Eileen Atkins
14 titles
Filmography
14 results

The Sleeper
(2000)The presence of a strange old lady at Violet Moon's séance awakens a spirit she hoped would sleep forever and her plots and plans to keep the past from catching up with her become more and more outrageous. Sinister sibling rivalry, bitter jealousy, clandestine passions, ghostly revenge and murderous intentions conspire to create a complex thriller with chilling psychological implications.

Vanity Fair
(2004)Despite her poverty-stricken background, a young woman climbs the social ladder in 19th-century England.

Scenes of a Sexual Nature
(2006)Over one sunny afternoon on London’s bucolic Hampstead Heath, seven couples navigate the complicated politics of sex, love and what makes us tick.

Titus Andronicus
(1985)The great warrior, Titus Andronicus, returns home from war victorious with an imprisoned Tamora, Queen of the Goths. In an act of solemn revenge for the death of his children, Titus murders Tamora’s eldest son Alarbus. So begins a series of ever bloodier exchanges of vengeance between Titus and Tamora, inevitably leading to the violent demise of them both.

The Scapegoat
(2012)Set in 1952 England, a man meets his doppelganger in a bar and swaps lives with him, only to be drawn into a scandalous world he can't quite escape.

Last Chance Harvey
(2008)In London for his daughter's wedding, jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows, he meets Kate, an intelligent and a compassionate woman, who transforms his life for the better.

Cold Mountain
(2003)During the Civil War, a woman vows to wait for the man she loves.

Bertie and Elizabeth
(2002)The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.

What a Girl Wants
(2003)Amanda Bynes ("What I Like About You") stars as Daphne Reynolds, a spirited 17-year-old New Yorker who travels to London to find her long-lost father. In contrast to her bohemian mother, Daphne discovers her father, Lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth--Bridget Jones' Diary), to be a very proper politician and English gentleman. Undaunted, Daphne dives into a schedule of stuffy social events, determined to prove that love--and proper etiquette--can conquer all. But as hard as she tries to reunite her parents and make a bid for "Debutante of the Year," Daphne cannot conceal her irrepressible personality or hide What a Girl Wants.

Ask the Dust
(2006)In 1930's Los Angeles, the love between a struggling writer (Colin Farrell) and a bold Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) is put to the ultimate test.

The Dresser
(1983)The lives and relationships of those within a British traditional touring stage company provide the backdrop for the five-time 1983 Oscar nominee, THE DRESSER (Best Picture; Best Actor; Best Supporting Actor; Best Director; Best Screenplay Adaptation). THE DRESSER is a compelling study of intense relationship between the leader of the company and his dresser. Sir (Albert Finney), a grandiloquen..

Farewell Doc Martin
(2022)Uncover the incredible journey that Doc Martin has been on. Follow the cast and crew as they film its 10th and final series, and discover how a hit TV show is made.

Magic in the Moonlight
(2014)Set in the 1920s on the Riviera in the south of France, Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight is a romantic comedy about a master magician trying to expose a psychic medium as a fake.

ChickLit
(2016)None of the friends who play dominoes every week in their local pub has a clue what erotic novels, formerly 'Chick Lit', now known as mummy porn consist of. Local newspaper editor David (Christian McKay) is astonished at the rate that his highly educated wife Jen (Caroline Catz) devours these books; pub manager Chris's (Tom Palmer) mother finds them liberating; Marcus's (Miles Jupp) bookshop is kept solvent by them and Justin's (David Troughton) English Literature class seems to know far more about them than is necessary or desirable. But David's ignorance of the genre doesn't last long - his scary boss Claire (Niamh Cusack) has decided that not only will he host a new arts show on the paper's local TV station, but that one of the topics will be mummy porn. Marcus meanwhile is making himself unpopular with his life and business partner Geoffrey (James Wilby), by trying to dissuade Diana (Cathy Tyson), a local poet from buying the latest mummy hit; 'She Came in Chains'. Diana challenges Marcus to write an erotic novel, which he loftily refuses. But when the pub is faced with imminent closure he is prepared to persuade the other two dominoes players that David's insane scheme - born out of his recent study of the topic, to co-write a mummy porn novel to save the pub is a good idea.