Screenplay: James Wood

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


Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (TV Miniseries)

2006 · Series · 360 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nick Murphy · Arif Nurmohamed · Nick Green · Tim Dunn

Cast Lyall B. Watson · Sean Pertwee · Michael Sheen · David Threlfall

Plot TV Miniseries (2006). 6 Episodes. A doc-drama covering the rise and the fall of the Roman world including the founding by Julius Caesar and the building of Rome by Nero.

7.0

429 votes

7.0

429 votes

Vexed (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Matt Lipsey · Ian Fitzgibbon · Kieron J. Walsh

Cast Lucy Punch · Toby Stephens · Rory Kinnear · Miranda Raison

Plot Vexed is a comedy-drama, police procedural television series for BBC Two. Created and written by Howard Overman, the series stars Lucy Punch as D.I. Kate Bishop and Toby Stephens as...

6.4

76 votes

6.4

76 votes

6.3

38 votes

Decline and Fall (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guillem Morales

Cast Jack Whitehall · David Suchet · Eva Longoria · Douglas Hodge

Plot The series sees Paul Pennyfeather as an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s, who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a...

5.9

59 votes

5.9

59 votes

Gap Year (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 40 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Basden · Jamie Campbell · Joel Wilson · Jonathan van Tulleken

Cast Adé · Anders Hayward · Tim Key · Alice Lee

Plot TV Series (2017). 8 Episodes. The paths of a disparate group of strangers collide while back-packing in Asia. What begins as a disorientating and potentially disastrous holiday for all of...

5.5

75 votes

5.5

75 votes

The Gamechangers (TV)

2015 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Owen Harris

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Bill Paxton · Lex King · Alex McGregor

Plot The tale of one of the most controversial video games of all time.

5.5

90 votes

5.5

90 votes

Quacks (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andy De Emmony

Cast Rory Kinnear · Rupert Everett · Tom Basden · Mathew Baynton

Plot Following the progress of four young medical pioneers in the daring and wild days of Victorian medicine.

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Ambassadors (TV Miniseries)

2013 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jeremy Webb

Cast David Mitchell · Robert Webb · Susan Lynch · Amara Karan

Plot The adventures and politics of a British ambassador to a fictitious Asian country called Tazbekistan. The country is desolate, wind-swept, freezing in the winter and scorching in the summer. Vast...

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Freezing (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Curtis

Cast Hugh Bonneville · Elizabeth McGovern · Tom Hollander · Ben Miles

Plot Leon, an agent, moves in with an Oscar-nominated American actress and her British publisher husband, themselves working together from home for the first time.

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Rev. (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Cattaneo · Tom Hollander · James Wood

Cast Tom Hollander · Olivia Colman · Steve Evets · Ellen Thomas

Plot Rev is a contemporary sitcom about the enormous daily frustrations and moral conflicts of Reverend Adam Smallbone - a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish...

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