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Richard Griffiths
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Have either of you got shoes? 8 November 2005
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Let the Magic Begin! 15 January 2005
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Safe and cosy 1 April 2008
Richard Griffiths - filmography
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Private Peaceful
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Alexandra Roach, Richard Griffiths
Director: Pat O'Connor
Certificate: 
Coming-of-age British war drama based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo. Tommo (George McKay) and Charlie (Jack O'Connell) are two teenaged brothers from a poor Devonshire family. The outbreak of World War One shatters the family's rural idyll as both boys join up, leaving behind the beautiful Molly ..read more »
 
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from 245 members
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Private Peaceful - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Jack O'Connell, George MacKay, Alexandra Roach
Director: Pat O'Connor
Certificate:
Coming-of-age British war drama based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo. Tommo (George McKay) and Charlie (Jack O'Connell) are two teenaged brothers from a poor Devonshire family. The outbreak of World War One shatters the family's rural idyll as both boys join up, leaving behind the beautiful Molly ..read more »
68%
from 103 members
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Bedtime Stories - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce
Director: Adam Shankman
Certificate: 
Disney family comedy adventure starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, an ordinary hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew magically start to come true. The all-star supporting cast includes Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, ..read more »
69%
from 5,520 members
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Bedtime Stories
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce
Director: Adam Shankman
Certificate:
Disney family comedy adventure starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, an ordinary hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew magically start to come true. The all-star supporting cast includes Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, ..read more »
70%
from 27,811 members
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Ballet Shoes
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Marc Warren, Lucy Boynton, Marc Warren
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
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Set in 1930s London, this made-for-TV production, based on the novel by Noel Streatfield, tells the tale of Pauline (Emma Watson), Petrova (Yasmin Paige) and Posy Fossil (Lucy Boynton), who are adopted by an eccentric explorer, Gum (Richard Griffiths), and raised as sisters by his selfless niece (..read more »
72%
from 2,037 members
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The History Boys
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jack Bagley, Samuel Anderson, Richard Griffiths
Director: Nicholas Hytner
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Comedy adapted from the play by Alan Bennett. Eight bright, funny history students in the mid 1980s are pursuing an undergraduate place at the country's two finest universities. Their headmaster is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and ..read more »
64%
from 41,663 members
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Bird Of Prey - Complete Series
(2 discs)
(2006)
Starring: Carol Nimmons, Jim Broadbent, Richard Griffiths
Director: Michael Rolfe
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Richard Griffiths stars in this seminal BBC political thriller as unassuming civil servant Henry Jay. Stumbling across a sophisticated computer fraud scam, Jay unwittingly derails the plans of a powerful criminal organisation. With a hired assassin dispatched to kill him, Jay finds himself on the ..read more »
61%
from 218 members
Currently unavailable
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Stage Beauty
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Billy Crudup
Director: Richard Eyre
Certificate:
Lively period drama set in 17th century London, based on the play by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Richard Eyre. Billy Crudup stars as Ned Kynaston, the brightest star in Restoration theatre. Since women are forbidden to appear on stage, the beautiful, brazen Ned is able to shine in all the great ..read more »
59%
from 8,055 members
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TLC
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Alexander Armstrong, Reece Shearsmith, Richard Griffiths
Director: Geoff Posner
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All six episodes of the darkly surreal BBC sitcom set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex, where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality problem. First broadcast on the BBC on 11th November 2002, the show only ran for one season despite having an ..read more »
60%
from 102 members
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Gormenghast
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Richard Griffiths, Neve McIntosh, Stephen Fry
Director: Andy Wilson
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The kingdom of Gormenghast rejoices when its ruler, Lord Sepulchrave (Ian Richardson), produces a son and heir: Titus, 77th Earl of Groan. However, scheming kitchen boy Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) himself dreams of taking power, and sets about driving Sepulchrave insane. He also seduces Titus' ..read more »
63%
from 2,967 members
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Sleepy Hollow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Martin Landau, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's gothic detective story is steeped in the traditions of American myth and the style of Hammer Horror. At the beginning of the 19th Century, New York pathologist Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the gruesome deaths of a number of the ..read more »
70%
from 29,045 members
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Sleepy Hollow - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Martin Landau, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's gothic detective story is steeped in the traditions of American myth and the style of Hammer Horror. At the beginning of the 19th Century, New York pathologist Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the gruesome deaths of a number of the ..read more »
72%
from 1,687 member
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Funny Bones
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Oliver Reed, Lee Evans
Director: Peter Chelsom
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Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around, ..read more »
65%
from 908 members
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Guarding Tess
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert Jr., Nicolas Cage
Director: Hugh Wilson
Certificate:
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Former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley Maclaine) is less than happy to have her privacy invaded by a personal bodyguard. Plus the man appointed to the job, Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage), would rather be in the thick of the action than looking after a cantankerous old lady in a dingy Ohio backwater. ..read more »
63%
from 2,657 members
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Blame It On The Bellboy
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Bryan Brown, Dudley Moore, Bronson Pinchot
Director: Mark Herman
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Hitman Lawton (Bryan Brown), small-town mayor Horton (Richard Griffiths), and billionaire's assistant Orton (Dudley Moore) all check into the same Venice hotel, on various kinds of business. Hilarious misunderstandings ensue when the bellboy finds it impossible to stop their names getting mixed up.
57%
from 503 members
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King Ralph
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Camille Coduri, Peter O'Toole, Richard Griffiths
Director: David S. Ward
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The British Royal Family is dispatched en masse after being electrocuted during a family portrait. A search for a successor turns up Ralph Jones (John Goodman), a Las Vegas lounge singer, as the unlikely next-in-line. Before long, Buckingham Palace resembles a funfair and Lord Graves (John Hurt) is ..read more »
58%
from 716 members
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Withnail And I
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Daragh O'Malley, Richard Griffiths
Director: Bruce Robinson
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Bruce Robinson's celebrated cult comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. It's the end of the 1960s and two out-of-work actors, Withnail (Grant) and 'I' (McGann), subsist on a diet of booze, drugs and fags in their revolting Camden flat. In order to escape the depressing nexus of visits ..read more »
71%
from 32,242 members
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Whoops Apocalypse
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Ian Mcneice, Peter Cook, Herbert Lom
Director: Tom Bussmann
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The planet hurtles towards nuclear obliteration because the major powers are either warmongering or in the hands of lunatics (Peter Cook plays the quite insane British Prime Minister). A kidnap attempt on one of the Royal family pushes fingers closer to the red buttons, and the inept, over zealous ..read more »
60%
from 789 members
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A Private Function
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Charles McKeown, Pete Postlethwaite, Denholm Elliott
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
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A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this satirical comedy set in post-World War II England. The couple's scheme centers on a massive hog which has been illegally raised by a local farmer. Seeing a chance to capitalize on ..read more »
69%
from 1,638 member
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The Merry Wives Of Windsor
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Richard Griffiths, Prunella Scales, Judy Davis
Director: David Jones
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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. Among the ..read more »
64%
from 144 members
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Opa!
Starring: Matthew Modine, Richard Griffiths, Agni Scott
Director: Udayan Prasad
Certificate: 
On the magical Greek island of Patmos, the inhabitants have lived, danced, and laughed for thousands of years. But, with the arrival of a straight-laced, high-tech archaeologist, Eric everything could forever change. Eric finds himself swept into a world of picture-postcard scenery and romance. ..read more »
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from 3 members
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Richard Griffiths facts
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...ought it couldn't get any better, the lecherous Uncle Monty (played by the S.S. Richard Griffiths) comes along and steals the show.
P.S. Did anyone know that '& I' is actuall...
