Body Parts 1991  R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Eric Red
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Kim Delaney, Lindsay Duncan, Peter Murnik, Brad Dourif, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ben-Victor, Nathaniel Moreau, Sarah Campbell, Lindsay Merrithew, James Kidnie
Psychiatrist Bill Crushank (Jeff Fahey) loses an arm in an auto accident and receives a new arm transplanted from an executed psychopathic killer. Bill soon starts having nightmares, and the arm seems to have a will of its own. He seeks out two other recipients of the killer's limbs and finds that both have some of the same symptoms. After the other two are brutally murdered and their transplanted limbs taken, Bill is confronted by the killer–none other than the remnants of the executed man.
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 An Ideal Husband 1999  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, John Wood, Lindsay Duncan, Peter Vaughan, Jeroen Krabbe, Ben Pullen
When Mrs. Laura Cheveley (Julianne Moore) arrives in London and approaches a successful government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam), with damaging information about his past, Chiltern turns to a wealthy bachelor, Lord Arthur Goring (Rupert Everett) for help in salvaging both his career and marriage. But Goring becomes the catalyst for unexpected relationships when he agrees to help his friend.
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Mansfield Park 1999  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Patricia Rozema
Cast: Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Harold Pinter, Lindsay Duncan, Sheila Gish, James Purefoy, Hugh Bonneville, Justine Waddell, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya Gordon, Lindsay Duncan, Bruce Byron, Philip Sarson
Based on Jane Austen's novel, set in 1806 London, this story revolves around the premise of Austen's day that money determines society. Fanny Price (Hannah Taylor-Gordon) is a poor ten-year-old girl who has been sent to live with well-to-do relatives in Mansfield Park. She establishes a bond with her cousin, Edmund Bertram (Philip Sarson), and later Fanny (now played by Frances O'Connor) and Edmund (now played by Jonny Lee Miller) fall in love. But love does NOT conquer all in 19th-century England, and when Fanny refuses an arranged marriage to Henry Crawford (Alessandro Nivola), she is sent out on her own.
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 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1996 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Adrian Noble
Cast: Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings, Desmond Barrit, Finbar Lynch, Osheen Jones, Monica Dolan, Alfred Burke, Emily Button, Howard Crossley, Kevin Doyle, Ann Hasson, Emily Raymond, Daniel Evans, Kenn Sabberton, Robert Gillespie
The Royal Shakespeare Company presents its interpretation of the bard's comedy in a lively and colorful fashion. It is the story of four mixed-up lovers who get caught up in an argument between Titania (Lindsay Duncan) and Oberon (Alex Jennings), the king and queen of the fairies.
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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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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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Traffik 1989 TV, 325 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alastair Reid
Cast: Bill Paterson, Julia Ormond, Linda Bassett, Lindsay Duncan, Fritz Muller-Scherz, Jamal Shah, Talat Hussain, George Kukura, Tilo Pruckner, Sharon Bower, Vincenzo Benestante, Peter Bourke, Ismat Shah Jahan, Roohi Raza, Ronan Vibert
This made-for-British TV miniseries was the basis for Steven Soderbergh's award-winning 2000 film "Traffic." The powerful story probes the heroin drug arena from the fields of Pakistan to the end users, highlighting the drug empire that supports it and the government that attempts to deal with it.
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 Under the Tuscan Sun 2003 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Audrey Wells
Cast: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Vincent Riotta, Mario Monicelli, Roberto Nobile, Anita Zagaria, Evelina Gori, Giulia Steigerwalt, Pawel Szadja, Valentine Pelka
In an attempt to drown her sorrows, heartbroken San Francisco divorcee Frances (Diane Lane) tours Tuscany and finds a villa badly in need of repair. She quits the tour, purchases the villa, and rebuilds not only the villa but her own life as well.
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| 1. Body Parts (1991)
2. An Ideal Husband (1999)
3. Mansfield Park (1999)
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
5. Oliver Twist (1999)
6. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
7. Traffik (1989)
8. Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
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