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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Not rated