All Forgotten 2000  PG-13, 106 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Lover's Prayer
Director: Reverge Anselmo
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Nick Stahl, Julie Walters, James Fox, Geraldine James, Nathaniel Parker, Paloma Baeza, Kenny Doughty, Heathcote Williams, Nicholas Rowe, Angus Wright, Robert Glenister, Michael Higgs, John Benfield, Kristian Revelle
Vladimir (Nick Stahl) is a teenage boy in mid-1800s' Russia. He's looking for his first love and finds her–a neighbor, Zinaida (Kirsten Dunst). What Vladimir doesn't know is that Zinaida has other male friends of all ages and types–including his own father (Nathaniel Parker).
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Becoming Jane 2007  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Joe Anderson, Lucy Cohu, Laurence Fox, Ian Richardson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Leo Bill, Jessica Ashworth, Eleanor Methven, Michael James Ford
In Steventon, Hampshire, during 1795, 20-year-old Jane Austen's (Anne Hathaway) parents (James Cromwell and Julie Walters) are looking for a wealthy aristocrat for Jane to marry and have chosen Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox). But, Jane is attracted to law student Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy) who has nothing to offer her financially. Now Tom and Jane must make the decision of whether or not to marry for love and risk alienating family and friends.
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Billy Elliot 2000  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Musical
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells, Mike Elliot, Janine Birkett, Nicola Blackwell, Billy Fane, Carol McGuigan, Joe Renton, Colin MacLachlan, Trevor Fox, Charlie Hardwick
Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a talented adolescent who, despite his working-class environment, confesses that he dreams of becoming a ballet dancer after he is introduced to Mrs. Wilkinson's (Julie Walters) ballet class at the boxing gym. Not unexpectedly, Billy must endure the bias of neighbors in his British coal mining town. Stephen Daltry was nominated for a Best Director Oscar, and Julie Walters was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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Buster 1988  R, 102 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Comedy
Director: David Green
Cast: Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellie Beaven, Michael Attwell, Ralph Brown, Christopher Ellison, Sheila Hancock, Martin Jarvis, Clive Wood, Anthony Quayle, Michael Byrne, Harold Innocent, Rupert Vansittart
Loosely based on Britain's Great Train Robbery in 1963, this is the story of petty thief and family man Buster Edwards (Phil Collins) who goes for the bigger rewards when he falls in with the train robbers. The film follows the planning of the robbery, it's execution, and events following the heist. As the thieves are arrested one-by-one, Buster is able to elude the police. He and his family finally make it to Mexico, but his wife, June (Julie Walters), wants to return–which they do at a cost. Collins' original song "Two Hearts" won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar. .
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Calendar Girls 2003 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Nigel Cole
Cast: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Philip Glenister, Ciaran Hinds, Celia Imrie, Geraldine James, Penelope Wilton, George Costigan, Graham Crowden, John Fortune, Georgie Glen, Angela Curran
Middle-aged friends Angela (Julie Walters) and Tricia (Helen Mirren) set off a media frenzy after convincing fellow members of the Ryletone Women's Institute in North Yorkshire to pose nude for the group's annual calendar. Proceeds will go to leukemia research honoring Angela's recently deceased husband (John Alderton), but the attention tests more than one long-time friendship.
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Clothes in the Wardrobe 1992 TV, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Summer House
Director: Waris Hussein
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Lena Headey, Julie Walters, David Threlfall, John Wood, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Catherine Schell, Maggie Steed, Gwyneth Strong
This British comedy/drama features Margaret (Lena Headey) as a young woman about to marry a mama's boy–40-year-old Syl (David Threlfall). Lili (Jeanne Moreau), a family friend, works to prevent the marriage.
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Driving Lessons 2006 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jeremy Brock
Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Oliver Milburn, Michelle Duncan, Jim Norton, Tamsin Egerton, Rose Keegan, Rupert Holiday
Shy teenager Ben Marshall (Rupert Grint) has been raised by his domineering mother (Laura Linney) and wants to get out from under her thumb. His chance comes when he finds a summer job working for retired actress Evie Walton (Julie Walters) who tricks Ben into a trip to Edinburgh where Ben's eyes are opened–for good and for bad–to a new world.
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Educating Rita 1983 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley, Malcolm Douglas, Godfrey Quigley, Dearbhla Molloy, Patrick Daly, Kim Fortune, Philip Hurd-Wood, Hilary Reynolds, Jack Walsh, Christopher Casson, Rosamund Burton
A simple cockney girl Susan/Rita (Julie Walters) goes to an alcoholic English professor, Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) for literature lessons and ends up changing her life for the better. Meanwhile, his life seems to get worse. Caine and Walters were both nominated for Academy Awards.
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Mamma Mia! 2008 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Nancy Baldwin, Colin Firth, Heather Emmanuel, Colin Davis, Rachel McDowall, Ashley Lilley, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Ricardo Montez, Mia Soteriou, Enzo Squillino Jr.
Donna (Meryl Streep) is a single mother who runs an inn on a Greek island. Her 20-year-old daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), is about to be married and wants the father she has never known to walk her down the aisle. Donna is not sure who the father is, but Sophie has found three names in Donna's old diary and has secretly invited Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Harry Bright (Colin Firth), and Bill Austin (Stellan Skarsgard) to the wedding. Meanwhile, Donna's friends from her 1970s' band "Donna and the Dynamos" Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters) have come to the island for the festivities. When Sam, Harry, and Bill arrive, they are told to not reveal themselves to Donna, and a comedy of errors ensues–amidst 22 ABBA songs.
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Oliver Twist 1999  TV, 360 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Renny Rye
Cast: Sam Smith, Sophia Myles, David Ross, Julie Walters, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Ger Ryan, Michael Kitchen, Annette Crosbie, Keira Knightley, Robert Lindsay, Andy Serkis, Tim Dutton, Lindsay Duncan, Marc Warren, Alex Crowley
This made-for-TV miniseries begins where others do not in relating Charles Dickens' classic story of Oliver Twist. This version begins with Oliver's mother (Sophia Myles) becoming pregnant out of wedlock, giving birth, and dying as a result of childbirth. Abused as a child, Oliver (Sam Smith) escapes to London where he comes under the watchful eye of the conniving Fagin (Robert Lindsay).
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Personal Services 1987 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Terry Jones
Cast: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox, Danny Schiller, Victoria Hardcastle, Tim Woodward, Dave Atkins, Leon Lissek, Ewan Hooper, Alan Bowyer, Benjamin Whitrow, Peter Cellier, Stephen Lewis, Beverly Foster
When Christine Painter (Julie Walters) opens a brothel in London, she gets help from prostitute Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) who knows the business and from Wing Commander Morton (Alec McCowen) who enjoys wearing bras and panties. The business booms–until the police appear at the door. Loosely based on the experiences of real-life Madame Christine Payne who served as a technical director for this film.
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Prick Up Your Ears 1987 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters, Frances Barber, Janet Dale, Bert Parnaby, Margaret Tyzack, Stephen Bill, Rosalind Knight, James Grant, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Helena Michell
This film is based on the biography of British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) who, despite financial success, lived for years in a small London room with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina). One night, Halliwell killed Orton and then committed suicide. This film relates the story behind the grisly crime. Interesting look at (illegal) homosexuality in England in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Sister My Sister 1994 R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nancy Meckler
Cast: Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie Thursfield, Amelda Brown, Lucita Pope, Kate Gartside, Aimee Schmidt, Gabriella Schmidt
In 1930s' France, sisters (Joely Richardson and Jodhi May) reunite and work as domestic servants in the home of a wealthy widow (Julie Walters). The sisters' relationship evolves into one of obsession. As they lose their grips on reality, incest and murder unfold.
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Stepping Out 1991 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Bill Irwin, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters, Robyn Stevan, Jane Krakowski, Andrea Martin, Sheila McCarthy, Nora Dunn, Carol Woods, Luke Reilly, Eugene Robert Glazer, Geza Kovacs, Raymond Rickman
Mavis Turner (Liza Minnelli) is a former dancer who agrees to teach a class of clumsy students to tap dance for a performance in a charity show.
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Titanic Town 1998 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Julie Walters, Ciaran Hinds, Nuala O'Neill, James Loughran, Barry Loughran, Elizabeth Donaghy, Ciaran McMenamin, Jaz Pollock, Caolan Byrne, Aingeal Grehan, Oliver Ford Davies, Des McAleer, Nicholas Woodeson, B.J. Hogg, Doreen Hepburn
A Belfast mother of four, Bernie McPhelimy (Julie Walters), takes up the peace cause as her personal effort to end the guerilla war between the British army and the Irish Republican army. As Bernie openly expresses her disdain for the situation, her daughter, Annie (Nuala O'Neill), finds her mother's actions are threatening Annie's romance with an Irish boy.
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Wah-Wah 2005 R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard E. Grant
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Julie Walters, Nicholas Hoult, Celia Imrie, Fenella Woolgar, Julian Wadham, Zac Fox, Sid Mitchell, Ian Roberts, Michael Richard
Based on memories of Richard E. Grant's childhood, he tells the story of the trauma suffered when a young Swaziland youth, Ralph Compton (Zac Fox), is shipped off to boarding school after his parents (Gabriel Byrne and Miranda Richardson) are divorced. Ralph (now played by Nicholas Hoult) returns home two years later and finds his father now married to an American (Emily Watson), that he has turned to the bottle, and Swaziland is on the verge of receiving independence from Great Britain. Ralph finds peace in his stressful world by embracing the theatrical world.
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Wide-Eyed and Legless 1994 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Wedding Gift
Director: Richard Loncraine
Cast: Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Sian Thomas, Thora Hird, Anastasia Mulroney, Andrew Lancel, Dinah Handley, Peter Whitfield
This story has it all–love, illness, infidelity, and even some hope for the future. It follows Diana (Julie Walters) and Deric Longden (Jim Broadbent) as they search for solutions to Diana's illness amidst plans for their son's wedding.
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| 1. All Forgotten (2000)
aka: Lover's Prayer
2. Becoming Jane (2007)
3. Billy Elliot (2000)
4. Buster (1988)
5. Calendar Girls (2003)
6. Clothes in the Wardrobe (1992)
aka: The Summer House
7. Driving Lessons (2006)
8. Educating Rita (1983)
9. Intimate Relations (1996)
10. Mamma Mia! (2008)
11. Oliver Twist (1999)
12. Personal Services (1987)
13. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
14. Sister My Sister (1994)
15. Stepping Out (1991)
16. Titanic Town (1998)
17. Wah-Wah (2005)
18. Wide-Eyed and Legless (1994)
aka: The Wedding Gift
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