Dead Man Running (
2009) | IMDb:
6
A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it's too late for them both
Directed by:
Alex De Rakoff
Atonement (
2007) | IMDb:
7.8
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
James McAvoy
,
Romola Garai
,
Saoirse Ronan
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Vanessa Redgrave
Pride & Prejudice (
2005) | IMDb:
7.8
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
Matthew Macfadyen
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Donald Sutherland
,
Rosamund Pike
,
Jena Malone
Beyond the Sea (
2004) | IMDb:
6.7
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey
,
Kate Bosworth
,
John Goodman
,
Bob Hoskins
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Greta Scacchi
Undertaking Betty (
2002) | IMDb:
6.5
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn
,
Alfred Molina
,
Christopher Walken
,
Naomi Watts
,
Robert Pugh
,
Hannah Higgins
Directed by:
Nick Hurran
Daddy and Them (
2001) | IMDb:
5.6
Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.
Starring:
Billy Bob Thornton
,
Laura Dern
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Andy Griffith
,
Diane Ladd
,
Kelly Preston
Saving Grace (
2000) | IMDb:
6.9
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn
,
Craig Ferguson
,
Martin Clunes
,
Tchéky Karyo
,
Jamie Foreman
,
Bill Bailey
Directed by:
Nigel Cole
Secrets & Lies (
1996) | IMDb:
8
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn
,
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
,
Timothy Spall
,
Phyllis Logan
,
Claire Rushbrook
,
Lee Ross
A River Runs Through It (
1992) | IMDb:
7.2
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.
Starring:
Craig Sheffer
,
Brad Pitt
,
Tom Skerritt
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Edie McClurg
,
Stephen Shellen
Directed by:
Robert Redford
The Witches (
1990) | IMDb:
6.8
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
Starring:
Jasen Fisher
,
Mai Zetterling
,
Anjelica Huston
,
Charlie Potter
,
Rowan Atkinson
,
Bill Paterson