Stephen Frears
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Gumshoe (1972)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay…
- Paying sly homage to Bogart, Chandler and Hammett, this sly detective spoof is the directorial debut of prolific British director Stephen Frears.…
- Alan Bennett at the BBC (1978-1992)
- Dir. Stuart Burge, John Schlesinger, Richard Eyre
Feat. James Fox, Alan Bates, Prunella Scales…
- An exceptional anthology of previously unreleased BBC productions from revered playwright Alan Bennett.
Collection includes:
– A Day Out…
- Six Plays by Alan Bennett (1978-1979)
- Dir. Stephen Frears, Lindsay Anderson, Giles Foster
Feat. Thora Hird, Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge…
- Six classic plays by Oscar nominated playwright Alan Bennett, produced by Stephen Frears, who also directs four of the six.
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- Going Gently (1981)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Norman Wisdom, Fulton MacKay
- Quality BBC television drama about a group of terminally ill patients on a cancer ward.
- Walter / Walter & June (Loving Walter) (1982-1983)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Keith Allen…
- A pair of grim television movies based on the novels by David Cook, starring Ian McKellen as a man with a learning disability who is condemned by…
- Saigon - Year of the Cat (1983)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, E.G. Marshall…
- Potent romantic drama set during the South Vietnam collapse with Dench as a depressed loan officer who falls into the arms of CIA interrogator…
- Hit, The (1984)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth
- Stool pigeon Terence Stamp gives a pair of hired killers a run for their money when they discover his 10–year hideaway.
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis
- First and best Hanif Kureishi comedy (so far), explores race and sex prejudices in the London EastEnd.
- Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Gary Oldman
- Gary Oldman portrays Joe Orton, the infamous gay playwright whose scandalous personal life ended at the bloodied hand of his jealous lover. The title…
- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom
- Against a backdrop of London's riot–torn streets, Sammy and Rosie conduct an open relationship while his disturbed father, an exiled Indian…