Search results for "Maxine Peake"
Svengali

Svengali

Svengali
IMDb: 5.6
90

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling…

Genre: Comedy
The Village (2013)

The Village (2013)

The Village (2013)
TMDb: 7.5
60 min

The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights
IMDb: 6.7
70

Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season…

Rules of the Game

Rules of the Game

Rules of the Game
TMDb: 8.7
56 min

Sam is a hard-headed manager at a family-run business in the North West. However, when Sam arrives at work one day to find a dead body in the office reception…

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Mystery
Anne

Anne

Anne
TMDb: 7
60 min

Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
IMDb: N/A
35 min

Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett’s masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain’s finest actors star in…

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Bisexual

The Bisexual

The Bisexual
TMDb: 8
30 min

Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality.

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Three Girls

Three Girls

Three Girls
TMDb: 7.4
60 min

The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama…

Status: Ended
Genre: Crime, Drama
Silk

Silk

Silk
TMDb: 7.6
60 min

Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they…

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Drama
Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice
TMDb: 7.8
60 min

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

Status: Ended
Genre: Crime, Drama
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit
TMDb: 8
30,60 min

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors’ prison in London. Amy and…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
IMDb: 6.4
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…

Peterloo

Peterloo

Peterloo
IMDb: 6.5
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
The Falling

The Falling

The Falling
IMDb: 5.4
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
dinnerladies

dinnerladies

dinnerladies
TMDb: 7
30 min

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries…

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Fanny Lye Deliver’d

Fanny Lye Deliver’d

Fanny Lye Deliver’d
IMDb: 6.2
110

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…

Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet
IMDb: 6.5
208

From its sell-out run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role….

Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful
IMDb: 6.2
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
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
IMDb: 7.2
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…

Gwen

Gwen

Gwen
IMDb: 6
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…

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything
IMDb: 7.7
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
Clubbed

Clubbed

Clubbed
IMDb: 6.8
95

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

Funny Cow

Funny Cow

Funny Cow
IMDb: 6.5
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