Shirley Henderson Movies

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

Living in working-class London, Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters navigate quiet lives of loneliness: cafe waitress Nadia searches for...

A dying mothers plans a reconciliation with her husband and son after her death.

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....

An unemployed misfit falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish and as her search for work flounders her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her...

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....

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and...

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling...

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...

After her daughter has passed away, a mother senses an ethereal poltergeist-like energy around her and wants to know if her child has come home.

In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests,...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer...

Plot details under wraps but is described as a “precise yet unpredictable, absurdist comedy that moves between hilarity and heartbreak as it...

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

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....

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.

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled...

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

A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity...