Best movies of Frances Barber

A Zed & Two Noughts(1985)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.



The Escape(2017)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 24

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.



Shiner(2000)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 10

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.



Castaway(1986)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irvine takes a chance on contacting him and ...



Photographing Fairies(1997)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in ...



May I Kill U?(2012)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Baz is one of Britain's new bicycle police, a figure of fun. But soon he will turn from cycle cop to psycho-path. As riots break out in London, a head injury skews Baz into a vigilante, ...



Evilenko(2004)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to ...



Sammy and Rosie Get Laid(1987)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with ...



La sirène rouge(2002)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, ...



Superstition(2001)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames. Is seems as if Julie possesses rare telepathic skills, that she cannot control. Her ...



Trick or Treat(2019)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan just murdered a gangster's son? Or maybe there's an even more sinister explanation.



Flyfishing(2002)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Good-looking, well-spoken Phil is broke and cannot understand how flatmate James has recently acquired a lot of extra cash and a permanent grin on his face. James's secret? Adonis Escorts -...



We Think the World of You(1988)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face ...



Young Soul Rebels(1991)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set in London in 1977, the plot takes place against the background of the Silver Jubilee. This is a buddy movie between two friends Chris and Caz who run a pirate radio station from a tower... See full synopsis »



Soft Top Hard Shoulder(1992)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Eight years ago, Gavin artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, ...



An Ideal Husband(2018)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery, that is.



A Flame to the Phoenix(1983)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Flame to the Phoenix, set in Poland in 1939, captures the ambience at all levels of society and the behind-the-scenes intelligence-gathering and diplomacy in the leadup to the day Hitler ... See full synopsis »



Secret Friends(1991)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call ...