Notes on a Scandal (2006)
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen year old students However, her intentions with this new friend also go well beyond a platonic friendship
The Other Man (2008)
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life
Iris (2001)
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimers disease
The Children Act (2017)
As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle
Stage Beauty (2004)
A female theatre dresser creates a stir and sparks a revolution in seventeenth century London theatre by playing Desdemona in Othello But what will become of the male actor she once worked for and eventually replaced
Richard III (1995)
The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather
King Lear (2018)
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one
The Dresser (2015)
A drama, based on a successful play, about an aging actor Sir Anthony Hopkins and his personal assistant Sir Ian McKellen
The Ploughmans Lunch (1983)
James Penfield Jonathan Pryce has made a career out of journalism Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War
Singletons Pluck (1984)
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his five thousand geese, one hundred miles to market