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  • Quills
  • Quills review by Sparkie from Bristol, UK
    Rated - 3 stars 1792 The Marquis de Sade LOVES to write! 5 January 2006
    ................This is a well acted story by all but Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Billie Whitelaw and Joaquin Phoenix stand out. ........(Michael) Caine is Caine as a cruel doct...  
  • Shooting The Past
  • Shooting The Past review by Kate Tudor from Reading, England
    Rated - 5 stars I love this film 14 October 2005
    ... the support of the others. Lindsay Duncan and Liam Cunningham are marvellous, Billie Whitelaw sublime. And the story is impressive, the photographs so touching and the sens...  
  • The Chain
  • The Chain review by peta taylor from Brighton, England
    Rated - 4 stars The Chain 4 October 2006
    ...ish cinema became truly inclusive of ethnic minorities. Look out for a bizarre Billie Whitelaw and a lost Leo McKern who brings the film to a close in a tender, if predictabl...  

Billie Whitelaw - filmography


  • Hot Fuzz on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  Nick Frost,  Bill Bailey
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 67,689 members
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  • Quills on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kate Winslet,  Michael Caine,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: 18
    Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 1,151 members
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  • Merlin on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Helena Bonham-Carter,  John Gielgud
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 540 members
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  • Jane Eyre on DVD (1996)
    Starring: William Hurt,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Joan Plowright
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Certificate: PG
    Charlotte Bronte's classic novel of Gothic romance gets the Zeffirelli treatment in this moving adaptation. Orphaned Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) grows into a strong-willed heroine after enduring a miserable childhood (where she's played by Anne Paquin). Things start looking better when she ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 68% from 433 members
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  • The Cloning Of Joanna May - The Complete... (1992)
    Starring: Patricia Hodge,  Brian Cox,  Emma Hardy
    Director: Philip Saville
    Certificate: 15
    Drama thriller based on the novel written by Fay Weldon. A middle-aged woman, Joanna May, discovers that her estranged husband had her cloned many years ago whilst undergoing an 'abortion.' Now years on she discovers the existence of three beautiful women. Her mirror image.... Made for television.
    Rate this: 3 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • A Murder Of Quality on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Denholm Elliott,  Joss Ackland,  Glenda Jackson
    Director: Gavin Millar
    Certificate: PG
    The British class system is under fire in this adaptation of John Le Carre's novel. One-time spy master George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) is called in to investigate the murder of Stella Strode, a schoolteacher's wife at a public school. She had predicted her own death in a letter to a friend. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 116 members
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  • Duel Of Hearts on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Richard Johnson,  Billie Whitelaw,  Michael York
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: PG
    When Lady Caroline (Alison Doody) first meets Lord Vane (Benedict Taylor), he has been accused of murder. A companion to Vane's mother, she discovers the family is as rich in secrets as in fortunes. Only one thing is certain in Caroline's mind--that true love and honour will win out. The made-for-..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 53% from 86 members
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  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 719 members
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  • The Chain (1985)
    Starring: Warren Mitchell,  Nigel Hawthorne,  Denis Lawson
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Comical British comedy which takes a sideways look at the potential minefield of moving house, a minefield made even more explosive by the inclusion of such virulent vices as ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 64% from 38 members
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  • The Water Babies on DVD (1978)
    Starring: James Mason,  Billie Whitelaw,  Bernard Cribbins
    Director: Lionel Jeffries
    Certificate: U
    Charles Kingsley's classic magical children's tale of Tom, a twelve year-old boy who is apprenticed to the unkind Master Chimney Sweep, Grimes. Life is tough for Tom - while he sweeps, Grimes and his unpleasant sidekick, Masterman, busy themselves thieving. Live action and animation.
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 187 members
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  • The Omen on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Lee Remick,  David Warner
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: 18
    A staid American ambassador (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick) are heartbroken when their child is stillborn, but their heartbreak is only beginning when they adopt an orphan. As the boy grows, disaster surrounds him, beginning with the suicide of his nanny, and as the bodies pile up, his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 3,517 members
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  • Frenzy on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Alec McCowen,  Barry Foster
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: 18
    FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 552 members
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  • Gumshoe (1971)
    Starring: Albert Finney,  Billie Whitelaw,  Fulton MacKay
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: 12
    A Liverpudlian bingo caller dreams of becoming a Bogart type private eye. He decides to advertise his services as a private investigator, and that's when his troubles really start...
    Rate this: 3.0 54% from 27 members
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  • Hot Fuzz - HD DVD Version
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  Nick Frost,  Bill Bailey
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    Rate this: 4.0 77% from 1,110 members
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Billie Whitelaw - downloads


  • The Chain for Download (1985)
    Starring: Anna Massey,  Bernard Hill,  Billie Whitelaw
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: PG
    Buy from: £2.99
    Run time: 95 minutes
    Comical British comedy which takes a sideways look at the potential minefield of moving house, a minefield made even more explosive by the inclusion of such virulent vices as sloth, envy, greed, avarice and pride.
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Billie Whitelaw facts

5 most recent films


Hot Fuzz - 3.5 stars
Quills - 3.0 stars
Shooting The Past - 4.0 stars
Merlin - 3.5 stars
Jane Eyre - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Shooting The Past - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - 3.5 stars
Carve Her Name With Pride - 3.5 stars
The Omen - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


The Cloning Of Joanna May - The Complete Series - 3 stars
Slayground - 2.0 stars
Gumshoe - 3.0 stars
The Chain - 3.5 stars
Charlie Bubbles - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Judy Parfitt - 3 times - show films
Anna Massey - 3 times - show films
Maurice Denham - 2 times - show films
Paddy Considine - 2 times - show films
Martin Freeman - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Richard Donner - 2 times - show films
Jack Gold - 2 times - show films
Edgar Wright - 2 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 1 times - show films
John Hough - 1 times - show films