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  • Miss Austen Regrets
  • Miss Austen Regrets review by Lorenzo57 from Birmingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars Miss Austen Regrets 10 July 2008
    ...Starring: Jack Huston | Pip Torrens | | Imogen Poots | Phyllida Law | Hugh Bonneville | Greta Scacchi | Adrian Edmondson Great performance Olivia Williams in a passiona...   Read customer review

Phyllida Law - filmography


  • Midsomer Murders - Dark Secrets on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Neil Dudgeon,  Fiona Dulman,  Edward Fox
    Director: Simon Langton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Neil Dudgeon returns as DCI John Barnaby, the newly-appointed sleuth in Midsomer. Dark Secrets Barnaby finds himself working on an investigation into the mysterious death of a social services inspector and a link to elderly eccentrics, William and Mary Bingham (Edward Fox and Phyllida Law).
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 98 members
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  • Miss Austen Regrets on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jack Huston,  Pip Torrens,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Jeremy Lovering
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries. As Jane Austen approaches her forties, her success as a writer is assured and her witty and sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. To her niece, Fanny ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,062 members
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  • The Waiting Room on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  Ralf Little,  Rupert Graves
    Director: Roger Goldby
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Two complete strangers, Anna and Stephen, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,169 members
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  • Pinochet in Surbubia (2006)
    Starring: Derek Jacobi,  Phyllida Law,  Peter Capaldi
    Director: Richard Curson Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Drama about General Pinochets remarkable exile in the UK, Pinochet In Suburbia tells the story of a holiday trip that led to the Generals arrest and subsequent detention for some 500 days, from October 1998 to spring 2000. The story delicately weaves several narrative strands, including a tense and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Copying Beethoven on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Ralph Riach,  Matyelok Gibbs
    Director: Agnieszka Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Young Anna Holz, (Kruger) a student at the Vienna Music Conservatory is summoned to the offices of Herr Schlemmer, Beethoven's publisher. His Ninth Symphony is about to be premiered and Schlemmer, who is dying of cancer, needs a copyist to complete the score. Anna eagerly accepts, despite his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 903 members
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  • Mee-Shee - The Water Giant on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Bruce Greenwood,  Daniel Magder,  Joel Tobeck
    Director: John Henderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A young boy, Mac Cambell, is devastated when a planned holiday is cancelled due to his father's work. Joining his father on his salvage mission to a remote Canadian lake, Mac soon forgets all about his vacation when he discovers a mythical creature living in the lake's depths. But others have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,641 members
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  • Day Of Wrath on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Christopher Lambert,  James Faulkner,  Blanca Marsillach
    Director: Adrian Rudomin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A 16th Century Spanish sheriff presiding over a provincial city attempts to solve a gruesome series of murders in this period thriller starring Christopher Lambert. When a number of high-ranking nobles are found viciously slaughtered with large letters carved into their chests, it's up to haggard-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 73 members
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  • Blinded on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jodhi May,  Peter Mullan,  Anders W. Berthelsen
    Director: Eleanor Yule
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi (Anders W. Berthelsen) is running from a dark secret. One night, while travelling through the Scottish borders, he stops at Black’s estate hoping to find some work. There, he encounters blind farm-owner Francis Black (Peter Mullan) and his elderly mother Bella (..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 812 members
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  • Brush With Fate on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Ellen Burstyn,  Thomas Gibson
    Director: Brent Shields
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    There are only thirty-five original paintings in the world by 17th century artist Johannes Vermeer - but could there be a thirty-sixth? Cornelia Englebrecht, an eccentric school teacher, possesses that priceless work of art and decides to share its history with a fellow teacher whom she introduces ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 93 members
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  • The Time Machine (2002)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Mark Addy,  Phyllida Law
    Director: Simon Wells
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This adaptation of the classic sci-fi adventure tale by H.G. Wells, directed by Simon Wells (the great-grandson of the author), stars Guy Pearce as Alex Hartdegen, an absent-minded New York professor preoccupied with what passes for technology at the turn of the 20th century. However, the one thing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 7,396 members
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  • Two Men Went To War on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Kenneth Cranham,  Derek Jacobi,  James Fleet
    Director: John Henderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on an amazing true story, TWO MEN WENT TO WAR tells the tale of WWII Army dentists Sergeant Peter King (Kenneth Cranham) and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill), two enlisted men who desperately wanted to fight behind enemy lines. Their desire leads them to gather up two guns and a bag of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 414 members
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  • Milk (1999)
    Starring: Dawn French,  James Fleet,  Phyllida Law
    Director: William Brookfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This British comedy, written and directed by William Brookfield, stars James Fleet as the middle-aged mama's boy who has just lost his mother. This seemingly tragic event actually leads to good things for the man, whose country neighbors and friends have lots of plans for how he can use his time in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 194 members
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  • Mad Cows on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joanna Lumley,  Anna Friel,  Greg Wise
    Director: Sarah Sugarman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In MAD COWS, Anna Friel stars as Maddy, a feisty single mother from Australia with few friends in the world, apart from the fabulous Gillian (Joanna Lumley). While searching for her baby's father, the irresponsible Alex (Greg Wise), Maddy is nabbed for unwittingly stealing a bag of frozen peas from ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 260 members
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  • The Winter Guest on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Phyllida Law,  Emma Thompson,  Sheila Reid
    Director: Alan Rickman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A dense, filling slice-of-life set in a tiny snowbound Scottish burg, where four pairs of characters grapple with various aspects of human hardship. Thompson plays opposite Law, her actual mother, as a recently widowed photographer whose haze of grief has driven a wedge into their relationship. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,127 member
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  • All Or Nothing At All (1993)
    Starring: Hugh Laurie,  Pippa Guard,  Phyllida Law
    Director: Andrew Grieve
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In this compelling story of a daring conman, Leo Hopkins (Hugh Laurie - House) prospers from the greed of others - but his undeniable charm and willingness to take risks plunge him into a mess of troubles and worry. Addicted to gambling, seduced by his secretary and threatened by his corrupt boss, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7 members
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Phyllida Law facts

5 most recent films

Midsomer Murders - Dark Secrets - 4.0 stars
Kingdom - Series 3 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Miss Austen Regrets - 3.5 stars
The Waiting Room - 3.0 stars
Pinochet in Surbubia - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kingdom - Series 3 - Complete - 4.0 stars
The House Of Eliott - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Midsomer Murders - Dark Secrets - 4.0 stars
Lord Wimsey - The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club - 3.5 stars
Miss Austen Regrets - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Pinochet in Surbubia - 3.0 stars
All Or Nothing At All - 3.5 stars
Mad Cows - 2.0 stars
Blinded - 2.0 stars
Brush With Fate - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jill Melford - 7 times - show films
Stella Gonet - 7 times - show films
Robert Daws - 7 times - show films
Louise Lombard - 7 times - show films
Aden Gillett - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jeremy Silberston - 7 times - show films
David Reynolds - 7 times - show films
David Askey - 7 times - show films
Jonathan Alwyn - 7 times - show films
Rodney Bennett - 7 times - show films