Simon Russell Beale films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 22 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for The Death of Stalin, De Gaulle: Liberté and Penny Dreadful.

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Starring Simon Russell Beale

De Gaulle: Liberté
2026 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.
Penny Dreadful
2014 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological...
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter...
De Gaulle: Tilting Iron
2026 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
Douglas Is Cancelled
2024 · TV
7.5/10 · TMDB
The career of respected news presenter Douglas is threatened after he makes an ill-advised joke. With her 2 million social media followers, tech-savvy co-anchor Madeline could throw Douglas a lifeline by posting in his defense… but will...
The Outfit
2022 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the...
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The Death of Stalin
2017 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Proclaimed the funniest political comedy of the year (The Daily Beast), The Death of Stalin delivers a brutally executed parody of Cold War Russia. When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with...
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My Week With Marilyn
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career...
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Operation Finale
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Mary Queen of Scots
2018 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals...
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Radioactive
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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Benediction
2022 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The story of soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about the First World War, which brought him public and critical...
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Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty...
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Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of...
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An Ideal Husband
1999 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
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...
Firebrand
2024 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
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The Choral
2025 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
As World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes over a British choral society that's lost most of its men to the army. The community soon discovers that the best response to the chaos of war is to make beautiful music together.
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten...
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The Magic Faraway Tree
2026 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.
The Deep Blue Sea
2011 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
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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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Into the Woods
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
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My Cousin Rachel
2017 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
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The Gathering
2001 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Cassie Grant (Christina Ricci) is a young girl from the United States who is wandering through England on foot. On her way to Ashby Wake Cassie is hit by a car. The driver of the car, Mrs Marion Kirkman (Kerry Fox), immediately calls an...
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