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Helena Bonham-Carter
Helena Bonham-Carter was born in London to a psychotherapist and a banker. She went to an all girls school and did very well, however was denied entry to Kings College in Cambridge because they did want her to up and leave to peruse her acting career.
Her first professional acting role was in a television advert at the age of 16, she also had a role in a small tv film called A Pattern Of Roses.
After starring as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With A View, she has gone on to play many roles that she has had a great deal of acclaim for. Now she is known for her role in The King's Speech as the Queen Mother, and got nominated for an Academy Award.
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Helena Bonham-Carter - filmography
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The King's Speech
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate: 
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After the death of his father, King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of the United Kingdom. With his country on the ..read more »
 
84%
from 53,236 members
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Toast
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Selina Cadell, Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Slater
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Certificate: 
Nigel Slater has been a good cook for as long as he could remember, far surpassing his mothers dire culinary skills. Sadly, Nigel's mother loses the battle against a chronic illness and his father soon begins to spend more and more time with newly-divorced cleaner Mrs Potter (Helena Bonham Carter). ..read more »
70%
from 1,005 member
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The King's Speech - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate:
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After the death of his father, King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of the United Kingdom. With his country on the ..read more »
84%
from 16,176 members
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Terminator - Salvation - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: McG
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The year is 2018. Judgment Day has come and gone. At the behest of Skynet, an army of Terminators roams the wastelands killing or collecting humans. The only hope for the survival of humanity is Resistance fighter John Connor: a man whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of human ..read more »
69%
from 15,939 members
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Terminator - Salvation
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: McG
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The year is 2018. Judgment Day has come and gone. At the behest of Skynet, an army of Terminators roams the wastelands killing or collecting humans. The only hope for the survival of humanity is Resistance fighter John Connor: a man whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of human ..read more »
68%
from 56,155 members
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Enid
(2009)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Matthew MacFadyen, Denis Lawson
Director: James Hawes
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The film explores how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds Enid Blyton created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life. It sheds light on the ambitious and driven - but as yet unpublished - young woman, from the development of her rich imagination against the ..read more »
72%
from 69 members
Not available for rental
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Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet...
(2007)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
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Tim Burton brings his trademark sense of dark whimsy to this stage-to-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical. Johnny Depp reteams with the director to play the titular Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Sacha Baron Cohen as his co-stars.
63%
from 8,084 members
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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Who better to bring Roald Dahl's adored children's story to life than the mastermind behind inventive films like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and BEETLEJUICE? From Tim Burton's opening shot against Danny Elfman's eerie score this CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is recognisably darker than the Mel Stuart-..read more »
67%
from 799 members
Not currently released
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, ..read more »
62%
from 92,662 members
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
Certificate:
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In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
68%
from 543 members
Not currently released
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Conversations With Other Women
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Nora Zehetner
Director: Hans Canosa
Certificate: 
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At a New York City wedding reception two guests, seemingly strangers, become entangled in a sexually-charged battle of wits. But as the night carries on in a cigarette smoke haze, the nameless couple's repartee deepens to reveal the passion of their two decades past love affair. Escaping the party ..read more »
53%
from 7,631 members
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
Certificate:
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In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
69%
from 2,571 members
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Big Fish - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and vibrant ..read more »
71%
from 2,575 members
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Big Fish
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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Edward Bloom has always told tall tales of his life, that charm everyone apart from his son Will. When Will's mother Sandra tries to bring the pair back together, Will must try and learn what parts of his father's epic tales of giants, witches and blizzards are fact and which are fiction.
65%
from 47,705 members
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Live From Baghdad
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Joshua Leonard
Director: Mick Jackson
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With George Herbert Walker Bush prepared to strike Iraqi forces, CNN was in a unique position to deliver 24 hour coverage. Producers Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and Igrid Formanek (Helena Bonham Carter) capitalised on this opportunity by offering unflinching reporting that risked their lives as ..read more »
61%
from 233 members
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The Heart Of Me
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Paul Bettany, Helena Bonham-Carter, Olivia Williams
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
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In Thaddeus O'Sullivan's THE HEART OF ME, Madeleine (Olivia Williams) and Dinah (Helena Bonham Carter) are sisters with little in common except for their bloodlines and the man that they both love. Madeleine and her husband, Rickie (Paul Bettany) appear to be the perfect couple. They have an ..read more »
59%
from 1,339 member
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Novocaine
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Steve Martin, Laura Dern
Director: David Atkins
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Screenwriter David Atkins (ARIZONA DREAM) makes his directorial debut with the black comedy NOVOCAINE. Frank Sangster (Steve Martin), a nice-guy dentist with a thriving practice, shares his perfectly ordered, successful life with his cheerily plastic hygienist-fiancee, Jean (Laura Dern). Frank's ..read more »
50%
from 820 members
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Planet Of The Apes
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham-Carter, Tim Roth
Director: Tim Burton
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A remake of the classic story in which Leo, an astronaut lands on a planet which is inhabitated by very intelligent apes. On this planet humans are enslaved as the apes are the dominant race... Can Leo lead the humans in an uprising in order to free themselves?...
53%
from 11,820 members
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Planet Of The Apes - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham-Carter, Tim Roth
Director: Tim Burton
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In remaking this classic sci-fi horror film, director Tim Burton takes on a whopping challenge and succeeds. Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is part of a space station crew that, in the year 2029, is conducting experiments in training genetically engineered chimps to perform complex away ..read more »
57%
from 1,965 member
Not currently released
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Fight Club - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: David Fincher
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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
85%
from 2,771 members
Not currently released
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Fight Club
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: David Fincher
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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
78%
from 86,884 members
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Merlin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham-Carter, John Gielgud
Director: Steve Barron
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This ambitious, all-star miniseries treatment of the Round Table legends is narrated from the perspective of the sorcerer Merlin (Sam Neill), who must choose between loyalty to the court and his love for beautiful Nimue (Isabella Rossellini). Solid acting and spectacular special effects combine to ..read more »
67%
from 2,170 members
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The Wings of the Dove
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Georgio Serafini, Philip Wright, Alison Elliott
Director: Iain Softley
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A social-climbing young woman gains a foothold in the late Victorian upper crust by virtue of her wealthy and cultured aunt's social connections, but finds marriage to her true love, a poor hack journalist, incompatible with her new station. She cooks up a plan to use her lover to bilk a guileless ..read more »
67%
from 2,322 members
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Keep The Aspidistra Flying
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Robert Bierman
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Comstock and Rosemary are a typical 1930s couple with modern ideas. He decides to leave his middle class job to become a poet while she works hard to keep her career and their unusual relationship on track. Comstock, however, is desperate to escape that symbol of middle class respectability - the ..read more »
61%
from 430 members
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Twelfth Night
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Imogen Stubbs
Director: Trevor Nunn
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The classic Shakespearean comedy about mistaken identity and gender confusion is brought to the screen once again in this British production, courtesy of screenwriter-director Trevor Nunn. Nunn has transferred the time period to the Victorian Era of the late 19th century. Two twins, Viola (Imogen ..read more »
67%
from 1,675 member
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Mighty Aphrodite
(1995)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom
Director: Woody Allen
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MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. ..read more »
66%
from 4,881 members
Not currently released
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Certificate:
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In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his actions. He succeeds in his quest to create a man, but his creature (Robert De Niro) is both revolting and ..read more »
60%
from 4,992 members
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Howard's End
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: James Ivory
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One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is poor relation Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of ..read more »
69%
from 5,662 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father ..read more »
65%
from 1,356 member
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Getting it Right
(1989)
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ..read more »
46%
from 20 members
Currently unavailable
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Maurice
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: James Wilby, Patrick Godfrey, Ben Kingsley
Director: James Ivory
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At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
69%
from 2,879 members
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A Hazard Of Hearts
(1987)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Edward Fox, Fiona Fullerton
Director: John Hough
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Based on the best-selling book by Barbara Cartland, this romantic story follows the life of Serena, the daughter of a gambling-mad Lord. Her life seems doomed when she is married off to a debauched nobleman to pay off a gambling debt, until the handsome Lord Vulcan intervenes.
62%
from 182 members
Currently unavailable
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A Room With A View
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Maggie Smith, ,
Director: James Ivory
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E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, is adapted for the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully lighthearted tale of Edwardian manners. Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), ..read more »
70%
from 8,594 members
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A Room With A View - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Maggie Smith, ,
Director: James Ivory
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E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, is adapted for the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully lighthearted tale of Edwardian manners. Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), ..read more »
64%
from 16 members
Due for release on 28th May 2012
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Lady Jane
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jane Lapotaire, John Wood, Patrick Stewart
Director: Trevor Nunn
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Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane Grey's sickly cousin, who becomes Edward VI upon the death of Henry VIII, is on the threshold of death himself. The Protestant powers-that-be, ..read more »
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from 1,489 member
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Helena Bonham-Carter facts
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...decaying beasts?
Oh and there's a fight scene. I think. And half a minute of Helena Bonham-Carter.
If you liked the previous films then i'm sure this won't upset you very muc...
