Judi Dench

Judi Dench
Date of Birth: 09 Dec 1934
Country: UK
Biography: Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress. Regarded by critics as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, and frequently named as the leading British actress in polls, Dench has received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television; her awards include ten BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award... (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 84 (Actor)
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Bugs!
Bugs! (2003) - Short Film
A film about the various insects in Borneo's rainforest. (imdb)
Chocolat
When Vianne (Binoche), a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly rooted in tradition. (Miramax Films)
The Chronicles of Riddick
Vin Diesel reprises his star-making role of enigmatic anti-hero Richard B. Riddick in this sci-fi action-adventure epic.
Die Another Day
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Home on the Range
When a greedy outlaw named Alameda Slim (Quaid) schemes to take possession of the "Patch of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows (Barr, Dench, Tilly), a karate-kicking stallion named Buck (Gooding Jr.), and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save the farm in a wild quest full of high-spirited adventure. (Disney)
The Importance of Being Earnest
A film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's hilarious play about two young gents living in 1890's England who have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives. (Miramax)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
In 1938 and 1939, about 10,000 children, most of them Jews, were sent by their parents from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to the safety of England where foster families took most of them in for the duration of the war. Years later, eleven kinder, one child's mother, an English foster mother, a survivor of Auschwitz who didn't go to England, and two of the kindertransport organizers remember... (imdb)
Iris
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. (imdb)
Langrishe, Go Down
The theatrical release of a 1978 BBC film starring Jeremy Irons and Judi Dench in a Harold Pinter adaptation of an Aidan Higgins novel -- the story of a lonely single woman, of gone-to-seed aristocratic origins, who throws herself into a passionate love affair with an unscrupulous intellectual living on her property. (Film Forum)
Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
Queen Victoria (Dench) was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown (Connolly) was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together, the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
A Room with a View
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans? (imdb)
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love is a romantic comedy for the 1990s set in the 1590s. It imaginatively unfolds the witty, sexy and timeless tale behind the creation of the greatest love story ever told. (Miramax Films)
The Shipping News
Based on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the story traces one man's extraordinary journey to self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. (Miramax Films)
Tea with Mussolini
A coming-of-age tale about an illegitimate child who struggles to assert his independence and find his way into a life of art, taken from the autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli. (MGM)
Tomorrow Never Dies
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
The World Is Not Enough
Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, a terrorist who can't feel pain.
Ladies in Lavender
The dull lives of two elderly sisters on the coast of Cornwall are interrupted by a shipwrecked Polish sailor who rekindles old sibling rivalries, jealousies and unfulfilled dreams. (Roadside Attractions)
Pride & Prejudice
Keira Knightly stars as Elizabeth Bennet in this classic tale of love and misunderstanding which unfolds in class-conscious England near the close of the 18th century. (Focus Features)
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs. Laura Henderson (Dench) may be a widow but she is by no means going to spend the rest of her days playing bridge. The Windmill Theater becomes ger game and the infamous showman Vivian Van Dam (Hoskins) becomes her partner and fiercest opponent. The Germans are bombing London but the roar of the Windmill is all that can be heard as Laura convinces Lord Cromer (Guest) to allow her actresses to be the one thing no one could ever imagine: Nude. Brought to its knees by war, what Mrs. Henderson Presents brings a nation to its feet in applause. (The Weinstein Company)
Doogal
Legend tells of three magic diamonds that, if in the wrong hands, can be united to create a force powerful enough to freeze the sun. When the evil sorcerer Zeebad (Stewart) escapes from his ancient prison, he vows to exact revenge by deep-freezing the earth forever. Determined to save the world, a fellowship of four unlikely heroes band together to foil Zeebad's villainous plot. Led by the candy-loving mutt Doogal (Tay), friends Dylan (Fallon), Brian (Macy) and Ermintrude (Goldberg) all embark on an epic adventure to save the world. (Weinstein Company)
GoldenEye
007 must investigate the mysterious destruction of a Russian computer research facility and its connection to the years-old murder of a fellow agent.
84 Charing Cross Road
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing. (imdb)
Henry V
The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France. (imdb)
Casino Royale
In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
Notes on a Scandal
Based on the novel by Zoe Heller, this psychological thriller portrays two women caught up in a drama of need and betrayal. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jack & Sarah
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1. The hires the help of a novice nanny, but at the end of the day, it's Jack who's left holding the baby. (imdb)
A Study in Terror
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail... (imdb)
Wetherby
A young man (McInnerny) appears at Jean Travers' doorstep whilst she's hosting a dinner party and invites himself in. No one knows who he is, and after a short time, he shoots himself in her kitchen. Jean is left to deal with the consequences of his actions, which unknowingly provoke a confrontation with her own repressed memories.
The Angelic Conversation
An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets - fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. (imdb)
Four in the Morning
Drama which follows the parallel stories of two couples in crisis and their connection to a drowned woman found in a river. (imdb)
Cranford
Cranford (2007) - TV Series
Cranford is set in a small rural Cheshire town of the same name in 1842 and 1843, which Gaskell based on the real town of Knutsford. The town is dominated by women, and is comfortably settled in its traditional way of life, but the railway is about to arrive, and offers to introduce modern ways and ideas to the town, to the alarm of some of its inhabitants. (imdb)
Quantum of Solace
Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's valuable resource.
The Third Secret
A prominent London Psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. The truth, however, turns out to be both surprising and disturbing. (imdb)
A Handful of Dust
We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, lord and lady, live on his enormous estate with their young son. Tony's not much for parties, and Brenda joins London society, on the arm of a penniless man, John Beaver, a hanger-on at Tony's club. John is encouraged by his entrepreneurial mother, who sees a quid in Tony and Brenda... (imdb)
Rage
A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone. (imdb)
Nine
Film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his life, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1994) - TV Mini-Series
This Masterpiece Theatre production, set at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, chronicles the life, loves, foibles and politics of the fictional English town of Middlemarch... (imdb)
Jane Eyre
A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. (imdb)
Luther
A man's view cause a rift between peasants and the church. (imdb)
Dead Cert
As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly... (imdb)
My Week with Marilyn
Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl. (imdb)
J. Edgar
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. (imdb)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways. (imdb)
A Midsummer Night\
British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the Royal Shakespeare Company, is faithful to the text and to the main plot, which involves the "bewitching" of several groups of mortals by a covey of mischievous invisible fairies. So why did critics complain? Hall's handling of Shakespeare's prose and iambic pentameter didn't bother the purists as much as the director's visual choices. (allrovi.com)
Skyfall
Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
He Who Rides a Tiger
Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking. Immediately, he goes back to his old life, providing for his expensive tastes by executing a series of daring burglaries. (imdb)
Macbeth
Macbeth (1979) - TV Movie
This is probably "Macbeth" as Shakespeare really saw it produced -- no fancy scenery, no elaborate sets, just stunning actors conveying everything Shakespeare intended to convey by the power of their own speech and actions.
Philomena
Director Stephen Frears (The Queen) teams with Judi Dench and Steve Coogan for this powerful true story of an unmarried Irish-Catholic woman who, decades after being forced by her community to give up her newborn son, embarks on a search to find him with the aid of a BBC reporter. (tiff.net)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
A woman tries to reunite the swing band she played with during WWII. (imdb)
Run for Your Wife
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. Wwhen John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. (imdb)
Muse of Fire
Follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare's work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? (museoffirefilm.co.uk)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it's making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina (Tina Desai). Sonny has his eye on a promising property now that his first venture, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful, has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for fresh arrivals. (imdb)
Roald Dahl\
A retired bachelor has a thing for his neighbor who only shows affection to her pet tortoise. (imdb)
Tulip Fever
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. (imdb)
The Vote
The Vote (2015) - TV Movie
Set in a fictional London polling station, The Vote dramatises the final ninety minutes before the polls close in this year's General Election. On that exact day, May 7, at that precise time 8.30 - 10pm, the play will be broadcast live on More4 from the Donmar stage. (channel4.com)
The Winter\
Shakespeareʼs timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production at The Garrick by Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company.
Miss Peregrine\
When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepen as he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
Victoria & Abdul
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. (imdb)
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery. From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man's race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. (imdb)
Friend Request Pending
FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson). (imdb)
Tea with the Dames
Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that goes back more than half a century. The four acting greats discuss their careers and reminisce about their humble beginnings in the theatre. (imdb)
Angelina Ballerina
The adventures and ballet recitals of Angelina Ballerina in tow with her friends, Alice, William, Miss Lily and the menacing pair Priscilla and Penelope. (imdb)
Red Joan
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy. (imdb)
All Is True
A look at the final days in the life of renown playwright William Shakespeare. (imdb)
Palo Santo
On a distant planet, in a city named Palo Santo, a ruthless A.I. "Judi Dench" creates a series of Androids, known as Showmen, designed to recruit humans for performance in erotic cabarets. Version 10 "Vithaya Pansringarm" ventures into the jungles, south of Palo Santo, where he discovers the perfect human performer "Olly Alexander". Written by Fred Rowson
Talking to a Stranger
A quartet of plays reveals a weekend as seen through the eyes of four different people. (imdb)
The Browning Version
Forced to retire from an English public school, a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
As Time Goes by
The Korean War and a long lost letter separate the lives of young lovers Jean and Lionel, whose paths cross again by happenstance.
Cats
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. (imdb)
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl, a young criminal prodigy, hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father. (imdb)
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
The highlights from Billy Connolly's thirty years as a stand up comedian are collected together here, along with a previously unseen live performance in Glasgow by the Big Yin.
Blithe Spirit
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years. (imdb)
BBC2 Play of the Week
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
Six Minutes to Midnight
UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear on a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job 6 days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.
Cranford - Season 1
Belfast
A young boy and his working class family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Peggy Ashcroft) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin (George Murcell), her former serf, who has his own agenda. (imdb)
The Hollow Crown - Season 2
Allelujah
The story of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure. (imdb)
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 (1964) - TV Series
Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
A Fine Romance
Perplexed and unmarried Laura and sweet but inept Mike form an unlikely union after meeting. Despite differences and lack of chemistry, an undefinable connection keeps the stubborn Laura and grinning Mike together. (imdb)