Movies Directed By Kenneth Branagh
Hamlet
Peter Bygott, Richard Attenborough, Brian Blessed, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Bryant, Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Charles Daish, Judi Dench, Gérard Depardieu, Reece Dinsdale, Ken Dodd
DIRECTOR:Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot—the most complicated and most interesting in all literature—he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.
Frankenstein
It's Alive.
John Cleese, Robert De Niro, Tom Hulce, Ian Holm, Kenneth Branagh, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Mark Hadfield, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Briers, Robert Hardy, Celia Imrie, Trevyn McDowell, Gerard Horan, Joanna Roth
DIRECTOR:Based on Mary Shelly's novel, the hair-raising movie tells the sad story of Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh), a promising young scientist. The doctor was so devastated by his mother's death during childbirth that he became obsessed with the idea of bringing the deceased back to life, unaware of the consequences of his actions. The result of his experiment with the remains of the corpse and electricity was a simple, seemingly harmless creature (Robert De Niro) which, however, turned into a wrathful and vindictive monster after his ''father'' abandoned him. Dr. Frankenstein wished he had never created him!
Sleuth
If it was murder, where's the body? [original movie poster]
Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Alec Cawthorne, Eve Channing
DIRECTOR:Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew's wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the insurance on the stolen jewelry. The problem is that they don't really like each other and each cannot avoid the zinger on the other. The plot has many shifts in which the advantage shifts between Milo and Andrew.
