Direction: Paul Seed

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Paul Seed. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


House of Cards (TV Miniseries)

1990 · Series · 200 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Diane Fletcher · Susannah Harker · Miles Anderson

Synopsis Francis Urquhart, Chief Whip, manipulates things and people to achieve his ambitions in the Houses of Parliament, all the while keeping his hand carefully hidden behind the scenes. But Mattie Storin, a young reporter, may be getting too close to...

7.8

753 votes

7.8

753 votes

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Michael Kitchen · Kitty Aldridge · Colin Jeavons

Synopsis In 'To Play The King', the second installment of this political satire, Francis Urquhart has managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. Everyone who knows of his crimes is either on his side or dead....

7.4

414 votes

7.4

414 votes

Doc Martin (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Crowdy · Craig Ferguson · Dominic Minghella · Ben Bolt

Cast Martin Clunes · Caroline Catz · Ian McNeice · Joe Absolom

Synopsis TV Series (2004-Present). Clunes plays Dr. Martin Ellingham, a brilliant and successful vascular surgeon at Imperial College London who develops haemophobia (a fear of blood) which developed after having contemplated that a patient, upon whom he was about to operate,...

7.0

64 votes

7.0

64 votes

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Sean Wightman · Robin Laing · Dolly Wells

Synopsis In the tumult that follows his killing off his fictional character Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle reflects on the man who influenced and provided the prototype for the great detective, Dr. Joseph Bell. A professor at the University of Edinburgh...

6.8

261 votes

6.8

261 votes

New Tricks (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nigel McCrery · Roy Mitchell · Martyn Friend · Rob Evans

Cast Alun Armstrong · Dennis Waterman · Amanda Redman · James Bolam

Synopsis TV Series (2003-Present). Drama series featuring an eccentric bunch of ex-policemen, brought out of retirement to investigate unsolved crimes.

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

Northern Lights (TV Miniseries)

2006 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Seed · Tony Dow

Cast Robson Green · Mark Benton · Nicola Stephenson · Sian Reeves

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2006). 6 episodes. Colin and Howie are constantly feuding best friends who marry sisters Jackie and Pauling turning them into brothers-in-law. Can their relationships survive their feuding as it seems they will stop and nothing to outdo each...

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Across the Water (TV)

1983 · Movie · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Liam Neeson · Wendy Morgan · Jay Hilalen · Sandra Voe

Synopsis When Martin 's adopted daughter is kidnapped from their English home by a mysterious figure from Ireland, Martin decides to go in pursuit and finds himself across the water exploring his own background as a Protestant in Ulster. The film...

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A Rather English Marriage (TV)

1998 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Albert Finney · Tom Courtenay · Joanna Lumley · John Light

Synopsis When their wives die on the same day in the same hospital room, two aging British World War II vets -- upper-crust Reggie (Albert Finney) and retired milkman Roy (Tom Courtenay) -- become unlikely roommates in Reggie's mansion. Their friendship...

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franc Roddam · Anthony Garner · Roger Bamford · Paul Seed

Cast Timothy Spall · Jimmy Nail · Kevin Whately · Tim Healy

Synopsis The adventures of a gang of British workmen abroad. Combines black and white humour with moments of drama, poignancy and drunkenness. In series 1, the lads head to Germany seeking work, and are thrown together by virtue of shared nationality...

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My Beautiful Son (TV)

2001 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Paul Reiser · Amber Sealey · Lachele Carl · George Wendt

Synopsis Jerry is a successful New York psychiatrist who is diagnosed with leukemia. When he tells his mother, she reveals that Jerry was adopted from a young Catholic girl called Sheila in Liverpool, England.

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Playing the Field (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dermot Boyd · Nicholas Laughland · Alrick Riley · Catherine Morshead

Cast Melanie Hill · Emma Rydal · Jo McInnes · Lorraine Ashbourne

Synopsis (1998-2002). 5 Seasons. 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,...

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Direction Paul Seed

Cast John Heard · Christopher Lloyd · Bob Gunton · Mark Metcalf

Synopsis The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

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Direction Les Blair · Robert Young · Robert Bierman · Dewi Humphreys

Cast Alfred Molina · Geraldine James · Timothy West · Sean Bean

Synopsis (1985-2002). 6 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The result was a transition...

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A Risk Worth Taking (TV)

2008 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Muriel Baumeister · James Wilby · Tim Dutton · Olivia Hallinan

Synopsis A woman caring for her husband who is terminally ill, soon falls for a friend while her husband is still fighting to survive.

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Direction Paul Seed · Mandie Fletcher · Geoffrey Sax

Cast Jennifer Saunders · Jack Farthing · Timothy Spall · Tim Vine

Synopsis Set in 1929, Lord Emsworth (Spall) resides at Blandings Castle, along with his imperious sister Connie (Saunders), his empty-headed son Freddie (Jack Farthing), and any number of houseguests, love-struck nieces and their boyfriends. He would rather be left in peace...

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Direction Paul Seed

Cast James Purefoy · Philip Glenister · Honeysuckle Weeks · Ian McNeice

Synopsis Sam, a middle-aged executive in the rollercoaster industry, embarks on an affair with younger woman Allie, which jeopardizes his marriage.

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Direction Tristram Powell · Udayan Prasad · Christopher Morahan · Sandy Johnson

Cast Geoffrey Chater · Bernard Hill · Pete Postlethwaite · Patrick Godfrey

Synopsis (1985-2002). 10 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The result was a transition...

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Direction Paul Marcus · Paul Seed · Tim Fywell · Simon Langton

Cast Ian Richardson · Charles Edwards · Simon Chandler · Mossie Smith

Synopsis 5 Episodes. Certain events which had an impact on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, while he was still a medical student under the supervision of Dr. Bell, his teacher and mentor, on whom the character of Sherlock Holmes is partly drawn...

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