Jim Broadbent films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 54 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Paddington 2 and Brazil.

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Starring Jim Broadbent

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival...
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A Boy Called Christmas
2021 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
An ordinary young boy called Nikolas sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle...
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Brazil
1985 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an...
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Moulin Rouge!
2001 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate...
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Hot Fuzz
2007 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a...
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Paddington 2
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
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Paddington in Peru
2024 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon...
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Gangs of New York
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket...
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Brooklyn
2015 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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Vera Drake
2004 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Eddie the Eagle
2016 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie...
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The Young Victoria
2009 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a...
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The Damned United
2009 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous...
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Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a...
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he's over twenty years her junior isn't the only thing causing problems.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by...
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Paddington
2014 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.
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Black Narcissus
2020 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined...
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Another Year
2010 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
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The Duke
2021 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In 1961, a 60 year old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
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Einstein and Eddington
2008 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
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Cloud Atlas
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the...
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Filth
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
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The Crying Game
1992 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in...
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Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
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Dolittle
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals...
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Arthur Christmas
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is...
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Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the...
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Time Bandits
1981 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal...
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Little Voice
1998 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe...
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Black '47
2018 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family...
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold...
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Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's 'happily ever after' hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and...
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Iris
2001 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
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.
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Robots
2005 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Big Weld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.
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The Iron Lady
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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The Lady in the Van
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
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Inkheart
2008 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
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Six Minutes to Midnight
2020 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is...
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Art School Confidential
2006 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man...
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The Legend of Tarzan
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
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Around the World in 80 Days
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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Jay Kelly
2025 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron.
Closed Circuit
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect, and the attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe as special advocate on his defence team. On the eve of the trial, the accused's attorney dies and a new one, Martin...
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The Borrowers
1997 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer...
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Vanity Fair
2004 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society...
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Valiant
2005 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly...
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Big Game
2014 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness. 13-year old Oskari is also in that wilderness, on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a...
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King of Thieves
2018 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with...
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the...
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The Avengers
1998 · Film
4.4/10 · TMDB
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma...
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