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The Queen

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, United States, France • 2006
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, HBO Max

Our Leaders. Ourselves.

The Snapper

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1993
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Eanna MacLiam, Peter Rowen, Joanne Gerrard
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

20-year-old Sharon discovers she is pregnant while living with her family in Ireland, and refuses to name the father.

High Fidelity

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, United States • 2000
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Epix, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, EPIX Amazon Channel, YouTube, Paramount Plus

Record store-owner Rob Gordon tracks down former flames in order to uncover how he has failed at love over and over again.

Dirty Pretty Things

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 2002
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi López, Benedict Wong, Sophie Okonedo, Zlatko Burić
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz, YouTube, Starz Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Showtime

Two immigrants only wish to avoid possible deportation. What happens when they unknowingly enter a corrupt situation?

Philomena

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, United States, France • 2013
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham, Barbara Jefford, Ruth McCabe
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, fuboTV, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Showtime, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Netflix, YouTube, Showtime Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Showtime

These two unlikely companions are on a journey to find her long lost son.

My Beautiful Laundrette

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1985
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Derrick Branche, Rita Wolf
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Amazon Video, Vudu, HBO Max

A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette after rekindling love with a former flame.

The Hit

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1984
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey
• Genre Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
• Available on Criterion Channel, Tubi TV

Two hitmen are sent to abduct an ex-gangster who ratted on his colleagues, but the trip doesn't go as planned.

Liam

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, Germany, France • 2000
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Anthony Borrows, David Hart, Megan Burns, Anne Reid
• Genre Drama
• Available on The Roku Channel, Freevee Amazon Channel

A tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Great Depression.

Prick Up Your Ears

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1987
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters
• Genre Drama
• Available on Hoopla, Tubi TV, Pluto TV

Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton.

Mrs Henderson Presents

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, United States • 2005
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly, Thelma Barlow
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube, Pluto TV, Freevee Amazon Channel

The eccentric Mrs Henderson, a 70-year-old widow, purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as she searches for a new hobby.

Florence Foster Jenkins

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, France • 2016
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda, Stanley Townsend
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Starz, YouTube, Starz Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Showtime

People may say I couldn't sing, but no one can say I didn't sing.

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1987
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Shashi Kapoor, Ayub Khan-Din, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom, Lesley Manville, Suzette Llewellyn
• Genre Drama, Comedy
• Available on No streaming locations found.

While London burns...

Tamara Drewe

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 2010
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper, Jessica Barden, Luke Evans
• Genre Comedy, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

A young newspaper writer causes a stir when she returns to her hometown in the English countryside.

Chéri

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, France, Germany • 2009
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones, Iben Hjejle, Frances Tomelty
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, , AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Pluto TV

A retired courtesan in Belle Epoque Paris sparks a passionate affair with a 19 year old boy.

The Lost King

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 2022
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Harry Lloyd, Mark Addy, James Fleet, Lee Ingleby
• Genre Drama, Comedy
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Victoria & Abdul

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, United States • 2017
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Michael Gambon
• Genre Drama, History
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Netflix, YouTube

History's most unlikely friendship.

The Program

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, France • 2015
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Dustin Hoffman
• Genre Drama
• Available on Starz, Hoopla, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Spectrum On Demand, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy

Champion. Hero. Legend. Cheat.

The Deal

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 2003
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast David Morrissey, Matt Blair, Michael Sheen, Dexter Fletcher, Frank Kelly, Stuart McQuarrie
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

The Van

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, Ireland, United States • 1996
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan, Caroline Rothwell, Neilí Conroy, Rúaidhrí Conroy
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube

A comedy About Friends, Family and Fish.

The Hi-Lo Country

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, Germany, United States • 1998
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Leslie Cook, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Arquette, Cole Hauser
• Genre Drama, Action, Western, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A woman like Mona can drive men to extremes.

Gumshoe

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1971
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay
• Genre Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Tubi TV, YouTube

the sleuth, the whole sleuth and nothing but the sleuth

Bloody Kids

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1980
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Derrick O'Connor, Gary Holton, Richard Thomas, Peter Clark, Gwyneth Strong, Caroline Embling
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

• United Kingdom • 1978
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Neville Smith, Carol MacReady, Thora Hird, Derek Thompson, Margaret Courtenay
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

State of the Union: Scott & Ellen

• United Kingdom • 2022
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson, Esco Jouléy
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Quiz

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• • 2020
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford, Michael Sheen
• Genre Crime, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1988
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Peter Cook, Nicholas Parsons, Dawn French
• Genre Comedy, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood and maximum hilarity, all rolled into one.

The Burning

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1968
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Isobel Muller, Maxine Day, Cosmo Pieterse, Mark Baillie
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1995
• Director Stephen Frears, Mike Dibb
• Cast Stephen Frears, Alexander Mackendrick, Alan Parker, Michael Apted
• Genre Documentary
• Available on OVID

Three Men in a Boat

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1975
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Michael Palin, Tim Curry, Stephen Moore, Bill Stewart, Michael Elphick, George Innes
• Genre Drama, Comedy, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Sunset Across the Bay

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1975
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Gabrielle Daye, Harry Markham, Bob Peck, Christine Buckley, Bill Pilkington, Elizabeth Dawn
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Song of Experience

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1986
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Alan Bell, Paul Darlow, Trevor Moffat, Nigel Terry, Rachel Bell
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Walter

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1982
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow, Tony Melody, David Ryall, Linda Polan
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Saigon: Year Of The Cat

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1983
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, Chic Murray, E.G. Marshall, Josef Sommer, Wallace Shawn
• Genre Drama, Romance, War, TV Movie
• Available on FlixFling

Going Gently

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1981
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Judi Dench, Norman Wisdom, Fulton Mackay, Stephanie Cole, Margaret Whiting
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A Day Out

• ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1972
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast David Waller, James Cossins, Philip Locke, John Normington, Brian Glover, Paul Shane
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A Visit from Miss Prothero

• United Kingdom • 1978
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Patricia Routledge, Hugh Lloyd, Alan Bennett
• Genre Drama, Comedy, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Walter and June

• United Kingdom • 1983
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Ian McKellen, Sarah Miles, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Jefford, Tim Potter, Gary Olsen
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

One Fine Day

• United Kingdom • 1979
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Dave Allen, Robert Stephens, Dominic Guard, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Benjamin Whitrow, Edward de Souza
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Doris and Doreen

• United Kingdom • 1978
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales, Pete Postlethwaite
• Genre Drama, Comedy, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Afternoon Off

• United Kingdom • 1979
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Henry Man, Benjamin Whitrow, Angela Morant, Pasquale Perrino, Philip Jackson
• Genre TV Movie, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Long Distance Information

• United Kingdom • 1979
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Neville Smith, Pauline Collins, Malcolm Terris, Anne Zelda, Sasha Mitchell, Jim Broadbent
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

December Flower

• United Kingdom • 1984
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast June Ritchie, Bryan Forbes, Jean Simmons
• Genre Drama, TV Movie
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Black Christmas

• United Kingdom • 1977
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Janet Bartley, Norman Beaton, Linda Goddard, Stefan Kalipha, Carmen Munroe
• Genre TV Movie, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Early Struggles

• United Kingdom • 1976
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Paul Nicholas, Tom Conti, Amanda Barrie, Hilary Mason, Eddie Davies
• Genre
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Last Summer

• United Kingdom • 1977
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Richard Mottau, Patrick Murray, Richard Beckinsale, James Kennedy, Anton Phillips, Edward de Souza
• Genre
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Match of the Day

• • 1974
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Neville Smith, Anne Zelda, Bill Dean, Gladys Ambrose, Alison Chantler
• Genre
• Available on Kanopy

Billy Wilder and Me

• • 0
• Director Stephen Frears
• Cast Christoph Waltz
• Genre
• Available on No streaming locations found.