Some Well-Connected Movies
Oscar and Lucinda

In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him ...
1997
Cate Blanchett
actor
Shine

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
1996
Geoffrey Rush
actor
Shakespeare in Love

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
1998
Geoffrey Rush
actor
Mr. India

A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
1987
Shekhar Kapur
director
Elizabeth
A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
1998
Cate Blanchett
actor
Christopher Eccleston
actor
Geoffrey Rush
actor
Joseph Fiennes
actor
Michael Hirst
writer
Shekhar Kapur
director
The Talented Mr. Ripley

In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
1999
Cate Blanchett
actor
The Others

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.
2001
Christopher Eccleston
actor
Enemy at the Gates

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
2001
Joseph Fiennes
actor
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
2007
Michael Hirst
writer
The Four Feathers

A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice.
2002
Shekhar Kapur
director