Penelope Wilton

Penelope Wilton

Penelope Wilton (b. 1946) is a common name in British Theatre for which she has been nominated for the Laurence Oliver Award several times. Furthermore, she is a known name for all her work in British Television as well, most recently as a consistent part of 'Downton Abbey' on ITV.

  • Title: Penelope Wilton
  • Popularity: 12.323
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1946-06-03
  • Place of Birth: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Penelope Alice Wilton, Penelope Winton, Пенелопа Уилтон, 페네로프 윌튼
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Penelope Wilton Movies

  • 2004
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    Shaun of the Dead

    Shaun of the Dead

    7.542 2004 HD

    Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is...

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  • 1970
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    Visitation

    Visitation

    1 1970 HD

    14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers...

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  • 1986
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    Clockwise

    Clockwise

    6.269 1986 HD

    School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for...

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  • 2001
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    Iris

    Iris

    6.432 2001 HD

    True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with...

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  • 2006
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    The History Boys

    The History Boys

    6.64 2006 HD

    The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or...

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  • 2003
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    Calendar Girls

    Calendar Girls

    6.546 2003 HD

    Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

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  • 1981
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    6.408 1981 HD

    In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective...

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  • 1987
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    Cry Freedom

    Cry Freedom

    7 1987 HD

    A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald...

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  • 1992
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    Blame It on the Bellboy

    Blame It on the Bellboy

    5.3 1992 HD

    Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a...

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  • 1977
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    Joseph Andrews

    Joseph Andrews

    4.7 1977 HD

    Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...

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  • 1998
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    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    5.063 1998 HD

    A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland'...

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  • 1995
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    Carrington

    Carrington

    6.2 1995 HD

    Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted...

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  • 2012
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    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    6.946 2012 HD

    British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the...

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  • 1984
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    Laughterhouse

    Laughterhouse

    5 1984 HD

    A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

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  • 1999
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    Tom's Midnight Garden

    Tom's Midnight Garden

    5.9 1999 HD

    When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs...

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  • 2000
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    Rockaby

    Rockaby

    4.8 2000 HD

    An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she...

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  • 2017
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    Brexit Shorts: The End

    Brexit Shorts: The End

    10 2017 HD

    After 43 years together, Helen finds out her husband is leaving.

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  • 2012
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    The Girl

    The Girl

    6.1 2012 HD

    Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers,...

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  • 1995
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    Landscape

    Landscape

    10 1995 HD

    A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly...

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  • 2013
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    Belle

    Belle

    7.2 2013 HD

    Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in...

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  • 2001
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    Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

    7.625 2001 HD

    The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and...

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  • 1993
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    The Secret Rapture

    The Secret Rapture

    3.5 1993 HD

    Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic...

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  • 2005
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    Match Point

    Match Point

    7.36 2005 HD

    Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris....

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  • 2016
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    All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

    All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

    1 2016 HD

    An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors...

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  • 1994
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    The Deep Blue Sea

    The Deep Blue Sea

    1 1994 HD

    Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The...

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  • 1975
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    1 1975 HD

    King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

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  • 1981
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    Country

    Country

    7 1981 HD

    In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the...

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  • 2015
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    The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    6.414 2015 HD

    As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his...

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  • 2022
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    Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

    Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

    8 2022 HD

    A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a...

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  • 1998
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    Talking Heads 2

    Talking Heads 2

    7 1998 HD

    A series of monologues.

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  • 2000
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    Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

    Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

    6.6 2000 HD

    The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

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  • 2005
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    Falling

    Falling

    6.75 2005 HD

    Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures...

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  • 2007
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    Celebration

    Celebration

    6.3 2007 HD

    All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an...

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  • 2025
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    Downton Abbey 3

    Downton Abbey 3

    1 2025 HD

    Plot details under wraps.

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  • 2016
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    The BFG

    The BFG

    6.3 2016 HD

    The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle...

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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...

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  • 2001
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    The Whistle-Blower

    The Whistle-Blower

    8 2001 HD

    A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the...

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  • 2007
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    Half Broken Things

    Half Broken Things

    6.75 2007 HD

    A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family

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  • 2009
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    Margot

    Margot

    5.7 2009 HD

    At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the...

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  • 2013
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    National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

    National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

    7 2013 HD

    To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best...

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  • 2010
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    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    1 2010 HD

    In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National...

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  • 2018
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    The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

    The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

    7.4 2018 HD

    Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when...

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  • 2018
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    Zoo

    Zoo

    6.7 2018 HD

    Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

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  • 2020
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    Summerland

    Summerland

    7.5 2020 HD

    A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

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  • 2020
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    Eternal Beauty

    Eternal Beauty

    6.1 2020 HD

    When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.

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  • 2019
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    Downton Abbey

    Downton Abbey

    7.138 2019 HD

    The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England...

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  • 1981
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    Othello

    Othello

    6.1 1981 HD

    Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides...

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  • 1982
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    6 1982 HD

    King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

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  • 2022
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    Operation Mincemeat

    Operation Mincemeat

    6.505 2022 HD

    In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain...

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  • 2005
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    Pride & Prejudice

    Pride & Prejudice

    8.072 2005 HD

    A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his...

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  • 1972
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    Mrs. Warren's Profession

    Mrs. Warren's Profession

    1 1972 HD

    Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its...

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  • 1980
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    Pasmore

    Pasmore

    1 1980 HD

    Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

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  • 1999
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    The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

    The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

    1 1999 HD

    In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...

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  • 2022
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    Downton Abbey: A New Era

    Downton Abbey: A New Era

    7.2 2022 HD

    The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile,...

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  • 2023
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    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    6.53 2023 HD

    Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his...

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  • 1977
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    Able's Will

    Able's Will

    1 1977 HD

    Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.

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  • 1983
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    The Tale of Beatrix Potter

    The Tale of Beatrix Potter

    1 1983 HD

    Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.

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  • 1984
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    Ever Decreasing Circles

    Ever Decreasing Circles

    7.3 1984 HD

    Martin Bryce lives in a quiet suburban close with his wife Anne. He does his best to "organise" the leisure time of all of the other inhabitants of...

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  • 2003
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    Comedy Connections

    Comedy Connections

    2 2003 HD

    Comedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show looked at the stories behind the...

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  • 1985
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    C.A.T.S. Eyes

    C.A.T.S. Eyes

    5.667 1985 HD

    C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.

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  • 2007
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    Five Days

    Five Days

    5.79 2007 HD

    Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.

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  • 2001
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    Bob & Rose

    Bob & Rose

    6.3 2001 HD

    Bob Gossage is a thirtysomething teacher who has been gay all his life. Now, however, he quite unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with a...

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  • 1993
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    The Return of the Borrowers

    The Return of the Borrowers

    6.5 1993 HD

    The Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George but the village's owner also finds out...

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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.

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  • 1978
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1978 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

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  • 1992
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    Screaming

    Screaming

    1 1992 HD

    An 8 episode BBC One sitcom from 1992. Written by Carla Lane, it follows three middle-aged women, former school-friends and now sharing a home...

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  • 2010
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    Downton Abbey

    Downton Abbey

    8.1 2010 HD

    A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an...

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  • 2005
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.5 2005 HD

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a...

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  • 1992
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    The Borrowers

    The Borrowers

    6.4 1992 HD

    The Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in human homes, and...

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  • 2005
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.5 2005 HD

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a...

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  • 1991
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    Performance

    Performance

    6 1991 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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  • 2011
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    South Riding

    South Riding

    7 2011 HD

    The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah...

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  • 1988
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    Talking Heads

    Talking Heads

    6.2 1988 HD

    A series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett.

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  • 2016
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    Brief Encounters

    Brief Encounters

    6.9 2016 HD

    In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers...

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  • 2023
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    Murder Is Easy

    Murder Is Easy

    6.2 2023 HD

    England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of...

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  • 1978
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    An Audience with...

    An Audience with...

    5.3 1978 HD

    An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...

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  • 1995
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    Kavanagh Q.C.

    Kavanagh Q.C.

    6.8 1995 HD

    James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills...

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  • 1977
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    The Norman Conquests

    The Norman Conquests

    6 1977 HD

    The trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in laws gather at the decaying country home of...

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  • 1975
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    Arena

    Arena

    6.7 1975 HD

    Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50...

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  • 1999
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    Wives and Daughters

    Wives and Daughters

    7.3 1999 HD

    Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth...

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  • 2024
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    Dead Hot

    Dead Hot

    7.7 2024 HD

    5 years ago, Elliot came home to find his soulmate Peter had vanished—with nothing left behind but his finger in a puddle of blood. Still...

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  • 2019
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    After Life

    After Life

    7.88 2019 HD

    Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 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...

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  • 1982
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    The Tale of Beatrix Potter

    The Tale of Beatrix Potter

    1 1982 HD

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