Cast: Joanne Whalley

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


The Wall

1982 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Bob Geldof · Jenny Wright · Christine Hargreaves · James Laurenson

Synopsis Loosely based on the life story of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's original front man (who was kicked out of the band for his bizarre and disturbing behavior only to go insane shortly thereafter), PINK FLOYD: THE WALL stars Bob Geldof...

7.8

23K votes

7.8

23K votes

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Michael Gambon · Patrick Malahide · Janet Suzman · Joanne Whalley

Synopsis Detective novelist Philip Marlow suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title role, drifting into a surreal 1945 fantasy of...

7.7

152 votes

7.7

152 votes

Wolf Hall (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Series · 350 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Kosminsky

Cast Mark Rylance · Damian Lewis · Claire Foy · Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2015). 6 Episodes. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years...

7.2

705 votes

7.2

705 votes

Edge of Darkness (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Troy Kennedy-Martin · Martin Campbell

Cast Bob Peck · Joe Don Baker · Charles Kay · Ian McNeice

Synopsis TV Miniseries. 6 episodes. When a young girl is murdered, her father, police detective, will start an investigation that will unravel an industrial conspiracy. In 2010, the same director remaked the story with Mel Gibson.

7.0

40 votes

7.0

40 votes

The Borgias (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 55 min. · Ireland

Direction Neil Jordan · Kari Skogland · John Maybury · Jon Amiel

Cast Jeremy Irons · François Arnaud · Holliday Grainger · Pete Sullivan

Synopsis TV Series (2011-2013). 3 Seasons. 29 Episodes. The Borgias is a forthcoming historical fiction television series created by Neil Jordan. The series is based on the Spanish Borgia dynasty, and stars Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia and François Arnaud, David...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Willow

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Warwick Davis · Val Kilmer · Joanne Whalley · Jean Marsh

Synopsis Willow stars Val Kilmer as Madmartigan, a swashbuckling warrior, and Warwick Davis as the title character. In a mythical kingdom, the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) plots to kill all infants so that the newborn princess, Elora, will never...

6.8

82K votes

6.8

82K votes

The Challenger (TV)

2013 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Hawes

Cast William Hurt · Bruce Greenwood · Joanne Whalley · Brian Dennehy

Synopsis Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 explosion.

6.4

115 votes

6.4

115 votes

6.3

4K votes

Dance With a Stranger

1985 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Miranda Richardson · Rupert Everett · Ian Holm · Matthew Carroll

Synopsis On July 13, 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in England. With a smart, tough little script by Shelagh Delaney, Mike Newell's noir-ish film is a dissection of the human frustration and complex class issues surrounding...

6.2

354 votes

6.2

354 votes

Direction Ciaran Donnelly · Brian Kelly · Tony Mitchell · Rob Evans

Cast Aniss Elkohen · George Georgiou · Dan Cade · Joe Dixon

Synopsis TV Series (2015). 12 Episodes. A.D. picks up where the smash hit, "The Bible," left off, continuing the greatest story ever told and exploring the exciting and inspiring events that followed the Crucifixion of Christ. As most of the world...

6.1

186 votes

6.1

186 votes

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Bill Murray · Peter Gallagher · Joanne Whalley · Alfred Molina

Synopsis Murray is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assasinate international leaders at a banquet.

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Kill me Again

1989 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction John Dahl

Cast Val Kilmer · Joanne Whalley · Michael Madsen · Jon Gries

Synopsis A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.

5.8

607 votes

5.8

607 votes

Paul, Apostle of Christ

2018 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Hyatt

Cast Jim Caviezel · James Faulkner · Olivier Martínez · Joanne Whalley

Synopsis This is the story of two men. Luke, as a friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into the city of Rome to visit Paul, who is held captive in Nero’s darkest, bleakest prison cell. But Nero is...

5.8

704 votes

5.8

704 votes

The Good Father

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Jim Broadbent · Harriet Walter · Frances Viner

Synopsis Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by hiw wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides...

5.7

57 votes

5.7

57 votes

The White Princess (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jamie Payne · Alex Kalymnios

Cast Jodie Comer · Jacob Collins-Levy · Chris Barnicoat · Rebecca Benson

Synopsis TV Series (2017). 8 Episodes. Adapted from Philippa Gregory's best-selling novel and part of The Cousins' War book series, The White Princess sees England ostensibly united by the marriage of Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII, but their personal...

5.7

343 votes

5.7

343 votes

Jamaica Inn (TV Miniseries)

2014 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Philippa Lowthorpe

Cast Jessica Brown Findlay · Matthew McNulty · Sean Harris · Joanne Whalley

Synopsis 3 episodes. Set in 1820 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story follows the journey of young and spirited Mary (Brown Findlay) who is forced to live with her Aunt Patience (Joanne Whalley) after the death of...

5.6

81 votes

5.6

81 votes

To Kill a Priest

1988 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Agnieszka Holland

Cast Christopher Lambert · Ed Harris · Joss Ackland · Tim Roth

Synopsis One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the...

5.6

323 votes

5.6

323 votes

44 Inch Chest

2009 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Malcolm Venville

Cast John Hurt · Ray Winstone · Ian McShane · Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis A jealous husband and his friends plot the kidnapping of his wife's lover with the intention of restoring his wounded ego.

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

Scandal

1989 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Caton-Jones

Cast John Hurt · Joanne Whalley · Ian McKellen · Bridget Fonda

Synopsis An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the...

5.3

366 votes

5.3

366 votes

Storyville

1992 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

5.3

92 votes

5.3

92 votes