Screenplay: Alan Plater
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alan Plater. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Inspector Lewis (TV Series)
2006 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Anderson · Dan Reed · Nicholas Renton · Tim Fywell
Cast Kevin Whately · Laurence Fox · Clare Holman · Rebecca Front
Plot TV Series (2006-2015). 9 Seasons. 33 Episodes. Inspector Robert Lewis steps out of the shadow of his mentor, the inimitable Inspector Morse, in this highly-acclaimed series of intricate mysteries. Together...
7.5
52 votes
7.5
52 votes
A Very British Coup
1988 · Movie · 153 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mick Jackson
Cast Ray McAnally · Alan MacNaughton · Keith Allen · Geoffrey Beevers
Plot 1988: International Emmy Awards: Best Drama Award. A classic political drama about a steel worker that is elected as UK Prime Minister.
6.8
31 votes
6.8
31 votes
Maigret (TV Series)
1992 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Cellan Jones · John Glenister · Stuart Burge · Nicholas Renton
Cast Michael Gambon · Geoffrey Hutchings · Jack Galloway · James Larkin
Plot Maigret was a British television series that ran on ITV for twelve episodes between 1992 and 1993. It was an adaptation of the books by Georges Simenon featuring his fictional...
6.4
47 votes
6.4
47 votes
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (TV)
1985 · Movie · 153 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Giles
Cast Joan Hickson · Ursula Howells · Renée Asherson · Samantha Bond
Plot A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her...
6.4
165 votes
6.4
165 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
Juggernaut
1974 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Richard Harris · Anthony Hopkins · Omar Sharif · David Hemmings
Plot Some unknown maniac is threatening a navigation company to blow up one of its luxury transatlantics, the "Britannic", now in high sea with 1200 passengers. He is asking for a...
6.1
903 votes
6.1
903 votes
A Merry War
1997 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Bierman
Cast Richard E. Grant · Helena Bonham Carter · Jim Carter · Harriet Walter
5.2
69 votes
5.2
69 votes
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (TV)
2000 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Gillies MacKinnon
Cast Judi Dench · Ian Holm · Olympia Dukakis · Leslie Caron
Plot Judi Dench stars as a sassy widow looking to recapture a little of the excitement of her youth: she was the star saxophone player of a World War II-era all-girl...
5.1
38 votes
5.1
38 votes
The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Miles
Cast Joanna Shimkus · Franco Nero · Honor Blackman · Mark Burns
Plot Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually...
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The Beiderbecke Tapes (TV Miniseries)
1987 · Movie · 151 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Parker
Cast James Bolam · Barbara Flynn · Dudley Sutton · Malcolm Storry
Plot When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Trevor's hands, he and Jill find themselves being pursued by national security agents.
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Death Is Part of the Process (TV)
1986 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Hays
Cast Art Malik · John Matshikiza · Jack Klaff · Estelle Kohler
Plot The struggles of white intellectuals and their black activist friends in the apartheid of South Africa during the 1950s.
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Shades of Darkness (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hammond · Simon Langton · John Glenister · John Gorrie
Cast Norma West · Kate Harper · Michael Shannon · Annette Wilkie-Miller
Plot An anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.
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Priest of Love
1981 · Movie · 125 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Miles
Cast Ian McKellen · Janet Suzman · Ava Gardner · Penelope Keith
Plot Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they...
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Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series)
1996 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Patrick Lau · Maurice Phillips · Edward Bennett · David Wheatley
Cast Warren Clarke · Colin Buchanan · David Royle · Jennifer James
Plot Supt. Dalziel (Warren Clarke) and partner DI Pascoe (Colin Buchanan) investigate murders, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly differing personalities.
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Belonging
2004 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Menaul
Cast Brenda Blethyn · Kevin Whately · Rosemary Harris · Anna Massey
Plot Middle-aged Jess Copplestone is left to look after the elderly relatives of her husband Jacob and to make a new life for herself, after he leaves her for a younger...
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The Beiderbecke Affair (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Movie · 320 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Reynolds · Frank W. Smith
Cast James Bolam · Barbara Flynn · Dominic Jephcott · Terence Rigby
Plot It is the first serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy. Geordie Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) teaches English and wants...
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Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (TV)
1983 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Glenister
Cast Ronald Pickup · Fiona Walker · David Swift · Melanie Parr
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Fortunes of War (TV Miniseries)
1987 · Movie · 407 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Cellan Jones
Cast Emma Thompson · Kenneth Branagh · Charles Kay · Mark Drewry
Plot Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II. The film catalogs and chronicles, after the...
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The Barchester Chronicles (TV Miniseries)
1982 · Movie · 385 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Giles
Cast Donald Pleasence · Alan Rickman · Geraldine McEwan · Nigel Hawthorne
Plot TV Mini-Series. 7 episodes. The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a newspaper's crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires. Overnight, Rev. Harding...
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The Beiderbecke Connection (TV Miniseries)
1988 · Series · 201 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alan Bell
Cast James Bolam · Barbara Flynn · Dudley Sutton · Keith Smith
Plot It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy. Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save...
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