Described as a "forensic fairy tale", Pushing Daisies is about Ned a pie-maker with the power to bring the dead back to life.
Anna plays Charlotte "Chuck" Charles who is Ned's childhood sweetheart who was murdered, so Ned brings her but back to life.
Pushing Daisies - Season 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2007) Starring:Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Sammi Hanratty Director:Adam Kane, Barry Sonnenfeld, Paul A. Edwards Certificate:
All nine episodes from the first season of the popular US comedy/fantasy series, about a man who helps solve murder mysteries by using his ability to bring people back from the dead. When he was a child, Ned (Lee Pace) discovered that he could bring the dead back to life. Now an adult, Ned makes ..read more »
Anna plays Charlotte "Chuck" Charles who is Ned's childhood sweetheart who was murdered, so Ned brings her but back to life.
Pushing Daisies - Season 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2008) Starring:Ellen Greene, Chi McBride, Swoosie Kurtz Director:Peter O'Fallon, Adam Kane, Lawrence Trilling Certificate:
All 13 episodes from the second season of the American comic fantasy series starring Lee Pace and Anna Friel, about a man who helps solve murder mysteries by using his ability to bring people back from the dead. Episodes are: 'Bzzzzzzzzz!', 'Circus, Circus', 'Bad Habits', 'Frescorts', 'Dim Sum Lose ..read more »
Anna stars as Maddy, a feisty single mother from Australia with few friends in the world, apart from the fabulous Gillian played Joanna Lumley.
Mad Cows
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Joanna Lumley, Phyllida Law, Greg Wise Director:Sarah Sugarman Certificate:
Maddy (Anna Friel) is an Australian in London, trying to track down the feckless father of her baby boy. Her quest takes an unexpected turn when she is thrown in prison for stealing a bag of peas from Harrods. A plot is hatched between Maddy, her best friend Gillian (Joanna Lumley) and the prison ..read more »
Irish Jam
on DVD
(2005) Starring:Togo Igawa, Tom Georgeson, Roger Ashton-Griffiths Director:John Eyres Certificate:
Comedy starring Eddie Griffin. Upon discovering that their village is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize - the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper (..read more »
Niagara Motel features its namesake and the ongoings amongst the inhabitants of the motel located in Niagara Falls.
Anna plays the part of Denise.
Niagara Motel
on DVD
(2005) Starring:Anna Friel, Craig Ferguson, Kevin Pollak Director:Gary Yates Certificate: Watch now: Unavailable
Eight people, each struggling with a personal crisis, all cross paths at the honeymoon town of Niagara Falls. Although the town is a romantic destination for newlyweds and a symbol of beginnings, promise and potential, this is just not the case here...
In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora played by Anna, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist.
All For Love
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Jason Isaacs, Miranda Richardson, Tim Dutton Director:Harry Hook Certificate:
Period drama based on an unfinished short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film stars Jean-Marc Barr as Captain Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar who is captured and sent to a prison camp in Scotland, commanded by Major Chevening (Richard E. Grant). Both St. Ives and ..read more »
Anna plays the part of Elizabeth Bathory.
The film is based on the story of Elizabeth Bathory (Erzsebet Bathory), a 16th/17th century Hungarian countess.
Bathory - The Countess of Blood
on DVD
(2008) Starring:Michaela Drotárová, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan Director:Juraj Jakubisko Certificate: Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Slovak filmmaker Juraj Jakubisko directs this English-language historical drama based on the legend of 16th-century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Bathory, who became famous for supposedly bathing in the blood of virgins in a bid to preserve her youth and beauty, has even been included in ..read more »
The film follows two wig salesmen, one Catholic and one Protestant, who live in war torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the mid-'80s.
Anna plays the part of Bronagh.
An Everlasting Piece
on DVD
(2000) Starring:Desmond McAleer, Brian F. O'Byrne, Billy Connolly Director:Barry Levinson Certificate:
Belfast, the 1980s. Protestant George (Brian F. O'Byrne) and Catholic Colm (Barry McEvoy) try to overcome their religious differences when they come up with a sure-fire money-making idea. They will get insane wig salesman 'The Scalper' (Billy Connolly) to give them insider information on the wig ..read more »
Anna plays the part of Claire Ryan.
It is a lighthearted Irish drama following the troubles of a young couple when the man discovers that his beloved is carrying another man's baby.
Watermelon
on DVD
(2003) Starring:Sean McGinley, Ciaran McMenamin, Elaine Cassidy Director:Kieron J. Walsh Certificate: Watch now: Unavailable
Television drama based on the novel by Marian Keyes. Claire Ryan (Anna Friel), a young woman with a strange relationship to the truth, is left literally holding the baby when her doting, not to mention gorgeous, boyfriend James (Jamie Draven) discovers that the child he thought was his is actually ..read more »
The Tribe(1998) Starring:Joely Richardson, Jeremy Northam, Anna Friel Director:Stephen Poliakoff Certificate:
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.