Screenplay: Jeff Pope
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jeff Pope. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 20
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
Hatton Garden (TV Miniseries)
2019 · Series · United Kingdom
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.
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Cilla (TV Miniseries)
2014 · Movie · United Kingdom
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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