Screenplay: Jeff Pope

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jeff Pope. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Dirty Filthy Love (TV)

2004 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast Michael Sheen · Anastasia Griffith · Shirley Henderson · Adrian Bower

Synopsis A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.

7.2

71 votes

7.2

71 votes

Little Boy Blue (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Series · 240 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Whittington

Cast Stephen Graham · Sinéad Keenan · Brian F. O'Byrne · Matthew Roberts

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2017). 4 Episodes. A four part mini series retelling the murder of Liverpool youngster Rhys Jones in 2007. The innocent 11-year-old schoolboy was accidentally shot in the back during a dispute between two gangs. Little Boy Blue follows...

6.9

236 votes

6.9

236 votes

A Confession (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Andrew Williams

Cast Martin Freeman · Imelda Staunton · Siobhan Finneran · Jessica D'Arcy

Synopsis Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.

6.8

641 votes

6.8

641 votes

Direction Paul Whittington

Cast Nasser Memarzia · Kenneth Cranham · David Hayman · Alex Norton

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (2019). 4 Episodes. Four elderly men, all experienced thieves, carry out a large-scale robbery.

6.7

136 votes

6.7

136 votes

Philomena

2013 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Judi Dench · Steve Coogan · Sophie Kennedy Clark · Charlie Murphy

Synopsis Philomena (2013) follows the poignant journey of Philomena Lee, an Irish woman, as she searches for the son she was forced to give up for adoption decades earlier. With the help of a skeptical journalist, Martin Sixsmith, she retraces her...

6.7

14K votes

6.7

14K votes

The Last Hangman

2005 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast Timothy Spall · Ann Bell · Juliet Stevenson · Eddie Marsan

Synopsis PIERREPOINT is the gripping and dramatic true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint (Spall), Britain's most notorious hangman. Following in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert joins the 'family business' in 1934. Living a secret life as a...

6.6

408 votes

6.6

408 votes

The Walk-In (TV Miniseries)

2022 · Series · 65 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Andrew Williams

Cast Stephen Graham · Dean-Charles Chapman · Leanne Best · Bobby Schofield

Synopsis Follows a Neo-Nazi who plans to kill an MP and how his plan was foiled by an inside man.

6.6

31 votes

6.6

31 votes

Stan & Ollie

2018 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon S. Baird

Cast John C. Reilly · Steve Coogan · Shirley Henderson · Bentley Kalu

Synopsis The true story of Hollywood's greatest comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy, is brought to the big screen for the first time. Starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as the inimitable movie icons, Stan and Ollie is the heart-warming...

6.5

4K votes

6.5

4K votes

The Lost King

2022 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Sally Hawkins · Steve Coogan · James Fleet · Sinead MacInnes

Synopsis In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with...

6.3

285 votes

6.3

285 votes

Lucan (TV)

2013 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast Rory Kinnear · Christopher Eccleston · Catherine McCormack · Michael Gambon

Synopsis The incredible story of a high society murder and the most famous fugitive of all. On 7th November 1974, Sandra Rivett, nanny to the aristocratic Lucan family, was found bludgeoned to death. Soon after, prime suspect Lord Lucan disappeared, never...

6.0

26 votes

6.0

26 votes

Archie

2023 · Series · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Andrew Williams

Cast Jason Isaacs · Laura Aikman · Samantha Colley · Ellie MacDowall

Synopsis 4 episodes. Miniseries following the iconic actor Cary Grant, a myth haunted by tragedy who, even at the height of his Hollywood career, did not forget his humble origins in Bristol as a boy named Archibald Leach. Grant had a...

5.9

376 votes

5.9

376 votes

Essex Boys

2000 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Winsor

Cast Sean Bean · Alex Kingston · Charlie Creed-Miles · Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis Billy (Charlie Creed-Miles) is a cabdriver who starts getting chauffeuring gigs with some shady characters. But his life remains mild until he's sent to pick up Jason (Sean Bean), a short-fused mobster who's just been released from five years in...

4.9

173 votes

4.9

173 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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The Penguin Lessons

2024 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Cattaneo

Cast Steve Coogan · Jonathan Pryce · Björn Gustafsson · Vivian Jaber

Synopsis The true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation, and a class of children virtually impossible to teach. However,...

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Mrs Biggs (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Movie · 224 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Whittington

Cast Sheridan Smith · Daniel Mays · Caroline Goodall · Adrian Scarborough

Synopsis The true story of Charmian Biggs, the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leading to a descent into crime, most infamously 1963's Great Train Robbery.

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Cradle to Grave (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sandy Johnson

Cast Laurie Kynaston · Peter Kay · Lucy Speed · Alice Sykes

Synopsis A TV show showing the ups and downs of the well known Danny baker and his friends during childhood.

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The Widower (TV Miniseries)

2013 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Whittington

Cast Reece Shearsmith · Sheridan Smith · John Hannah · Kate Fleetwood

Synopsis TV Miniseries. Three episodes. 'The Widower' is the true story of Malcolm Webster - a three part series detailing how, over a 13-year period, a seemingly mild-mannered male nurse marries and then attempts to kill a succession of women to...

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Crime Story

1992 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Macmillan · Simon Massey · Julian Jarrold · Tony Kysh

Cast Peter O'Brien · Bernard Hill · Anne Reid · Suzanne Packer

Synopsis This powerful series of programmes features dramatic reconstructions of some of Britian's most notorious crimes - a collection of cases which are exciting, moving and surprising, each demonstrating how truth can be stranger than fiction.

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Four Lives (TV Miniseries)

2022 · Series · 59 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Blair

Cast Stephen Merchant · Leanne Best · Sheridan Smith · Samuel Barnett

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (2022). 3 Episodes. A look at the aftermath of four murders carried out by Stephen Port between 2014 and 2015.

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Paul Whittington

Cast Sheridan Smith · Aneurin Barnard · John Henshaw · Kent Riley

Synopsis The life and career of British singer and entertainer Cilla Black

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