Lesley Manville films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 20 films and 5 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Phantom Thread, Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake.

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Starring Lesley Manville

Secrets & Lies
1996 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.
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Grotesquerie
2024 · TV
7.5/10 · TMDB
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
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Disclaimer
2024 · TV
7.4/10 · TMDB
When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.
Phantom Thread
2017 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
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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.
Sherwood
2022 · TV
7.2/10 · TMDB
Two murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades before.
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Maleficent
2014 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector...
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Magpie Murders
2022 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.
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Let Him Go
2020 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
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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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Citadel
2023 · TV
6.9/10 · TMDB
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn’t know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they’re called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past...
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Ordinary Love
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
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Back to Black
2024 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her...
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Romeo & Juliet
2013 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two...
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Mr. Burton
2025 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war and his own ambitions. However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural...
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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Queer
2024 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a...
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Mr. Turner
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
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Misbehaviour
2020 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization...
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Womb
2010 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Cold Storage
2026 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two young employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
The Critic
2024 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son...
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Midwinter Break
2026 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to...

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