Linda Bassett
11 titles
Filmography
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East Is East
(1999)A Pakistani traditionalist clashes with his six sons and one daughter who favour the English ways of their mother.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
(2023)A man who's always lived life on the sidelines becomes an unlikely media sensation when he embarks on a walk across England to reach a dying friend.
The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
(1998)Based on a true story, this two-part British miniseries chronicles the career of Victorian-era doctor - and unrepentant murderer - William Palmer. Eager to become "the most famous surgeon in England," Palmer (Keith Allen, "24 Hour Party People," "Shallow Grave") stops at nothing to achieve his goal, ultimately poisoning anyone who has the temerity to stand in his way.

Calendar Girls
(2003)Twelve women give their traditional calendar a nontraditional twist.

The Brief
Follows a criminal law barrister whose every day is a juggling act between surviving his messy personal life and pleading cases only he can win.

Kinky Boots
(2005)When Charlie inherits the family's struggling men's shoe business that makes sensible, conservative shoes, he turns to a sassy cross-dressing cabaret singer whose outrageous style and wild designs are a breath of fresh air in the stuffy old factory.

Colour Me Kubrick
(2005)A peculiar man poses as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of his last film, despite knowing very little about him. Based on a true story.

The Hours
(2002)The story of three women from different eras, including famed English author Virginia Woolf, and a 1950s housewife.
Far from the Madding Crowd
(1998)Paloma Baeza stars as Bathsheba Everdene, a beautiful and proud woman with a fiercely independent spirit, in this powerful and lush adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century.

Separate Lies
(2005)A damaged relationship is stretched to its desperate limits in this drama. Anne (Emily Watson) and James (Tom Wilkinson) are a seemingly happy and prosperous British couple who divide their time between a flat in London and a house in the country. However, their marriage is not as contented as one might imagine, and for years James has turned a blind eye to just how deeply unhappy Anne has become with him. Their lives together reach a crossroads when Anne meets the handsome and charming Bill Bule (Rupert Everett); Anne becomes deeply infatuated with him, which only reinforces her dissatisfaction with James, but when the two become involved in an accident that kills another man, Bill drops out of the picture and James decides he must step forward to protect the woman he wed.

Cass
(2008)An orphaned Jamaican baby adopted by an elderly white London couple will grow up to become one of the most respected and feared men in Britain.