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Les virtuoses
7.027

Les virtuoses

Nov 01, 1996
Une petite ville minière du Yorkshire est menacée de déclin et le seul espoir pour ses hommes est de remporter le championnat national des fanfares... sans trop d'espoir jusqu'à ce que Gloria arrive avec son bugle. D'abord amusés de voir une femme jouant du cuivre, les hommes de la fanfare se rendent compte petit à petit qu'elle est probablement la seule chance pour la bande de gagner.
Comédie
United
6.9

United

Jan 02, 2011
Basé sur l'histoire vraie de l'équipe "Busby Babes" de Manchester qui fut la plus jeune à remporter la Football League.
Drame
Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me
3
Candid and poignant drama about the comedian Frankie Howerd and the relationship with his long-term, long-suffering manager, and gay partner, Dennis Heymer. Despite his overtly camp persona, Howerd kept his companionship with Heymer under wraps for 35 years, until his death in 1992. Yet through career disaster, social stigma, illegality, numerous infidelities and Howerd's own deep-seated issues about his homosexuality, their love endured.
Drame
Unconditional
6.3

Unconditional

Jun 25, 2012
A psychological romantic drama about teenage twins Owen and Kristen who fall under the sway of a charismatic young loan shark who offers love to one of them but on one condition.
Drama
The Hawk
5.8

The Hawk

Dec 03, 1993
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
Thriller
Hot Money
6.7

Hot Money

Dec 12, 2001
Three women, Bridget, Liz and Jackie, embark on a plan to steal thousands of pounds of banknotes that were due to be destroyed at the Bank of England's incinerating plant in Essex. Fictionalised account of a real-life case.
Crime
White Girl
5.6

White Girl

Mar 10, 2008
Debbie, a working class single mother from Leeds, moves her family to Bradford, where they find themselves in an ethnic minority. Daughter Leah must adapt to being the only white girl at school.
TV Movie
Cruel Train
4.5

Cruel Train

Jan 01, 1995
In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he could continue having sexual access to her. The husband and wife kill him together, but are seen by a train driver, who also has problems of his own. The wife tries to divert suspicion by implicating another driver and befriending the witness, but it doesn't go that smoothly.
Crime
When Saturday Comes
5.9

When Saturday Comes

Mar 01, 1996
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?
Drama
Joe Maddison's War
5.3

Joe Maddison's War

Sep 19, 2010
Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard.
War
A Night on the Tyne
1

A Night on the Tyne

Jul 12, 1989
When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.
Drama
Stardust, le mystère de l'étoile
7.3
Il était une fois un petit village anglais si tranquille qu'on aurait pu le croire endormi. Niché au creux d'une vallée, il devait son nom inhabituel "Wall" au mur d'enceinte qui depuis des siècles dissuadait ses habitants de s'aventurer dans le royaume voisin, peuplé de lutins, sorcières, pirates volants et autres engeances malfaisantes. Un jour, un candide jeune homme, Tristan, qui convoitait la plus jolie fille de Wall, s'engagea à lui rapporter en gage de son amour : une étoile tombée du ciel. Pour honorer sa promesse, il fit ce que personne n'avait encore osé : il escalada le mur interdit et pénétra dans le royaume magique de Stormhold...
Adventure
Shopping
5.4

Shopping

Dec 06, 1994
Billy et son amie Jo volent des voitures avant de les envoyer à toute vitesse dans des vitrines de magasins. En rivalité avec un autre gang, ils décident de se lancer sur un gros coup. Détruire la devanture du plus gros centre commercial de la ville.
Crime
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
3
D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Zoe Wannamaker and Colin Firth. When her wish becomes a horrifying reality, her life begins to change in ways she could have never anticipated.
Drama
From Hell
6.695

From Hell

Feb 08, 2001
En 1888, à Londres, dans les rues mal famées du quartier de Whitechapel, un tueur en série, surnommé Jack l'Éventreur, rôde. D'une étonnante précision, ce mystérieux personnage éventre, la nuit tombée, des prostituées. C'est ici qu'entre en scène l'inspecteur Fred Abberline. Cet agent de Scotland Yard comprend rapidement que ces crimes procèdent d'une mise en scène élaborée et supposent un "doigté" d'artiste, un sang-froid à toute épreuve et de solides connaissances en anatomie. Le policier, intuitif et visionnaire, dresse patiemment le profil de ce meurtrier hors normes et parvient à gagner la confiance de Mary Kelly, une jeune prostituée. Celle-ci va l'aider à résoudre cette périlleuse enquête.
Horror
The Bill
6.671

The Bill

Aug 31, 2010
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 drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Crime
Waterloo Road
7.2

Waterloo Road

Feb 18, 2025
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.
Drama
Crocodile Shoes
7.167

Crocodile Shoes

Dec 19, 1996
Crocodile Shoes is a British 7-part television series made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1994. The series was written by and starred Jimmy Nail as a factory worker who becomes a country and western singer. A sequel, Crocodile Shoes II followed in 1996 and the theme tune "Country Boy" was a hit for Nail too.
Drama
Spender
7

Spender

Dec 29, 1993
Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife.
Crime
Playing the Field
5.2

Playing the Field

Feb 10, 2002
The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves and infidelities of 'The Castlefield Blues', an under funded, badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire in the north of England whose loyalty to the team, the game and each other far exceeds their chances of ever winning the championship.
Drama
Bread
7.1

Bread

Nov 03, 1991
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
Comedy
Cardiac Arrest
7

Cardiac Arrest

Jun 25, 1996
This series shows the workings of an English hospital through the eyes of its junior doctors. Naive and idealistic Dr Andrew Collins (Andrew Lancel), soon realises he still has much to learn. His boss, Dr Claire Maitland (Helen Baxendale) on the other hand, has seen it all. She is a competent doctor, with a cynical view, and is ready to work the system when needed, but she and Collins work well together as she guides him through the many minefields of working in the NHS.
Drama
Candy Cabs
7

Candy Cabs

Apr 19, 2011
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 in a seaside town in Northern England. It is written by Johanne McAndrew and Elliott Hope and produced by Splash Media. The second series is to begin filming in October 2013.
Drama
The Syndicate
7.568

The Syndicate

May 04, 2021
A drama exploring how winning the lottery transforms the lives of ordinary people.
Drama
Performance
6

Performance

Mar 21, 1998
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Drama
Casualty
6

Casualty

Feb 15, 2025
Le quotidien du service d'urgences du Holby City Hospital...
Drama
Cilla
7.1

Cilla

Sep 29, 2014
Three-part biopic of the Liverpudlian songbird who would later find fame and fortune. It tells of her rocky road to fame and captures the essence of 1960s Liverpool.
Drama
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
7.9

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Feb 08, 2004
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Comedy
The Thick of It
8

The Thick of It

Oct 20, 2012
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
Comedy
Finney
7

Finney

Dec 22, 1994
Finney is a 5-hour, 6-episode made-for-British television film that follows the struggle for power between various crime families in the North of England.
Drama
Casualty
6

Casualty

Feb 15, 2025
Le quotidien du service d'urgences du Holby City Hospital...
Drama
NCS: Manhunt
5

NCS: Manhunt

Mar 19, 2002
NCS: Manhunt is a British crime drama television series starring David Suchet, and based on the National Crime Squad. Created by Malcolm McKay, the first series premiered with two episodes on BBC One on 26—27 March 2001. The second series debuted on 4 March 2002, and concluded its six episode run on 19 March 2002.
Crime
Merlin
7.812

Merlin

Dec 24, 2012
Dans la mythique cité de Camelot, certaines histoires se racontent comme on le fait aujourd'hui, au XXIème siècle. Entre enchantements et mystères, c'est là qu'un jeune homme nommé Merlin se lie d'amitié avec un certain Arthur...
Action & Adventure
Waterloo Road
7.2

Waterloo Road

Feb 18, 2025
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.
Drama