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Kenneth Branagh
Director 65 years old

Kenneth Branagh

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Berkshire, Branagh trained at RADA in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. His accolades include an Academy Award,... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

20 titles
A Haunting in Venice

A Haunting in Venice

Kenneth Branagh 2023 1h 44m 4.7

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

Kenneth Branagh 2022 2h 7m 4.8

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot boards a glamorous river steamer with enough champagne to fill the Nile. But his Egyptian vacation turns into a thrilling search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

Belfast

Belfast

Kenneth Branagh 2021 1h 38m 6.0

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl

Kenneth Branagh 2020 1h 34m 3.0

Artemis Fowl, a young criminal prodigy, hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father.

All Is True

All Is True

Kenneth Branagh 2018 1h 41m

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes.

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Kenneth Branagh 2017 1h 54m 4.9

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Cinderella

Cinderella

Kenneth Branagh 2015 1h 45m 5.3

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Kenneth Branagh 2014 1h 45m 6.4

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Thor

Thor

Kenneth Branagh 2011 1h 55m 6.8

Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

Sleuth

Sleuth

Kenneth Branagh 2007 1h 29m 6.6

On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute

Kenneth Branagh 2006 2h 13m 5.0

The Magic Flute (2006) is an English-language adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel Die Zauberflöte, directed by Kenneth Branagh. The film is a co-production between France & the UK, produced by Idéale Audience and with UK's The Peter Moores Foundation.

As You Like It

As You Like It

Kenneth Branagh 2006 2h 7m 4.5

Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.

Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost

Kenneth Branagh 2000 1h 33m

An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot the film like a classic 1930s musical. It tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.

Hamlet

Hamlet

Kenneth Branagh 1996 4h 2m 7.7
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Kenneth Branagh 1994 2h 3m 7.0

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Kenneth Branagh 1993 1h 51m 7.8

Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, an arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner.

Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends

Kenneth Branagh 1992 1h 41m 7.5

Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Year's Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.

Dead Again

Dead Again

Kenneth Branagh 1991 1h 47m 6.8

In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.

Henry V

Henry V

Kenneth Branagh 1989 2h 17m 7.6
Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Kenneth Branagh, Paul Kafno 1988 2h 45m 5.0

Multicultural version of the Shakespearean tale Twelth Night, Made in modern day society featuring Anglo-Indian cast.

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