Cast: Alun Armstrong

Direction Mel Gibson

Cast Mel Gibson · Sophie Marceau · Patrick McGoohan · Angus MacFadyen

Synopsis Based on the life of legendary 13th century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape precarious. Edward the Longshanks, King of England (Patrick McGoohan), has...

Direction Jim Henson · Steve Barron · Jon Amiel · Peter Smith

Cast John Hurt · Brian Henson · Frederick Warder · David Greenaway

Synopsis TV Series (1987-1988). 9 Episodes. A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a castle until he does a king a favor and gets...

Direction Adam Smith · Dearbhla Walsh · Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Claire Foy · Matthew Macfadyen · Tom Courtenay · Alun Armstrong

Synopsis An adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 'Little Dorrit'. It tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they encounter on their way from rags to riches and back again.

Direction Justin Chadwick · Susanna White

Cast Anna Maxwell Martin · Denis Lawson · Gillian Anderson · Charles Dance

Synopsis TV Mini-series (2005). 15 episodes. Based on a Charles Dickens' novel. It tells the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn, who seeks to uncover it. The generous John Jarndyce, struggling...

Direction Bill Hays · John Cooper · Peter Jefferies · Robert Tronson

Cast Barbara Feldon · Robert Powell · Linda Thorson · Mary Wimbush

Synopsis It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Sean Connery · Edward Fox · James Caan · Dirk Bogarde

Synopsis Richard Attenborough‘s star–studded re–telling of the allies‘ attempts to capture several bridges in Germany during World War II, in a campaign called operation Market Garden.

Direction Dominic Cooke · Richard Eyre · Rupert Goold · Thea Sharrock

Cast Ben Whishaw · Jeremy Irons · Tom Hiddleston · Anton Lesser

Synopsis A mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two, and Henry V.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Simon Russell Beale · Jeremy Irons · Tom Hiddleston · Julie Walters

Synopsis In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. The Lord Chief Justice attempts on behalf of the increasingly frail King to separate Falstaff from Prince Hal. The rebels continue to plot insurrection....

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Simon Russell Beale · Tom Hiddleston · Jeremy Irons · Joe Armstrong

Synopsis The heir to the throne, Prince Hal, defies his father, King Henry, by spending his time at Mistress Quickly's tavern in the company of the dissolute Falstaff and his companions. The King is threatened by a rebellion led by Hal's...

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Jeff Fahey · George Dzundza · Alun Armstrong

Synopsis Set in 1951, the film begins as film director Wilson (Eastwood) summons an old friend, writer Pete Verrill (Jeff Fahey), to recruit him for his latest project about a hard-drinking boat captain and a schoolmarm who take on the German...

Direction John Logan · James Hawes · Damon Thomas · Brian Kirk

Cast Eva Green · Josh Hartnett · Timothy Dalton · Harry Treadaway

Synopsis TV Series (2014-2016). 3 Seasons. 27 Episodes. In PENNY DREADFUL, some of literature's most famously terrifying characters - including Dr. Frankenstein and his creature, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula. Explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, American gunslinger Ethan...

Direction Tim Burton

Cast Johnny Depp · Christina Ricci · Miranda Richardson · Michael Gambon

Synopsis Near the end of the 18th Century. Constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) earns the disfavour of the courts in New York City for insisting that scientific methods be used to solve crimes rather than guilt by assumption. In reproach, he...

Direction Elie Chouraqui

Cast Andie MacDowell · Elias Koteas · Brendan Gleeson · Adrien Brody

Synopsis Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But...

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Michael Caine · Ian Hendry · Britt Ekland · John Osborne

Synopsis A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through...

Direction Chris Addison · Simon Blackwell · Martin Freeman · Ben Palmer

Cast Martin Freeman · Daisy Haggard · Jayda Eyles · Vihaan Patel

Synopsis TV Series (2020-Present Day). 2 Seasons. 14 Episodes. Two parents (Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard) realize that no matter how much they love their kids, sometimes they want to send them off to another end of the universe. Premiere: March...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Barney Clark · Ben Kingsley · Harry Eden · Jamie Foreman

Synopsis Charles Dickens' classic story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of boy pickpockets in 19th-century London seems, on the surface, a long way from being children's entertainment. But this can be deceiving.

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Harrison Ford · Anne Archer · Patrick Bergin · Sean Bean

Synopsis When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.

Direction David Caffrey

Cast Stefanie Martini · Sam Reid · Blake Harrison · Alun Armstrong

Synopsis TV Series (2017). 6 Episodes. 'Prime Suspect 1973' tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being thrown in at the deep end with a murder enquiry.

Direction Brian Percival

Cast Joanne Froggatt · Jonas Armstrong · Paul Brennen · Alun Armstrong

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2016). 2 Episodes. Britain’s first serial killer ended her 20-year poisoning spree in 1873, thrashing around at the end of a hangman’s rope in Durham Jail. When the gallows trapdoor opened, Mary Ann Cotton dropped just two feet,...

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Derek Jacobi · Alun Armstrong · Blake Ritson · William Mannering

Synopsis A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to...