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 —...
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...
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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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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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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