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  • Valkyrie: Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard interview - 8 June 2009
    - -We caught up with LOVEFiLM favourites Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard to talk about WWII drama and Tom Cruise vehicle, Valkyrie. Based on true events, it sees Nighy and Izzard play German Generals embroiled in a trap to kill Hitler. They gave us the lowdown on the c

Eddie Izzard - what members say


  • Mystery Men
  • Mystery Men review by from The land wot gets humour
    Rated - 5 stars It's not a sooper hero film! 10 August 2006
    ...ecting a super hero comedy. They're not super heros, that's the point. It's got Eddie Izzard in, for God's sake!! I think the cast understood and played their parts up bril...  
  • Shadow Of The Vampire
  • Shadow Of The Vampire review by from the Midlands
    Rated - 4 stars Cinematic art 29 March 2004
    ...m Dafoe (Spiderman) is unrecognisable as the vampire and the straight acting of Eddie Izzard proves this man really knows how to act! ...  
  • Eddie Izzard - Circle
  • Eddie Izzard - Circle review by A customer from SE London
    Rated - 4 stars Excellent 19 March 2004
    ...If you like any Eddie Izzard you must see this. It does start slow but the New York audience is tough and there were problems with the sound at the live show which didn't h...  

Eddie Izzard - filmography


  • Rage on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Judi Dench,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Sally Potter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Expose of the inner lives of a group of people who work at a New York fashion house. Shot as though from a cellphone camera, events begin to unfold over a seven day period that turn what appeared to be a runway accident into a potential murder.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 58 members
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  • Ocean's Thirteen on DVD (2007)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Brad Pitt,  Matt Damon
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After their old chum Reuben Tischkoff (Gould) is double-crossed in a business deal and hospitalized, Danny Ocean (Clooney) reconvenes his charming gang of thieves and heads to Las Vegas to gain revenge on the man who put Ruben at death’s door: shark-like hotelier, Willy Bank (Pacino). Their plan is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 57,445 members
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  • Eddie Izzard - Sexie on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Ireland and the UK, this tour was performed to more people than there are in Iceland (280,000). Filmed in Eastbourne where his grandfather and father were born and where he went to school, this show is the funniest live show that could ever be performed ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,152 members
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  • 40 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugo Speer,  Vincent Regan,  Kerry Fox
    Director: David Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the pen of Bryan Elsley (SKINS, THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO BECOMING A ROCK STAR) 40 is a provocative three-part drama about sex, secrets and growing old disgracefully. When seven school friends meet up on the eve of the their 40th birthdays, they find that some have more in common than just ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 49 members
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  • Spike Milligan - I Told You I Was Ill on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Harry Enfield,  Eddie Izzard,  Terry Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's a mystery how a man who called Prince Charles a 'groveling little bastard' on live TV would somehow end up on the Prince's list of favorite comedians, but that was the beauty of Spike Milligan. When the man Eddie Izzard called the founder of modern comedy died in 2002, he was mourned the world ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 462 members
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  • Revengers Tragedy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Eddie Izzard,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on play by Thomas Middleton from the year 1607, writer/director Alex Cox (REPO MAN) gives us a comic horror story. Marrying 17th Century theatrical verse with some contemporary references and expletives, the story is dragged 400 years to modern day Liverpool where a man is seeking revenge ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 738 members
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  • All The Queen's Men on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard,  Matt Le Blanc,  James Cosmo
    Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Matt LeBlanc (of the television series FRIENDS) stars in this WWII spy comedy as American Officer Steven O'Rourke, nicknamed "Agent Almost" because he can never successfully complete a mission. Stationed in England after another botched mission, O'Rourke is given one last "do or die" assignment to ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 768 members
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  • Eddie Izzard - Circle on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Izzard, the self-proclaimed "executive transvestite" and comedian, takes his magnificent stand-up act to America for this performance recorded in New York, 26 June 2000. Izzard is a thinking man's comedian--his subjects can range from the nature of God, to the search for a career, to Scooby ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,929 members
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  • Shadow Of The Vampire on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Malkovich,  Willem Dafoe,  Cary Elwes
    Director: E. Elias Merhige
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    E. Elias Mehrige's SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE explores the fictional premise that the star of director F.W. Murnau's 1922 German expressionist horror film, NOSFERATU, was an actual vampire. When the dictatorial Murnau (John Malkovich) sets about filming his monster masterpiece, he makes a Faustian deal ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,527 members
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  • Circus on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Hannah,  Eddie Izzard,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Rob Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Story about a couple who support themselves through dishonest means. When they feel that one of their scams may backfire they become involved with the local mob boss. Things start to become slightly complicated as those involved start to double cross each other...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 577 members
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  • Velvet Goldmine on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Toni Collette,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Todd Haynes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Loosely based on the experiences and personalities of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, VELVET GOLDMINE is a wild, glitter-laced trip through the 1970s era of glam rock. Fictional characters Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) are personifications of glam rock's ideals, with ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 3,813 members
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  • Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Director: Larry Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This award-winning performance, recorded in San Francisco in 1998, continues Eddie Izzard's comedic observations on everything from the history of Western culture to sex, filtered through his razor-sharp wit and lightning-quick chain of associations. And he looks smashing in a dress.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6,016 members
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  • Kitchen on DVD
    Starring: Eddie Izzard,  Frank Gallagher,  James Young
    Director: Kieron J. Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danny Swift narrowly escapes a prison sentence by taking a job as a commis-chef in a top Glaswegian restaurant. The language is coarse and some of Danny's co-workers are decidedly shady to say the least, but the team is pushed to the height of its ability, under the watchful eye of the chef, nick (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 128 members
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  • The Best Comedy DVD In The World on DVD
    Starring: Peter Kay,  Tommy Cooper,  Eddie Izzard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Provides a compilation of some of the greatest comedy moments from Stand Up, Television and Film. Includes clips from: 'Bo Selecta', 'Little Britain', 'The Office', 'Monty Python', 'Only Fools And Horses', 'Carry On' and much much more. All profits from the sale of this video will be donated to the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,254 member
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  • Believe - The Eddie Izzard Story
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Director: Sarah Townsend
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Believe chronicles comedian Eddie Izzard's rise to fame from his early influences - losing his mother to cancer at a young age before being sent with his brother to boarding school to his close present day relationship with his supportive father.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • QI - Series 1 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Alan Davies,  Bill Bailey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hosted by Stephen Fry, with permanent guest Alan Davies, Quite Interesting - or QI to its friends - is the comedy panel quiz where the answers are infinitely more entertaining than the questions. With points being awarded for being interesting or funny, each show promises to be a hugely ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 1,146 member
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Eddie Izzard facts

5 most recent films

Rage - 2.0 stars
Valkyrie - 3.5 stars
Valkyrie - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Thirteen - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Thirteen - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

QI - Series 1 - 4.5 stars
Eddie Izzard - Definite Article - 4.0 stars
Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill - 3.5 stars
Eddie Izzard - Unrepeatable - 3.5 stars
Eddie Izzard - Glorious - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Believe - The Eddie Izzard Story - 3 stars
40 - 3.0 stars
Renegade - 3.0 stars
Eddie Izzard - Stripped Live - 3.5 stars
Rage - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stephen Fry - 5 times - show films
Ellen Barkin - 3 times - show films
Bernie Mac - 3 times - show films
Kenneth Branagh - 3 times - show films
Matt Damon - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 11 times - show films
Steven Soderbergh - 3 times - show films
Steve 'Spaz' Williams - 2 times - show films
Julie Taymor - 2 times - show films
Bryan Singer - 2 times - show films