Tom Wilkinson

A young peasant maid (played by Scarlett Johansson, Black Widow) working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth, The King's Speech) becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.

When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come in this scandal-filled costume drama series.

An 1820s-set black comedy based on the Burke and Hare murders. Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis star as a pair of 19th Century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for Edinburgh's medical fraternity.

Rupert Everett's directorial debut chronicles an ailing Oscar Wilde's last days while exiled in France. Everett stars alongside Colin Firth.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper) leads this biographical thriller from Oliver Stone as Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who blew the whistle on mass surveillance and leaked thousands of classified documents to the press.

Tom Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the man behind Operation Valkyrie, i.e. the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Directed by Bryan Singer (Superman Returns, X-Men) and featuring a great cast of British actors.

Two brothers (Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor) with money troubles are torn apart over their uncle's shady proposal.

James Franco and Kate Hudson star in this London thriller as a cash-strapped couple who discover stacks of money in their dead tenant's apartment. Taking it for themselves, they soon become the target of a deadly adversary...

Paul Giamatti leads this seven-part miniseries chronicle of the life of Founding Father John Adams.

A legal thriller about an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York

Kelly Macdonald and Colin Firth head up the cast in this John Madden-directed WWII drama depicting the events of the titular Allied Forces operation - a deception effort to hide the invasion of Sicily.

David Oyelowo (Interstellar) is the great Martin Luther King in this historical drama detailing the legendary activist, the civil rights march, and President Lyndon B. Johnson’s (Tom Wilkinson) role in the era.

Emmy winners Billy Crudup and Claire Danes star in this historical drama from BAFTA-winning director Richard Eyre (Notes on a Scandal).

Mel Gibson plays American Civil War hero Benjamin Martin, who's forced to take up arms again when his family is torn apart by the savage British redcoats during the American Revolution.

Adventure-thriller starring Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer and the unforgiving African wilderness. Written by William Goldman.

Brit drama in which cockold husband Colin (Ray Winstone) is shattered by his wife's infidelity. However, he has friends who do more than stand by – they kidnap the wife's French lover and hold him prisoner so that Colin can restore his manhood with revenge.

Christian Bale is billionaire Bruce Wayne, transforming himself into a self-made symbol of justice in this first film of Christopher Nolan's gritty Dark Knight trilogy.

True story period drama, set in 18th-century Britain, about Dido Elizabeth Belle - the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Navy Admiral. As the years go on, Dido's social status wavers when her public image provokes tension among her peers...

A reverend (Forest Whitaker) tries to keep racial tensions from escalating when a Klu Klux Klan museum is opened in his South Carolina town in this Sundance Audience Award-winning true story drama.

Courtroom drama starring Rachel Weisz as a writer being sued for libel by a renowned Holocaust denier (Timothy Spall).

Two corporate spies for rival pharmaceutical companies - Julia Roberts and Clive Owen - join forces to scam their bosses in this sassy crime-thriller from the director of Michael Clatyon.

The unique oddball romantic comedy, written by the inventive Charlie Kaufman and directed by French low-fi innovator Michel Gondry...

Todd Field's 2001 classic drama, nominated for five Oscars. Set on the coast of Maine, a couple's (Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson) only son (Nick Stahl) is involved with a single mother (Marisa Tomei). When this relationship comes to a tragic end, each person face the intensely difficult decision of how to respond.