Movies with Linda Bassett
Movies found: 9, viewing from 1 to 9
West Is West
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Robert Pugh, Vijay Raaz, Aqib Khan, Thomas Russell
Directors: Andy DeEmmony
Country: UK
Year: 2010
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, sw...
The Hours
Genres: Drama
Starring: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, Linda Bassett
Directors: Stephen Daldry
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before.
East Is East
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Archie Panjabi, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Emil Marwa, Kriss Dosanjh, Lesley Nicol
Directors: Damien O'Donnell
Country: UK
Year: 1999
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
Mary Reilly
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Starring: Julia Roberts, Henry Goodman, Glenn Close, Michael Sheen, George Cole, John Malkovich, Michael Gambon
Directors: Stephen Frears
Country: USA
Year: 1996
We are somewhere in England in the 19th century. A Pretty housemaid works in a nice house, which is Dr. Jekyll's house. Mary Reilly think she found her best job, because she is poor and the doctor is well-known and rich. The film tells the 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' story as a woman sees the two men, one of them is good and the other is evil. And she loves them ...
Spivs
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Ken Stott, Dominic Monaghan, Tamer Hassan, Madhav Sharma, Linda Bassett, Nick Moran, Jack Dee
Directors: Colin Teague
Country: UK
Year: 2004
Jack, Steve and Goat are East-End Spivs. They spend their time wheeling and dealing wherever and whenever they can. It's not until Jack and the others get involved with a guy called Villa, and they are landed with a big payday they have been waiting for, when they realise what a mess they are into. At the back of the lorry they have smuggled goods in, they find illigal immegrants. Most of them escape but they are left with 2 kids; a boy and a girl, and have to decide what to do with them...Are they going to look after them and feed them, clothe them, love them, etc. or are they going to leave them on the streets of East-End London.
Loved Up
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Danny Dyer, Charles Edwards, Jason Isaacs, Lena Headey, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ian Hart, Linda Bassett
Directors: Peter Cattaneo
Country: UK
Year: 1995
The first time Sarah tries drugs is the first time she goes out with Tim, who was a customer of hers in the Dew Drop Inn Cafe. Tom is sweet and cool and after one night, she moves in with him; leaving behind her alcoholic mother and younger sister, Karen. For a while life is great and drugs are just part of the deal and most of the fun. But then things start getting complicated and she's not sure if she can handle it - there's one rave too many, a bad trip and she gets roughed up while doing a drop off for their dealer. Also, events at home mean that she cant block it out any longer: her mum needs her and Karen needs her. In turn, Sarah needs...
A Village Affair
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Philip Voss, Barbara Jefford, Claire Bloom, Linda Bassett, Sophie Ward, Michael Gough, Peter Jeffrey
Directors: Moira Armstrong
Country: UK
Year: 1995
Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin befriends a couple new to her village. The husband is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for someone else: his wife, Alice. Alice has a gilded life--beautiful children, a handsome husband, and a stately home. Secretly, shes depressed after the birth of her third child and unhappy in her marriage. Clodagh proves irresistible. But when tongues start wagging, the women learn that love might not be enough. Based on the bestselling novel by Joanna Trollope (Friday Nights, The Rectors Wife) and filmed in picturesque countryside, this British pr...
Calendar Girls
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Julie Walters, Helen Mirren, John Fortune, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Philip Glenister
Directors: Nigel Cole
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2003
In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives.
Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Enzo Cilenti, Linda Bassett, Honor Blackman, Marisa Berenson, Peter Bowles, Angus Barnett, Phil Cornwell
Directors: Brian W. Cook
Country: UK, France
Year: 2005
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.