Search results for "Maxine Peake"
Dance First

Dance First

Dance First
IMDb: 6.2
100

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think…

Genre: Drama, History
Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans
IMDb: 6.3
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

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
IMDb: 7
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.

Tish

Tish

Tish
IMDb: 7.8
90

A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed.

Genre: Documentary
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
Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights
IMDb: 6.8
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…

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: 5.3
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
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: 6.4
184

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: 7.1
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: 5.9
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