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  • Cranford - Complete BBC Series
  • Cranford - Complete BBC Series review by A customer from Lisburn, County Antrim
    Rated - 5.0 stars Simply superb 16 February 2008
    ...ce is less than faultless, I have to mention the unforgettable contributions of Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis, Judy Dench, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie a...   Read customer review
  • Last Chance Harvey
  • Last Chance Harvey review by maytrees from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars London RomCom with a difference 6 June 2009
    ...ionship between a single woman of a certain age (Emma Thompson) and her mother (Eileen Atkins). This elicited comment from Mr Hopkins that he got on well with his own mother...   Read customer review
  • Psychoville - Season 1
  • Psychoville - Season 1 review by TheDramaMeister from Gainsborough
    Rated - 5.0 stars Sheer Genius 11 August 2009
    ...nd Reece Shearsmith as well as the likes of Dawn French, Adrian Scarborough and Eileen Atkins. Starting with a series of mysterious letters delivered to seemingly unrelat...   Read customer review

Eileen Atkins - filmography


  • Wild Target on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Emily Blunt,  Rupert Grint
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bill Nighy is Victor Maynard, a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 7,040 members
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  • Wild Target - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Eileen Atkins,  Rupert Everett,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A gorgeous con-artist sells a fake painting to a powerful gangster, and discovers that crime doesn't pay when her unsatisfied customer hires Europe's top assassin to take her out. But the moment Victor (Bill Nighy) gets Rose (Emily Blunt) in his crosshairs, he hesitates. The situation grows tense ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 58 members
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  • Upstairs Downstairs (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Ed Stoppard,  Anne Reid
    Director: Eros Lyn,  Saul Metzstein
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the most loved television series is brought back to life with a stellar cast, sumptuous production values and gripping storylines, lifting the curtain on a historical era. In the summer of 1930, the Bellamy family left its home in London's Belgravia forever. In the empty house, loyal ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 542 members
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  • Psychoville - Season 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Amanda Abbington,  George Asprey,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Matt Lipsey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen, this bizarre gothic comedy sees a chain of events triggered when a mysterious letter writer contacts five seemingly disparate characters with the chilling message: 'I know what you did'. An embittered hook-handed clown, a desperately ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,432 member
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  • Last Chance Harvey on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Emma Thompson,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Joel Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,651 members
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  • Psychoville - Season 1- Blu-ray (2 discs) (2009)
    Starring: Reece Shearsmith,  Dawn French,  David Bamber
    Director: Matt Lipsey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the creators of cult classic television series THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMAN comes this surreal comedy that centres on a letter writer who contacts five seemingly disparate characters' misguided wife, a hook-handed entertainer, a dwarf with telekinetic powers, a murder-fixated manchild and a blind ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 940 members
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  • Evening on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Toni Collette,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Lajos Koltai
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 5,274 members
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  • Cranford - Complete BBC Series (2 discs) on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Judi Dench,  Michael Gambon,  Francesca Annis
    Director: Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This is the DVD of the lavish BBC costume drama, Cranford, based on three of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels including Cranford itself. The cast boasts some of Britain's best-loved and most experienced actresses, including Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis. The ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 3,021 members
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  • Cranford - Blu-ray (2 discs) (2007)
    Starring: Judi Dench,  Michael Gambon,  Francesca Annis
    Director: Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in a 1840s Cranford - a small, idyllic Northern English town - where the residents are coping with a sea of change that includes a new railway network that threatens to unleash a tide of immigrant workers that the locals fear will reduce their town to lawlessness...
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 222 members
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  • Ballet Shoes on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Marc Warren,  Lucy Boynton,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Sandra Goldbacher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "We three Fossils vow to put our name in the history books, because it is ours, and ours alone, and nobody can say it's because of our grandfathers". With these words, three orphans embark on an exhilarating journey through the world of show business... Set in 1930s London, Ballet Shoes tells ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,874 member
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  • Ask The Dust on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Colin Farrell,  Salma Hayek,  Donald Sutherland
    Director: Robert Towne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression Era novel, Hayek plays the fiery Mexican beauty Camilla who hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. This is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 1,666 member
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  • Scenes Of A Sexual Nature on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Eileen Atkins,  Hugh Bonneville,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Ed Blum
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. The film is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick, and it seems that ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 11,437 members
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  • What a Girl Wants on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Amanda Bynes,  Colin Firth,  Kelly Preston
    Director: Dennie Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A Coming-of-Age Comedy... ...Daphne a spirited young American girl, travels to London in search of her long-lost father, an influential aristocratic politician. As Daphne attempts to prove that love can conquer all, her impulsive behaviour creates an uproar in high society.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 9,275 members
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  • Cold Mountain on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Nicole Kidman,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Anthony Minghella
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 47,936 members
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  • Cold Mountain - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Nicole Kidman,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Anthony Minghella
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 91 members
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  • Bertie And Elizabeth on DVD (2002)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Juliet Aubrey,  Alan Bates
    Director: Giles Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A portrayal of the life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, focusing on her courtship with the future George VI, the abdication crisis, the birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret and the war years finally leading to Bertie's early death in 1952.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 289 members
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  • Madame Bovary on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Frances O'Connor,  Hugh Bonneville,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes frustrated and bored herself. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,136 member
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  • Jack And Sarah on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Richard E. Grant,  Samantha Mathis,  Judi Dench
    Director: Tim Sullivan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this charming British romantic comedy, Jack (Richard E, Grant), a recently widowed father, quickly learns that his yuppie lifestyle and workaholic ways don't mesh too well with a new baby's needs. Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of caring for his infant daughter, he hires Amy (Samantha ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 6,820 members
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  • Let Him Have It on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Paul Reynolds,  Tom Bell
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Two teenagers are surprised by police during a break-in. One, epileptic with the mental age of 11 and IQ of 66 is arrested, the other, a gun-toting hood refuses to give up his weapon. Shouting Let Him Have It! to his friend, he fires, wounding one officer and killing another. Both boys face the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,442 member
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  • Titus Andronicus on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Trevor Peacock,  Eileen Atkins,  Edward Hardwicke
    Director: Jane Howell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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. Having subdued ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 143 members
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  • The Dresser on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Albert Finney,  Tom Courtenay,  Edward Fox
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    THE DRESSER is Peter Yates' intriguing look behind the scenes of a touring stage company in war-torn England, based on Ronald Harwood's play. Albert Finney stars as Sir, the ageing manager and lead actor of the troupe who begins to come undone from the pressure of touring in bombed-ravaged England. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 977 members
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  • Smiley's People (2 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Mario Adorf,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Simon Langton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 3,493 members
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  • Equus on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Richard Burton,  Peter Firth,  Colin Blakely
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sidney Lumet directed this film version of Peter Shaffer's dramatic play, transforming theatrical symbolism into cinematic realism. Richard Burton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Martin Dysert, a psychiatrist determined to unravel the disturbed mind of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,173 member
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Eileen Atkins facts

5 most recent films

Psychoville - Halloween Special - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Psychoville - Halloween Special - 3.5 stars
Wild Target - 3.5 stars
Wild Target - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Upstairs Downstairs - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cranford - Complete BBC Series - 4.0 stars
Smiley's People - 4.0 stars
Cranford - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Wit - 4.0 stars
Psychoville - Season 1 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Lost Language Of Cranes - 3.0 stars
The Monster - 2.0 stars
Ask The Dust - 2.5 stars
Scenes Of A Sexual Nature - 2.5 stars
Oliver Twist - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Adrian Scarborough - 9 times - show films
Steve Pemberton - 8 times - show films
Reece Shearsmith - 8 times - show films
Dawn French - 8 times - show films
Kathy Baker - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Matt Lipsey - 8 times - show films
Anthony Minghella - 4 times - show films
Simon Curtis - 4 times - show films
Simon Langton - 3 times - show films
Eros Lyn - 3 times - show films