Cast: Paul Jesson
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Paul Jesson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
All or Nothing
2002 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mike Leigh
Cast Timothy Spall · Lesley Manville · Alison Garland · James Corden
Plot Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Beast Must Die (TV Series)
2021 · Series · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gaby Chiappe · Dome Karukoski
Cast Cush Jumbo · Jared Harris · Billy Howle · Douggie McMeekin
Plot Following the death of her son in a hit and run, all Frances Cairnes wants is to hunt down and kill the man she believes is responsible. When she finally...
6.3
22 votes
6.3
22 votes
Mr. Turner
2014 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mike Leigh
Cast Timothy Spall · Dorothy Atkinson · Marion Bailey · Paul Jesson
Plot ‘MR. TURNER’ explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he...
6.3
5K votes
6.3
5K votes
The Ploughman's Lunch
1983 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Eyre
Cast Jonathan Pryce · Tim Curry · Rosemary Harris · Frank Finlay
Plot James Penfield has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the...
5.5
28 votes
5.5
28 votes
Coriolanus
2011 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Fiennes
Cast Ralph Fiennes · Gerard Butler · Vanessa Redgrave · Brian Cox
Plot A contemporary version of Shakespeare's dangerous political thriller. The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the...
5.3
3K votes
5.3
3K votes
Widows (TV Miniseries)
1983 · Series · 289 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ian Toynton
Cast Ann Mitchell · Maureen O'Farrell · Fiona Hendley · David Calder
Plot TV Mini-Series. 6 episodes. Three armed robbers, Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller and Joe Pirelli, die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in...
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The Trials of Jimmy Rose (TV Miniseries)
2015 · Movie · 180 min. · United States
Direction Adrian Shergold
Cast Ray Winstone · Marion Bailey · Pippa Bennett-Warner · Jack Colgrave Hirst
Plot Jimmy has just been released from prison after 12 years and is struggling to come to terms with his new life. His family and friends are finding it difficult to...
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Clayhanger (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Davies · David Reid
Cast Peter McEnery · Janet Suzman · Thelma Whiteley · Louise Purnell
Plot A coming-of-age story set in the 19th century England about Edwin Clayhanger, a young man who wants to be an architect, but it is expected of him to continue the...
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus (TV)
1984 · Movie · 145 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Elijah Moshinsky
Cast Alan Howard · Joss Ackland · Irene Worth · Mike Gwilym
Plot Caius Martius, renamed Coriolanus after his victorious attack on the city of Corioli, returns to Rome to become its joint head of state. A warrior and not a politician, Coriolanus...
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Resnick: Lonely Hearts (TV Miniseries)
1992 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bruce Macdonald
Cast Tom Wilkinson · Paul Bazely · Daniel Ryan · Michael Feast
Plot Elaborate sandwich and jazz loving DI Charlie Resnick tackles crime on the streets of Nottingham His skills are tested by a domestic murder case which has a devastating effect on...
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Cymbeline (TV)
1982 · Movie · 175 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Elijah Moshinsky
Cast Richard Johnson · Hugh Thomas · Aimée Delamain · Claire Bloom
Plot Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for...
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Play for Today: Home sweet home (TV)
1982 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mike Leigh
Cast Eric Richard · Lorraine Brunning · Kay Stonham · Timothy Spall
Plot Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
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Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (TV)
2003 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Adrian Shergold
Cast Joanne Froggatt · Bill Paterson · Lindsey Coulson · Jamie Foreman
Plot Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery and the murder of a policeman.
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