Some Well-Connected Movies
Code 46

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
2003
Michael Winterbottom
director
Mirrormask

In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
2005
Rob Brydon
actor
Yes

In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ...
2004
Shirley Henderson
actor
Around the World in 80 Days

To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor beside his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, embarks on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.
2004
Steve Coogan
actor
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
"Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, """"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."""""
2005
Keeley Hawes
actor
Michael Winterbottom
director
Rob Brydon
actor
Shirley Henderson
actor
Steve Coogan
actor
Death at a Funeral

Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
2007
Keeley Hawes
actor
A Mighty Heart

Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.
2007
Michael Winterbottom
director
Life During Wartime

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
2009
Shirley Henderson
actor
Hamlet 2

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
2008
Steve Coogan
actor