Denis Lawson

Denis Lawson

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Lawson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Denis Lawson
  • Popularity: 9.305
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1947-09-27
  • Place of Birth: Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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Denis Lawson Movies

  • 1977
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    Star Wars

    Star Wars

    8.203 1977 HD

    Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker...

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  • 1983
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    Local Hero

    Local Hero

    6.714 1983 HD

    An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

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  • 1998
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    Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

    Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

    7.3 1998 HD

    Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his...

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  • 2009
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    Enid

    Enid

    6.4 2009 HD

    A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her...

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  • 2019
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    Somnium

    Somnium

    9 2019 HD

    Joan Kepler is an intergalactic postal worker. She's top of her game, a senior deliverer in an industry that's been threatened by newer, faster...

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  • 2011
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    Perfect Sense

    Perfect Sense

    6.877 2011 HD

    In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a...

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  • 1977
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    Providence

    Providence

    6.8 1977 HD

    On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing...

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  • 2013
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    The Wee Man

    The Wee Man

    5.625 2013 HD

    The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.

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  • 1996
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    Fried Crumbed Brains

    Fried Crumbed Brains

    6 1996 HD

    After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste....

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  • 2012
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    Broken

    Broken

    6.9 2012 HD

    Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

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  • 2009
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    No Holds Bard

    No Holds Bard

    10 2009 HD

    Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns...

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  • 1984
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    The Chain

    The Chain

    6.8 1984 HD

    Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

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  • 2013
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    The Machine

    The Machine

    5.919 2013 HD

    Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly...

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  • 2009
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    Breaking the Mould

    Breaking the Mould

    4.667 2009 HD

    A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of...

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  • 1976
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    The Paradise Run

    The Paradise Run

    1 1976 HD

    Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion...

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  • 1980
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    The Empire Strikes Back

    The Empire Strikes Back

    8.393 1980 HD

    The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But...

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  • 1983
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    Return of the Jedi

    Return of the Jedi

    7.899 1983 HD

    Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion...

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  • 1978
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    Fearless Frank

    Fearless Frank

    1 1978 HD

    The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the...

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  • 2011
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    The Lighthouse Stevensons

    The Lighthouse Stevensons

    8 2011 HD

    The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline, told 200 years after the building of their first iconic lighthouse, the...

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  • 1989
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    One Way Out

    One Way Out

    1 1989 HD

    James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable...

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  • 1980
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    The Flipside of Dominick Hide

    The Flipside of Dominick Hide

    4.5 1980 HD

    Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers,...

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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...

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  • 1983
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    Bitter Cherry

    Bitter Cherry

    1 1983 HD

    Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.

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  • 1991
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    Bejewelled

    Bejewelled

    4.4 1991 HD

    An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and...

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  • 1990
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    Die Kinder

    Die Kinder

    1 1990 HD

    A woman searches for her children, who have been abducted by her ex-husband, a member of the German 'Red Liberation Front'.

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  • 2006
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    The Thieving Headmistress

    The Thieving Headmistress

    7 2006 HD

    A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is...

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  • 2010
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    Above Their Station

    Above Their Station

    1 2010 HD

    One-off comedy special. On the mean streets of Vange in Essex, naive police community support officer Len is the victim of a cruel hoax perpetrated...

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  • 1997
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    A Royal Scandal

    A Royal Scandal

    7 1997 HD

    The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

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  • 1977
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    Holocaust 2000

    Holocaust 2000

    5.9 1977 HD

    An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

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  • 1977
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    The Man in the Iron Mask

    The Man in the Iron Mask

    6.2 1977 HD

    The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public,...

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  • 1988
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    The Zip

    The Zip

    1 1988 HD

    A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?

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  • 2004
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    The Black Death

    The Black Death

    1 2004 HD

    The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course...

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  • 2001
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    The Real Hughie Green

    The Real Hughie Green

    7 2001 HD

    TV Movie documentary exploring the secret life of Hughie Green.

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  • 2019
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    6.312 2019 HD

    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of...

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  • 2017
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    Burns in the USA

    Burns in the USA

    1 2017 HD

    Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The poet was inspired. And America was to be inspired...

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  • 1992
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    Born Kicking

    Born Kicking

    1 1992 HD

    Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her...

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  • 1976
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    Jumping Bean Bag

    Jumping Bean Bag

    1 1976 HD

    At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy...

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  • 1973
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    The Merchant of Venice

    The Merchant of Venice

    7 1973 HD

    An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

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  • 2002
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    Solid Geometry

    Solid Geometry

    4.7 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Solid Geometry

    Solid Geometry

    4.7 2002 HD

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  • 2011
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    The Lighthouse Stevensons

    The Lighthouse Stevensons

    8 2011 HD

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  • 1999
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    The Bass Player

    The Bass Player

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    The Bass Player

    The Bass Player

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1998
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    Cold Feet

    Cold Feet

    7.871 1998 HD

    Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their...

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  • 2007
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    Jekyll

    Jekyll

    7.606 2007 HD

    Tom Jackman is learning to cope with his alter ego, the dark and mysterious Hyde, who threatens his life and family. They also have to live in the...

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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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  • 2006
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    The One Show

    The One Show

    4.6 2006 HD

    A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

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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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  • 1989
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    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

    8 1989 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

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  • 2005
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    Bleak House

    Bleak House

    8.2 2005 HD

    The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the...

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  • 2009
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    Mister Eleven

    Mister Eleven

    4.5 2009 HD

    Mister Eleven is an ITV romantic drama starring Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire. The two-part series was broadcast on 11 and 18 December 2009. It also...

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  • 2006
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    Feel the Force

    Feel the Force

    5 2006 HD

    Sally Bobbins and Sally Frank are two policewomen. They are the Cagney & Lacey for the 21st century, but with worse hairstyles. They are the Dukes of...

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  • 1984
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    The Kit Curran Radio Show

    The Kit Curran Radio Show

    5 1984 HD

    Disc jockey, flyboy, con-man, compulsive fibber... Kit Curran is all of these and worse! A perfect storm of self-obsession and general apathy, Kit...

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  • 1975
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    Survivors

    Survivors

    7.9 1975 HD

    Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to...

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  • 1976
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    Rock Follies

    Rock Follies

    6 1976 HD

    Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and...

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  • 2009
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    Law & Order: UK

    Law & Order: UK

    6.8 2009 HD

    Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the...

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  • 2008
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    Criminal Justice

    Criminal Justice

    7.563 2008 HD

    Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.

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  • 2000
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    Other People's Children

    Other People's Children

    1 2000 HD

    Other People's Children is a four-episode 2000 British television drama, adapted by Leigh Jackson from Joanna Trollope's 1998 novel of the same name....

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  • 2000
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    Bob Martin

    Bob Martin

    5.333 2000 HD

    Bob Martin is a British situation comedy. Its concept bears significant resemblance to The Larry Sanders Show. Michael Barrymore is its principal...

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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.

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  • 2005
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    Sensitive Skin

    Sensitive Skin

    7 2005 HD

    Bittersweet comedy about a 61-year-old former model trying to cope with life in London.

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  • 1983
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    Natural World

    Natural World

    7 1983 HD

    Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand....

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  • 2021
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    Star Wars: Visions

    Star Wars: Visions

    7.2 2021 HD

    This anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrates the mythos of Star Wars through unique cultural lenses.

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  • 2016
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    Victoria

    Victoria

    7.3 2016 HD

    The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years...

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  • 2011
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    Marchlands

    Marchlands

    7.083 2011 HD

    The gripping story of three different families living in the same house in the 1960’s, 1980’s and present day. The families are linked by...

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  • 2011
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    Candy Cabs

    Candy Cabs

    7 2011 HD

    Candy Cabs is a comedy drama series shown on BBC One in April 2011. The plot revolves around a group of friends who set up a female-only taxi company...

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  • 2010
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    The Beauty of Maps

    The Beauty of Maps

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.

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  • 2004
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    New Tricks

    New Tricks

    7.3 2004 HD

    New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service....

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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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  • 2017
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    The Farmers' Country Showdown

    The Farmers' Country Showdown

    1 2017 HD

    Series celebrating inspirational farming families and the rural events where they showcase their hard work, as they try to win the top prizes.

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 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...

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  • 2006
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    Robin Hood

    Robin Hood

    6.8 2006 HD

    An updated series following the life of Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood forest. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all...

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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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  • 1985
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    Victoria Wood As Seen On TV

    Victoria Wood As Seen On TV

    7.6 1985 HD

    A British comedy series starring comedian Victoria Wood with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show...

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  • 2007
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    The Genius of Photography

    The Genius of Photography

    7.2 2007 HD

    Documentary series exploring the history of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, from portraits to photo-journalism, from art to advertising.

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  • 1994
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    Pie in the Sky

    Pie in the Sky

    8.4 1994 HD

    Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first...

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  • 1996
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    Dalziel & Pascoe

    Dalziel & Pascoe

    6.3 1996 HD

    British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The...

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  • 1986
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    Dead Head

    Dead Head

    5.3 1986 HD

    London based petty crook, Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop off...

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  • 2011
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    Death in Paradise

    Death in Paradise

    7.5 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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  • 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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  • 2004
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    Agatha Christie's Marple

    Agatha Christie's Marple

    7.625 2004 HD

    The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and...

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  • 2019
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    Celebrity Gogglebox

    Celebrity Gogglebox

    6.6 2019 HD

    A rolling cast of famous faces, some of Britain's best loved personalities, turn their hand to being the country's most opinionated viewers, sharing...

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  • 2016
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    In Plain Sight

    In Plain Sight

    6.9 2016 HD

    Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.

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  • 2012
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    Them From That Thing

    Them From That Thing

    1 2012 HD

    Them From That Thing is a sketch show featuring a host of Channel 4 comedy stars. The series features Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Kayvan...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 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...

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  • 2022
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    Sister Boniface Mysteries

    Sister Boniface Mysteries

    6.4 2022 HD

    First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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