7 Movies Directed by Oliver Parker

Othello

Othello

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-12-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(6977 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Parker

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Oliver Parker (adaptation)

William Shakespeare (play)

Fullplot:

Iago convinces Othello, The Moor of Venice that his wife, Desdemona has been unfaithful. Iago is an evil, manipulative character with his own agenda. A plot of jealousy and rage transpires in this classic Shakespearean tale.

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-06-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (12191 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Parker

Cast:

Writer:

Oscar Wilde (play)

Oliver Parker (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-06-21

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (17877 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Parker

Cast:

Writer:

Oscar Wilde (play)

Oliver Parker (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Two young gentlemen living in 1890's England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...

St. Trinian's

St. Trinian's

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-12-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (16970 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Piers Ashworth (screenplay)

Jamie Minoprio (additional material)

Nick Moorcroft (screenplay)

Ronald Searle (cartoons)

Jonathan M. Stern (additional material)

Fullplot:

St Trinians proudly continues to represent the unacceptable face of British education. When the new Minister of Education announces he will personally sort the place out he doesn't realise either the enormity of the task or that the headmistress is an old flame. The school is anyway threatened with closure by their bank; with the staff clearly a waste of space the girls realise the responsibility to save the day falls on them. Perhaps a painting popularised by Scarlett Johansson might be the way out?

St. Trinian's

St. Trinian's

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-12-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (17047 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Piers Ashworth (screenplay)

Jamie Minoprio (additional material)

Nick Moorcroft (screenplay)

Ronald Searle (cartoons)

Jonathan M. Stern (additional material)

Fullplot:

St Trinians proudly continues to represent the unacceptable face of British education. When the new Minister of Education announces he will personally sort the place out he doesn't realise either the enormity of the task or that the headmistress is an old flame. The school is anyway threatened with closure by their bank; with the staff clearly a waste of space the girls realise the responsibility to save the day falls on them. Perhaps a painting popularised by Scarlett Johansson might be the way out?

Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-09-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (47773 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Parker

Cast:

Writer:

Toby Finlay

Oscar Wilde (novel)

Fullplot:

A naève young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.

Johnny English Reborn

Johnny English Reborn

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-10-21

Languages:

English, Mandarin, Swiss German, Cantonese, Russian

Countries:

USA, France, UK

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (83196 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Parker

Cast:

Writer:

Hamish McColl (screenplay)

William Davies (story)

Neal Purvis (characters)

Robert Wade (characters)

Fullplot:

Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI-7's top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier's life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action. With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is.

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