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  • The Chain
  • The Chain review by BluePeta from Brighton, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars The Chain 4 October 2006
    ...how it's done). These scenes throw shadows on some of the younger performances (Denis Lawson's idler is an exception) which also remind us how recently British cinema becam...   Read customer review
  • Enid
  • Enid review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 4.0 stars superb drama.......................... 17 March 2010
    ...nneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who became her second husband (played by Denis Lawson). The film which is set in the 20th Century, explores how the orderly reassur...   Read customer review

Denis Lawson - filmography


  • The Wee Man - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Martin Compston,  Patrick Bergin,  Steven Borrie
    Director: Ray Burdis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Crime drama based on the life of Scottish gangster Paul Ferris. Martin Compston stars as Ferris, who was brought up on Glasgow's notorious Black Hill estate in the 1960s. As a young man Ferris starts out working for two rival gang bosses, The Godfather and The Snake, but after a brutal betrayal he ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 8th July 2013
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  • Broken - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Tim Roth,  Cillian Murphy,  Eloise Lawrence
    Director: Rufus Norris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An eleven-year-old girl finds herself exposed to the inequities of life in this rite-of-passage drama directed by Rufus Norris. With her mother having left the family home, Skunk (Eloise Lawrence) now lives in suburbia with her kind-hearted father Archie (Tim Roth), her brother Jed (Bill Milner) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 1st July 2013
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  • Broken (2012)
    Starring: Tim Roth,  Cillian Murphy,  Eloise Lawrence
    Director: Rufus Norris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An eleven-year-old girl finds herself exposed to the inequities of life in this rite-of-passage drama directed by Rufus Norris. With her mother having left the family home, Skunk (Eloise Lawrence) now lives in suburbia with her kind-hearted father Archie (Tim Roth), her brother Jed (Bill Milner) ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 19 members
    Due for release on 1st July 2013
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  • The Wee Man (2012)
    Starring: Martin Compston,  Patrick Bergin,  Steven Borrie
    Director: Ray Burdis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Crime drama based on the life of Scottish gangster Paul Ferris. Martin Compston stars as Ferris, who was brought up on Glasgow's notorious Black Hill estate in the 1960s. As a young man Ferris starts out working for two rival gang bosses, The Godfather and The Snake, but after a brutal betrayal he ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 20 members
    Due for release on 8th July 2013
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  • Marchlands (2 discs) on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jodie Whittaker,  Elliot Cowan,  Shelley Conn
    Director: Stephen Greenhorn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Five-part ITV drama following three families who live in the same house during different decades. The families are all linked by Alice (Millie Archer), a little girl who died mysteriously in the 1960s and has haunted the house ever since. The girl's mother, Ruth Bowen (Jodie Whittaker), living in ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,554 member
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  • Enid on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Matthew MacFadyen,  Denis Lawson,  Helena Bonham-Carter
    Director: James Hawes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Helena Bonham Carter stars in this feature-length BBC biopic as children's author Enid Blyton. An astoundingly prolific writer revered by an adoring readership, Blyton was, in her personal life, a self-absorbed, ruthlessly ambitious woman who manipulated those close to her for her own advantage. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 110 members
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  • No Holds Bard on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Tony Curran,  Barbara Rafferty,  Felicity Montagu
    Director: Brian Kelly
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy mockumentary following the ups and downs of five participants in the annual Burns poetry recital competition. As the time draws near for the awarding of the 2009 Cup o' Kindness trophy, the pressure mounts for the five remaining competitors; 12 year-old Hayley Braid complete with competitive ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 33 members
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  • Sensitive Skin - Series 2 on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Joanna Lumley,  Denis Lawson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Second season of the BBC comedy drama which looks at life through the eyes of a successful couple living in metropolitan London. Along with their friends, Al (Denis Lawson) and Davina (Joanna Lumley) Jackson struggle with sexual temptation and professional jealousy and try to cope with their fear ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 170 members
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  • Jekyll - Season 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2006)
    Starring: James Nesbitt,  Michelle Ryan,  Gina Bellman
    Director: Matt Lipsey,  Douglas Mackinnon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is 2006 and there's a new Dr Jekyll, with an old problem - Mr Hyde. But they have a deal - a body share - and an impossible life is somehow lived. What Hyde doesn't know is that Jekyll is married. There's a wife and two children he'll do anything to protect from his dark side. With all the ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 2,027 members
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  • Sensitive Skin on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Joanna Lumley,  Denis Lawson
    Director: Hugo Blick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All six episodes of the BBC's dark comedy drama series starring Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson as Al and Davina Jackson, a successful London couple in their 60s who, along with their friends, struggle with sexual temptation and professional jealousy and try to cope with their fear of the future. Al ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 379 members
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  • Hornblower - S03 E02 - Duty (2003)
    Starring: John Woodvine,  Denis Lawson,  Cherie Lunghi
    Director: Andrew Grieve
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hornblower is filled with trepidation on his wedding day, but he has given his word - how could he dishonour his bride Maria and live with himself? Admiral Pellew gives Hornblower little time to ponder his new state of matrimony as he sends him off immediately to search for the missing sloop ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 17 members
  • Hornblower - S02 E01 - Mutiny (2000)
    Starring: John Woodvine,  Denis Lawson,  Cherie Lunghi
    Director: Andrew Grieve
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hornblower is 4th junior Lieutenant aboard the 4-gun frigate HMS Renown, en route to a secret location. Her captain, Sawyer, is a war hero, but he is also dangerously unstable. Hornblower becomes aware that action of some kind has to be taken but he and the other officers are only too aware of the ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 92% from 15 members
  • The Chain (1985)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Judy Parfitt,  Bernard Hill
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Screen play by legendary writer, Jack Rosenthal (Barmitzvah Boy, Wide Eyed and Legless), covers the trials of moving house as a group of people find their lives disrupted and changed when they become locked in the house chain.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 94 members
    Not available for rental
  • Local Hero on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Jenny Seagrove,  Fulton MacKay
    Director: Bill Forsyth
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bill Forsyth's whimsical tale of sweet-natured corporate rapacity features standout performances by Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert. Lancaster plays Texas billionaire Felix Happer, who would rather gaze at the stars than worry about his multi-national oil company. Happer dispatches Mac MacIntyre (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,958 members
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  • Armchair Thriller Vol.5 - The Girl Who W...
    Starring: Denis Lawson
    Director: Brian Farnham
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Another episode from the classic British TV series of unsettling dramas. In this episode, when young student David Cooper (Denis Lawson) disappears, both his girlfriend and his tutor suspect he is in danger. David has a paralysing fear of lifts and other confined spaces and, while the duo are ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 5 members
    Not available for rental
  • Natural Lies on DVD
    Starring: Bob Peck,  Denis Lawson,  Sharon Duce
    Director: Ben Holt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bob Peck plays Andrew Fell, an advertising man who becomes intrigued when his ex-girlfriend Beth, a vet, apparently commits suicide. When he investigates her death it becomes clear that she had discovered something in the food chain which a lot of people would like hushed up. Fell becomes obsessed ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 78 members
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Denis Lawson facts

5 most recent films

The Wee Man - Blu-ray - 0.5 stars
Broken - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Broken - 4.0 stars
The Wee Man - 4.0 stars
Marchlands - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Jekyll - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Sensitive Skin - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Criminal Justice - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Marchlands - 4.0 stars
Local Hero - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Broken - Blu-ray - 3 stars
The Wee Man - Blu-ray - 0.5 stars
Armchair Thriller Vol.5 - The Girl Who Walked Quickly - 2.0 stars
No Holds Bard - 2.5 stars
A World In Arms - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Cherie Lunghi - 16 times - show films
James Nesbitt - 16 times - show films
John Woodvine - 16 times - show films
Gina Bellman - 15 times - show films
Michelle Ryan - 15 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andrew Grieve - 16 times - show films
Matt Lipsey - 15 times - show films
Douglas Mackinnon - 15 times - show films
Brian Farnham - 5 times - show films
Jon Scofield - 3 times - show films