Stanley Townsend

Stanley Townsend

Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor.

  • Title: Stanley Townsend
  • Popularity: 8.711
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1961-08-20
  • Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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Stanley Townsend Movies

  • 2008
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    Happy-Go-Lucky

    Happy-Go-Lucky

    6.602 2008 HD

    A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

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  • 2006
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    The Nativity Story

    The Nativity Story

    7 2006 HD

    Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and...

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  • 2004
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    The Libertine

    The Libertine

    5.901 2004 HD

    The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn...

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  • 2004
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    Wondrous Oblivion

    Wondrous Oblivion

    6.7 2004 HD

    David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the...

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  • 2005
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    Dot.Kill

    Dot.Kill

    4.4 2005 HD

    Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As...

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  • 2005
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    Isolation

    Isolation

    5.5 2005 HD

    On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

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  • 2007
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    Flawless

    Flawless

    6.7 2007 HD

    A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.

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  • 2000
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    Altmann's Tongue

    Altmann's Tongue

    1 2000 HD

    A rare adaptation of a short story by cult American Horror Author Brian Evenson. The action involves three misfit characters who gather in a wood...

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  • 2009
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    National Theatre Live: Phèdre

    National Theatre Live: Phèdre

    9.5 2009 HD

    A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the...

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  • 2009
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    Holy Water

    Holy Water

    5.7 2009 HD

    The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its...

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  • 2003
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    Monsieur N.

    Monsieur N.

    6.3 2003 HD

    This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon...

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  • 2011
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    Killing Bono

    Killing Bono

    6.26 2011 HD

    The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2...

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  • 1996
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    My Friend Joe

    My Friend Joe

    8.4 1996 HD

    During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they...

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  • 2003
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    Mystics

    Mystics

    5.2 2003 HD

    A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

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  • 2010
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    The Pizza Miracle

    The Pizza Miracle

    5 2010 HD

    A pizza chef's death causes his son to reconsider their relationship.

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  • 1991
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    The Miracle

    The Miracle

    5.8 1991 HD

    Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild...

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  • 2013
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    Burton and Taylor

    Burton and Taylor

    6.2 2013 HD

    Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."

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  • 2022
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    Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye

    Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye

    1 2022 HD

    Philip Parris Lynott took the world by storm when he dominated the stage with his most notable rock band Thin Lizzy. The Irish frontman battled his...

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  • 2018
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    Psychomanteum

    Psychomanteum

    1 2018 HD

    A portmanteau style feature length film made up of several very different short horror films shot in the UK.

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  • 2013
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    Lovely Louise

    Lovely Louise

    5.3 2013 HD

    André, 55, lives with his mother Louise, 80, and leads an unspectacular life. He works as a taxi driver while the elderly diva dreams of...

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  • 2024
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    The Teacher

    The Teacher

    7 2024 HD

    A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his...

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  • 1988
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    Taffin

    Taffin

    5.573 1988 HD

    When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.

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  • 2014
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    Standby

    Standby

    6.1 2014 HD

    Twenty-something Alan (Gleeson) is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his...

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  • 2014
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    The Voices

    The Voices

    6.241 2014 HD

    A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving...

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  • 2011
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    Cars 2

    Cars 2

    6.134 2011 HD

    Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes...

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  • 2001
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    Rat

    Rat

    6.1 2001 HD

    After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he...

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  • 1995
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    Beyond Reason

    Beyond Reason

    1 1995 HD

    Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan...

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  • 1993
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    In the Name of the Father

    In the Name of the Father

    7.9 1993 HD

    A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He...

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  • 2013
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    The Physician

    The Physician

    7.342 2013 HD

    England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many...

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  • 2004
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    Fallen

    Fallen

    6 2004 HD

    Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to...

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  • 2009
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    Hilde

    Hilde

    5.536 2009 HD

    A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

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  • 2003
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    Byron

    Byron

    5 2003 HD

    Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years

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  • 2016
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    Florence Foster Jenkins

    Florence Foster Jenkins

    6.7 2016 HD

    The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

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  • 2001
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    Station Jim

    Station Jim

    7 2001 HD

    At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon...

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  • 2003
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    What a Girl Wants

    What a Girl Wants

    6.265 2003 HD

    An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother,...

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  • 2005
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    Omagh

    Omagh

    6.6 2005 HD

    The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the...

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  • 2014
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    National Theatre Live: King Lear

    National Theatre Live: King Lear

    6.9 2014 HD

    An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite,...

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  • 2019
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    National Theatre Live: All About Eve

    National Theatre Live: All About Eve

    8.5 2019 HD

    The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan....

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  • 1996
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    The Van

    The Van

    6.3 1996 HD

    In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips...

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  • 1993
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    The Snapper

    The Snapper

    6.4 1993 HD

    Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the...

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  • 2004
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    Inside I'm Dancing

    Inside I'm Dancing

    7.411 2004 HD

    Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable...

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  • 2018
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    The Current War

    The Current War

    6.706 2018 HD

    Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

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  • 2013
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    One Chance

    One Chance

    6.7 2013 HD

    This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by...

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  • 2019
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    A Girl From Mogadishu

    A Girl From Mogadishu

    5.8 2019 HD

    The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.

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  • 2019
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    The Song of Names

    The Song of Names

    6.7 2019 HD

    A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the...

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  • 2019
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    Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

    Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

    5.888 2019 HD

    On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.

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  • 1988
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    Ink

    Ink

    1 1988 HD

    Graduation short from Paul Duane.

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  • 2007
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    Saddam's Tribe

    Saddam's Tribe

    1 2007 HD

    The invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought a dramatic end to Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. But behind the headlines lay an even more extraordinary story...

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  • 1970
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    Another Turn of the Screw

    Another Turn of the Screw

    1 1970 HD

    England 1907: A young woman achieves her ambition to work as assistant to the great novelist Henry James; but her arrival at his lonely coastal home...

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  • 2023
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    Kinked

    Kinked

    1 2023 HD

    Having recently lost a close friend, a young woman explores her sexuality as a way of processing trauma, as well as joy. However, disrupting this...

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  • 1970
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    One Night Only

    One Night Only

    1 1970 HD

    Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd...

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  • 2006
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    Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott

    Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott

    7 2006 HD

    A look at the life of Phil Lynott, lead singer of the band; a man whose talent was known worldwide, but whose early life was less well documented....

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  • 2012
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    Titanic: Blood and Steel

    Titanic: Blood and Steel

    7 2012 HD

    Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it...

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 2002
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    Spooks

    Spooks

    7.6 2002 HD

    Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The...

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  • 2010
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    Sherlock

    Sherlock

    8.519 2010 HD

    A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 2003
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    The Commander

    The Commander

    5.667 2003 HD

    Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.

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  • 2011
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    Zen

    Zen

    7.236 2011 HD

    Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology...

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  • 2014
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    Quirke

    Quirke

    5.8 2014 HD

    Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates...

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  • 2015
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    Galavant

    Galavant

    7.344 2015 HD

    Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Prince Galavant lost the love of his life, Madalena, to the evil King Richard. Now, our fallen hero is ready to...

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  • 2004
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    Murder City

    Murder City

    7.2 2004 HD

    Murder City is a British police drama that centres on two mismatched detectives who scour London solving complex cases.

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  • 1996
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    Ballykissangel

    Ballykissangel

    6.9 1996 HD

    Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young...

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  • 2011
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    Fresh Meat

    Fresh Meat

    7.148 2011 HD

    A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!

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  • 2013
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    Toast of London

    Toast of London

    7.447 2013 HD

    Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

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  • 2004
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    Hustle

    Hustle

    7.623 2004 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Peak Practice

    Peak Practice

    5.875 1993 HD

    Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the...

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  • 1998
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    The Ambassador

    The Ambassador

    5 1998 HD

    The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC written by Hugh Costello. The series starred Pauline Collins in the title...

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  • 1997
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    Jonathan Creek

    Jonathan Creek

    7.5 1997 HD

    Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...

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  • 2001
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    Waking the Dead

    Waking the Dead

    7.237 2001 HD

    A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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  • 2002
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    Wire in the Blood

    Wire in the Blood

    7.773 2002 HD

    Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from...

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  • 2011
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    Death in Paradise

    Death in Paradise

    7.456 2011 HD

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

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  • 2022
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    Becoming Elizabeth

    Becoming Elizabeth

    6.9 2022 HD

    The fascinating story of the early life of England’s most iconic Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the...

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  • 2012
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    Ripper Street

    Ripper Street

    7.4 2012 HD

    A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division...

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  • 2014
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    Fleming

    Fleming

    7 2014 HD

    Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting...

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  • 1995
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    Jake's Progress

    Jake's Progress

    3.5 1995 HD

    Jamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours.

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  • 2012
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    Call the Midwife

    Call the Midwife

    7.5 2012 HD

    Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling...

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  • 2008
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    Whistleblower

    Whistleblower

    1 2008 HD

    Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a...

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  • 2024
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    Blackshore

    Blackshore

    6.9 2024 HD

    A police detective returns to her hometown and becomes involved in a missing person case, which is linked to her traumatic past and the town's dark...

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  • 2024
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    The Regime

    The Regime

    6.4 2024 HD

    The story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel.

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  • 2019
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    Resistance

    Resistance

    6.35 2019 HD

    This follow up to the Rebellion miniseries unfolds at the height of what became known as Ireland's War of Independence, and follows the lives of...

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  • 2022
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    Star Wars: Andor

    Star Wars: Andor

    8.2 2022 HD

    In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical...

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  • 2012
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    The Hollow Crown

    The Hollow Crown

    7.4 2012 HD

    A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

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  • 2019
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    The Spy

    The Spy

    7.4 2019 HD

    In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.

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  • 2024
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    KAOS

    KAOS

    7.3 2024 HD

    As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.

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