DEREK JACOBI

TOLKIEN (2019)
Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Genevieve O'Reilly, Colm Meaney, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Laura Donnelly and Derek Jacobi. Directed by Dome Karukoski.

Explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.

REVIEWS Tolkien - 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Hobbit' fans, this one's for you

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (2017)
Starring Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Josh Gad, Penélope Cruz, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Olivia Colman and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect. The world's greatest detective must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.

REVIEWS Murder on the Orient Express - A first-class mystery

GRACE OF MONACO (2014)
Starring Nicole Kidman, Milo Ventimiglia, Paz Vega, Tim Roth, Parker Posey, Frank Langella, Derek Jacobi, Geraldine Somerville, Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Nicholas Farrell. Directed by Olivier Dahan.

Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated Wedding of the Century, 'Grace Of Monaco' tells of a year in the life of one of the twentieth century's most iconic women - Grace Kelly - as she strived to reconcile her past and her present, a yearning for a return to the big screen with her newfound role as a mother of two, monarch of a European principality and wife to Prince Ranier III. While contemplating overtures from Alfred Hitchcock to return to her career in Hollywood, Grace found herself plunged into a personal crisis when Rainier's modernisation of an ailing Monaco was halted by French President Charles de Gaulle – who tried to reclaim the principality for France by force.

EFFIE GRAY
Starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Waters and Derek Jacobi. Directed by Richard Laxton.

A mysterious relationship develops between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and the circumstances surrounding his platonic and controversial marriage to his teenage bride Effie Gray.