Lesley Ann Manville, better known as Lesley Manville, is an British. She has won an Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) and an National Board of Review Awards. She's known for Topsy-Turvy (1999), The Crown (TV Series) (2016) and Maleficent (2014).
The life and music of music icon Amy Winehouse, who started out as a jazz singer to eventually become a Grammy-winning music superstar. Her life would eventually be cut short in 2011 at age 27 after a long battle with alcohol and
TV Series (2022). 1 Season. 8 Episodes. A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by usingthe power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'.
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Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades b
A new adaptation of Paul Gallico's much-loved novel about a cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
A lead operative within Citadel’s rival intelligence agency, Manticore. Incarcerated in a Citadel detention facility for years, he's now out for revenge against the man responsible for his capture, and bent on bringing down Cita...
In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions de...
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 10 of Bennet...
Costner and Lane star as retired sheriff George Blackledge and his wife Margaret who, following the loss of their son, leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the...
TV Series (2019-Present day). First Season: 7 episodes. WWII drama centered on the lives of ordinary people affected by the war.
UK Premiere: September 29, 2019 on BBC One.
US Premiere: April 5, 2020 on PBS.
On november 2019, BB...
An Ireland-set drama about a long-married couple who test their relationship and face an uncertain future when the wife is unexpectedly diagnosed with breast cancer. They will have to deal with the emotional impact of the unexpect...
TV Series (2017–2019). 3 Seasons. 24 Episodes. Margaret Wells struggles to reconcile her roles as brothel owner and mother to her daughters. When her business comes under attack from a rival madam with a ruthless streak, Margare...
An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home. Though Emily (Diane Keaton) and Donald (Brendan Gleeson) live in the same idyllic Lon...
Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, social...
Cathy is attempting to move on with her life after the death of her husband. Through a year of new beginnings she rebuilds her life surrounded by her sometimes problematic family and friends.
“The Crown” tells the story of two of the most famous addresses in the world — Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street — and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the events that shaped the second half of the 2...
TV Series (2015). 1 season, 6 episodes. John River is a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault is the fragility of his mind. The character is haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.
TV Miniseries (4 episodes). Look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, the playboy, gambler and spy, a Bond-esque figure himself, before he started writing the novels, with the focus on his WWII posting in the British Naval Intelligenc...
‘MR. TURNER’ explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally e...
The "Sleeping Beauty" tale is told from the perspective of the villainous Maleficent and looks at the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse young Princess Aurora.
Romeo and Juliet are "star crossed lovers". When two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues. A William Shakespeare classic. Fair Verona, where Romeo (Douglas Booth) of the Montagues meets Juliet (Hailee Steinfeld) of...
In her 40s, single Irene (Margherita Buy) is a high-class hotel critic who travels to most exclusive resorts, only to spend her time writing up elaborately detailed reports about all the things the staff is doing wrong. Whether ti...
This special 50th anniversary one-off drama travels back in time to see how Doctor Who, the longest-running science fiction series ever, was created.
The year is 1963, and BBC Head of Drama has brought together a small group of p...
When Rebecca (Eva Green) returns to her grandfather’s house, she meets her childhood sweetheart Thomas (Matt Smith) again. Thomas leaves his girlfriend Rose and their love picks up where it left off, until Thomas dies in a car a...
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes... Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a therapist, and Tom (Jim Broadbent), a geo...
Three teenage boys are led into violence and temptation on a journey that will shock their sleepy community yet also express its deepest jealousies and divisions.
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is a brutal and unflinchi...
Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), a privileged, middle class southerner who is forced to settle in the northern town of Milton. Margare...
London, 1950: Vera Drake lives with her husband Stan and their grown-up children, Sid and Ethel. They are not rich, but they are a happy, close family. Vera cleans houses, Stan is a mechanic in his brother’s garage, Sid works fo...
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemp...
6 episodes. In 1937, the extended Cazalet family get together for their annual six week summer holiday at the family seat, Home Place, in Sussex. Patriarch Wiiliam Cazalet, affectionately called The Brig, travels down from London ...
Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director’s most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous period just before ...
This powerful drama film follows London doctor Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), an intelligent middle-class black woman who was adopted and now decides to track down her biological mother. But her daunting discovery is that her ...
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering h...
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