Cast: Judi Dench

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Judi Dench. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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...

Max

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

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...

Max

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...

Max

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