The best Dorothy Atkinson’s movies

Dorothy Atkinson

Dorothy Atkinson

We present our ranking of the best Dorothy Atkinson’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Dorothy Atkinson.
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 21/10/2021
  • Character: Mrs Du Frayne
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

All or Nothing

All or Nothing
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/05/2002
  • Character: Silent Passenger
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

The Mercy

The Mercy
6/10
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

Peterloo

Peterloo
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/11/2018
  • Character: Singing Weaver
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.

Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy
7.3/10
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 31/10/2014
  • Character: Hannah Danby
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

Peter & Wendy

Peter & Wendy
5.8/10
  • Genre: FamilyFantasy
  • Release: 26/12/2015
  • Character: Nurse Doyle
Lucy is a young girl admitted to Great Ormond Street with a heart condition. Whilst there she makes a connection with JM Barrie's classic story of Peter Pan and is soon whisked away to her own Neverland

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
6.3/10
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

Housewife, 49

Housewife, 49
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 10/12/2006
  • Character: Mrs Mac
Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.

Victoria Wood: Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas

Victoria Wood: Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/2009
This is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the traditional greeting -“Don’t bother, there’s nothing on”. Well this Christmas join Victoria Wood for her ‘Mid Life Christmas’ featuring highlights from the Mid Life Olympics 2009, with the most unlikely sporting events and a dance number that brings together the killer combo of midriff bulge. Victoria then dons a bonnet and corset, for the popular costume drama Lark Pies to Cranchesterford, and revel in the further adventures of soap star Bo Beaumont played by long term collaborator Julie Walters. DVD extras include the searing in-depth documentary (!) ‘What larks!’

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