Movies: Shirley Henderson

  • 2015
    Urban Hymn

    Urban Hymn (2015)

    Urban Hymn

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    Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social worker who inspires her to use it....

    Urban Hymn
  • 1992
    Salt on Our Skin

    Salt on Our Skin (1992)

    Salt on Our Skin

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    A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she...

    Salt on Our Skin
  • 2011
    Meek's Cutoff

    Meek's Cutoff (2011)

    Meek's Cutoff

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    A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions....

    Meek's Cutoff
  • 2007
    Wedding Belles

    Wedding Belles (2007)

    Wedding Belles

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    A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories....

    Wedding Belles
  • 2008
    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

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    London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling...

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  • 2002
    24 Hour Party People

    24 Hour Party People (2002)

    24 Hour Party People

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    Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their per...

    24 Hour Party People
  • 2005
    Dirty Filthy Love

    Dirty Filthy Love (2005)

    Dirty Filthy Love

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    A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale....

    Dirty Filthy Love
  • 1999
    Wonderland

    Wonderland (1999)

    Wonderland

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    There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after h...

    Wonderland
  • 2002
    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

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    The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with ...

    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
  • 2005
    Frozen

    Frozen (2005)

    Frozen

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    It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she st...

    Frozen
  • 2003
    AfterLife

    AfterLife (2003)

    AfterLife

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    High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Dow...

    AfterLife
  • 2002
    Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

    Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)

    Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

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    Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek l...

    Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
  • 2005
    Yes

    Yes (2005)

    Yes

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    She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and ...

    Yes
  • 2005
    A Cock and Bull Story

    A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

    A Cock and Bull Story

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    Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor R...

    A Cock and Bull Story
  • 2005
    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew (2005)

    The Taming of the Shrew

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    A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader....

    The Taming of the Shrew
  • 1998
    Speak Like a Child

    Speak Like a Child (1998)

    Speak Like a Child

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    Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate beauty o...

    Speak Like a Child
  • 2007
    I Really Hate My Job

    I Really Hate My Job (2007)

    I Really Hate My Job

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    While anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant in London's Soho must deal with rats, arguments and kitchen-based power struggles....

    I Really Hate My Job
  • 2003
    American Cousins

    American Cousins (2003)

    American Cousins

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    Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn't the tough guy they'd expected. Gino and Settimo try to repay Roberto's hospitality by chasing off a debt collector who wants ...

    American Cousins
  • 1997
    Bumping the Odds

    Bumping the Odds (1997)

    Bumping the Odds

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    The first of three contemporary love stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. A working-class Scotswoman tries to save her deeply indebted friend from Glasgow’s inner city loan sharks....

    Bumping the Odds
  • 2025
    Glenrothan

    Glenrothan (2025)

    Glenrothan

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    After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Donal to take over the family's whisky distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the famil...

    Glenrothan