Movies starring Judi Dench

Biography: 
Attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and at Old Vic Theatre. She is a five-time BAFTA winner including Best Actress in a Comedy Series for "Fine Romance, A" (1981)" in which she appeared with her husband, Michael Williams , and Best Supporting Actress in "Handful of Dust, A (198 ...  show all 

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Casino Royale (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Doogal (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Tay | Jimmy Fallon | Jon Stewart | Whoopi Goldberg | William H. Macy | Chevy Chase | Judi Dench | Kylie Minogue | Ian McKellen | Kevin Smith | Bill Hader | Cory Edwards | John Krasinski | Heidi Brook Myers
Directors: Dave Borthwick
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Legend tells of three magic diamonds that, if in the wrong hands, can be united to create a force powerful enough to freeze the sun. When the evil sorcerer Zeebad escapes from his ancient prison, he vows to exact revenge by deep-freezing the earth forever. Determined to save the world, a fellowship of four unlikely heroes band together to foil Zeebad’s villainous plot. Led by the candy-loving mutt Doogal, friends Dylan, Brian, and Ermintrude all embark on an epic adventure to save the world. In order to find the diamonds before Zeebad, they must climb icy mountains, navigate fiery pits of molten lava, sail across vast oceans and pass through a booby-trapped temple guarded by an army of ninja skeleton warriors. Along the way they learn that the most powerful weapon is their friendship - which even Zeebad’s evil magic cannot destroy.

Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Bob Hoskins | Will Young | Kelly Reilly | Thelma Barlow | Christopher Guest
Directors: Stephen Frears
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Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don’t seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Geoffrey Rush | Tom Wilkinson | Steve O'Donnell | Tim McMullen | Joseph Fiennes | Steven Beard | Antony Sher | Patrick Barlow | Martin Clunes | Sandra Reinton | Simon Callow | Judi Dench | Bridget McConnell | Georgie Glen | Nicholas Boulton
Directors: John Madden
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Romantic comedy set in London in the late 16th century: Young playwright William Shakespeare struggles with his latest work “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter”. A great fan of Shakespeare’s plays is young, wealthy Viola who is about to be married to the cold-hearted Lord Wessex, but constantly dreams of becoming an actress. Women were not allowed to act on stage at that time (female roles were played by men, too), but dressed up as a boy, Viola successfully auditions for the part of Romeo. Soon she and William are caught in a forbidden romance that provides rich inspiration for his play.

The Shipping News (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Kevin Spacey | Julianne Moore | Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Pete Postlethwaite | Scott Glenn | Rhys Ifans | Gordon Pinsent | Jason Behr | Larry Pine | Jeanetta Arnette | Robert Joy | Alyssa Gainer | Lauren Gainer
Directors: Lasse Hallström
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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper “The Gammy Bird” finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Vin Diesel | Colm Feore | Thandie Newton | Judi Dench | Karl Urban | Alexa Davalos | Linus Roache | Yorick van Wageningen | Nick Chinlund | Keith David | Mark Gibbon | Roger R. Cross | Terry Chen | Christina Cox | Nigel Vonas
Directors: David Twohy
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Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. ‘Colm Feore’ (qv) plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. ‘Judi Dench’ (qv) is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.

Chocolat (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Juliette Binoche | Alfred Molina | Johnny Depp | Carrie-Anne Moss | Judi Dench | Aurelien Parent Koenig | Antonio Gil-Martinez | Hélène Cardona | Harrison Pratt | Gaelan Connell | Elisabeth Commelin | Ron Cook | Guillaume Tardieu | Hugh O'Conor | John Wood | Lena Olin | Peter Stormare | Leslie Caron
Directors: Lasse Hallström
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1960, small town France. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town’s small-minded mayor can’t accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates manage to win over many townsfolk. Things get shaken up even more when a group of river drifters, led by Roux, stop into town (to the even greater distress of the mayor) and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she’s been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and her equally freethinking landlord, Amande Voisin, get together with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn’t approve of Amande’s ways.

007 Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Jonathan Pryce | Michelle Yeoh | Teri Hatcher | Ricky Acker | Götz Otto | Joe Don Baker | Vincent Schiavelli | Judi Dench | Desmond Llewelyn | Samantha Bond | Colin Salmon | Geoffrey Palmer | Julian Fellowes | Terence Rigby
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Elloit Carver is an egotistical media baron. Carver has the power to reach every person on the planet through his Carver Media Group Network- except for the People’s Republic of Chinese who refuse his presence in their country. When he is tied to the disappearance of a British battleship in the South China Sea, James Bond is sent to investigate. It is in Hong Kong where Bond meets Wai Lin, a member of the People’s External Security Force of China. With and without Wai Lin’s help, Bond soon starts to uncover a plot that goes all the way back to a mission on the Russian-Kazakh Boarder, and will start a war only to feed the fire that is Carver’s ego.