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6.0

♡ 9

59%

based on play or musical

Drama

french resistance

post-war england

Fred Schepisi Director

Sam Neill as Lazar

Hugh Laurie as Michael

Charles Dance as Raymond Brock

Ian McKellen as Sir Andrew Charleson

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Peter's Friends

1992

7.0

♡ 13

65%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Kenneth Branagh as Andrew Benson

Emma Thompson as Maggie Chester

Hugh Laurie as Roger Charleston

Sylvester Stallone as Self

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

101 Dalmatians

1996

5.8

♡ 46

40%

mother daughter relationship

Adventure

based on children's book

Stephen Herek Director

Joely Richardson as Anita

Glenn Close as Cruella DeVil

Hugh Laurie as Jasper

Frank Welker as Pongo / Pordy

An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

Kung-Fu Master!

♡ 4

older woman younger man relationship

Agnès Varda Director

Léa Drucker as Invitée à la boum de Lucy

Judy Campbell as La mère

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Lucy

Hugh Laurie as Self

A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?

Valiant

2005

5.5

♡ 10

32%

Gary Chapman Director

John Hurt as Felix

Hugh Laurie as Gutsy

Ewan McGregor as Valiant

Tim Curry as Von Talon

Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.

Mr. Pip

2012

7.1

♡ 8

47%

Andrew Adamson Director

Mark Mitchinson as Australian lawyer

Emily Barclay as Australian teacher

Kerry Fox as Mrs. June Watts

Hugh Laurie as Mr. Watts

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

The Personal History of David Copperfield

2019

6.4

♡ 22

92%

Armando Iannucci Director

Tilda Swinton as Betsey Trotwood

Hugh Laurie as Mr. Dick

Nikki Amuka-Bird as Mrs Steerforth

Benedict Wong as Mr. Wickfield

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988

7.9

♡ 7

Comedy

History

Richard Boden Director

Rowan Atkinson as Blackadders

Stephen Fry as Lords Melchett / Frondo

Jim Broadbent as Prince Albert

Hugh Laurie as Princes Regent / Pigmot

After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

Spice World

1997

3.8

♡ 22

35%

Bob Spiers Director

Bob Geldof as Bob Geldof

Richard O'Brien as Damien

George Wendt as Film Producer

Hugh Laurie as Poirot

World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

The Canterville Ghost

2023

5.9

♡ 23

60%

45%

Animation

Kim Burdon Director

Freddie Highmore as Henry Duke of Cheshire

Hugh Laurie as Mephisto Monster / Old Duke

Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Umney

Toby Jones as The Reverend Chasuble aka The Vicar

An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.

Blackadder: Back & Forth

1999

7.6

♡ 17

81%

Paul Weiland Director

Rowan Atkinson as All Blackadders

Hugh Laurie as All Georges

Stephen Fry as All Melchetts / Wellington

Colin Firth as William Shakespeare

What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.

Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

2009

6.3

♡ 11

Peter Ramsey Director

Seth Rogen as B.O.B.

Hugh Laurie as Dr. Cockroach Ph.D.

Kiefer Sutherland as General W.R. Monger

Reese Witherspoon as Susan / Ginormica

Susan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan's hometown of Modesto, California -- right before Halloween -- the team is dispatched to investigate. Everything appears normal, right down to the jack-o-lanterns peering out from every doorstep and windowsill. But when Halloween arrives, those innocent-looking carved pumpkins reveal themselves for what they really are mutant aliens. The altered pumpkins then start to implement their fiendish plan to take over Earth. The Monsters are there to combat the mutant gourds and try to smash their wicked scheme!

Flight of the Phoenix

2004

6.1

♡ 57

30%

John Moore Director

Giovanni Ribisi as Elliott

Dennis Quaid as Frank Towns

Hugh Laurie as Ian

Jared Padalecki as John Davis

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

The Borrowers

1997

5.9

♡ 39

73%

49%

Adventure

based on children's book

child's point of view

Peter Hewitt Director

Celia Imrie as Homily Clock

John Goodman as Ocious P. Potter

Hugh Laurie as Police Officer Steady

Doon Mackichan as Victoria Lender

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

Sense and Sensibility

1995

7.7

♡ 69

97%

Ang Lee Director

Imelda Staunton as Charlotte Palmer

Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood

Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood

Hugh Laurie as Mr. Palmer

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

Stuart Little

1999

6.0

♡ 112

66%

Rob Minkoff Director

Steve Zahn as Monty the Mouth

Hugh Laurie as Mr. Fredrick Little

Julia Sweeney as Mrs. Keeper, the Orphanage Owner

Jeffrey Jones as Uncle Crenshaw Little

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

Stuart Little 2

2002

live action and animation

5.5

♡ 72

82%

mouse

talking animal

Rob Minkoff Director

Rachael Harris as Additional Voices

Steve Zahn as Monty

Hugh Laurie as Mr. Little

Marc John Jefferies as Will

Stuart, an adorable white mouse, still lives happily with his adoptive family, the Littles, on the east side of Manhattan's Central Park. More crazy mouse adventures are in store as Stuart, his human brother, George, and their mischievous cat, Snowbell, set out to rescue a friend.

The Man in the Iron Mask

1998