When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil to the monarchy.

The Third Secret

1964

English

6.5

♡ 6

62%

Charles Crichton Director

Richard Attenborough as Alfred Price-Gorham

Diane Cilento as Anne Tanner

Judi Dench as Miss Humphries

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Police Officer

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

2000

English

7.7

♡ 3

92%

Mark Jonathan Harris Director

Alexander Leeb as Father

Judi Dench as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

Lore Segal as Self

In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.

All Is True

2018

English

6.3

♡ 18

73%

husband wife relationship

london, england

united kingdom

Kenneth Branagh Director

Judi Dench as Anne Hathaway

Ian McKellen as Henry Wriothesley

Harry Lister Smith as Jack Cade

Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

Quintessentially British

2022

English

5.3

♡ 1

Documentary

Frank Mannion Director

Judi Dench as Self

Ian McKellen as Self

Tom Allen as Self

Oz Clarke as Self

This unique and cheeky documentary explores Britain and what makes our country great from our traditions to our self-deprecating sense of humour.

Tea With the Dames

2018

English

7.4

♡ 3

conversation

Documentary

documentary filmmaking

Roger Michell Director

Robert Altman as Self

Maggie Smith as Self

Judi Dench as Self

Rory Kinnear as Tanner

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

Red Joan

2018

English

6.4

♡ 28

30%

56%

Action

atomic bomb

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Biography

cold war

co-worker relationship

Trevor Nunn Director

Ciarán Owens as Detective Hughes

Judi Dench as Joan Stanley

Stephen Campbell Moore as Max Davis

Tereza Srbová as Sonya Galich

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

Six Minutes to Midnight

2020

English

6.0

♡ 8

36%

46%

1930s

Action

assassin on the loose

Andy Goddard Director

James D'Arcy as Captain Drey

Jim Broadbent as Charlie

Finty Williams as Miriam

Judi Dench as Miss Rocholl

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.