Hilary Sesta

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I Really Hate My Job
3.9

I Really Hate My Job

Sep 21, 2007
While anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant in London's Soho must deal with rats, arguments and kitchen-based power struggles.
Comedy
Knockback: 1
7.5

Knockback: 1

Jan 27, 1985
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
Drama
Meurtre par décret
6.4

Meurtre par décret

Feb 01, 1979
Sherlock Holmes et le docteur Watson sont sur la piste de Jack l'Éventreur. Leur enquête va les mener dans l'entourage de la famille royale, du gouvernement britannique et de la franc-maçonnerie.
Crime
A Box of Swan
1

A Box of Swan

Oct 09, 1990
A moving and unusual film about a young man who returns to his Liverpool roots for his father's funeral.
The Fool
7

The Fool

Dec 07, 1990
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Drama
Jabberwocky
6

Jabberwocky

Mar 28, 1977
Une bête sanguinaire, le Jabberwocky, ravage le royaume de Bruno le Contestable. Le roi promet la main de sa fille a celui qui anéantira le monstre.
Fantasy
Esther Kahn
6.042

Esther Kahn

Oct 04, 2000
Londres, fin du XIXe siècle. Timide et rêveuse, la jeune Esther vit dans le quartier juif et travaille dans l’atelier de couture familial. Elle se rend parfois au théâtre et se retrouve un jour figurante. Ses premiers pas sur les planches sont une révélation.
Drama
Doctor Who: Snakedance
4.3
Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There, the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the banishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. The Mara takes control of Lon and uses him and Tegan to obtain from Ambril, the Director of Historical Research, the 'Great Crystal' - the large blue stone that originally brought it into being by focusing energy from the minds of the planet's one-time inhabitants. The Mara now plans to use the crystal during the ceremony to bring about its return to corporeal existence.
Drama
The Dark Angel
7.5

The Dark Angel

Feb 01, 1987
The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.
Horror
Cadfael
7.3

Cadfael

Dec 28, 1998
Frère Cadfael se repose en s'occupant des jardins de l'abbaye de Shrewsbury en Angleterre. Mais il est souvent appelé pour résoudre meurtres et autres crimes. Cadfael est le nom donné à la série télévisée des adaptations de Cadfael Chronicles, produites par la chaîne de télévision britannique ITV Central, entre 1994 et 1998. La série a été diffusée sur le réseau ITV au Royaume-Uni et mettait en vedette Sir Derek Jacobi.
Drama
Hercule Poirot
8.1

Hercule Poirot

Nov 13, 2013
Hercule Poirot, policier belge retraité, à la moustache parfaite dont il est si fier. Il s'est exilé en Angleterre suite aux ravages de la Première Guerre mondiale. Désormais, il vit à Londres et exerce en tant que détective privé. Sa réputation d'enquêteur hors pair est internationale et de nombreuses personnes font appel à lui pour percer des mystères que la police ne pourra pas résoudre ou n'a pas su résoudre.
Crime
Jonathan Creek
7.5

Jonathan Creek

Mar 14, 2014
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Mystery
Jeeves and Wooster
8

Jeeves and Wooster

Jun 20, 1993
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Comedy
The Paradise Club
5.8

The Paradise Club

Nov 27, 1990
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
Drama
My Hero
6.4

My Hero

Sep 10, 2006
My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.
Comedy
Oliver Twist
6.3

Oliver Twist

Dec 19, 1999
Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
Drama
Last of the Summer Wine
7.1
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
Comedy
The Darling Buds of May
7.8
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.
Comedy