Biography: Olivia Williams |

A struggling stage actress when she was cast in the Kevin Costner epic The Postman (1997), British actress Olivia Williams survived the film's meltdown with her reputation relatively intact. The daughter of lawyers, Williams earned a degree in English... more
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Cast: Paul Bettany   
Length: 112min
An affluent Jewish man living in the suburbs with his loyal fiancée experiences a life altering crisis of conscience following the death of his father in director Sallie Aprahamian's introspective drama. Jake (Dan Fredenburgh) is a successful...

Cast: Daniel Craig   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 114min
Having squandered his stint in the spotlight on hard drugs and reckless sex, washed-up Hollywood has-been Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) reflects on the summer of innocence and tragedy that would alter the course of his life after receiving news that his...

Cast: Roman Polanski Ewan McGregor Pierce Brosnan Tom Wilkinson Jim Belushi Kim Cattrall   
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller 
Length: min
A ghostwriter stumbles onto a secret that places his life in danger as he takes down the life story of a former U.K. prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) in this Roman Polanski-helmed adaptation of the Robert Harris novel. Kim Cattrall, Ewan McGregor,...

Tags: Family Drama Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 95min
The fragile façade of an outwardly normal and happy family is gradually broken down after a reprehensible act of sexual violence leaves a young girl forever changed. From the appearance of their elegant home in the suburbs of Dublin, the Cahills seem...

Cast: Lynn Redgrave P.J. Hogan   
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Children's Fantasy Family 
Length: 113min
Director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding, My Best Friend's Wedding) helms this live-action retelling of J.M. Barrie's classic children's play +Peter Pan. Starring Jeremy Sumpter (Frailty) in the title role, the film follows the adventures of the Darling...

Cast: Rupert Everett Tim Roth   
Tags: Historical Film Political Drama Period Film 
Length: 102min
British filmmaker Mike Barker directs the political costume-drama To Kill a King. Set in 1645 at the end of the English Civil War, General Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) celebrates the victory with his right-hand man Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth). While,...

Cast: Greta Scacchi   
Tags: Period Film Drama 
Length: 90min
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale...

Cast: Olivia Williams Brenda Fricker Andie MacDowell Stephen Rea   
Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 97min
Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, and Stephen Rae star in this bittersweet tale of two grieving women connected by an accidental phone call. Connecticut mother Marilyn Vine (MacDowell) has always lived a charmed life, so when her adolescent son Dale...

Tags: Drama Marriage Drama Romantic Drama Period Film 
Length: 95min
In the style of a Merchant-Ivory production, Thaddeus O'Sullivan directs the British costume drama The Heart of Me, based on Rosamond Lehmann's 1953 novel -The Echoing Grove and adapted by Lucinda Coxon. The film opens in late '30s London at the...

Cast: Bruce Greenwood   
Tags: War Adventure Thriller Supernatural Thriller 
Length: 105min
Reflecting studio executives' taste for material that crosses genres, this film from director David Twohy and co-screenwriter Darren Aronofsky mixes the war movie and supernatural thriller genres. After they rescue a trio of survivors that includes a...
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