The Iron Lady (2011)

Actors: Ronald Reagan (actor), John Sessions (actor), Mikhail Gorbachev (actor), Matthew Marsh (actor), Richard E. Grant (actor), Trevor McDonald (actor), Nicholas Farrell (actor), Greg Bennett (actor), Iain Glen (actor), Anthony Head (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Jeremy Child (actor), Michael Maloney (actor), Meryl Streep (actress), Pip Torrens (actor),

Plot: Elderly and a virtual prisoner in her own home due to her concerned staff and daughter Carol, Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister, looks back on her life as she clears out her late husband Denis's clothes for the Oxfam shop. Denis is seen as being her rock as she first enters parliament and then runs for the leadership of the Conservative Party, culminating in her eventual premiereship. Now his ghost joins her to comment on her successes and failures, sometimes to her annoyance, generally to her comfort until ultimately, as the clothes are sent to the charity shop, Denis departs from Margret's life forever.

Keywords: 10-downing-street, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, alzheimer's-disease, argentina, assassination
Genres: Biography, Drama, Drama, History,
Taglines: Never compromise

Quotes:

Margaret Thatcher: It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

Alexander Haig: So you are proposing to go to war over these islands. They're thousands of miles away, a handful of citizens, politically and economically insignificant, if you'll excuse me.::Margaret Thatcher: Just like Hawaii... I imagine.

Airey Neave: If you want to change this party, lead it. If you want to change the country, lead it.

Margaret Thatcher: This lot seems bound to do the same... but they will rue the day.

Margaret Thatcher: We will stand on principle... or we will not stand at all.

Margaret Thatcher: It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great back into Great Britain!

Margaret Thatcher: Sink it!

Young Denis Thatcher: Margaret, will you marry me? [a pause, Margaret stares at him] Well?::Young Margaret Thatcher: [Margaret is still staring, Denis kisses her hand] Yes. Yes!::Young Denis Thatcher: [Margaret starts to cry from happiness, Denis leans in for a kiss, but she suddenly pulls back] What?::Young Margaret Thatcher: I love you so much but, I will never be one of those women, Denis. Who stays silent and pretty on the arm of her husband. Or remote and alone in the kitchen - doing the washing up, for that matter.::Young Margaret Thatcher: [interrupts] I'm going to help with that...::Young Margaret Thatcher: No. One's life must matter, Dennis. Beyond all the cooking and the cleaning and the children. One's life must mean more than that. I cannot die washing up a teacup! I mean it, Denis. Say you understand.::Young Margaret Thatcher: That's why I want to marry you, my dear.

Margaret Thatcher: Where did you go?::Denis Thatcher: South Africa.::Margaret Thatcher: Ah, yes.::Denis Thatcher: How many days passed before you realized I'd gone? Probably had to ask the cleaning woman where I was.

Margaret Thatcher: "How do you feel?" / "Oh, I don't feel comfortable." / "Oh, I'm so sorry, we the group, we're feeling..." Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.

Margaret (2009)

Actors: James Fox (actor), Robert Hardy (actor), John Sessions (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Greg Bennett (actor), Robert Cooper (producer), Philip Jackson (actor), Michael Maloney (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Lindsay Duncan (actress), Michael Cochrane (actor), Rosemary Leach (actress), Nicholas Jones (actor), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Rupert Vansittart (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

[Michael Heseltine has phoned Geoffrey Howe, ostensibly to say how sorry he is that Howe is resigning as Foreign Secretary. Having done this, he gets onto the real purpose of the phone call - a leadership challenge]::Michael Heseltine: [diffidently] Were I to stand... I mean, were that eventuality to arise... could I, would I be able to count on your support?::Geoffrey Howe: Michael, I think my position is probably best left... uncluttered by commitments of that kind.::Michael Heseltine: Of course.::[long pause]::Geoffrey Howe: Although... Should I have any further message to convey at a later stage, then I shall of course do so.::Michael Heseltine: Right. Yes, of course. Thank you Geoffrey.::[he puts the phone down and turns to his advisors who were listening in]::Michael Heseltine: [shouts] What the *fuck* does that mean?

Thatcher: The Final Days (1991)

Actors: Kim Horton (editor), John Wood (actor), Glyn Houston (actor), Sylvia Syms (actress), Paul Rogers (actor), Christopher Benjamin (actor), Bernard Horsfall (actor), Edward de Souza (actor), Julian Curry (actor), Christian Rodska (actor), Bruce Alexander (actor), Tom Chadbon (actor), T.R. Bowen (actor), Stephen Boxer (actor), Shaughan Seymour (actor),

Genres: Drama,