Some Well-Connected Movies
The Borrowers

A secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save their home from an evil real estate developer.
1997
Jim Broadbent
actor
Moulin Rouge!

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.
2001
Jim Broadbent
actor
Tea with Mussolini

An orphaned Italian boy is raised among a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during the Second World War.
1999
Judi Dench
actor
The Shipping News

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
2001
Judi Dench
actor
Quills

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
2000
Kate Winslet
actor
Iris
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
2001
Jim Broadbent
actor
Judi Dench
actor
Kate Winslet
actor
Richard Eyre
director
The Life of David Gale

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
2003
Kate Winslet
actor
Notes on a Scandal

"A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new """"friend"""" also go well beyond platonic friendship."
2006
Richard Eyre
director