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: 9.69
  • 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

    7.544 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...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Simon Pegg

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  • 2001
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    Iris
    Iris

    6.431 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kate Winslet

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  • 1986
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    Clockwise
    Clockwise

    6.3 1986 HD

    An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Cleese

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  • 2006
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    The History Boys
    The History Boys

    6.6 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Richard Griffiths

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  • 2003
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    Calendar Girls
    Calendar Girls

    6.541 2003 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Helen Mirren

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  • 1987
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    Cry Freedom
    Cry Freedom

    7.025 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kevin Kline

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  • 1981
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    6.43 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Meryl Streep

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  • 1992
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    Blame It on the Bellboy
    Blame It on the Bellboy

    5.311 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dudley Moore

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  • 1977
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    Joseph Andrews
    Joseph Andrews

    4.1 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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Ann-Margret

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  • 1998
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    Alice Through the Looking Glass
    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    5 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'...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Kate Beckinsale

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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...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Emma Thompson

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  • 2005
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    Falling
    Falling

    6.5 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Kitchen

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  • 2012
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    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    6.942 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bill Nighy

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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...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Anthony Way

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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.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ian Holm

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  • 2012
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    The Girl
    The Girl

    6.071 2012 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sienna Miller

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ian Holm

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  • 2013
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    Belle
    Belle

    7.151 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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  • 2005
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    Match Point
    Match Point

    7.367 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....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Juliet Stevenson

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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  • 1981
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    Country
    Country

    1 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Leo McKern

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dev Patel

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  • 1998
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    Talking Heads 2
    Talking Heads 2

    7 1998 HD

    A series of monologues.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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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...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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  • 2000
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    Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
    Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

    7 2000 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Victoria Wood

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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...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Mark Rylance

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Bolam

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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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Stephen Tompkinson

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Amanda Burton

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  • 2007
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    Half Broken Things
    Half Broken Things

    6.727 2007 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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  • 2009
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    Margot
    Margot

    5.2 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lindsay Duncan

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Roger Allam

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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...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Harold Pinter

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  • 2018
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    The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
    The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

    7.442 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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Lily James

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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.

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Art Parkinson

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  • 2020
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    Summerland
    Summerland

    7.546 2020 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gemma Arterton

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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.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sally Hawkins

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  • 2019
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    Downton Abbey
    Downton Abbey

    7.141 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hugh Bonneville

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Hopkins

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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,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Hordern

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  • 2022
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    Operation Mincemeat
    Operation Mincemeat

    6.525 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...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Colin Firth

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  • 2005
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    Pride & Prejudice
    Pride & Prejudice

    8.1 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Keira Knightley

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Coral Browne

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Philip Jackson

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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...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Paul Rhys

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  • 2022
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    Downton Abbey: A New Era
    Downton Abbey: A New Era

    7.183 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,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hugh Bonneville

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  • 2023
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    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    6.572 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jim Broadbent

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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  • 2001
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    Victoria & Albert
    Victoria & Albert

    7.7 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...

    Genre:

    Cast: Victoria Hamilton

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  • 1993
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    The Borrowers
    The Borrowers

    1 1993 HD

    The Borrowers are small, fifteen-centimeter-high humans, who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Ian Holm

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Judi Dench

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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...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Olivia Cooke

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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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,...

    Genre:

    Cast: Michael Hordern

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  • 2005
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    Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
    Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion

    1 2005 HD

    It's Christmas Eve, but this is to be a far from silent night - the cruel Sycorax have come to Earth to enslave mankind and, as ever, only The Doctor...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: David Tennant

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  • 2025
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    Downton Abbey 3
    Downton Abbey 3

    1 2025 HD

    Plot details under wraps.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michelle Dockery

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  • 1987
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    C.A.T.S. Eyes
    C.A.T.S. Eyes

    5.5 1987 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jill Gascoine

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  • 2010
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    Five Days
    Five Days

    5.776 2010 HD

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

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Hugh Bonneville

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  • 1985
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    BBC Television Shakespeare
    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1985 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1993
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    The Borrowers
    The Borrowers

    6.4 1993 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...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Rebecca Callard

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  • 1987
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    Ever Decreasing Circles
    Ever Decreasing Circles

    7.308 1987 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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  • 2008
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    Comedy Connections
    Comedy Connections

    2 2008 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Graham Norton

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  • 2001
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    Bob & Rose
    Bob & Rose

    6.2 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alan Davies

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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...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Daniels

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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...

    Genre:

    Cast: Gwen Taylor

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  • 2021
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    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

    7.517 2021 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...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Jodie Whittaker

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  • 2021
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    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

    7.517 2021 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...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Jodie Whittaker

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sophie Rundle

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  • 1999
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    Kavanagh Q.C.
    Kavanagh Q.C.

    6.5 1999 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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 2013
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    An Audience with...
    An Audience with...

    5.3 2013 HD

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

    Genre: Talk

    Cast:

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  • 2015
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    Downton Abbey
    Downton Abbey

    8.1 2015 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Maggie Smith

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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...

    Genre:

    Cast: Richard Briers

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  • 1999
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    Wives and Daughters
    Wives and Daughters

    7.229 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Justine Waddell

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  • 2022
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    After Life
    After Life

    7.874 2022 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ricky Gervais

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  • 1982
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    The Tale of Beatrix Potter
    The Tale of Beatrix Potter

    1 1982 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Penelope Wilton

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  • 1998
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    Talking Heads
    Talking Heads

    6.167 1998 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 2022
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    Arena
    Arena

    6.6 2022 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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  • 1998
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    Performance
    Performance

    1 1998 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 2023
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    Murder Is Easy
    Murder Is Easy

    6.571 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...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: David Jonsson

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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...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Bilal Hasna

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today
    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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