Movies starring Miriam Margolyes

Biography: 
A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence, she also received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role in Little Dorrit and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress on Radio in 1993. She was the voice of Fly th ...  show all 

Flushed Away (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Kate Winslet | Ian McKellen | Jean Reno | Bill Nighy | Andy Serkis | Shane Richie | Kathy Burke | David Suchet | Miriam Margolyes | Rachel Rawlinson | Susan Duerden | Miles Richardson | John Motson | Douglas Weston
Directors: David Bowers
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Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust “society mouse” who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he’s hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the “whirlpool.” Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he’s no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad—who royally despises all rodents equally, making no distinction between mice and rats—wants them iced … literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin—that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Claire Danes | John Leguizamo | Harold Perrineau | Pete Postlethwaite | Paul Sorvino | Brian Dennehy | Paul Rudd | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Miriam Margolyes | Jesse Bradford | M. Emmet Walsh | Zak Orth | Jamie Kennedy | Dash Mihok
Directors: Baz Luhrmann
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Shakespeare’s famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. The gun-toting members of the families wage a vicious war on the streets as the star-crossed lovers, their tragic destiny.

Mulan (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Miguel Ferrer | Harvey Fierstein | Freda Foh Shen | June Foray | James Hong | Miriam Margolyes | Pat Morita | Eddie Murphy | Marni Nixon | Soon-Tek Oh | Donny Osmond | Lea Salonga | James Shigeta | George Takei | Jerry Tondo
Directors: Tony Bancroft | Barry Cook
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Mulan is a girl, the only child of her honored family. When the Huns invade China, one man from every family is called to arms. Mulan’s father, who has an old wound and cannot walk properly, decides to fight for his country and the honor of his family though it is clear that he will not survive an enemy encounter. Mulan, who just got rejected by the matchmaker because she had set her on fire, decides to prove that she is worth something and steals away to fit her father’s place in the Chinese army. She prays to her family’s ancestors for protection and luck before leaving as a man in her father’s armor with her family’s horse. The ancestors awake and decide to send Mushu, a little dishonored dragon to aid Mulan in her quest. Weeks later, Mulan and the other troopers have survived the training camp and are on the way north to stop the huns. After being spotted and pursued by the enemies, an impass situation in the mountains forces Mulan to come up with an idea. But then, her real gender will no longer be a secret. She decides to risk everything in order to save China.

Modigliani (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Romania | UK | USA
Actors: Andy Garcia | Elsa Zylberstein | Omid Djalili | Hippolyte Girardot | Eva Herzigova | Udo Kier | Susie Amy | Peter Capaldi | Louis Hilyer | Stevan Rimkus | Dan Astileanu | George Ivascu | Michelle Newell | Frederico Ambrosino | Miriam Margolyes
Directors: Mick Davis
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Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne’s bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris’ annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.

Cats & Dogs (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Goldblum | Elizabeth Perkins | Alexander Pollock | Miriam Margolyes | Myron Natwick | Doris Chillcott | Kirsten Robek | Frank C. Turner | Mar Andersons | Gillian Barber | Carol Ann Susi | Randi Kaplan | Mary Bogue | Alvin Sanders | Mark Schooley
Directors: Lawrence Guterman
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There’s a secret war being waged in the homes and neighborhoods of Earth that the humans don’t even know about; an eternal struggle between two great armies: the Cats and the Dogs. The film follows a Cat’s plan to destroy a new vaccine, that if developed, would destroy all human allergies to Dogs, and the Dogs’ efforts to stop the Cats. Specifically, it’s the story of a young pup (Tobey Maguire) whose job it is to guard the vaccine. Other dogs include a wise older dog who watches out for him (Susan Sarandon), a large friendly dog (Michael Clarke Duncan), and a small dog who serves as an electronics expert (Joe Pantoliano). Jeff Goldblum is the human scientist that invented the vaccine.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Jason Isaacs | Miriam Margolyes | Kenneth Branagh | Alfie Enoch | Richard Harris | Robbie Coltrane | David Bradley | Sean Biggerstaff | Daniel Radcliffe | Rupert Grint | Emma Watson | Richard Griffiths | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Toby Jones | Jim Norton | Veronica Clifford | James Phelps | Oliver Phelps | Julie Walters | Bonnie Wright | Mark Williams | Chris Rankin
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although still disliked by Snape, Malfoy, and the rest of the Slytherins. But then, strange things start to happen. People are becoming petrified, and no-one knows what is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice.. a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls. They are told the story of the Chamber of Secrets. It is said that only Salazar Slytherin’s true descendent will be able to open it. Harry, it turns out, is a Parsel-tongue. This means that he is able to speak/understand snakes. Everyone thinks that it’s him that has opened the Chamber of Secrets because that is what Slytherin was famous for.