Screenplay: Peter Harness

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


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Series · 410 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Toby Haynes

Cast Bertie Carvel · Eddie Marsan · Marc Warren · Charlotte Riley

Plot TV Miniseries (2014). 7 Episodes. At the beginning of the 19th-century, England no longer believes in magic. But the reclusive Mr Norrell stuns the city when he brings the statues...

7.1

779 votes

7.1

779 votes

Wallander (TV Series)

2008 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Philip Martin · Benjamin Caron · Andy Wilson · Niall MacCormick

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Sarah Smart · Sadie Shimmin · Tom Beard

Plot Kenneth Branagh returns to BBC to play the unique Swedish detective Kurt Wallander, investigating a series of violent and terrifying murders in the beautiful setting of Skane, southern Sweden. Adapted...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

McMafia (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Hossein Amini · James Watkins

Cast James Norton · David Strathairn · Juliet Rylance · Aleksey Serebryakov

Plot TV Series (2018). 8 Episodes. Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Case Histories (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Anderson · Dan Zeff · Marc Jobst · Keith Boak

Cast Jason Isaacs · Amanda Abbington · Zawe Ashton · Millie Innes

Plot TV Series (2011-2013). 2 Seasons. 9 Episodes. Former soldier and policeman, Jackson Brodie, becomes a private investigator.

6.6

96 votes

6.6

96 votes

Constellation (TV Series)

2024 · Series · 55 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Harness · Michelle MacLaren · Oliver Hirschbiegel · Joseph Cedar

Cast Noomi Rapace · Jonathan Banks · James D'Arcy · Davina Coleman

Plot TV Series (2024-). 1 Season. 8 Episodes. When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to...

6.0

605 votes

6.0

605 votes

Is Anybody There?

2009 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Crowley

Cast Michael Caine · Bill Milner · David Morrissey · Anne-Marie Duff

Plot Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his...

5.8

873 votes

5.8

873 votes

The War of the Worlds (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 163 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Craig Viveiros

Cast Eleanor Tomlinson · Rafe Spall · Robert Carlyle · Rupert Graves

Plot TV Mini-Series (2018). 3 Episodes. Unlike Steven Spielberg’s movie adaptation, the series is true to the classic novel’s English setting and follows George (Spall) and his partner, Amy (Tomlinson), as...

4.7

722 votes

4.7

722 votes

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth (TV Miniseries)

2009 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Justin Hardy

Cast Ian Holm · Mike Bailey · Francis Magee · Tim Plester

Plot In 1066 King Edward The Confessor of England dies leaving his crown to Harold despite earlier promises to give the crown to Flemish,Viking and Norman Princes. As a result,Vikings raid...

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City of Vice (TV Miniseries)

2008 · Movie · 250 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Justin Hardy · Dan Reed

Cast Ian McDiarmid · Iain Glen · Francis Magee · Steve Speirs

Plot Henry and John Fielding were magistrates of Westminster and the men who created the modern police force in Britain through the Bow Street Runners.

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A View From a Hill (TV)

2005 · Movie · 40 min. · United Kingdom

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