Lesley Manville
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1956-03-12
Locus Natus: Brighton, England, UK
Et ut: Lesley Ann Manville, Леслі Менвілл, 莱丝利·曼维尔 饰
Back to Black
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album,...
release : 2024.04.11popularis : 41.086
Secrets & Lies
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...
release : 1996.05.24popularis : 14.349
Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
release : 2004.10.22popularis : 9.185
Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.
release : 2022.05.18popularis : 2.092
Bodily Harm
Mitchel, a mild-mannered suburban stockbroker spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and...
release : 2002.03.11popularis : 2.14
All or Nothing
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...
release : 2002.05.17popularis : 9.619
Dance with a Stranger
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for...
release : 1985.03.01popularis : 4.452
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with...
release : 1987.10.30popularis : 3.006
Cold Storage
Several decades ago, a highly infectious, constantly mutating micro-organism – capable of extinction-level destruction – was contained in...
release : 2025.06.12popularis : 4.726
Sparkle
Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her...
release : 2007.08.17popularis : 2.48
Milk
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.343
Another Year
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
release : 2010.11.05popularis : 7.764
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are...
release : 2005.08.14popularis : 2.645
Topsy-Turvy
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking....
release : 1999.12.15popularis : 10.215
High Hopes
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's...
release : 1989.01.13popularis : 7.847
Queer
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the...
release : 2024.09.03popularis : 17.387
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...
release : 2009.11.04popularis : 40.209
The Firm
A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.
release : 1989.02.26popularis : 5.014
Midwinter Break
Midwinter Break follows Stella and Gerry, a long-time married couple who reach a crossroads in their relationship when they take a trip to Amsterdam.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.434
Romeo & Juliet
In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation...
release : 2013.09.12popularis : 12.055
Womb
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her...
release : 2010.07.15popularis : 10.817
Maleficent
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army...
release : 2014.05.28popularis : 70.494
High Season
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he...
release : 1987.09.01popularis : 1.826
Spike Island
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
release : 2012.10.11popularis : 6.598
A Five Star Life
Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she...
release : 2013.04.24popularis : 6.344
An Adventure in Space and Time
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass...
release : 2013.11.21popularis : 11.187
Top Girls
Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
release : 1991.11.02popularis : 23.225
The Christmas Candle
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village...
release : 2013.11.22popularis : 3.409
The Critic
Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any...
release : 2024.09.13popularis : 24.704
Mr. Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
release : 2014.10.31popularis : 8.151
Ghosts
Lesley Manville gives a career best performance in Richard Eyre's award-winning revival of Ibsen's poignant tragedy. Helene Alving (Lesley Manville)...
release : 2014.06.26popularis : 1.363
Angels in the Annexe
Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the...
release : 1984.12.24popularis : 0.62
Ashes
One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in...
release : 2012.09.06popularis : 4.104
Dual Balls
A teacher has a titillating experience after accepting an unusual gift from a friend.
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 1.733
Winter of the Crow
Warsaw, December 13th 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.82
Mr Burton
The film will tell the true story of the relationship between Welsh schoolmaster Philip Burton and a wild young schoolboy called Richard Jenkins....
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.768
Rupture
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
release : 2016.11.04popularis : 10.896
Grown-Ups
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living...
release : 1980.11.27popularis : 1.796
The Go-Between
An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
release : 2015.09.20popularis : 4.134
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
release : 2015.04.11popularis : 8.054
A Very British Brothel
A look at the daily life of an English brothel.
release : 2015.08.03popularis : 2.641
Perfect Parents
After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one...
release : 2006.12.28popularis : 1.459
A Very British Brothel 2
This follow-up film returns to Sheffield's City Sauna. The certified massage parlour run by a mum and daughter team, which specialises in mature and...
release : 2017.01.04popularis : 2.628
The Moon Over Soho
A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.
release : 1985.08.18popularis : 1.581
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
release : 1982.09.04popularis : 1.68
The One and Only Mike Leigh
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about...
release : 2014.11.24popularis : 1.46
Promoted to Glory
An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.
release : 2003.12.21popularis : 2.797
Phantom Thread
In 1950s London, renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes ever present in his...
release : 2017.12.25popularis : 17.138
Hampstead
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse,...
release : 2017.06.23popularis : 11.194
Dog Ends
A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a...
release : 1984.07.17popularis : 0.856
Christmas Present
A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor...
release : 1985.12.19popularis : 0.842
To Provide All People
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the...
release : 2018.06.28popularis : 2.097
LOVE
In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas. The bonds of...
release : 2018.12.08popularis : 1.973
Misbehaviour
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World...
release : 2020.03.12popularis : 12.879
14 Actors Acting
This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.
release : 2010.12.08popularis : 5.658
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by...
release : 2019.10.16popularis : 57.486
Ordinary Love
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
release : 2019.12.06popularis : 10.588
The Agency
Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a modern and stylish take on middle class female...
release : 2017.11.23popularis : 1.649
Let Him Go
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a...
release : 2020.11.05popularis : 19.92
Plain Jane
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
release : 2002.05.27popularis : 1.655
David Copperfield
After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother...
release : 2001.12.25popularis : 3.933
A Statement of Affairs
A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to...
release : 1993.03.08popularis : 0.833
O Mary This London
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their...
release : 1994.03.30popularis : 1.222
Toy Boys
Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.
release : 1999.03.31popularis : 1.292
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
release : 2022.07.15popularis : 19.475
Bad Girl
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
release : 1992.07.14popularis : 1.753