Search results for "Maxine Peake"
Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019)

Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019)

Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019)
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On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival…

Gwen (2019)

Gwen (2019)

Gwen (2019)
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84

A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the…

Peterloo (2018)

Peterloo (2018)

Peterloo (2018)
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154

An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and…

Genre: Drama, History
Funny Cow (2018)

Funny Cow (2018)

Funny Cow (2018)
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103

A woman who has a funny bone for a backbone, Funny Cow charts the rise of a female stand-up comic who delivers tragedy and comedy in equal measure in the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)
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90

Shakespeare’s comedy adapted for television by Russell T. Davies. In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia…

The Falling (2015)

The Falling (2015)

The Falling (2015)
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103

England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls’ school they attend, a mysterious epidemic of fainting breaks…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Theory of Everything (2014)

The Theory of Everything (2014)

The Theory of Everything (2014)
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123

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Private Peaceful (2012)

Private Peaceful (2012)

Private Peaceful (2012)
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100

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Best Laid Plans (2012)

Best Laid Plans (2012)

Best Laid Plans (2012)
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108

David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of Mice and Men’. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny…

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
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90

A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
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93

After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign…

Clubbed (2008)

Clubbed (2008)

Clubbed (2008)
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95

An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.