Stephen Frears

A light, based on fact, comedy/drama starring two screen legends in Dench & Hoskins...

A comedy of manners from Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity) about young writer, Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton), who left her English countryside home an ugly duckling but returns a stunner...

Thriller starring Chiwitel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou about an undocumented immigrant who finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works.

Stephen Frears directs this BAFTA-nominated biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina).

Two-time Oscar nominees Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge) and director Stephen Frears (The Queen) join forces, retelling the story of the historian who found the lost remains of King Richard III... underneath a Leicester carpark.

When a predatory, wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer) a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love - with tragic results.

Meryl Streep is Florence Foster Jenkins, the 1930s-1940s New York socialite who dreamed of becoming an opera singer despite being roundly ridiculed for her lack of rhythm, her lack of pitch, and her aberrant pronunciation...

John Cusack leads this romantic comedy as record store owner Rob. As an ode to his broken love life, Rob applies his compulsive musical list-making habits to previous relationships, counting off his Top Five breakups – including the one that’s about to happen. Directed by Stephen Frears (who would go on to direct The Queen), based on the novel by Nick Hornby (with the setting moved from London to Chicago). 

Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta-Jones star in this high-roller comedy following a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes the lucky charm of a professional sports gambler, much to his wife's disdain.

From Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons) comes the classic story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, here told from the perspective of Jekyll's (John Malkovich) innocent and devoted maid Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts).

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan lead this UK drama directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), the true story of a single mother in search for her adult son, separated after a Christian community forced them apart decades ago.

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) is Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant Charles Ingram, accused of cheating to win the game show.

Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) is infamous athlete and cheat Lance Armstrong in this biographical drama depicting the events that led to him being exposed. Co-stars Chris O’Dowd as David Walsh, the sports journalist who investigated the case.

Depicts the backstage parley between PM Tony Blair, Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal family leading up to and following the death of Princess Diana...

Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk in this period drama from the director of The Queen.