Movies: Fiona Shaw

An unrepentant womanizer finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart makes things even more complicated....

Directed by Deborah Warner...

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inev...

In the early 20th Century, a handsome young man leaves a small family farm and becomes the mastermind of a rebellion that changed Ireland forever. Follows the events that led famine Ireland to free Ireland - the 1916 Easter Rising Rebellion and the d...

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her fri...

Christmas-mad kid Henry tries to bring some much-needed cheer into a lonely old lady’s life in this touching festive animation narrated by Kate Winslet....

When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling s...

A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England....

Released alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this beautifully produced DVD features specially filmed performances of all 154 Sonnets by a stellar cast of actors including, Fiona Shaw, Sir Patrick Stewart and D...

Paralyzed by her life wrangling cattle in Alberta, Canada, Charlotte jumps into her Ford Bronco, flees her over-controlling husband, and lands back in her childhood Park Avenue apartment where she takes refuge with her mother Kit. Rediscovering the b...

Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is offered the opportunity of a place in the luxurious and decadent court of King Charles II, as a “Natura...

After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder....

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines ...

A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach means that she has to deal not only with solving a murder but also winning the trust of her sceptical...

The life of a successful student couple at Cambridge University....

The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king....

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets....

Flo doesn't think of Ebb as a dog, and Ebb doesn't think of Flo as a small human, they just are the best of friends. Until Bird arrives to lovingly disrupt Ebb's world. Ebb and Flo's home is a boat moored near the beach. Things Couldn't Be Better!...

Fiona Shaw narrates this exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody expansion to become the biggest country in the world. It's a tale that set the scene for one of the world's most enigmatic figures, and his vision of modern Russi...