Screenplay: Stephen Poliakoff

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Daniel Williams · Matthew James Thomas · Brock Everitt-Elwick · Rollo Weeks

Plot 1910. One dynasty holds sway over the most powerful nations of the world, at its heart is the British Monarchy, and it's youngest member, Prince Johnnie. A loving, insightful and...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Chiwetel Ejiofor · John Goodman · Matthew Goode · Jacqueline Bisset

Plot TV Miniseries (2013). 5 Episodes. The five-part series follows the Louis Lester Band as they find fame amongst the parties and performances of upper class society in London. But they...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Bill Nighy · Miranda Richardson · Emily Blunt · Robert Lindsay

Plot Set against the backdrop of the rise to power of New Labour and Princess Diana's death, Gideon's Daugher follows two lost souls who find a most unlikely connection. In 1997,...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Romola Garai · Bill Nighy · Julie Christie · David Tennant

Plot Set between present-day London and the idyllic British countryside in the time before the beginning of the Second World War. At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Toby Woolf · Keeley Hawes · Janine Catterall · Linus Roache

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 6 Episodes. Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Alan Rickman · Clive Owen · Saskia Reeves · Karl Johnson

Plot After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional. Their private intensity (& working class origins) contrast with...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Maggie Smith · Ruth Wilson · David Walliams · Danny Lee Wynter

Plot A young man (Danny Lee Wynter) ushers an older woman (Maggie Smith) into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Michael Gambon · Danny Lee Wynter · Rupert Penry-Jones · Kelly Reilly

Plot A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Ciara Charteris · August Diehl · Jim Sturgess · Robert Glenister

Plot TV-MiniSeries (8 episodes) A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Will Jacklin · Anthony Gopaul · Christian McKay · Bill Nighy

Plot When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical ticket that allows him to visit a restricted area of...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Charles Dance · Clive Owen · Miranda Richardson · Robert Stephens

Plot Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be part of a movement of unending progress in science...

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Kate Hardie · James Fox · Jane Asher · Eileen O'Brien

Plot When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Richard E. Grant · Nathalie Baye · Joe McGann · Sylvia Syms

Plot A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Derrick O'Connor · Gary Holton · Richard Thomas · Peter Clark

Plot The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Lindsay Duncan · Timothy Spall · Liam Cunningham · Billie Whitelaw

Plot A London mansion housing a huge library of rare old photos gets a new owner: an American millionaire bent on chucking the pictures and remaking the house as a business...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Ruth Wilson

Plot It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Michael Gambon · Lindsay Duncan · Matthew Macfadyen · Claire Skinner

Plot TV miniseries. 3 episodes. Perfect Strangers, Stephen Poliakoff's TV drama, depicts an upper-class English family where distrust, dysfunction and despair are guests at the party. The family are gathered together...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Joely Richardson · Jeremy Northam · Anna Friel · Trevor Eve

Plot Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Charles Dance · Cassie Stuart · Bill Paterson · Richard E. Grant

Plot Sharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the truth be out? Will...

Direction Stephen Poliakoff

Cast Damian Lewis · Jodhi May · Robert Lindsay · Patrick Malahide

Plot "Friends and Crocodiles" traces the relationship of maverick entrepreneur Paul Reynolds and his colleague Lizzie Thomas over a period of 20 years from the beginning of the Thatcher years to...