Maxine Peake

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Tish
7.8

Tish

Nov. 17, 2023

Tish

A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed.
Rules of the Game
6.3

Rules of the Game

Jan. 11, 2022

Rules of the Game

Sam is a hard-headed manager at a family-run business in the North West. However, when Sam arrives at work one day to find a dead body in the ...
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
8

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads

Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett’s masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under ...
Anne (2022)
8.1

Anne (2022)

Jan. 02, 2022

Anne (2022)

Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup ...
The Bisexual
6.5

The Bisexual

Oct. 10, 2018

The Bisexual

Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality.
Three Girls
8.1

Three Girls

May. 16, 2017

Three Girls

The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted ...
Criminal Justice
7.7

Criminal Justice

Jun. 30, 2008

Criminal Justice

Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.
Little Dorrit
8.2

Little Dorrit

Oct. 26, 2008

Little Dorrit

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’ ...
Fanny Lye Deliver’d
6.2

Fanny Lye Deliver’d

Jul. 29, 2021

Fanny Lye Deliver’d

On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked ...
Gwen
5.7

Gwen

Jul. 12, 2018

Gwen

A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set ...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6.4

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced ...
Peterloo
6.5

Peterloo

Nov. 01, 2018

Peterloo

An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in ...
Hamlet
6.7

Hamlet

Mar. 23, 2015

Hamlet

From its sell-out run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of ...
Funny Cow
6.5

Funny Cow

Apr. 20, 2018

Funny Cow

A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern ...
The Falling
5.3

The Falling

Apr. 24, 2015

The Falling

England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls’ ...
The Theory of Everything
7.7

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who ...
Private Peaceful
6.2

Private Peaceful

Oct. 12, 2012

Private Peaceful

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their ...
Clubbed
6.7

Clubbed

Oct. 02, 2008

Clubbed

An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.
Christmas Lights
6.7

Christmas Lights

Dec. 20, 2004

Christmas Lights

Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always ...
dinnerladies
7.8

dinnerladies

Nov. 12, 1998

dinnerladies

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of ...
The Swarm
4.5

The Swarm

The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.
Svengali
5.6

Svengali

Jun. 19, 2013

Svengali

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and ...