Screenplay: Gwyneth Hughes

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


Mr Bates vs. The Post Office (TV Miniseries)

2023 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Strong

Cast Toby Jones · Amy Nuttall · Vinodini Patel · Bobby Sirrah

Plot Mysterious financial losses lead the Post Office to sack and prosecute village subpostmasters who have no way to prove their innocence.

7.3

35 votes

7.3

35 votes

Honor (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 48 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Laxton

Cast Keeley Hawes · Ahd Kamel · Waj Ali · Moe Bar-El

Plot TV Miniseries (2020). 2 Episodes. Follows the police investigation and the revelations about police failings in the run-up to the 'honour killing' of Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Iraqi Kurdish woman...

6.4

383 votes

6.4

383 votes

Miss Austen Regrets (TV)

2008 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Lovering

Cast Samuel Roukin · Olivia Williams · Greta Scacchi · Imogen Poots

Plot In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.

6.2

286 votes

6.2

286 votes

Vanity Fair (TV Miniseries)

2018 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jonathan Entwistle · James Strong

Cast Olivia Cooke · Tom Bateman · Michael Palin · Johnny Flynn

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 8 Episodes. Adaptation of the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Olivia Cooke is heroine Becky Sharp, who attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale...

6.1

139 votes

6.1

139 votes

Dark Angel (TV Miniseries)

2016 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Percival

Cast Joanne Froggatt · Jonas Armstrong · Paul Brennen · Alun Armstrong

Plot TV Miniseries (2016). 2 Episodes. Britain’s first serial killer ended her 20-year poisoning spree in 1873, thrashing around at the end of a hangman’s rope in Durham Jail. When the...

6.1

373 votes

6.1

373 votes

Remember Me (TV Miniseries)

2014 · Series · 170 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ashley Pearce

Cast Michael Palin · Jodie Comer · Julia Sawalha · Mark Addy

Plot TV Miniseries (2014). 3 Episodes. When pensioner Tom Parfitt stages a fall in his eerie Yorkshire home in order to escape into residential care, he becomes the sole witness to...

6.1

114 votes

6.1

114 votes

The Girl (TV)

2012 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julian Jarrold

Cast Toby Jones · Sienna Miller · Imelda Staunton · Penelope Wilton

Plot Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) was at the height of his fame and creativity when, in 1962, he chose an unknown fashion model to star in his most ambitious film —...

Max

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Five Days (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Otto Bathurst · Simon Curtis · Toby Haynes · Peter Hoar

Cast Hugh Bonneville · David Oyelowo · Sarah Smart · Edward Woodward

Plot The story begins one hot summers day when Leanne Wellings is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather. She stops to buy flowers at a motorway lay-by but...

Max

5.2

207 votes

5.2

207 votes

Beneath the Skin (TV)

2005 · Movie · 133 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sarah Harding

Cast Stephanie Leonidas · Emma Fielding · Rebecca R. Palmer · Jamie Draven

Plot A stalker tackles three women in London. First 23-year old likable schoolteacher Zoe Haratounian, who beats off a thief and gets declared a local heroine by the press, gets scary...

3.7

99 votes

3.7

99 votes

U Be Dead (TV)

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jamie Payne

Cast David Morrissey · Tara Fitzgerald · Monica Dolan · Lucy Griffiths

Plot Top British actors David Morrissey and Tara Fitzgerald are to star in gripping new thriller based on a real life crime. U Be Dead tells the story of disturbed serial...

3.7

127 votes

3.7

127 votes

The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Laurels Are Poison (TV)

2000 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Martin Hutchings

Cast Diana Rigg · Neil Dudgeon · Stuart Bunce · Michele Dotrice

Plot Mrs. Bradley decides to visit her old friend Isobel Marchmont, but soon after her arrival realizes that not all is well. Her friend's daughter Lacey Prideux is pregnant again having...

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Matthew Rhys · Freddie Fox · Tamzin Merchant · Rory Kinnear

Plot TV-Mini-Series. 2 episodes. (2012). An exploration of Charles Dicken's unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined.

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Doing Money (TV)

2018 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lynsey Miller

Cast Anca Dumitra

Plot The story of Ana, a young Romanian woman, kidnapped and sold into a human trafficking ring.

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Hunter (TV Miniseries)

2009 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Colm McCarthy

Cast Hugh Bonneville · Janet McTeer · Clare Holman · Adrian Rawlins

Plot DSI Iain Barclay heads up a team of police officers that are looking into the disappearance of two boys. He calls in the help of former colleague DS Amy Foster...

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Not rated

Cherished (TV)

2005 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robin Sheppard

Cast Sarah Lancashire · Amber Wollen · Timothy Spall · Geoffrey Greenhill

Plot A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was tried for the murder of her babies. She spent two years in prison battling for justice before her...

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Not rated

Tom Jones (TV Series)

2022 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Georgia Parris

Cast Hannah Waddingham · Pearl Mackie · Hattie Gotobed · Shirley Henderson

Plot Tom Jones is a man in his early life trying to find a place in the world.

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Three Families (TV Miniseries)

2021 · Series · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alex Kalymnios

Cast Sinéad Keenan · Lola Petticrew · Amy James-Kelly · Colin Morgan

Plot Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.

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Not rated