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...
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,...
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
Direction Richard Loncraine
Cast Maggie Smith · Ronnie Parker · Chris Cooper · Benno Fürmann
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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Biography (TV Series)
1970 · Series · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Glenister · Mark Cullingham · John Davies · Roderick Graham
Cast Anthony Hopkins · Alan Dobie · Michael Robbins · Tenniel Evans
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Dead of Night (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Annett · Simon Langton · Don Taylor · Rodney Bennett
Cast Peter Barkworth · Anna Cropper · Bernard Brown · Sylvia Kay
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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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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
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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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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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