John Benfield

John Benfield

  • Title: John Benfield
  • Popularity: 1.3668
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1951-09-11
  • Place of Birth: Wanstead, London, United Kingdom
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John Benfield Movies

  • 2007
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    Cassandra's Dream

    Cassandra's Dream

    6.3 2007 HD

    The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

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  • 1999
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    You're Dead...

    You're Dead...

    6.4 1999 HD

    A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.

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  • 2000
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    24 Hours in London

    24 Hours in London

    3.5 2000 HD

    London gangster Christian has a plan to kill off the opposition, but things get messy when a witness survives.

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  • 2004
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    Evilenko

    Evilenko

    5.7 2004 HD

    For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.

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  • 2001
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    Endgame

    Endgame

    4.3 2001 HD

    Sex is currency. It commands power and can instill fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris, a now super villain with a sadistic streak. A helpless pawn in one of Norris's narcotic scams with a bent cop, Dunston, Tom is dragged deeper into a vicious circle of blood money, vice and ruthless violence from which their seems no way out. Until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope. When Norris is killed in his apartment, Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris's blood, Tom heads downstairs to his neighbors, Max and Nikki his new friends in the city. With going to the police out of the question, Max and Nikki speed Tom to their desolate cottage deep in the Welsh countryside. With the luxury of space, Tom begins to realize a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotion flood back provoked by Tom's attraction to Nikki...

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  • 2007
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    Flood

    Flood

    5.3 2007 HD

    Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.

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  • 2001
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    All Forgotten

    All Forgotten

    4.2 2001 HD

    A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.

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  • 2003
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    Gifted

    Gifted

    1 2003 HD

    Jamie Gilliam is a bright young rising star with Castlefield City, a first division club on the verge of promotion to the premiership. When lapdancing student Sharon goes out to a club with friends she bumps into him and ends up going back to his place. She wakes up the next day feeling ill and not being able to remember how she got naked in his bed. When she later goes to the police charging rape no-one believes her and the club settles with her privately to keep her quiet. But is Jamie as clean cut as he appears?

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  • 2008
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    The Marchioness Disaster

    The Marchioness Disaster

    5.5 2008 HD

    A factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the river Thames in August 1989, which killed over 50 people. The film was due to be broadcast by ITV in 2007 but complaints from some of the families of the victims led to it being withdrawn ahead of transmission. It has never been broadcast in the UK, but has been screened in France.

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  • 1997
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    Sharpe's Revenge

    Sharpe's Revenge

    7.1 1997 HD

    Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.

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  • 1983
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    Henry VI Part 1

    Henry VI Part 1

    7.5 1983 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    Owd Bob

    Owd Bob

    5.643 1998 HD

    Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, having nothing in common but their love for dogs, notably Adam's precious champion sheepdog Bob. David strikes a friendship with Maggie, the sassy daughter of friendly neighbor Keith Moore, but Adam hates that family on account of an old canine competition-related tragedy. Other neighbors suspect Bob and the Moore's dog of the recent series of nocturnal sheep-kills.

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  • 1983
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    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera

    1 1983 HD

    A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.

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  • 1988
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    No Further Cause for Concern

    No Further Cause for Concern

    1 1988 HD

    Prison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with Prison Officer Green as hostage.

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  • 2013
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    The Best Offer

    The Best Offer

    7.805 2013 HD

    Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

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  • 1983
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    The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    6.3 1983 HD

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

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  • 2001
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    Charlotte Gray

    Charlotte Gray

    6.1 2001 HD

    This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.

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  • 1985
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    Number One

    Number One

    5 1985 HD

    A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.

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  • 1995
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    Carrying Dad

    Carrying Dad

    6 1995 HD

    Frank and his brother Len meet on the day of their father's funeral. Together, with the help of Len's son Sean and Jean, a mysterious woman connected to the deceased, they will set off on a rather peculiar journey.

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  • 1993
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    In the Name of the Father

    In the Name of the Father

    7.889 1993 HD

    A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.

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  • 1991
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    'Itch

    'Itch

    1 1991 HD

    A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

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  • 2003
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    The Third Wave

    The Third Wave

    6.1 2003 HD

    Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.

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  • 1990
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    Hidden Agenda

    Hidden Agenda

    7 1990 HD

    In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

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  • 1986
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    Whoops Apocalypse

    Whoops Apocalypse

    5.6 1986 HD

    When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.

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  • 2017
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    Cold Skin

    Cold Skin

    6.3 2017 HD

    A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.

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  • 1981
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    The Winter's Tale

    The Winter's Tale

    9.3 1981 HD

    The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.

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  • 2002
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    The Many Lives of Albert Walker

    The Many Lives of Albert Walker

    1 2002 HD

    After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.

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  • 1985
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    Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

    Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

    4.5 1985 HD

    The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".

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  • 1990
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.6 1990 HD

    Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.

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  • 1983
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    Henry VI Part 2

    Henry VI Part 2

    7 1983 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    Henry VI Part 3

    Henry VI Part 3

    7 1983 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    The Garden of Redemption

    The Garden of Redemption

    1 1997 HD

    A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.

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  • 1996
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    Beautiful Thing

    Beautiful Thing

    7.2 1996 HD

    During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

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  • 2018
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    Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

    Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

    6.472 2018 HD

    A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

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  • 1998
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    Cousin Bette

    Cousin Bette

    5.5 1998 HD

    In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate revenge on her handsome and wealthy relatives.

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  • 2008
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    Speed Racer

    Speed Racer

    6.3 2008 HD

    Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.

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  • 2019
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    The Coldest Game

    The Coldest Game

    6.2 2019 HD

    Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

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  • 1992
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    Born Kicking

    Born Kicking

    1 1992 HD

    Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country.

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  • 1985
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    Titus Andronicus

    Titus Andronicus

    7.5 1985 HD

    Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead Roman Emperor's two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, are competing for their father's title. According to Roman custom, Titus sacrifices Tamora's eldest son to the Gods; having the deciding vote, he also chooses Saturninus as Emperor.

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  • 1996
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    101 Dalmatians

    101 Dalmatians

    5.939 1996 HD

    An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

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  • 1988
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    Buster

    Buster

    5.6 1988 HD

    Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

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  • 1981
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    The Union

    The Union

    1 1981 HD

    A dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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  • 1992
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    The Secret Agent

    The Secret Agent

    8 1992 HD

    1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.

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  • 1984
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    Breakout

    Breakout

    1 1984 HD

    Two boys are kidnapped by three escaping convicts and the relationship which develops between captor and captured brings out the good side of the most dangerous criminal's character.

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  • 2008
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    Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family

    Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family

    7 2008 HD

    The first half shows the cast being interviewed in character and provides movie plot back story. The second half shows behind-the-scenes filming, including cast and crew interviews.

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  • 2008
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    Speed Racer: Car Fu

    Speed Racer: Car Fu

    1 2008 HD

    Documentary on the making of 'Speed Racer.'

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  • 1991
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    Prime Suspect

    Prime Suspect

    7.7 1991 HD

    Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    7 1979 HD

    Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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  • 1989
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    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

    8 1989 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

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  • 1988
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    Eurocops

    Eurocops

    5 1988 HD

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  • 2004
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    New Tricks

    New Tricks

    7.3 2004 HD

    New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

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  • 1998
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    Maisie Raine

    Maisie Raine

    1 1998 HD

    Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 – 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke took the lead role as DI Maisie Raine, an unorthodox detective whose hands on and down to earth approach was not always appreciated by her superiors. When she took on a case, she did it her way, regardless of whose toes she stepped on and who she offended. Each episode would see the team investigating a crime and often uncovering more about the perpetrators and the victims histories with DI Raine often becoming personally involved or bending the rules to get the results she wanted. Also starring alongside Quirke were Ian McElhinney, Steve John Shepherd, Rakie Ayola and Richard Graham.

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  • 1991
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    Murder Most Horrid

    Murder Most Horrid

    6.8 1991 HD

    A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!

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  • 1999
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    Sunburn

    Sunburn

    3.5 1999 HD

    Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set and filmed in Cyprus and the second in Algarve. The cast included Michelle Collins, Rebecca Callard, Sharon Small, George Layton and Sean Maguire, with Paul Nicholas joining later. The series was created by Mike Bullen, who was interested in the behind-the-scenes lives of holiday reps after watching the docusoap Holiday Reps. Bullen wrote most of the first series but scaled back his involvement in the second; most of that series' episodes were written by Lizzie Mickery and Sally Wainwright.

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  • 1986
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    The Monocled Mutineer

    The Monocled Mutineer

    7 1986 HD

    The Monocled Mutineer follows the rebellion that took place at the notorious Etaples Training Camp in northern France on the eve of "The Battle of Passchendaele" in 1917. After the mutiny, the dashing Percy Toplis takes flight, dressed as a British officer, soon to embark on a love affair with beautiful young widow, Dorothy. A solder in the First World War, the real Percy Toplis was a rake, rogue and master of disguise who became the most wanted man in Britain. This controversial BBC dramatisation of high romance, hilarious impudence and savage retribution was adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the book by William Allison and John Fairley.

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  • 2007
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    Bonkers

    Bonkers

    1 2007 HD

    Bonkers is a British comedy series written by Sally Wainwright and starring Liza Tarbuck as a school teacher who discovers her husband is having an affair. It was transmitted on ITV during 2007. It was also released on DVD. This series is available on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

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  • 1987
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    Floodtide

    Floodtide

    1 1987 HD

    Floodtide is a British television crime drama was produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on ITV from 14 June 1987 to 12 February 1988. The series focuses on a dogged inspector's pursuit of a group of cocaine smugglers across Europe and his bid to bring them to justice. A total of thirteen episodes aired over the course of nine months. Co-produced and partly filmed in France, it was one of the first ITV dramas to be co-produced with an international production company. Written by acclaimed The Sweeney scriptwriter Roger Marshall, the series was released on DVD by Network DVD for the first time on 19 July 2010. Although further series of the programme were planned, lead actor Phillip Sayer was diagnosed with cancer in 1988 and eventually died in 1989. Marshall concluded that it would be wrong to re-cast the part and instead decided to bring the series to a natural close.

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  • 1986
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    6.2 1986 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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  • 1986
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    6.2 1986 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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  • 1994
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    Calling the Shots

    Calling the Shots

    8 1994 HD

    The work of television reporter Maggie Donnelly sets off a terrifying sequence of events in her private life.

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  • 1989
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    The Paradise Club

    The Paradise Club

    5.8 1989 HD

    The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

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  • 1981
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    The Day of the Triffids

    The Day of the Triffids

    6.4 1981 HD

    After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

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  • 1999
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    Hippies

    Hippies

    7.2 1999 HD

    Hippies is a 1999 BBC Two comedy miniseries created by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, and written by Mathews. The six-episode series stars Simon Pegg, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, and Darren Boyd as four wannabe hippies in 1969 swinging London, who run a counterculture magazine and strive to be as trendy as society will allow... even if they fail at every turn.

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  • 1985
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    Bulman

    Bulman

    6.7 1985 HD

    Bulman is a 1985–87 police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith. Produced by Granada Television for ITV, it is the second and final spin-off from The XYY Man (1976–78), and following Strangers (1978–82). Don Henderson reprises his iconic role as former DCI George Bulman, ostensibly retired from and repairing old clocks but active as a private investigator, with Lucy McGinty as his assistant. The duo are frequently drawn into the clandestine world of the secret service through the machinations of security chief Bill Dugdale or Bulman's former superior Jack Lambie.

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