Movies by Stephen Fry
As part of the cast:
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Ocean Giants (2011)
Cast: Stephen Fry
This fascinating documentary takes viewers inside the world of whales and dolphins, exploring the sounds they make to find food and communicate with each other (and with humans), the ways…
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Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter …
Directed by: Tim Burton
A 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) journeys through Underland, where she experiences strange ordeals and encounters peculiar characters, including the vaporous Cheshire Cat (voiced by…
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Animals United (2010)
Cast: James Corden, Stephen Fry, Jim Broadbent …
Directed by: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
When their water disappears, a group of animals in the African savannah sets out on an incredible journey to find a new source. Soon, they discover that humans are hoarding the water to use…
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The Search for Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Cast: David Hayman, Stephen Fry, Lynda La Plante …
Directed by: David Street
Actor David Hayman scours Great Britain to explore the rich history of Sherlock Holmes -- one of the most beloved characters to spring from the page to the screen -- in this documentary for…
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Last of the Dambusters (2008)
Cast: Stephen Fry, George "Johnny" Johnson, Franz Mueller …
Directed by: Cy Chadwick
Narrated by Stephen Fry, this compelling documentary follows George "Johnny" Johnson, one of the last surviving members of the RAF's 617 Squadron -- known for its extraordinary…
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Stephen Fry in America (2008)
Cast: Stephen Fry
Directed by: John Paul Davidson, Michael Waldman
Traveling almost all the way in a black London cab, British comedian Stephen Fry embarks on an ambitious six-part odyssey through all 50 American states, taking a comic's delight in the…
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Tales of the Riverbank (2008)
Cast: Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent …
Directed by: John Henderson
Washed down the river by a storm, Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat and GP the Guinea Pig make the long journey home, where even more danger awaits. It seems their riverbank is now the site of the…
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St. Trinian's (2007)
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena Headey …
Directed by: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
When a fanatical education minister threatens to close St. Trinian's school because of its bad reputation and dire financial straits, the student body -- which consists of a gaggle of…
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Eichmann (2007)
Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity, Franka Potente …
Directed by: Robert Young, Robert Young
After Mossad agents apprehend SS officer Adolf Eichmann (Thomas Kretschmann) in Argentina in 1960, the Nazi war criminal quickly finds himself under interrogation -- by Israeli policeman…
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Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: 40th Anniversary (2006)
Cast: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Phill Jupitus, Stephen Fry …
Performing together for the first time since their early-1970s breakup, the legendary Bonzos reunited for a special night of live concerts in January 2006; this video features highlights from…
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MirrorMask (2005)
Cast: Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon …
Directed by: Dave McKean
Screenwriter Neil Gaiman's masterful allegorical drama, which melds live actors with animated characters, portrays the existence of a 15-year-old girl named Helena (Stephanie Leonidas)…
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Cast: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell …
Directed by: Garth Jennings
After learning his house is about to be leveled to make way for a bypass and that Earth is about to be destroyed to clear the way for an interstellar thruway, jinxed Arthur Dent survives by…
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes …
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
This postmodern mockumentary chronicles a valiant yet hapless attempt to make a film adaptation of the autobiographical The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen, a complex…
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V for Vendetta (2005)
Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea …
Directed by: James McTeigue
From the pages of David Lloyd and Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel springs the enigmatic "V" (Hugo Weaving), a masked freedom fighter who's taken up arms against the…
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
Cast: Jemma Redgrave, Stephen Fry, Alex Pettyfer …
Alex Pettyfer stars as the titular Tom Brown in this BBC adaptation of Thomas Hughes's classic novel, a tale about bullies, heroes and courage set in 19th-century England as Tom moves…
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Pocoyo: Pocoyo & Friends (2005)
Cast: Stephen Fry, Alex Kearns, Courtney Webb …
Directed by: Guillermo Garcia, David Cantolla
Teaching preschool-age tykes about friendship and the world around them, this animated series follows the adventures of bighearted 3-year-old charmer Pocoyo and his equally amicable pals…
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Tooth: Do You Believe in Fairies? (2004)
Cast: Yasmin Paige, Maise Preston, Rory Copus …
Directed by: Edouard Nammour
When Tooth (Yasmin Paige) the rebel tooth fairy gives all the money belonging to her fellow fairies away to young Tolly (Maisie Preston) and Tom (Rory Copus), she accidentally jeopardizes the…
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The Life & Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson …
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Geoffrey Rush won a Golden Globe Award for his turn as Peter Sellers in this biopic that reveals the true nature of the iconic British comedian, who brought laughter to millions worldwide --…
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A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Gil Bellows, David Suchet …
Directed by: John Kent Harrison
Based on the true story that inspired A.A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh books, this heartwarming tale follows the adventures of a Canadian soldier who leaves Winnipeg to fight in…
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Le Divorce (2003)
Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Thierry Lhermitte …
Directed by: James Ivory
When charming young American Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) travels to Paris to visit her expat sister, Roxanne (Naomi Watts), she finds that Roxanne's philandering French husband has…
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Thunderpants (2002)
Cast: Bruce Cook, Rupert Grint, Simon Callow …
Directed by: Peter Hewitt
Life is a gas -- literally, not figuratively -- for poor Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook), whose gastrointestinal condition leaves an invisible cloud of odor constantly hovering around him. The…
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Fourplay (2001)
Cast: Christopher Lawford, Stephen Fry, Stephen Marcus …
Directed by: Mike Binder
When Ben Green (Mike Binder) moves to London to write for a popular TV sitcom, the show's star, Carly (Mariel Hemingway), decides to play matchmaker to the lonely American and fixes him…
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Relative Values (2000)
Cast: Julie Andrews, Edward Atterton, William Baldwin …
Directed by: Eric Styles
English aristocrat Nigel Marshwood (Edward Atterton) causes an uproar when he gets engaged to Hollywood diva Miranda Frayle (Jeanne Tripplehorn) in this witty adaptation of a Noël Coward…
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Escape to Watership Down (1999)
Cast: John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Kate Ashfield …
Directed by: Troy Sullivan
Richard Adam's best-selling book (which spawned a popular British animated film in 1978) gets renewed life in another installment about the close-knit and courageous rabbit family that…
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Journey to Watership Down (1999)
Cast: John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Kate Ashfield …
Directed by: Troy Sullivan
Richard Adam's best-selling book (which spawned a popular British animated film 1978) gets renewed life in another installment about the close-knit and courageous rabbit family that…
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Winter on Watership Down (1999)
Cast: John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Dawn French …
Directed by: Troy Sullivan
In the further exploits of the animated creatures from Watership Down, a faction of rebellious rabbits searches for new digs in the English countryside after their former home is put in…
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Fire Island (1999)
Cast: Stephen Fry
Directed by: John Cadwell, Tim Curran
Tune in to the original gay reality television show, in which the meanderings of two separate groups of gay men and women are chronicled on Fire Island, the predominantly gay vacation spot…
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A Civil Action (1998)
Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kathleen Quinlan …
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
In this drama based on a true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of…
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Wilde (1997)
Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle …
Directed by: Brian Gilbert
Stephen Fry stars as playwright and larger-than-life personality Oscar Wilde in this lush historical drama based on the late Richard Ellmann's definitive biography of one of…
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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (1997)
Cast: Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones …
Directed by: Terry Jones
The whimsical Mr. Toad runs afoul of a gang of weasels by driving too fast in his motorcar. This classic -- and very loopy -- children's tale gets a new lease on life in this live-action…
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Cast: Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
When Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), a young society woman in 1930s London, becomes suddenly orphaned, she's forced to take up residence with a group of her unsophisticated, oddball…
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I.Q. (1994)
Cast: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau …
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
When Catherine (Meg Ryan), the cerebral niece of scientific genius Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau), piques the interest of an average auto mechanic (Tim Robbins), Einstein concocts a plan to…
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Stalag Luft (1993)
Cast: Stephen Fry, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Geoffrey Palmer …
Directed by: Adrian Shergold
Stephen Fry stars as a pompous British RAF officer who's planning to tunnel out of the German POW camp where he and his men are being held -- never mind that he's already escaped,…
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Peter's Friends (1992)
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry …
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Ten years out of Cambridge, Peter Morton (Stephen Fry) invites his old college pals to a weekend reunion on his massive public estate. Old rivalries and dormant infatuations resurface among…
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Jeeves and Wooster (1990)
Cast: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Based on P.G. Wodehouse's popular novels, this comedy series follows Jeeves, a laconic butler who must regularly (and often clandestinely) rescue his knuckleheaded aristocratic master,…
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989)
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Deborah Norton …
This sketch-comedy series from Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie finds the multitalented British humorists pushing the envelope of funny in episodes brimming with inspired sketches, outlandish…
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Black Adder's A Christmas Carol (1988)
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson …
Directed by: Richard Boden
Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), a kindly Victorian shopkeeper, flips the script on Charles Dickens's holiday classic when a visit from the Spirit of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane) makes…
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The Good Father (1987)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter …
Directed by: Mike Newell
Anthony Hopkins stars as Bill Hooper, a man embittered by his divorce and loss of custody of his son. Feeling betrayed personally and politically, Bill finds an outlet for his anger in his…
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Blackadder (1983)
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny …
Set in significant time periods from the Dark Ages through World War I, this hilarious British comedy recounts the adventures of Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), the most despicable and…
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Bright Young Things (2003)
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, James McAvoy …
Directed by: Stephen Fry
In this period comedy directed by Stephen Fry, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) must acquire enough cash to marry beautiful Nina (Emily Mortimer). Against this predicament, he must also deal…