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Billie Whitelaw
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Billie Whitelaw - what members say
review by roncoach from
Very good in its own right; and more than that in its own genre 23 October 2011
review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales
Good fun 28 June 2005
review by skeadugenga from Reading, England
I love this film 14 October 2005
Billie Whitelaw - filmography
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Stardust - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Sienna Miller, Jason Flemyng, Ricky Gervais
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Certificate: 
Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
 
77%
from 2,764 members
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Hot Fuzz - HD
(2007)
Starring: Tim Barlow, Anne Reid, Steve Coogan
Director: Edgar Wright
Certificate: 
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.
77%
from 1,661 member
Not currently released
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Hot Fuzz
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Tim Barlow, Bill Ni, Anne Reid
Director: Edgar Wright
Certificate:
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.
73%
from 102,475 members
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Stardust
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Certificate: 
Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
76%
from 96,350 members
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Stardust - HD
(2007)
Starring: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Certificate:
Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
76%
from 1,596 member
Not currently released
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Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Anne Reid, Steve Coogan, Nick Frost
Director: Edgar Wright
Certificate: 
Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action ..read more »
77%
from 2,032 members
Not currently released
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Quills
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Philip Kaufman
Certificate:
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 »
61%
from 6,763 members
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Shooting The Past
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Timothy Spall, Emilia Fox
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
Certificate:
American property developer Christopher Anderson (Liam Cunningham) has plans to renovate an English country house in order to open a business school. However the staff of the vast photo library already housed there are determined to stop him. It soon transpires that there is a picture of Anderson's ..read more »
78%
from 2,527 members
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Merlin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham-Carter, John Gielgud
Director: Steve Barron
Certificate:
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 2,149 members
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Jane Eyre
(1996)
Starring: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Certificate:
Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic. The screenplay, by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitmore, remains relatively faithful to the original story, beginning with a condensed look at the troubled childhood of ..read more »
64%
from 2,020 members
Not currently released
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The Cloning Of Joanna May - The Complete...
(1992)
Starring: Patricia Hodge, Brian Cox, Emma Hardy
Director: Philip Saville
Certificate:
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.
36%
from 8 members
Not available for rental
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A Murder Of Quality
(1991)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson
Director: Gavin Millar
Certificate:
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 »
58%
from 565 members
Currently unavailable
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Duel Of Hearts
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Richard Johnson, Billie Whitelaw, Michael York
Director: John Hough
Certificate:
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 »
56%
from 104 members
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Lorna Doone - The Complete Series
(1990)
Starring: Sean Bean, Clive Owen, Polly Walker
Director: Andrew Grieve
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One of the great love stories of English literature is retold in this powerful television adaptation, directed by Andrew Grieve (Hornblower) and starring Clive Owen (Children of Men), Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings), Polly Walker (Rome) and Billie Whitelaw (Napoleon and Love).
Based on R.D. ..read more »
61%
from 43 members
Not available for rental
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Maurice
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: James Wilby, Patrick Godfrey, Ben Kingsley
Director: James Ivory
Certificate:
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 2,833 members
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The Chain
(1985)
Starring: Warren Mitchell, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lawson
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate:
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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.
67%
from 65 members
Not available for rental
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Slayground
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Peter Coyote, Mel Smith, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Terry Bedford
Certificate:
A father swears revenge on armed robber, Stone, after his young daughter is killed during his getaway. With an assassin pursuing Stone, the chase gets more complicated as it continues in London.
43%
from 30 members
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Private Schulz
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson, Ronald Baddiley
Director: Robert Chetwyn
Certificate:
This much-loved 1981 series, featuring the comic misadventures of reluctant Nazi hero Private Schulz, was acclaimed for its comic writing and for the performances of Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson.
Just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, recently released convict Schulz ..read more »
73%
from 243 members
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The Water Babies
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: James Mason, Billie Whitelaw, Bernard Cribbins
Director: Lionel Jeffries
Certificate: 
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.
64%
from 960 members
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The Omen
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner
Director: Richard Donner
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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 »
71%
from 15,775 members
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Wessex Tales
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Nick Brimble, Ben Cross, Jane Asher
Director: Gavin Millar, Michael Tuchner
Certificate:
This six-part collection of adaptations of the works of Thomas Hardy. Originally broadcast in the UK in 1973, was Hardy's THE WITHERED ARM. Subsequent episodes include FELLOW TOWNSMAN, A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS, (with John Hurt), AN IMAGINATIVE WOMAN, THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR, and the series finale ..read more »
64%
from 43 members
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Frenzy
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation virtually in tatters, a far cry from his stature at the start of the 1960s. Then, he'd been in the middle of the massively successful trio of movies, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds, and was a ubiquitous presence on ..read more »
67%
from 2,749 members
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Eagle In A Cage
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Kenneth Haigh
Director: Fielder Cook
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Fielder Cook brings an intimacy to his direction of EAGLE IN A CAGE. This underrated film stars Kenneth Haigh as Napoleon Bonaparte, in his years of exile on St. Helena. The story is told from the point of view of the island's governor (John Gielgud), a former schoolteacher who finds greatness ..read more »
39%
from 24 members
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Gumshoe
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Fulton MacKay
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate:
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Private eye Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) thinks he's Bogart -- if Bogie was a compere at a Merseyside bingo -- but his latest case may have bamboozled even Raymond Chandler himself. Accompanied by a mesmerising Andrew Lloyd Webber score, Frears' post-modern dismantling of the American detective ..read more »
63%
from 221 members
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Armchair Theatre - Vol.1
(1970)
Starring: Colin Welland, Peter Barkworth, Billie Whitelaw
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Armchair Theatre was ITV’s flagship drama anthology series. Initially screened between 1956 and 1973, it was hugely popular, with viewing figures occasionally reaching twenty million, and became a byword for quality in televised drama.
37%
from 7 members
Not available for rental
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Charlie Bubbles
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli, Albert Finney
Director: Albert Finney
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Directed by and starring Albert Finney, CHARLIE BUBBLES tells the story of a working class man who has become a successful writer. He visits his estranged wife and son. CHARLIES BUBBLES sees the feature film debut of Liza Minnelli.
61%
from 134 members
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Payroll
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Michael Craig, Francoise Prevost, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Sidney Hayers
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Johnny Mellors plans to hold-up a security van used by a company for its wages. When the company switch to a hired bulletproof vehicle, the planned heist becomes a little more dangerous. When 100,000 dollars is stolen from the armoured van the security company's boss decides that no gang of ..read more »
68%
from 217 members
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No Love For Johnnie
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Based on a novel by Wilfred Fienburgh, this is the story of a British Member of Parliament whose public and private lives are in a shambles. Portrayed by Peter Finch, but supported by an eclectic cast of stereotypical politicians, the protagonist has his hands full trying to keep the important ..read more »
66%
from 23 members
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Make Mine Mink
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, hattie Jacques
Director: Robert Hamer, Robert Asher, John Boulting
Certificate:
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When Dame Beatrice (Athene Syler) retires from charitable work, she finds her life rather empty. Suddenly an irresistible request to help unfortunate orphans comes along, and inspired by her maid's chequered past, takes on one final charitable challenge. An incident with a neighbours mink coat ..read more »
66%
from 585 members
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Hell Is A City
(1959)
Starring: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Val Guest
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Detective Inspector Martineau prepares himself for action when he hears of the jailbreak of the notorious thief Don Starling. When a robbery goes seriously wrong, Martineau will stop at nothing to make sure that Starling is caught...
69%
from 366 members
Not currently released
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Carve Her Name With Pride
(1958)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna), a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France...
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a ..read more »
72%
from 426 members
Not available for rental
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Billie Whitelaw facts
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... cast in Peck/Remmick and supporting players ( especially the always-impressive Billie Whitelaw). Very interesting story, which has been copied many times since this film. Scr...
