The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.

The Proposition

1998

English

6.2

♡ 10

11%

Lesli Linka Glatter Director

Madeleine Stowe as Eleanor Barret

Kenneth Branagh as Father Michael McKinnon

Pamela Hart as Skip Taylor

Blythe Danner as Syril Danning

Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.

Warm Springs

2005

English

7.4

♡ 6

77%

Action

Biography

Drama

Joseph Sargent Director

Robert C. Treveiler as Dan Reed

Kenneth Branagh as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Mike Pniewski as Hastings, Party Leader

Matt Malloy as Lionel Purdy

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

Peter's Friends

1992

English

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.

As You Like It

2006

English

6.0

♡ 8

42%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Kevin Kline as Jaques

Bryce Dallas Howard as Rosalind

Kenneth Branagh as Self

Alfred Molina as Touchstone

Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.

Looking for Richard

1996

English

7.3

♡ 17

85%

Al Pacino Director

Kevin Kline as Self

Kenneth Branagh as Self - Interviewee

Winona Ryder as Self / Lady Anne

Al Pacino as Self / Richard III

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."

A Month in the Country

1987

English

6.8

♡ 6

86%

Pat O'Connor Director

Colin Firth as Birkin

Tony Haygarth as Douthwaite

Jim Carter as Ellerbeck

Kenneth Branagh as James Moon

A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.

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.

The Theory of Flight

1998

English

6.5

♡ 5

45%

Paul Greengrass Director

Aneirin Hughes as Doctor

Ray Stevenson as Gigolo

Helena Bonham Carter as Jane Hatchard

Kenneth Branagh as Richard

A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.

My Week with Marilyn

2011

English

6.9

♡ 44

82%

71%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

movie business

platonic love

Sport

Simon Curtis Director

Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller

Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark

Emma Watson as Lucy

Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

Mindhorn

2016

English

6.3

♡ 43

92%

Sean Foley Director

Richard McCabe as Geoffrey Moncrieff

Kenneth Branagh as Kenneth Branagh

Essie Davis as Patricia Deville

Simon Callow as Simon Callow

A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002

English

7.4

♡ 18

87%

based on a true story

Phillip Noyce Director

Kenneth Branagh as A.O. Neville

Jason Clarke as Constable Riggs

Natasha Wanganeen as Nina, Dormitory Boss

Anthony Hayes as The Fence Builder

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

Conspiracy

2001

English

7.6

♡ 19

100%

Frank Pierson Director

Colin Firth as Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart

Rod Culbertson as Narrator

Tom Hiddleston as Phone Operator

Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Hamlet

1996

English

7.7

♡ 42

95%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Rowena King as Attendant to Gertrude

Rufus Sewell as Fortinbras

Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet

Kate Winslet as Ophelia

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022

English

6.6

♡ 1

Action

Documentary

Jim Sheridan Director

Kenneth Branagh as Self

Anthony Hopkins as Self

Brian Cox as Self

Michael Jayston as Self

Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.

Shackleton

2002

English

7.6

♡ 4

100%

Charles Sturridge Director

Shaun Dooley as Hubert Hudson 2 episodes, 2002

Rick Warden as John Vincent unknown episodes

Corin Redgrave as Lord Curzon 2 episodes, 2002

Kenneth Branagh as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton 2 episodes, 2002

The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

2012

English

8.3

♡ 4

Danny Boyle Director

Kenneth Branagh as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Daniel Craig as James Bond

Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean

David Beckham as Self

The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes from more than 200 nations for the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, marking an historic third time the capital has hosted the world’s biggest and most important sporting event. The Opening Ceremony reflected the key themes and priorities of the London 2012 Games, based on sport, inspiration, youth and urban transformation. It was a Ceremony 'for everyone' and celebrated contributions the UK has made to the world through innovation and revolution, as well as the creativity and exuberance of British people.

Frankenstein

1994

English

6.3

♡ 44

Kenneth Branagh Director

Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth

Celia Imrie as Mrs. Moritz

Robert De Niro as The Creature

Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

Chariots of Fire

1981

English

7.1

♡ 35

84%

80%

Action

based on a true story

Hugh Hudson Director

Kenneth Branagh as Cambridge Student - Society Day crowd

Nigel Havers as Lord Andrew Lindsay

Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini

Alice Krige as Sybil Gordon

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

The Boat That Rocked

2009

English

7.3

♡ 59

Richard Curtis Director

Emma Thompson as Charlotte

Gemma Arterton as Desiree

Bill Nighy as Quentin

Kenneth Branagh as Sir Alistair Dormandy

When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban on government-censored music, they take to the seas to broadcast music and mayhem to millions of adoring fans.

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Mindhorn

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Conspiracy

Hamlet

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Shackleton

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

Frankenstein

Chariots of Fire

The Boat That Rocked