List of the best Richard Wilson movies: How to Get Ahead in Advertising(1989), Women Talking Dirty(1999), A Harlot's Progress(2006), The Man Who Knew Too Little(1997), A Midsummer Night's Dream(2016), Fellow Traveller(1989), A Passage to India(1984), Carry on Columbus(1992) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1989
95 Minutes
John Bristol, Bagley's Boss
Richard E. Grant Rachel Ward Richard Wilson Jacqueline Tong John Shrapnel Susan Wooldridge Mick Ford Jacqueline Pearce Roddy Maude-Roxby
expert alter ego genius amusing creative london job advertising campaign stress underdog
A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.
Comedy
1999
94 Minutes
Helena Bonham Carter Gina McKee Richard Wilson Eileen Atkins Kenneth Cranham James Nesbit James Purefoy Julien Lambroschini Ken Drury Barbara Rafferty Elaine C. Smith
A shy cartoonist (Gina McKee) and a kooky, high-spirited single mother (Helena Bonham Carter) become unlikely friends.
Drama, Biography, History
2006
99 Minutes
Sir James Thornhill
Toby Jones Zoe Tapper Sophie Thompson Richard Wilson Geraldine James Adam Levy Nicholas Rowe
A courtesan (Zoe Tapper) beguiles 18th-century British artist William Hogarth (Toby Jones), but his pursuit of her threatens to destroy his career, health and happiness.
Comedy
USA|Germany
1997
94 Minutes
Sir Roger Daggenhurst
Bill Murray Peter Gallagher Joanne Whalley-Kilmer Alfred Molina Richard Wilson Geraldine James John Standing Anna Chancellor Nicholas Woodeson Simon Chandler
store clerk wealthy man beautiful woman spy hit man villain amusing playful london hotel espionage mistaken identity conspiracy assassination plot theater role-playing games adventure pursuit 1990s
Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet.
Comedy, Drama
2016
90 Minutes
Starveling
John Hannah Maxine Peake Matt Lucas Nonso Anozie Richard Wilson Eleanor Matsuura Bernard Cribbins
dictator trapper kept woman husband emotional melodramatic intense creative disturbing athens, greece woods forced marriage obsession magic poetry love forbidden love revenge rivalry rise
In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, and young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father.
Drama
1989
97 Minutes
Sir Hugo Armstrong
Ron Silver Hart Bochner Imogen Stubbs Daniel J. Travanti Katherine Borowitz Richard Wilson Jonathan Hyde Alexander Hanson John Labanowski
screenwriter friend actor director ex-girlfriend actress dark brooding emotional somber hollywood, calif. film set london office mccarthyism blacklisting filmmaking exile suicide betrayal
The 1950s McCarthy witch hunt ruins a Hollywood star (Hart Bochner) and drives his screenwriter friend (Ron Silver) to London.
Drama
UK|USA
1984
163 Minutes
Turton
Judy Davis Peggy Ashcroft Victor Banerjee James Fox Alec Guinness Nigel Havers Richard Wilson Antonia Pemberton Michael Culver Art Malik Saeed Jaffrey
tourist doctor fiancé friend lawyer emotional solemn india cave courtroom court battles lawsuit class distinctions culture clash imperialism social change quest discovery underdog 1920s
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Comedy
UK
1992
91 Minutes
Jim Dale Bernard Cribbins Maureen Lipman Peter Richardson Alexei Sayle Rik Mayall Charles Fleischer Larry Miller Nigel Planer Leslie Phillips June Whitfield
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition. But the Sultan of Turkey, who makes a ... See full summary »