Stephen Frears Filmography

An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years....

Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts falling a...

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat....

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful....

The Grifters is a movie starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Annette Bening. A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles......

Hero is a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Andy Garcia. A not-so-nice man rescues passengers from a crashed airliner, only to see someone else take credit....

The Snapper is an episode of Screen Two starring Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, and Ruth McCabe. 20 year old Irish girl Sharon Curly lives at home with her large family. But notoriety in her neighbourhood suddenly arrives when, after......

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde....

High Fidelity is a movie starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, and Todd Louiso. Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress....

Irregular migrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom...

Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues....

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted....

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love....

Tamara Drewe is a movie starring Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, and Dominic Cooper. A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale....

Lay the Favorite is a movie starring Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, and Vince Vaughn. Ex-private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a Sports gambler. Sparks fly as she proves to be......

On the comedic Drama "Philomena" full-grown political journalist-cynic Martin Siksmit, who gave his work many years, experiencing a creative crisis and even falls into depression after he was fired. Martin is considering writing a book about Russian......

"Victoria and Abdul" this is a true story of friendship, which for a long time many seemed almost incredible. It has been discussed at various levels and attracted the attention of the general public. This is the story of the British Queen and the......

The events of the biographical Drama "The Program" starts in the year 1993 in France. 22-year-old American cyclist Lance Armstrong won in the United States a bunch of races and came to France to take part in the world's most prestigious cycling race......

Feature film "Florence Foster Jenkins" is based on real events and tells the story of the life of the American pianist and singer who managed to become famous, despite lack of hearing, sense of rhythm, as well as inability to keep the note. Action......