Helen Mirren — Actor (87)
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Red King, White Knight (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Red King, White Knight
director: Geoff Murphy actor: Tom Skerritt / Max von Sydow …
other title: Die Mörder warten schon / Objetivo: El zar rojo
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
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When the Whales Came (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
When the Whales Came
director: Clive Rees actor: Paul Scofield / David Threlfall …
other title: Quando vennero le balene / Fluch der Wale …
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
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Pascali's Island (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Pascali's Island
director: James Dearden actor: Ben Kingsley / Charles Dance …
other title: L'isola di Pascali / Die vergessene Insel …
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
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The Tempest (2010) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Tempest
director: Julie Taymor actor: Helen Mirren / Felicity Jones …
other title: A Tempestade / The Tempest - Der Sturm …
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
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Shadowboxer (2005) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Shadowboxer
director: Lee Daniels actor: Cuba Gooding Jr. / Helen Mirren …
other title: Matadores de Aluguel
Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for this unusual family. But tranquility will not last.
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Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Invocation: Maya Deren
director: Jo Ann Kaplan actor: Helen Mirren / Maya Deren …
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures. Narrated by actress Helen Mirren, this definitive documentary offers startling insights into one of the most intriguing, accomplished figures in cinema history.
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The Last Station (2009) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Last Station
director: Michael Hoffman actor: Helen Mirren / Christopher Plummer …
other title: A Última Estação / Ein russischer Sommer …
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
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White Nights (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
White Nights
director: Taylor Hackford actor: Mikhail Baryshnikov / Gregory Hines …
other title: Il sole a mezzanotte / O Sol da Meia-Noite …
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
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The Duke (2021) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Duke
director: Roger Michell actor: Jim Broadbent / Helen Mirren …
other title: Il ritratto del Duca / El duque …
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
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Catherine the Great (Miniseries) [TV] TMDB
part of TV Series: Catherine the Great
actor: Helen Mirren / Jason Clarke …
Russie, 1762. Après avoir détrôné son mari, Catherine Il devient « Impératrice de toutes les Russies ». Son long et tumultueux règne est animé par de nombreuses liaisons, en particulier avec le charismatique officier Grigori Potemkine. Entre les guerres et les machinations politiques, l'impératrice ne peut vivre son amour au grand jour.

Une relation unique dans l'histoire va se nouer entre les deux amants…
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Pride (2004) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Pride
director: John Downer actor: Kate Winslet / Helen Mirren …
other title: Due cuccioli nella savana / Suki - Aventura na Savana …
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Midsummer Night's Dream
director: Peter Hall actor: Derek Godfrey / Barbara Jefford …
other title: Le Songe d'une nuit d'été / A Midsummer Night's Dream (film 1968)
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Children of God (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Children of God
director: John Smithson actor: Helen Mirren
A former member examines the lingering effects of being raised in the Family, a cult whose disturbing practices include the sexual abuse of children.
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Red Hot Shot (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Colpo rovente
director: Piero Zuffi actor: Michael Reardon / Barbara Bouchet …
other title: Colpo rovente / The Syndicate: A Death in the Family …
Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers. When Brown is murdered, Frank is called to investigate...
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Hamlet (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hamlet
director: Celestino Coronado actor: Quentin Crisp / Helen Mirren …
The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.
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Savage Messiah (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Savage Messiah
director: Ken Russell actor: Dorothy Tutin / Scott Antony …
other title: Messia selvaggio / Le Messie sauvage …
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
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Blue Remembered Hills (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Blue Remembered Hills
director: Brian Gibson actor: Colin Welland / Michael Elphick …
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.