Screenplay: Peter Bowker

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


Blackpool (TV Miniseries)

2004 · Series · 352 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julie Anne Robinson · Coky Giedroyc

Cast David Morrissey · Sarah Parish · Thomas Morrison · David Tennant

Plot Part musical, part thriller, part drama, Blackpool brings the glitz of Vegas to the English seaside town in a gripping and witty whodunnit. Ripley Holden (David Morrissey) is a small-time...

7.0

80 votes

7.0

80 votes

Monroe (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul McGuigan · David Moore

Cast James Nesbitt · Sarah Parish · Tom Riley · Manjinder Virk

Plot TV Series (2011-Present). Monroe is a brilliant and unusual neurosurgeon. A flawed genius who never lets anyone forget his flaws or his genius. Each episode will feature one compelling story...

6.7

27 votes

6.7

27 votes

6.7

92 votes

The A Word (TV Series)

2016 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Cattaneo · Dominic Leclerc · Susan Tully

Cast Morven Christie · Lee Ingleby · Tommie Grabiec · Abby Ford

Plot The Hughes family work and love and fight like every other family. Then, their youngest son is diagnosed with autism and they don't feel like every other family anymore.

6.6

50 votes

6.6

50 votes

Occupation (TV Miniseries)

2009 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nick Murphy

Cast James Nesbitt · Stephen Graham · Warren Brown · Nonso Anozie

Plot Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Marvellous (TV)

2014 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julian Farino

Cast Toby Jones · Gemma Jones · Tony Curran · Nicholas Gleaves

Plot The beautiful, funny, true story of Neil Baldwin, a man with learning dificulties and an appetite for life. From a butchery job to a circus clown; a lay preacher; the...

6.6

173 votes

6.6

173 votes

World On Fire (TV Series)

2019 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chanya Button · Adam Smith · Andy Wilson · Thomas Napper

Cast Jonah Hauer-King · Sean Bean · Helen Hunt · Lesley Manville

Plot TV Series (2019-Present day). First Season: 7 episodes. WWII drama centered on the lives of ordinary people affected by the war. UK Premiere: September 29, 2019 on BBC One. US...

6.4

306 votes

6.4

306 votes

Wuthering Heights (TV)

2009 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Coky Giedroyc

Cast Tom Hardy · Charlotte Riley · Andrew Lincoln · Sarah Lancashire

Plot Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family. It is 1848, and Heathcliff is tormented by the loss...

6.4

338 votes

6.4

338 votes

Capital (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Euros Lyn

Cast Toby Jones · Gemma Jones · Adeel Akhtar · Rachael Stirling

Plot TV Miniseries (2015). 3 Episodes. When the residents of an affluent London street receive a strange note they dismiss it as a marketing campaign, until things begin to escalate.

6.1

196 votes

6.1

196 votes

A Midsummer Night's Dream (ShakespeaRe-Told) (TV)

2005 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ed Fraiman

Cast Bill Paterson · Imelda Staunton · Lennie James · Sharon Small

Plot Theo and Polly have come to Dream Park to celebrate their daughter Hermia's engagement. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and the night ahead holds revelations,...

6.1

59 votes

6.1

59 votes

Asylum (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kayvan Novak · Tom Thostrup · Iain B. MacDonald

Cast Ben Miller · Niky Wardley · Dustin Demri-Burns · Yasmine Akram

Plot Two men are trapped together under the threat of extradition in a London embassy.

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Eric and Ernie (TV)

2011 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jonny Campbell

Cast Bryan Dick · Victoria Wood · Reece Shearsmith · Vic Reeves

Plot Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie...

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From There To Here (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Bowker · James Strong

Cast Philip Glenister · Bernard Hill · Steven Mackintosh · Saskia Reeves

Plot Created by Peter Bowker, From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between...

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Ralph & Katie (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 28 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jordan Hogg

Cast Sarah Gordy · Pooky Quesnel · Leon Harrop · Dylan Brady

Plot Spin-off series following the first year of marriage for the characters from The A Word (2016). Young couple Ralph and Katie face the domestic challenges faced by all newlyweds, but...

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Viva Blackpool (TV)

2006 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Catherine Morshead

Cast David Morrissey · Annette Crosbie · Mark Williams · Megan Dodds

Plot Ripley returns from Las Vegas with some big ideas in the form of a chain of wedding chapels and along the way gets roped into trying to steal the World...

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The Uninvited (TV Series)

1997 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Norman Stone

Cast Douglas Hodge · Leslie Grantham · Lia Williams · Caroline Lee-Johnson

Plot Steve Blake is a photographer who sees the head of British Nuclear Power killed in a horrific car crash, but then turning up alive and well. The village of Sweet...

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Buried Treasure (TV)

2001 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast John Thaw · Dominique Jackson · Wil Johnson · Rachel Davies

Plot Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash. Last time he saw his daughter was...

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Flesh and Blood (TV)

2002 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julian Farino

Cast Christopher Eccleston · Steve Evets · Barbara Marten · Des Cummings

Plot A man who was adopted at birth traces his real parents, and discovers that they have severe learning disabilities and do not know he exists.

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