Paul Jesson Movies

Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jim Norton

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Timothy Spall

TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Fox

Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Fiennes

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...

Genre: History

Cast: Timothy Spall

A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Lindsay Duncan

When five girls start jogging in Liverpool's Sefton Park they soon encounter predictable male opposition. The result is a comedy that ends with a...

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Cast: Anne-Louise Wakefield

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Imelda Staunton

A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of the republic of Rome.Caius...

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Cast: Sope Dirisu

Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Wilkinson

A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Wilkinson

The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kara Tointon

Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joanne Froggatt

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Leigh

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: George MacKay

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Richard

Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pete Postlethwaite

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ron Cook

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Johnson

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Adshead

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Howard

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jeremy Kemp

When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maureen Lipman

An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Atallah

Bafta Award-winning Katherine Parkinson's debut play. Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katherine Parkinson

A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vera Farmiga

An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children....

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Julian Wadham