Screenplay: Hugh Whitemore

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


Elizabeth R (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roderick Graham

Cast Glenda Jackson · Ronald Hines · Robert Hardy · Anthony Ainley

Plot When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions...

7.0

90 votes

7.0

90 votes

84 Charing Cross Road

1987 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Anne Bancroft · Anthony Hopkins · Judi Dench · Jean De Baer

Plot True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Gathering Storm (TV)

2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Richard Loncraine

Cast Albert Finney · Vanessa Redgrave · Jim Broadbent · Linus Roache

Plot The Story about famous british conservative politician and statesman Winston Churchill in the years leading up to World War II. A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage...

Max

6.5

448 votes

6.5

448 votes

Jane Eyre

1996 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast William Hurt · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Anna Paquin · Joan Plowright

Plot Jane Eyre (portrayed as the orphan child by Anna Paquin and as an adult by Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the plain, impoverished young woman who is hired by Mr. Rochester (William...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Into The Storm (TV)

2009 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Cast Brendan Gleeson · Janet McTeer · Len Cariou · James D'Arcy

Plot Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII. For five years,...

Max

6.3

601 votes

6.3

601 votes

Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

1997 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Caroline Graham · Renny Rye · Peter Smith · Richard Holthouse

Cast John Nettles · Jane Wymark · Barry Jackson · Jason Hughes

Plot TV Series (1997-). 21 Seasons. 128 Episodes. The British detective drama revolves around DCI Barnaby's efforts to solve numerous murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer....

6.3

141 votes

6.3

141 votes

Breaking the Code (TV)

1996 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Derek Jacobi · Alun Armstrong · Blake Ritson · William Mannering

Plot A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma...

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

The Blue Bird

1976 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Todd Lookinland · Patsy Kensit · Jane Fonda

Plot The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair...

5.9

223 votes

5.9

223 votes

My House in Umbria (TV)

2003 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

5.6

87 votes

5.6

87 votes

The Return of the Soldier

1982 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Bridges

Cast Julie Christie · Glenda Jackson · Ann-Margret · Alan Bates

Plot Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Alan Bates), returns from the...

5.5

98 votes

5.5

98 votes

The Wednesday Thriller (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Silvio Narizzano · George R. Foa · Naomi Capon · John Gorrie

Cast Yootha Joyce · Kenneth Griffith · Sheila Hancock · George Benson

Plot A collection of one off thrillers, each ending with a disturbing twist.

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Man at the Top

1973 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Kenneth Haigh · Nanette Newman · Harry Andrews · William Lucas

Plot A man becomes involved with a pharmaceutical concern that has moved a drug to market too quickly, rendering hundreds of African women sterile. When the man approaches his superior, he...

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Not rated

Not rated

Dead of Night (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

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Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher

1968 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Krish

Cast Robin Phillips · Michael Elwyn · Norman Scace · John Glyn-Jones

Plot Decline and Fall is based on Evelyn Waugh's first published novel (in 1928), and tells the story of Paul Pennyfeather. Unjustly dismissed from Oxford University for indecent behavior, he embarks...

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The Rector's Wife (TV Series)

1994 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Giles Foster

Cast Lindsay Duncan · Jonathan Coy · Miles Anderson · Lucy Dawson

Plot Anna Bouverie (Lindsay Duncan, Rome) chafes at her limited life as a vicar's wife in a small English town. When her husband Peter (Jonathan Coy, from the Horatio Hornblower series)...

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Not rated

BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cedric Messina · John Gorrie · Rudolph Cartier · Waris Hussein

Cast Charles Gray · Lally Bowers · Eileen Atkins · Janet Suzman

Plot TV Series (1965-1983). 16 seasons. 120 episodes

Not rated

Not rated

The Sextet (TV Series)

1972 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Bridges · James Ferman · Michael Hayes · Donald McWhinnie

Cast Denholm Elliott · Billie Whitelaw · Richard Vernon · Dennis Waterman

Plot TV Series (1972). 8 episodes. An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.

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All Neat in Black Stockings

1969 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Victor Henry · Susan George · Jack Shepherd · Clare Kelly

Plot An irresponsible window cleaner believes he has found true love with a woman he picked up in a tavern.

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Not rated

Utz

1992 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George Sluizer

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Brenda Fricker · Paul Scofield · Peter Riegert

Plot Story about a reclusive Baron whose priceless porcelain collection mysteriously disappears after his death.

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Not rated