List of the best Linda Bassett movies: East Is East(1999), West Is West(2010), Spivs(2004), Calendar Girls(2003), Separate Lies(2005), Kinky Boots(2005), Beautiful People(1999), Haunted(1995), Don Quixote(2000), The Hours(2002), Alive and Kicking(1996), Effie Gray(2014) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1999
96 Minutes
Om Puri Linda Bassett Jordan Routledge Archie Panjabi Emil Marwa Chris Bisson Jimi Mistry Raji James Ian Aspinall Lesley Nicol Gary Damer
father wife son daughter friend charming amusing london family home father/son relationship family dysfunction arranged marriage racism teenage rebellion growing up rivalry 1970s
In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2010
103 Minutes
Om Puri Linda Bassett Robert Pugh Thomas Russell Jimi Mistry Aqib Khan Vanessa Hehir Lesley Nicol
troubled youth family headmaster hippie amusing charming emotional lighthearted positive northern england shop family home pakistan village school cultural differences cultural assimilation growing up adventure discovery
An immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2004
95 Minutes
Kate Ashfield Linda Bassett Chooi Beh Elizabeth Berrington Cavan Clerkin Shane Davey Jack Dee Louis Dempsey Glenn Durfort Stephen Evans Tamer Hassan
Three East-End Spivs spend their time wheeling and dealing wherever and whenever they can. After one of their scams goes south, the three con men are left to care for two young illegal immigrants.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2003
108 Minutes
Cora
Helen Mirren Julie Walters John Alderton Linda Bassett Annette Crosbie Philip Glenister Ciarán Hinds Celia Imrie Geraldine James Penelope Wilton George Costigan
wife friend husband photographer director cheeky heartwarming amusing uplifting yorkshire hospital household england hollywood, calif. friendship romance business activism fame quest
A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.
Drama
UK
2005
87 Minutes
Maggie
Tom Wilkinson Emily Watson Rupert Everett Linda Bassett David Harewood John Neville Hermione Norris John Warnaby
lawyer wife neighbor housekeeper police officer tense emotional london village house apartment love triangle hit and run affair marriage responsibility love temptation mystery 2000s
A couple's marriage is complicated by the introduction of a third party.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA|UK
2005
107 Minutes
Melanie
Joel Edgerton Chiwetel Ejiofor Sarah Jane Potts Jemima Rooper Linda Bassett Nick Frost Ewan Hooper Robert Pugh Geoffrey Streatfield Kellie Bright Mona Hammond
entrepreneur drag queen fiancé employee charming witty quirky northampton, england factory runway milan, italy fashion cross-dressing business unusual friendship rise underdog transformation 2000s
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Drama
UK
1999
107 Minutes
Charlotte Coleman Charles Kay Rosalind Ayres Roger Sloman Heather Tobias Julian Firth Danny Nussbaum Siobhan Redmond Gilbert Martin Steve Sweeney Linda Bassett
fan refugee doctor parent reporter wife engaging intense amusing emotional england london bus street post-traumatic stress disorder soccer family bosnian war refugees politics
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1995
108 Minutes
Aidan Quinn Kate Beckinsale Anthony Andrews John Gielgud Anna Massey Alex Lowe Geraldine Somerville Victoria Shalet Peter England Liz Smith Linda Bassett
professor sister spiritualist nanny young girl chilling eerie solemn brooding england university haunted house lake accidental death drowning ghosts going home guilt rationality mystery
Visions of his dead sister and other phenomena torment a man (Aidan Quinn) visiting a haunted English mansion inhabited by eccentrics.
Adventure
2000
116 Minutes
John Lithgow Bob Hoskins Isabella Rossellini Vanessa Williams James Purefoy Lambert Wilson Amelia Warner Tony Haygarth Peter Eyre Lilo Baur Trevor Peacock
Accompanied by faithful squire Sancho (Bob Hoskins), Cervantes' chivalrous but misguided adventurer (John Lithgow) seeks his true love.
Drama
USA|UK|France|Canada|Germany
2002
114 Minutes
Meryl Streep Julianne Moore Nicole Kidman Ed Harris Toni Collette Claire Danes Jeff Daniels Stephen Dillane John C. Reilly Miranda Richardson Eileen Atkins
author housewife editor former lover emotional gripping moving household london los angeles new york city hotel suicide death party mental illness homosexuality discovery 1940s
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1996
95 Minutes
Jason Flemyng Antony Sher Dorothy Tutin Anthony Higgins Bill Nighy Philip Voss Diane Parish Aiden Waters Natalie Roles Freddy Douglas Kenneth Tharp
dancer therapist emotional moving tender london stage aids love mourning love transformation 1990s
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Romance, Drama, Biography, History
UK
2014
108 Minutes
Emma Thompson Dakota Fanning Julie Walters Tom Sturridge David Suchet Greg Wise Claudia Cardinale Robbie Coltrane James Fox Riccardo Scamarcio Derek Jacobi
art critic wife artist bleak sultry brooding engaging melancholy victorian england mansion venice biography art victorian society marriage career love growing up rise 19th century
A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning), and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).