A Christmas Carol (2009)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, ... (more)
GENRES: Animation • Drama
DIRECTION: Robert Zemeckis
CAST: Gary Oldman • Jim Carrey • Steve Valentine • Daryl Sabara
Mamma Mia! (2008) RT 54% / Audience 66%
DVD release: Dec 2008
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Phyllida Lloyd
CAST: Meryl Streep • Pierce Brosnan • Amanda Seyfried • Colin Firth
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) RT 27% / Audience 60%
DVD release: Mar 2005
The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Beeban Kidron
CAST: Renée Zellweger • Colin Firth • Hugh Grant • Jacinda Barrett
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) RT 81% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Oct 2001
Bridget Jones’s Diary is a romantic love story comedy from the best selling novel of the same name by Helen Fielding. A chaotic Jones meets a snobbish lawyer named Mark and ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Sharon Maguire
CAST: Renée Zellweger • Colin Firth • Hugh Grant • Gemma Jones
Conspiracy (2001) RT Audience 87%
DVD release: Mar 2002
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • TV movie
DIRECTION: Frank Pierson
CAST: Kenneth Branagh • Stanley Tucci • Colin Firth • Ian McNeice
Love Actually (2003) RT 63% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Apr 2004
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in, and out, of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Richard Curtis
CAST: Bill Nighy • Gregor Fisher • Colin Firth • Sienna Guillory
Nanny McPhee (2005) RT 73% / Audience 63%
DVD release: May 2006
Widower Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) hires Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Family • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Kirk Jones
CAST: Emma Thompson • Colin Firth • Kelly Macdonald • Thomas Sangster
Relative Values (2000) RT Audience 63%
DVD release: Feb 2001
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Foreign • Romance
DIRECTION: Eric Styles
CAST: Julie Andrews • William Baldwin • Edward Atterton • Stephen Fry
Shakespeare in Love (1998) RT 92% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Aug 1999
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they ... (more)
GENRES: History
DIRECTION: John Madden
CAST: Joseph Fiennes • Gwyneth Paltrow • Geoffrey Rush • Tom Wilkinson
The Accidental Husband (2008) RT 6% / Audience 36%
DVD release: Nov 2009
When radio love guru Dr Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan's fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Griffin Dunne
CAST: Colin Firth • Uma Thurman • Jeffrey Dean Morgan • Sam Shepard
The English Patient (1996) RT 84% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Mar 1998
Beginning in the 1930s, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almásy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance • War
DIRECTION: Anthony Minghella
CAST: Ralph Fiennes • Juliette Binoche • Willem Dafoe • Kristin Scott Thomas
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) RT 58% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Nov 2002
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • History • Romance
DIRECTION: Oliver Parker
CAST: Rupert Everett • Colin Firth • Reese Witherspoon • Judi Dench
Trauma (2004) RT 29% / Audience 24%
DVD release: Feb 2005
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Horror • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Marc Evans
CAST: Colin Firth • Mena Suvari • Naomie Harris • Sean Harris
What a Girl Wants (2003) RT 35% / Audience 62%
DVD release: Aug 2003
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Family • Romance
DIRECTION: Dennie Gordon
CAST: Amanda Bynes • Colin Firth • Kelly Preston • Jonathan Pryce
Where the Truth Lies (2005) RT 41% / Audience 46%
DVD release: Feb 2006
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Atom Egoyan
CAST: Kevin Bacon • Colin Firth • Alison Lohman • David Hayman
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
It's Millennium Eve and Blackadder is hosting a dinner party for a few select friends, Lady Elizabeth, Viscount George, Archbishop Melchett and Archbishop Darling. Baldrick ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • History
DIRECTION: Paul Weiland
CAST: Rowan Atkinson • Tony Robinson • Stephen Fry • Hugh Laurie
Valmont (1989) RT 54% / Audience 69%
DVD release: May 2002
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Miloš Forman
CAST: Colin Firth • Annette Bening • Meg Tilly • Fairuza Balk
Hope Springs (2003) RT 25% / Audience 26%
DVD release: Apr 2004
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Mark Herman
CAST: Colin Firth • Heather Graham • Minnie Driver • Mary Steenburgen
The Last Legion (2007) RT 16% / Audience 34%
DVD release: Dec 2007
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters. (more)