List of the best Richard Eyre movies: Notes on a Scandal(2006), Iris(2001), The Children Act(2017), The Ploughman's Lunch(1983), The Dresser(2015), The Other Man(2008), King Lear(2018) ... ...
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK
2006
98 Minutes
Director
Cate Blanchett Judi Dench Bill Nighy Tameka Empson Max Lewis Andrew Simpson Juno Temple Alice Bird Emma Kennedy
student teacher friend husband adulterer dark passionate emotional engaging high school house scandal affair desperation friendship betrayal child abuse pursuit forbidden love 2000s
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Drama
UK|USA
2001
90 Minutes
Director
Judi Dench Jim Broadbent Kate Winslet Hugh Bonneville Penelope Wilton Juliet Aubrey Samuel West Timothy West Eleanor Bron Joan Bakewell Kris Marshall
writer philosopher student husband wife emotional endearing oxford, england household university aging love devotion iris murdoch love 1990s
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Drama
UK|USA
2017
105 Minutes
Director
Emma Thompson Fionn Whitehead Stanley Tucci Ben Chaplin Anthony Calf Jason Watkins Dominic Carter Eileen Walsh Rosie Cavaliero Nicholas Jones
judge husband teen boy parent jehovah's witnesses bleak emotional intense melancholy moving profound sad tender uneasy london united kingdom love family religious beliefs law
As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.
Drama
UK
1983
100 Minutes
Director
Jonathan Pryce Tim Curry Rosemary Harris Frank Finlay Charlie Dore David de Keyser Nat Jackley
journalist socialist friend husband love interest mother dark disheartening london convention newsroom suez canal political consciousness love triangle journalism adultery love transformation rivalry 1980s
James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War.
Drama
UK
2015
105 Minutes
Director
Ian McKellen Anthony Hopkins Vanessa Kirby Emily Watson Sarah Lancashire Edward Fox Tom Brooke Matthew Cottle Ian Conningham
A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and seductive with women.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
2008
90 Minutes
Director
Liam Neeson Laura Linney Antonio Banderas Amanda Drew Romola Garai Laurence Richardson Abigail Canton Pam Ferris
husband wife lover daughter businessman designer suspenseful england family home milan street restaurant adultery disappearance investigation deception father/daughter relationship mystery pursuit 2000s
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Drama
2018
115 Minutes
Director
Anthony Hopkins Emma Thompson Emily Watson Florence Pugh Jim Broadbent Jim Carter Andrew Scott John Macmillan Tobias Menzies Anthony Calf Karl Johnson
king creative bleak kingdom london allegiance inheritance narcissism discovery 21st century
King Lear divides his kingdom among his three daughters -- Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. The kingdom and family soon collapse into chaos and warfare as Lear goes mad and tragedy strikes.