The best Judi Dench’s drama movies

Judi Dench

Judi Dench

09/12/1934 (89 años)
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Pride & Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/09/2005
  • Character: Lady Catherine de Bourgh
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
6.7/10
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
6.5/10
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Cats

Cats
2.8/10
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

J. Edgar

J. Edgar
6.5/10
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.

Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/2006
  • Character: Barbara Covett
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/07/2017
  • Character: The Abbess of St. Ursula
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/03/2011
  • Character: Mrs. Fairfax
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

A Room with a View

A Room with a View
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/12/1985
  • Character: Eleanor Lavish
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

Henry V

Henry V
7.5/10
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Chocolat

Chocolat
7.3/10
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of Boat Gypsies float down the river the prejudices of the Mayor leads to a crisis.

Iris

Iris
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/12/2001
  • Character: Iris Murdoch
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Belfast

Belfast
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/11/2021
  • Character: Granny
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

Hamlet

Hamlet
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1996
  • Character: Hecuba
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Tea with Mussolini

Tea with Mussolini
6.9/10
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 14/09/2017
  • Character: Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

All Is True

All Is True
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 21/12/2018
  • Character: Anne 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.

Ladies in Lavender

Ladies in Lavender
7/10
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.

84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/02/1987
  • Character: Nora Doel
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

The Shipping News

The Shipping News
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/12/2001
  • Character: Agnis Hamm
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

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