Cast: Judi Dench
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Judi Dench. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 90
Staged (TV Series)
2020 · Series · 15 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Evans
Cast David Tennant · Michael Sheen · Georgia Moffett · Lucy Eaton
Plot David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put...
7.6
64 votes
7.6
64 votes
Cranford (TV Miniseries)
2007 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Curtis · Steve Hudson
Cast Judi Dench · Imelda Staunton · Michael Gambon · Simon Woods
Plot Based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, it is a five-part period drama set in the 1840s which follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of...
7.5
732 votes
7.5
732 votes
Hamlet
1996 · Movie · 242 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kenneth Branagh
Cast Kenneth Branagh · Derek Jacobi · Kate Winslet · Julie Christie
Plot When Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) returns from his studies to find his father dead, and his mother married to his uncle, he grows suspicious. After being visited by his dead father...
7.4
8K votes
7.4
8K votes
The Hollow Crown: Richard III (TV)
2016 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Dominic Cooke
Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Keeley Hawes · Ben Daniels · Geoffrey Streatfield
Plot After a long civil war between the royal families of York and Lancaster, England enjoys a period of peace under King Edward IV. But Edward’s younger brother, Richard, resents the...
7.2
153 votes
7.2
153 votes
Pride and Prejudice
2005 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joe Wright
Cast Keira Knightley · Matthew Macfadyen · Brenda Blethyn · Donald Sutherland
Plot The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when...
7.1
49K votes
7.1
49K votes
Return to Cranford (TV Miniseries)
2009 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Curtis
Cast Judi Dench · Imelda Staunton · Francesca Annis · Lisa Dillon
Plot The two-part saga 'Return to Cranford' opens to a struggling Cranford, a traditional village that in autumn 1844 is airing the conflicts that accompany progress. Miss Matty Jenkyns (Judi Dench),...
7.0
194 votes
7.0
194 votes
Henry V
1989 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kenneth Branagh
Cast Kenneth Branagh · Emma Thompson · Paul Scofield · Derek Jacobi
Plot The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
84 Charing Cross Road
1987 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Hugh Jones
Cast Anne Bancroft · Anthony Hopkins · Judi Dench · Jean De Baer
Plot True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
Notes on a Scandal
2006 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Eyre
Cast Judi Dench · Cate Blanchett · Bill Nighy · Andrew Simpson
Plot Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench) is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing...
6.9
12K votes
6.9
12K votes
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · Documentary · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roger Michell
Cast Maggie Smith · Judi Dench · Eileen Atkins · Joan Plowright
Plot 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...
6.9
122 votes
6.9
122 votes
Jane Eyre
2011 · Movie · 121 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast Mia Wasikowska · Michael Fassbender · Judi Dench · Jamie Bell
Plot After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark,...
6.8
11K votes
6.8
11K votes
Casino Royale
2006 · Movie · 144 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin Campbell
Cast Daniel Craig · Eva Green · Mads Mikkelsen · Jeffrey Wright
Plot James Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar, where he is to spy on a terrorist Mollaka. Not everything goes as planned and Bond decides to investigate, independently of...
6.8
75K votes
6.8
75K votes
Belfast
2021 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kenneth Branagh
Cast Jude Hill · Caitriona Balfe · Jamie Dornan · Judi Dench
Plot A coming-of-age drama set during the tumult of late-1960s Northern Ireland, the film follows young Buddy as he navigates a landscape of working-class struggle, sweeping cultural changes, and sectarian violence....
6.8
8K votes
6.8
8K votes
The Third Secret
1964 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Crichton
Cast Stephen Boyd · Jack Hawkins · Richard Attenborough · Diane Cilento
6.8
260 votes
6.8
260 votes
Philomena
2013 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Judi Dench · Steve Coogan · Sophie Kennedy Clark · Charlie Murphy
Plot A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced...
6.7
14K votes
6.7
14K votes
A Room With a View
1985 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Ivory
Cast Helena Bonham Carter · Maggie Smith · Denholm Elliott · Julian Sands
Plot Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), travel to Florence, they meet an unconventional Englishman, Mr. Emerson...
6.7
7K votes
6.7
7K votes
Chocolat
2000 · Movie · 121 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lasse Hallström
Cast Juliette Binoche · Judi Dench · Alfred Molina · Lena Olin
Plot In the 1950s, single mother Vianne Rocher (Binoche) and her 6-year-old daughter move to the small French town of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, where Vianne opens a chocolate shop, during Lent, across from...
6.7
61K votes
6.7
61K votes
Skyfall
2012 · Movie · 143 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sam Mendes
Cast Daniel Craig · Judi Dench · Javier Bardem · Ralph Fiennes
Plot 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...
6.6
52K votes
6.6
52K votes
Shakespeare in Love
1998 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction John Madden
Cast Gwyneth Paltrow · Joseph Fiennes · Judi Dench · Geoffrey Rush
Plot In 1590s London, amid the great heyday of Elizabethan entertainment, two rival theaters — The Curtain, owned by Richard Burbage and The Rose owned by Philip Henslowe — competed passionately...
6.5
84K votes
6.5
84K votes
Iris
2001 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Eyre
Cast Kate Winslet · Judi Dench · Jim Broadbent · Hugh Bonneville
Plot Iris Murdoch (Winslet, Dench) was one of the most extraordinary women of her generation. A brilliant scholar at Oxford in the 1950s, she later became a noted philosopher and novelist....
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes