Biography: Kenneth Branagh |

Perhaps the best-known Shakespeare interpreter of the late 20th century, Kenneth Branagh began his career in a golden haze of critical exultation. First a star pupil at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (one of Britain's most prestigious drama... more
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Cast: Natalie Portman   
Tags: Superhero Film Fantasy 
Length: min
Director Kenneth Branagh (Henry V) and I Am Legend scribe Mark Protosevich bring Marvel Comics strongman Thor (played by Star Trek's Chris Hemsworth) to the big screen in this big-budget adventure that chronicles the mystical roots of the Asgardian...

Cast: Tom Cruise Tom Wilkinson   
Tags: War Political Thriller 
Length: 120min
At the absolute height of World War II, German generals hatch a daring plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler and effectively render the German war machine impotent. Directed by Bryan Singer, Valkyrie stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the...

Cast: William Shakespeare   
Tags: Comedy Period Film Comedy of Errors 
Length: 135min
Director Kenneth Branagh tackles the works of William Shakespeare for the fifth time in his career as a filmmaker with this adaptation of one of The Bard's most accessible works. Rosalind is the daughter of a banished duke, and lives among a community...

Cast: Richard Curtis   
Tags: Period Film Musical Comedy Comedy Ensemble Film 
Length: 134min
In mid- to late-'60s Britain, an unusual yet colorful subculture sprang up and thrived as a product of the upswing in British pop music, only to meet its doom within a few short years. Though the BBC functioned as the country's main source of news and...

Cast: Michael Caine Harold Pinter   
Tags: Mystery Psychological Thriller Whodunit 
Length: 88min
The Anthony Shaffer play originally brought to the screen in 1972 gets the remake treatment in this updating that finds Michael Caine stepping into the role of the brilliant hriller writer portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the original, and Jude Law...

Tags: Film-Opera Romantic Fantasy Musical Romantic Epic 
Length: 139min
Acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh skillfully lifts one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most beloved works from its original fairy-tale setting and places it against the backdrop of the First World War with this impassioned English-language adaptation...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Cast: John Williams Richard Harris   
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Family 
Length: 161min
Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of novels for young people. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger...

Tags: Docudrama Biopic Drama 
Length: 120min
In the tradition of Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, the made-for-cable iopic Warm Springs focuses on one of the least publicized aspects in the life of America's most-publicized (and longest-serving) president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, here...

Tags: Adventure Drama Period Film Drama 
Length: 94min
After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history. When...

Cast: Kenneth Branagh Tara Fitzgerald   
Tags: Family Fantasy Children's Fantasy 
Length: 89min
Five brothers and sisters find their uncle has a big surprise hidden in his estate in this comic fantasy for the whole family. Not long after World War I breaks out, five children -- Cyril (Jonathan Bailey), Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica...































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