Movies by Romola Garai
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One Day (2011)
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson …
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
After a romantic tryst on college graduation night, Emma and Dexter pursue separate dreams. This romantic drama based on a novel of the same name checks in with them each year on the same…
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King Lear (2009)
Cast: Ian McKellen, Romola Garai, Monica Dolan …
Directed by: Trevor Nunn, Chris Hunt
In this 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of the bard's enduring tragedy, Ian McKellen (in an Emmy-nominated role) stars as the world-weary title character, a doting father who…
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Glorious 39 (2009)
Cast: Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie …
Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff
Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental…
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The Other Man (2008)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney …
Directed by: Richard Eyre
After a shoe designer vanishes, her husband, Peter, uncovers proof that she's been having an affair and becomes obsessed with knowing the details. But instead of confronting his…
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Atonement (2007)
Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai …
Directed by: Joe Wright
When 13-year-old Briony discovers a lustful letter and witnesses a sexual encounter between her older sister and a servant's son, her confusion prompts her to finger the young man for a…
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Angel (2007)
Cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell …
Directed by: François Ozon
In this adaptation of a novel by British author Elizabeth Taylor, Romola Garai plays Angel, a grocer's daughter who writes her way to the life she'd imagined when her success as a…
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Scoop (2006)
Cast: Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman …
Directed by: Woody Allen
While visiting friends in London, American journalism student Jade Spence (Scarlett Johansson) beats out Britain's top reporters by exposing a story involving murder and magic. But just…
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Renaissance (2006)
Cast: Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Ian Holm …
Directed by: Christian Volckman
In this animated sci-fi thriller set in Paris in the year 2054, a megacorporation known as Avalon dominates the landscape of contemporary life, selling eternal youth and beauty to a citizenry…
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Amazing Grace (2006)
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon …
Directed by: Michael Apted
Based on actual events, this historical drama tells the story of William Wilberforce, an 18th-century English politician who launched an aggressive campaign to abolish British slavery,…
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As You Like It (2006)
Cast: Romola Garai, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Kline …
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Director Kenneth Branagh shifts Shakespeare's tale of love and mistaken identity to a British enclave in feudal Japan, where beautiful Rosalind (Bryce Dallas Howard) dresses as a man…
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The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005)
Cast: Romola Garai, Jack Davenport, Sam Neill …
Directed by: Peter Andrikidis
In 1788, penniless young Englishwoman Mary Bryant (Romola Garai) is found guilty of petty theft and shipped to Botany Bay, an Australian penal colony, to serve a seven-year sentence, only to…
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
Cast: Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward …
Directed by: Guy Ferland
Set in turbulent 1950s Cuba, this sequel to Dirty Dancing resurrects the story of a well-off American girl falling for a local boy on the dance floor. But when Castro's insurgency forces…
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Vanity Fair (2004)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Romola Garai …
Directed by: Mira Nair
In this sumptuous film version of William Makepeace Thackeray's famous novel, lower-class vixen Becky Sharp uses her good looks and considerable wit to climb her way up the precipitous…
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Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004)
Cast: James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Steven Robertson …
Directed by: Damien O'Donnell
When Rory O'Shea moves into a home for the disabled with a diagnosis of muscular dystrophy and befriends a deeply bored young man with cerebral palsy, he infuses his pal's life with…
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I Capture the Castle (2003)
Cast: Romola Garai, Henry Thomas, Marc Blucas …
Directed by: Tim Fywell
To save the crumbling English castle in which he resides, James Mortmain attempts to marry off his young daughters, love-welcoming Rose and love-thwarting Cassandra, to Simon and Neil, the…
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Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent …
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
Life in 19th-century England deals Nicholas Nickleby a difficult hand when his father dies and Nicholas, his sister and his mother, now penniless, are forced to seek help from his twisted…
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
Cast: Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Olympia Dukakis …
Directed by: Gillies Mackinnon
While grieving after the loss of her husband, a widow (Judi Dench) finds comfort in an old friend: her saxophone. A chance meeting with a man from her past (Ian Holm) prompts her to reunite…