Ron Cook

Ron Cook

Ronald G. Cook (born 1 December 1948) is an English actor. He has been active in film, television and theatre since the 1970s. Cook was born in 1948 in South Shields, County Durham, the son of a school cook and a car worker. When he was 6, his family moved to Coventry; he went to Wyken Croft Junior School and then Caludon Castle School and is a graduate of Rose Bruford College.

  • Title: Ron Cook
  • Popularity: 10.396
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1948-12-01
  • Place of Birth: South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
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Ron Cook Movies

  • 2000
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    Chocolat

    Chocolat

    6.972 2000 HD

    A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they...

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  • 2006
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    Confetti

    Confetti

    5.5 2006 HD

    A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.

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  • 2022
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    Empire of Light

    Empire of Light

    6.665 2022 HD

    The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of...

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  • 1989
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    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    7.3 1989 HD

    The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

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  • 2001
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    Lucky Break

    Lucky Break

    6.206 2001 HD

    Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from...

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  • 2004
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    Thunderbirds

    Thunderbirds

    4.974 2004 HD

    Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill...

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  • 2021
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    The King's Man

    The King's Man

    6.8 2021 HD

    As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop...

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  • 2005
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    On a Clear Day

    On a Clear Day

    6.5 2005 HD

    After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For...

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  • 1999
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    Topsy-Turvy

    Topsy-Turvy

    6.6 1999 HD

    After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking....

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  • 2003
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    Hornblower: Loyalty

    Hornblower: Loyalty

    7 2003 HD

    Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

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  • 2003
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    Hornblower: Duty

    Hornblower: Duty

    7.2 2003 HD

    Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where...

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  • 1984
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    Scandalous

    Scandalous

    4 1984 HD

    An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

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  • 2003
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    The Other Boleyn Girl

    The Other Boleyn Girl

    7.3 2003 HD

    Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes...

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  • 2004
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    No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds

    No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds

    1 2004 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 2004 movie THUNDERBIRDS.

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  • 1985
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    Number One

    Number One

    5 1985 HD

    A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.

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  • 1994
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    Sharpe's Honour

    Sharpe's Honour

    6.6 1994 HD

    1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out...

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  • 2022
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    Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry

    Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry

    1 2022 HD

    Grenfell sets out to discover why the devastating fire of 14 June 2017 happened after the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, and who was responsible...

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  • 1983
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    Henry VI Part 2

    Henry VI Part 2

    7 1983 HD

    The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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  • 1983
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    Henry VI Part 3

    Henry VI Part 3

    7 1983 HD

    The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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  • 1983
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    Henry VI Part 1

    Henry VI Part 1

    7.5 1983 HD

    The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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  • 1983
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    The Tragedy of Richard III

    The Tragedy of Richard III

    6 1983 HD

    Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the...

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  • 2009
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    Le Journal d'Anne Frank

    Le Journal d'Anne Frank

    6 2009 HD

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  • 2012
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    Bert & Dickie

    Bert & Dickie

    6.2 2012 HD

    Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare)...

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  • 1991
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    Turbulence

    Turbulence

    1 1991 HD

    An adolescent girl, sexually abused as a child by her father, runs away from home.

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  • 2024
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    Sew Torn

    Sew Torn

    10 2024 HD

    A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her...

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  • 2009
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    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

    6.915 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    Dead Gorgeous

    Dead Gorgeous

    3.5 2002 HD

    Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder...

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  • 2010
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    Time Gentlemen, Please

    Time Gentlemen, Please

    10 2010 HD

    A would-be publican decides to set up shop on a remote island with a flat-pack DIY pub, but encounters more competition than he bargained for.

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  • 1986
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    Day To Remember

    Day To Remember

    1 1986 HD

    Wally is spending Christmas with his wife Hilda at the house of their daughter and son-in-law. Wally is hoping that he will miraculously regain his...

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  • 2004
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    The Merchant of Venice

    The Merchant of Venice

    6.769 2004 HD

    Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy...

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  • 2007
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    Hot Fuzz

    Hot Fuzz

    7.6 2007 HD

    Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he...

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  • 1990
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    The Fool

    The Fool

    7 1990 HD

    A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working...

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  • 2001
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    Charlotte Gray

    Charlotte Gray

    6.1 2001 HD

    This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman...

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  • 2002
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    Fields of Gold

    Fields of Gold

    1 2002 HD

    A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths...

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  • 2008
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    Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

    Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

    6 2008 HD

    The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.

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  • 2002
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    24 Hour Party People

    24 Hour Party People

    6.928 2002 HD

    Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a...

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  • 2006
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    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    6 2006 HD

    Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome...

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  • 2000
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    Quills

    Quills

    7.138 2000 HD

    A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer,...

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  • 2012
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    Mrs Biggs

    Mrs Biggs

    7.8 2012 HD

    The true story of Charmian Biggs (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald...

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  • 2002
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    6 2002 HD

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles...

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  • 1996
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    Secrets & Lies

    Secrets & Lies

    7.552 1996 HD

    After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...

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  • 2002
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    Murder

    Murder

    1 2002 HD

    Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is...

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  • 2006
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    Land of the Blind

    Land of the Blind

    5.9 2006 HD

    A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

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  • 1982
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    The Magic Shop

    The Magic Shop

    1 1982 HD

    A father and son enter a magic shop that may contain real magic.

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  • 1982
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    8 1982 HD

    When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

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  • 1998
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    Let the Good Times Roll

    Let the Good Times Roll

    1 1998 HD

    A short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher.

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  • 2020
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    18% Grey

    18% Grey

    7 2020 HD

    When his wife leaves him, struggling Bulgarian photographer Zack sets out on a wild trip from London to Berlin. It is a journey that reveals the...

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  • 2011
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    National Theatre Live: King Lear

    National Theatre Live: King Lear

    7 2011 HD

    An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought...

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  • 2000
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    102 Dalmatians

    102 Dalmatians

    5.5 2000 HD

    Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely...

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  • 1976
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    Secrets of a Superstud

    Secrets of a Superstud

    3 1976 HD

    In this silly soft-core sex comedy, Tony Kenyon is Custer Firkeshaw, the owner of a girlie magazine. He stands to inherit a fortune… If he can...

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  • 2024
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    The Critic

    The Critic

    5.1 2024 HD

    Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any...

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  • 2010
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    Time Gentlemen, Please

    Time Gentlemen, Please

    10 2010 HD

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  • 2005
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    Doctor Who Confidential

    Doctor Who Confidential

    8.1 2005 HD

    Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British...

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  • 1984
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.6 1984 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

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  • 1985
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    Girls On Top

    Girls On Top

    4.8 1985 HD

    Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender, they barely manage to co-exist.

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  • 1997
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    The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

    The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

    7 1997 HD

    Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom.

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  • 1982
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    The Young Ones

    The Young Ones

    7.9 1982 HD

    The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard,...

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  • 2003
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    Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

    Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

    6.25 2003 HD

    Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to...

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  • 2008
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    Little Dorrit

    Little Dorrit

    7.766 2008 HD

    Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in...

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  • 2005
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    Funland

    Funland

    6.4 2005 HD

    Funland is a comedy thriller serial, produced by the BBC, about a detective who arrives in Blackpool to find the killer of his mother with only the...

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  • 2009
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    Personal Affairs

    Personal Affairs

    4.6 2009 HD

    Personal Affairs was a 2009 British television drama-comedy series, broadcast on BBC Three. It starred Annabel Scholey, Laura Aikman, Maimie McCoy...

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  • 1978
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    Life of Shakespeare

    Life of Shakespeare

    1 1978 HD

    Biography of William Shakespeare.

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  • 2009
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    Red Riding

    Red Riding

    7.083 2009 HD

    Thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s: a world of paranoia, corruption and the...

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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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  • 2009
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    The Diary of Anne Frank

    The Diary of Anne Frank

    7.3 2009 HD

    Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime...

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  • 1998
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    Hornblower

    Hornblower

    7.5 1998 HD

    Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

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  • 2013
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    Mr Selfridge

    Mr Selfridge

    6.989 2013 HD

    Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in...

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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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    Maigret

    Maigret

    6.9 1992 HD

    Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s...

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  • 2011
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    Vera

    Vera

    7.355 2011 HD

    A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder,...

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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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  • 2009
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    Garrow's Law

    Garrow's Law

    7 2009 HD

    The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until...

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  • 1995
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    Bramwell

    Bramwell

    4.2 1995 HD

    The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues...

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  • 1993
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    The Detectives

    The Detectives

    6.7 1993 HD

    The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when...

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  • 1983
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.976 1983 HD

    Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle...

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  • 1986
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    The Singing Detective

    The Singing Detective

    7.7 1986 HD

    Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

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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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  • 2003
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    The Lost Prince

    The Lost Prince

    7 2003 HD

    The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at the age of 13 in 1919.

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 2022
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    Life After Life

    Life After Life

    6.8 2022 HD

    If you could live your life time and again, would you ever get it right? Ursula dies and is reborn, living through turbulent times - but what is it...

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  • 1997
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    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    7.174 1997 HD

    In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a...

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  • 2005
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    Casanova

    Casanova

    7.048 2005 HD

    Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life...

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  • 2004
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    He Knew He Was Right

    He Knew He Was Right

    7.8 2004 HD

    He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was Right. It was directed by Tom Vaughan.

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  • 2018
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    The City and the City

    The City and the City

    6 2018 HD

    When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of Besźel, it’s just another day’s work for...

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  • 2018
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    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    7.4 2018 HD

    France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19 years, but a small mistake puts the law...

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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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  • 2008
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    10 Days to War

    10 Days to War

    6 2008 HD

    A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.

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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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  • 1978
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    Will Shakespeare

    Will Shakespeare

    10 1978 HD

    Will Shakespeare, also known as Life of Shakespeare and William Shakespeare: His Life & Times, was a 1978 historical drama series created and written...

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  • 2019
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    Chernobyl

    Chernobyl

    8.7 2019 HD

    The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and...

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  • 2019
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    The Witcher

    The Witcher

    8.1 2019 HD

    Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

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  • 1997
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.5 1997 HD

    The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

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  • 2014
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    Inside No. 9

    Inside No. 9

    8 2014 HD

    An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

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  • 2020
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    Des

    Des

    7.187 2020 HD

    The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the...

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  • 2012
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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    5.9 2012 HD

    Choirmaster John Jasper is obsessed with his nephew's fiancé. Will he take his opportunity to get rid of Edwin Drood?

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