Some Well-Connected Movies
Dangerous Liaisons

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.
1988
Christopher Hampton
writer
Hairspray

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
2007
Michelle Pfeiffer
actor
The Young Victoria

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
2009
Rupert Friend
actor
The Queen

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
2006
Stephen Frears
director
Donkey Punch

Things go drastically wrong for a group of British holidaymakers in Spain.
2008
Tom Burke
actor
Chéri
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
2009
Christopher Hampton
writer
Michelle Pfeiffer
actor
Rupert Friend
actor
Stephen Frears
director
Tom Burke
actor
A Dangerous Method

A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
2011
Christopher Hampton
writer
New Year's Eve

The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
2011
Michelle Pfeiffer
actor
5 Days of War

A drama set centered around the war between Russia and Georgia, and focused on an American journalist, his cameraman, and a Georgian native who become caught in the crossfire.
2011
Rupert Friend
actor
Philomena

A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
2013
Stephen Frears
director