Cast: Samuel West

Direction Guy Ritchie

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Charlie Hunnam · Hugh Grant · Colin Farrell

Synopsis The Gentlemen (2019) follows Mickey Pearson, a wealthy American expatriate who has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. As he plans to retire and sell his business, a series of schemes, betrayals, and power struggles emerge among rival...

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · Antony Sher · John Shrapnel

Synopsis Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Direction Michael Samuels

Cast Jim Broadbent · Matthew Macfadyen · Sam Claflin · Gillian Anderson

Synopsis TV Miniseries. 4 episodes. A TV miniseries adaptation of William Boyd's novel. A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess...

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Shaun Parkes · Letitia Wright · John Boyega · Sheyi Cole

Synopsis Small Axe is a collection of five original films by Steve McQueen set from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s that tell personal stories from London's West Black community, whose lives have been shaped by their own force of...

Direction Toby Haynes

Cast Bertie Carvel · Eddie Marsan · Marc Warren · Charlotte Riley

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2014). 7 Episodes. At the beginning of the 19th-century, England no longer believes in magic. But the reclusive Mr Norrell stuns the city when he brings the statues of York Cathedral to life, and is then invited to...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Emma Thompson · Anthony Hopkins · Samuel West · Helena Bonham Carter

Synopsis In Howards End (1992), a poignant tale of class and connection unfolds in Edwardian England. The lives of the wealthy Wilcox family, the intellectual Schlegel sisters, and the working-class Basts intertwine through fate and misunderstanding. At the heart of the...

Direction Andy Hay · Metin Hüseyin · Brian Percival

Cast Nicholas Ralph · Anna Madeley · Samuel West · Rachel Shenton

Synopsis TV Series (2020-). 2 Seasons. The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire. A remake of the 1978-1990 series, taken from the autobiographical books by James Herriot.

Direction Sarah Gavron

Cast Carey Mulligan · Helena Bonham Carter · Anne-Marie Duff · Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Direction Dominic Cooke

Cast Hugh Bonneville · Ben Miles · Sophie Okonedo · Tom Sturridge

Synopsis In the aftermath of the death of King Henry V, news reaches England of military setbacks in France. In Orleans, ‘La Pucelle’ (Joan of Arc) is encouraging the Dauphin to resist. In England, Richard, Duke of York, quarrels with the...

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Michael Gambon · Jeremy Irons · Bill Nighy · Brian Cox

Synopsis In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would...

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Amanda Root · Ciarán Hinds · Susan Fleetwood · Corin Redgrave

Synopsis Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family...

Direction Tim Fywell

Cast Tom Hollander · Toby Stephens · Rupert Penry-Jones · Samuel West

Synopsis Based on true events that shocked a nation in the 1930s, CAMBRIDGE SPIES tells the tale of four overprivileged Cambridge University students who defied their country by becoming spies for Russia. Samuel West, Rupert Penry-Jones, Toby Stephens, and Tom Hollander...

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Jason Robards · Christien Anholt · Samuel West · Françoise Fabian

Synopsis American lawyer Henry Strauss (Robards) is preparing to return to Germany for the first time since he left in 1933 following Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He is seeking to renew an "enchanting friendship" of his youth with aristocrat Konradin...

Direction Niall MacCormick

Cast Andrea Riseborough · Rory Kinnear · Geoffrey Palmer · Oliver Ford Davies

Synopsis Drama based on Margaret Thatcher's early years in politics. Young Margaret wants nothing more than to be an MP, but may be too much of a rebel for the Conservative Party of the 1950s. She didn't have a 'good war',...

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Hugh Grant · Julia Roberts · Rhys Ifans · Hugh Bonneville

Synopsis Notting Hill (1999) follows the charming yet ordinary life of William Thacker, a bookstore owner in London's eclectic Notting Hill neighborhood. His world turns upside down when famous Hollywood actress Anna Scott walks into his shop. What starts as a...

Direction Benjamin Ross · Alex Gabassi

Cast Sean Bean · Maggie Cronin · Shaun Blaney · Kit Connor

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2017). 2 Seasons. 12 Episodes. Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.

Direction Christopher Hampton

Cast Emma Thompson · Jonathan Pryce · Steven Waddington · Rufus Sewell

Synopsis The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington...

Direction Dominic Cooke

Cast Saoirse Ronan · Billy Howle · Emily Watson · Anne-Marie Duff

Synopsis A drama set in the early 1960s and centered on a young couple on their honeymoon.

Direction Paul Andrew Williams

Cast Martin Freeman · Anthony LaPaglia · Ben Lloyd-Hughes · Samuel West

Synopsis The behind-the-scenes true life story of groundbreaking producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz, who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann. He is accused of...

Direction Mat Whitecross

Cast Dominic Cooper · Lara Pulver · Anna Chancellor · Samuel West

Synopsis TV Miniseries (4 episodes). Look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, the playboy, gambler and spy, a Bond-esque figure himself, before he started writing the novels, with the focus on his WWII posting in the British Naval Intelligence which inspired...