 'K Is For Killing', 'Where The Action Is', 'Murder Motel', 'Sleepwalker' and 'Dial A Deadly Number'.
57%
from 550 members
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Helen Mirren facts
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...aited years to see this film and was not dissapointed. Very well portayed etc. Helen Mirren was fantastic . ...
