Eileen Atkins
21 titles
Filmography
21 results

The Sleeper
(2000)The presence of a strange old lady at Violet Moon's séance awakens a spirit she hoped would sleep forever and her plots and plans to keep the past from catching up with her become more and more outrageous. Sinister sibling rivalry, bitter jealousy, clandestine passions, ghostly revenge and murderous intentions conspire to create a complex thriller with chilling psychological implications.
Nelly's Version
(1983)Based on the novel by Eva Figes. A woman suffering from amnesia checks into a hotel with only a suitcase of money. She has to piece together her lifes story from people who claim to know her. With Eileen Atkins.

Vanity Fair
(2004)Despite her poverty-stricken background, a young woman climbs the social ladder in 19th-century England.

Scenes of a Sexual Nature
(2006)Over one sunny afternoon on London’s bucolic Hampstead Heath, seven couples navigate the complicated politics of sex, love and what makes us tick.

Titus Andronicus
(1985)The great warrior, Titus Andronicus, returns home from war victorious with an imprisoned Tamora, Queen of the Goths. In an act of solemn revenge for the death of his children, Titus murders Tamora’s eldest son Alarbus. So begins a series of ever bloodier exchanges of vengeance between Titus and Tamora, inevitably leading to the violent demise of them both.

I Don't Want to Be Born
(1976)A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned.

The Scapegoat
(2012)Set in 1952 England, a man meets his doppelganger in a bar and swaps lives with him, only to be drawn into a scandalous world he can't quite escape.

Last Chance Harvey
(2008)A struggling jingle writer from NYC and a lonely British government worker meet by chance in a London airport bar and begin to fall in love.

Nothing Like a Dame
(2018)Join British stage and cinema legends Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, and Joan Plowright as they share candid tales of life, love, and art.

Women Talking Dirty
(2001)A lively, outspoken single mother in Edinburgh, Scotland, develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Cold Mountain
(2003)During the Civil War, a woman vows to wait for the man she loves.

Let Him Have It
(1991)In this crime bio pic, two teenagers are surprised by police during a break-in. Bentley, an epileptic with the mental age of 11 is arrested, while Craig refuses to give up his weapon. Bentley shouts Let Him Have It to Craig who shoots, killing an officer. Both face the death penalty but who is really guilty?

What a Girl Wants
(2003)Amanda Bynes ("What I Like About You") stars as Daphne Reynolds, a spirited 17-year-old New Yorker who travels to London to find her long-lost father. In contrast to her bohemian mother, Daphne discovers her father, Lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth--Bridget Jones' Diary), to be a very proper politician and English gentleman. Undaunted, Daphne dives into a schedule of stuffy social events, determined to prove that love--and proper etiquette--can conquer all. But as hard as she tries to reunite her parents and make a bid for "Debutante of the Year," Daphne cannot conceal her irrepressible personality or hide What a Girl Wants.

Ask the Dust
(2006)In 1930's Los Angeles, the love between a struggling writer (Colin Farrell) and a bold Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) is put to the ultimate test.

Psychoville
Five seemingly unrelated strangers, each living in a different part of Britain, are given letters that read `I know what you did ...' and continue to receive subsequent messages from an unknown blackmailer, sending their lives into downward spirals. Among the people being blackmailed are a man-child who still lives with his mother, a one-handed children's entertainer and a blind millionaire who collects stuffed animals.

Wit
(2001)Emma Thompson stars as a single-minded English professor who finds enlightenment through her struggle with cancer.

Wild Target
(2010)A hitman headed for retirement is forced into hiding from his employer along with his latest target—an art thief—and his accidental apprentice.

Farewell Doc Martin
(2022)Uncover the incredible journey that Doc Martin has been on. Follow the cast and crew as they film its 10th and final series, and discover how a hit TV show is made.

Magic in the Moonlight
(2014)Set in the 1920s on the Riviera in the south of France, Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight is a romantic comedy about a master magician trying to expose a psychic medium as a fake.

Wolf
(1994)After a Manhattan book editor is bitten by a wolf, he starts experiencing emotional and physical changes—and not necessarily for the better.