Linda Bassett

Linda Bassett

February 4, 1950 · 76 years old

Linda Bassett was born in the Kentish village of Pluckley - location for the television series The Darling Buds of May (1991). She was brought up in Pimlico, South London, by her typist mother and police officer father. She became interested in acting as a child when she was frequently taken to see…

Known For

16 titles
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The Hours

The Hours

2002 · 1h 50m · Movie

The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.

7.5
2
Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls

2003 · 1h 48m · Movie

Best friends Chris and Annie are members of a charitable institute. When Annie's husband succumbs to leukemia, the friends decide to pose nude for a calendar to raise funds for a local hospital.

6.9
3
Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots

2005 · 1h 47m · Movie

A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.

7.1
4
East Is East

East Is East

1999 · 1h 36m · Movie

In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.

6.9
5
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

2023 · 1h 48m · Movie

Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and just keeps walking.

6.6
6
Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly

1996 · 1h 48m · Movie

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde.

5.8
7
Haunted

Haunted

1995 · 1h 48m · Movie

A skeptical professor visits a remote British estate to debunk allegations of psychic phenomena, but soon finds himself haunted by a ghost from his own past.

6.2
8
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

1997 · 2h 12m · Movie

In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and hi...

6.5
9
Effie Gray

Effie Gray

2014 · 1h 44m · Movie

A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning), and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).

6.0
10
Color Me Kubrick

Color Me Kubrick

2005 · 1h 26m · Movie

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.

6.1
11
Separate Lies

Separate Lies

2005 · 1h 25m · Movie

A couple's marriage is complicated by the introduction of a third party.

6.4
12
Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It

1991 · 1h 55m · Movie

This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.

7.1
13
West Is West

West Is West

2010 · 1h 43m · Movie

An immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country.

6.4
14
The Martins

The Martins

2001 · 1h 27m · Movie

The Martins live across from a shopping centre. Dad Robert is unemployed and hasn't really grown up - still blaming others for his failures. Things get really serious when he holds a gun for a friend.

5.4
15
A Village Affair

A Village Affair

1995 · 1h 41m · Movie

Alice has married the rich but boring Martin. When they move to a small village Martin starts flirting with Clodagh, but she is more interested in his wife Alice.

5.9
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Loved Up

Loved Up

1995 · 1h 10m · Movie

Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a "raver" who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs scene. The girl falls in love with the raver, played splendidly by Ian Hart, but - w...

6.9