Phyllida Law

All Movies of Phyllida Law

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  5.6
  A Little Chaos
  A landscape gardener with a taste for the unconventional is invited to design one of the fountains at the Palace of Versailles. As she battles with the weather, the perilous rivalries at the court of Louis XIV (reign: 1643-1715) a...
  Character: Suzanne

   2014

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  The Other Wife (TV Miniseries)
  Rebecca Kendall is blessed with beauty, talent, a splendid home, two wonderful daughters and a loving husband, Robert, who is often in Canada, where he runs a mining firm. After he dies in a plane crash, Rebecca learns that he inv...
   2012

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  6.0
  Albert Nobbs
  Glenn Close plays a brave woman struggling to get on in life in the sexist patriarchal society of Ireland in the 19th century pretending to be a man to get a job at a hotel. The renowned actress has produced the film and written t...
  Character: Mrs. Cavendish

   2011

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  7.1
  Miss Austen Regrets (TV)
  In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.
  Character: Mrs. Austen

   2008

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  6.0
  Lecture 21 (Lesson 21)
  A student (Taylor) takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
  Character: Boheme

   2008

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  5.3
  Day of Wrath
  Set in the 16th century, a sheriff working on a series of murders has to choose between his conscience and protecting his family when he's tied to the crimes.
  Character: Esperanza de Mendoza

   2006

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  Pinochet in Suburbia (TV)
   2006

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  6.0
  Copying Beethoven
  Anna Holtz is a 23-year-old aspiring composer lacking in wherewithal struggling to find inspiration and prosper in the music capital of the world, Vienna. Anna, a conservatory student, wangles the chance to work with the best and ...
   2006

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  6.0
  Miss Potter
  A look at the life of children's book author Beatrix Potter. In 1902, suffocated by her social-climbing parents, Beatrix Potter (Zellweger) makes a bid for independence by taking her tale of Peter Rabbit to publishers. She finds s...
   2006

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  6.0
  A Little Trip to Heaven
  Set in the early eighties at the height of the Reagan Revolution, the film follows insurance investigator Holt (Whitaker) as he travels to Hastings, a dreary, dying town in northern Minnesota. He’s there to confirm the death of ...
  Character: Head Mistress

   2005

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  Blinded
  While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work in the area, and so she points ...
  Character: Bella Black

   2004

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  5.5
  2 Men Went to War
   2002

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  4.7
  The Time Machine
  Based on the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist and inventor, Alexander Hartdegen, is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives hi...
  Character: Mrs. Watchit

   2002

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  6.6
  Saving Grace
  Set in the beautiful misty fishing town of Port Liac in Cornwall England, SAVING GRACE--an easy-going comic gem--centers on Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethlyn), a sweet and modest middle-aged lady, whose husband commits suicide, lea...
   2000

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  6.2
  I Want You
  Michael Winterbottom brings to life this haunting, sexy tale of a beautiful hairdresser, Helen (Rachel Weisz), who lives and works in an English seaside town. Honda (Luca Petrusic), a 14-year-old mute boy who surreptitiously tapes...
  Character: Woman at Hairdresser #1

   1998

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  6.4
  Anna Karenina
  Character: Vronskaya

   1997

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  6.9
  The Winter Guest
  Emma Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law, star as a widowed photographer and her prickly mom, chaffing against each other and a frozen Scottish landscape. Actor Alan Rickman makes an inauspicious directorial debut.
  Character: Elspeth

   1997

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  7.8
  Before the Rain
  The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offe...
   1994

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  7.8
  Much Ado About Nothing
  When gallant Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), his nefarious brother Don John (Keanu Reeves), and close confidantes Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) ride thunderously into the village of Messina, romance, ...
  Character: Ursula

   1993

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  6.6
  The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series)
  The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was based on the Indiana Jones series of films. The series follows the Indiana Jones character (as a young boy and as a young man) as he was growing up and experiencing his early adventures where...
  Character:  Signora Reale 1 episode, 1993

   1992

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  7.0
  Peter's Friends
  After his father's death, the grieving Peter invites a group of college friends, who have been separated for 10 years, to a New Year's Eve reunion at his English countryside estate. In scenes by turns funny and sad, they talk over...
  Character: Vera

   1992

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  Tree of Hands
  A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
  Character: Julia

   1989

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  7.0
  Till We Meet Again (TV Miniseries)
  Character:  Annette de Lancel 2 episodes, 1989

   1989

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  7.0
  Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series)
  TV Series (1971-1975). The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, is a member of Parliament, and his wife a member of th...
   1971

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  Otley
  Gerald Otley, a petty thief and garbage rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town, and finds that he is wanted by the police for murder. And that is only the beginning. While being pursued for a crime he di...
   1968