The best Shirley Henderson’s drama movies

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson

24/11/1965 (58 años)
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Trainspotting

Trainspotting
8.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/02/1996
  • Character: Gail Houston
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Wild Child

Wild Child
6.1/10
Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary
6.8/10
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 24/05/2006
  • Character: Madame Sophie
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Okja

Okja
7.3/10
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

In Secret

In Secret
6.1/10
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/09/2012
  • Character: Opera House Wife
Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

T2 Trainspotting

T2 Trainspotting
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/01/2017
  • Character: Gail Houston
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Rob Roy

Rob Roy
6.9/10
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People
7.3/10
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

Filth

Filth
7/10
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/12/2018
  • Character: Lucille Hardy
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public

Intermission

Intermission
6.8/10
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

Greed

Greed
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/02/2020
  • Character: Margaret
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

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.

Meek's Cutoff

Meek's Cutoff
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 05/09/2010
  • Character: Glory White
Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
7/10
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.

The Look of Love

The Look of Love
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/04/2013
  • Character: Rusty Humphries
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.

The Claim

The Claim
6.3/10
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Set Fire to the Stars

Set Fire to the Stars
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 07/11/2014
  • Character: Shirley
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

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