Denis Lawson

Denis Lawson

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Lawson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Denis Lawson
  • Popularity: 5.429
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1947-09-27
  • Place of Birth: Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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Denis Lawson Movies

  • 1977
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    Star Wars
    Star Wars

    8.203 1977 HD

    Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Mark Hamill

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  • 1983
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    Local Hero
    Local Hero

    6.728 1983 HD

    An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Burt Lancaster

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  • 1998
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    Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
    Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

    7.4 1998 HD

    Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Ioan Gruffudd

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  • 2011
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    Perfect Sense
    Perfect Sense

    6.878 2011 HD

    In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ewan McGregor

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  • 1977
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    Providence
    Providence

    6.804 1977 HD

    On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dirk Bogarde

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  • 2013
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    The Wee Man
    The Wee Man

    5.72 2013 HD

    The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Hannah

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  • 1996
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    Fried Crumbed Brains
    Fried Crumbed Brains

    6 1996 HD

    After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alessandro Haber

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  • 2012
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    Broken
    Broken

    6.927 2012 HD

    Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tim Roth

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  • 2009
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    No Holds Bard
    No Holds Bard

    10 2009 HD

    Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns...

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    Cast: Tony Curran

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  • 1984
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    The Chain
    The Chain

    6.8 1984 HD

    Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Warren Mitchell

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  • 2013
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    The Machine
    The Machine

    5.917 2013 HD

    Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Caity Lotz

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  • 2009
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    Breaking the Mould
    Breaking the Mould

    4 2009 HD

    A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dominic West

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  • 1976
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    The Paradise Run
    The Paradise Run

    1 1976 HD

    Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kevin McNally

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  • 1980
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    The Empire Strikes Back
    The Empire Strikes Back

    8.39 1980 HD

    The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Mark Hamill

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  • 1983
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    Return of the Jedi
    Return of the Jedi

    7.895 1983 HD

    Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Mark Hamill

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  • 1978
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    Fearless Frank
    Fearless Frank

    1 1978 HD

    The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Leonard Rossiter

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  • 1980
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    The Flipside of Dominick Hide
    The Flipside of Dominick Hide

    4.5 1980 HD

    Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers,...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Peter Firth

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  • 1989
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    One Way Out
    One Way Out

    1 1989 HD

    James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bob Peck

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  • 2009
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    Enid
    Enid

    6.3 2009 HD

    A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Helena Bonham Carter

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  • 2003
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    Lucky Jim
    Lucky Jim

    1 2003 HD

    A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Stephen Tompkinson

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  • 1983
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    Bitter Cherry
    Bitter Cherry

    1 1983 HD

    Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Roger Daltrey

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  • 1991
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    Bejewelled
    Bejewelled

    4.4 1991 HD

    An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Emma Samms

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  • 2006
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    The Thieving Headmistress
    The Thieving Headmistress

    1 2006 HD

    A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pauline Quirke

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  • 2010
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    Above Their Station
    Above Their Station

    1 2010 HD

    One-off comedy special. On the mean streets of Vange in Essex, naive police community support officer Len is the victim of a cruel hoax perpetrated...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Ruth Connell

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  • 1997
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    A Royal Scandal
    A Royal Scandal

    7 1997 HD

    The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Richard E. Grant

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  • 1977
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    The Man in the Iron Mask
    The Man in the Iron Mask

    6.167 1977 HD

    The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public,...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Richard Chamberlain

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  • 1977
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    Holocaust 2000
    Holocaust 2000

    5.9 1977 HD

    An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Kirk Douglas

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  • 1988
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    The Zip
    The Zip

    1 1988 HD

    A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 2004
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    The Black Death
    The Black Death

    1 2004 HD

    The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 2001
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    The Real Hughie Green
    The Real Hughie Green

    7 2001 HD

    TV Movie documentary exploring the secret life of Hughie Green.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Hughie Green

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  • 2019
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    6.333 2019 HD

    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Carrie Fisher

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  • 2017
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    Burns in the USA
    Burns in the USA

    1 2017 HD

    Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The poet was inspired. And America was to be inspired...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 1992
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    Born Kicking
    Born Kicking

    1 1992 HD

    Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Eve Barker

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  • 1976
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    Jumping Bean Bag
    Jumping Bean Bag

    1 1976 HD

    At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robin Bailey

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  • 2019
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    Somnium
    Somnium

    9 2019 HD

    Joan Kepler is an intergalactic postal worker. She's top of her game, a senior deliverer in an industry that's been threatened by newer, faster...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Michelle Ryan

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  • 2011
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    The Lighthouse Stevensons
    The Lighthouse Stevensons

    8 2011 HD

    The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline, told 200 years after the building of their first iconic lighthouse, the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 2002
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    Solid Geometry
    Solid Geometry

    4.7 2002 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ewan McGregor

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  • 2002
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    Solid Geometry
    Solid Geometry

    4.7 2002 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ewan McGregor

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  • 2011
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    The Lighthouse Stevensons
    The Lighthouse Stevensons

    8 2011 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 2007
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    Jekyll
    Jekyll

    7.6 2007 HD

    Tom Jackman is learning to cope with his alter ego, the dark and mysterious Hyde, who threatens his life and family. They also have to live in the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Nesbitt

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  • 2005
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    Bleak House
    Bleak House

    8.167 2005 HD

    The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin

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  • 2006
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    Feel the Force
    Feel the Force

    1 2006 HD

    Sally Bobbins and Sally Frank are two policewomen. They are the Cagney & Lacey for the 21st century, but with worse hairstyles. They are the Dukes of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rosie Cavaliero

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  • 1977
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    Survivors
    Survivors

    7.881 1977 HD

    Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Julie Neubert

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  • 1977
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    Rock Follies
    Rock Follies

    6 1977 HD

    Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and...

    Genre:

    Cast: Rula Lenska

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  • 2009
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    Criminal Justice
    Criminal Justice

    7.795 2009 HD

    Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Maxine Peake

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  • 2001
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    Bob Martin
    Bob Martin

    5 2001 HD

    Bob Martin is a British situation comedy. Its concept bears significant resemblance to The Larry Sanders Show. Michael Barrymore is its principal...

    Genre:

    Cast: Michael Barrymore

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  • 2007
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    Sensitive Skin
    Sensitive Skin

    7 2007 HD

    Bittersweet comedy about a 61-year-old former model trying to cope with life in London.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joanna Lumley

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  • 2011
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    Candy Cabs
    Candy Cabs

    1 2011 HD

    Candy Cabs is a comedy drama series shown on BBC One in April 2011. The plot revolves around a group of friends who set up a female-only taxi company...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jodie Prenger

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  • 2020
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    Cold Feet
    Cold Feet

    7.828 2020 HD

    Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Nesbitt

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  • 2003
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    Hornblower
    Hornblower

    7.3 2003 HD

    Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ioan Gruffudd

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  • 2024
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    The One Show
    The One Show

    4.667 2024 HD

    A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Alex Jones

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  • 1991
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    Bergerac
    Bergerac

    6.467 1991 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Nettles

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  • 1996
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    Tales from the Crypt
    Tales from the Crypt

    7.961 1996 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Kassir

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  • 2014
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    Law & Order: UK
    Law & Order: UK

    6.794 2014 HD

    Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bradley Walsh

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  • 2000
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    Other People's Children
    Other People's Children

    1 2000 HD

    Other People's Children is a four-episode 2000 British television drama, adapted by Leigh Jackson from Joanna Trollope's 1998 novel of the same name....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lesley Manville

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  • 2008
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    The Passion
    The Passion

    5.2 2008 HD

    The Passion is a television drama serial that tells the story of the last week in the life of Jesus.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Daniels

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  • 2020
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    Natural World
    Natural World

    6.825 2020 HD

    Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: David Attenborough

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  • 2011
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    Marchlands
    Marchlands

    7.086 2011 HD

    The gripping story of three different families living in the same house in the 1960’s, 1980’s and present day. The families are linked by...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alex Kingston

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  • 2024
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    Inside No. 9
    Inside No. 9

    8 2024 HD

    An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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  • 2015
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    New Tricks
    New Tricks

    7.347 2015 HD

    New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dennis Waterman

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  • 2012
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    Hustle
    Hustle

    7.609 2012 HD

    A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adrian Lester

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  • 2009
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    Robin Hood
    Robin Hood

    6.8 2009 HD

    An updated series following the life of Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood forest. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jonas Armstrong

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  • 1987
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    Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
    Victoria Wood As Seen On TV

    7.5 1987 HD

    A British comedy series starring comedian Victoria Wood with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Victoria Wood

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  • 1986
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    Dead Head
    Dead Head

    5.3 1986 HD

    London based petty crook, Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop off...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 2024
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    Inside No. 9
    Inside No. 9

    8 2024 HD

    An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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  • 2013
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    Agatha Christie's Marple
    Agatha Christie's Marple

    7.684 2013 HD

    The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Julia McKenzie

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  • 2024
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    Death in Paradise
    Death in Paradise

    7.448 2024 HD

    A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ralf Little

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  • 2016
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    In Plain Sight
    In Plain Sight

    6.9 2016 HD

    Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Martin Compston

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  • 2012
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    Them From That Thing
    Them From That Thing

    1 2012 HD

    Them From That Thing is a sketch show featuring a host of Channel 4 comedy stars. The series features Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Kayvan...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Brain

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  • 1962
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.704 1962 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Alfred Hitchcock

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  • 2009
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    Mister Eleven
    Mister Eleven

    1 2009 HD

    Mister Eleven is an ITV romantic drama starring Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire. The two-part series was broadcast on 11 and 18 December 2009. It also...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michelle Ryan

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  • 1986
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    The Kit Curran Radio Show
    The Kit Curran Radio Show

    5 1986 HD

    Disc jockey, flyboy, con-man, compulsive fibber... Kit Curran is all of these and worse! A perfect storm of self-obsession and general apathy, Kit...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 2019
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    Victoria
    Victoria

    7.291 2019 HD

    The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jenna Coleman

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  • 2010
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    The Beauty of Maps
    The Beauty of Maps

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today
    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 2023
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    The Farmers' Country Showdown
    The Farmers' Country Showdown

    1 2023 HD

    Series celebrating inspirational farming families and the rural events where they showcase their hard work, as they try to win the top prizes.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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  • 1997
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    Pie in the Sky
    Pie in the Sky

    8.364 1997 HD

    Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Richard Griffiths

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  • 2024
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    Celebrity Gogglebox
    Celebrity Gogglebox

    6.1 2024 HD

    A rolling cast of famous faces, some of Britain's best loved personalities, turn their hand to being the country's most opinionated viewers, sharing...

    Genre: Reality

    Cast: Craig Cash

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  • 2023
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    Star Wars: Visions
    Star Wars: Visions

    7.176 2023 HD

    This anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrates the mythos of Star Wars through unique cultural lenses.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast:

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  • 2007
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    The Genius of Photography
    The Genius of Photography

    7.2 2007 HD

    Documentary series exploring the history of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, from portraits to photo-journalism, from art to advertising.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Denis Lawson

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  • 2007
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    Dalziel & Pascoe
    Dalziel & Pascoe

    6.25 2007 HD

    British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Warren Clarke

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