Francesca Annis

Francesca Annis

Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in Reckless (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Deceit (2000) and Cranford (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie. Her film appearances include Krull (1983), Dune (1984), The Debt Collector (1999) and The Libertine (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francesca Annis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Francesca Annis
  • Popularity: 8.652
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1945-05-14
  • Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
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Francesca Annis Movies

  • 1984
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    Dune

    Dune

    6.195 1984 HD

    In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The...

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  • 1983
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    Krull

    Krull

    6 1983 HD

    A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

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  • 1994
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    Doomsday Gun

    Doomsday Gun

    5.5 1994 HD

    Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When...

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  • 2005
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    Revolver

    Revolver

    6.3 2005 HD

    Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner...

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  • 2008
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    Shifty

    Shifty

    5.667 2008 HD

    Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer...

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  • 1971
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    Macbeth

    Macbeth

    7.1 1971 HD

    Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but...

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  • 2004
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    The Libertine

    The Libertine

    5.9 2004 HD

    The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn...

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  • 1963
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    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    7 1963 HD

    Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his...

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  • 1986
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    Under the Cherry Moon

    Under the Cherry Moon

    5.7 1986 HD

    Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to...

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  • 1964
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    Saturday Night Out

    Saturday Night Out

    5.7 1964 HD

    Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.

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  • 1999
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    The Debt Collector

    The Debt Collector

    6.4 1999 HD

    Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of...

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  • 1965
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    The Pleasure Girls

    The Pleasure Girls

    4.6 1965 HD

    When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discovers the world of the carefree bachelor girl in...

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  • 2002
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    Copenhagen

    Copenhagen

    7.5 2002 HD

    No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen --...

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  • 1960
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    The Young Jacobites

    The Young Jacobites

    1 1960 HD

    The story of Highland children who help Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape to France after the battle of Culloden. Serial in 8 episodes: 1. Journey into...

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  • 1959
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    Carry On Teacher

    Carry On Teacher

    6.1 1959 HD

    Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils...

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  • 1980
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    Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

    Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

    6.1 1980 HD

    This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the...

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  • 2012
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    Loving Miss Hatto

    Loving Miss Hatto

    7.2 2012 HD

    Drama inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Victoria Wood's new strange-but-true drama about musical deception and enduring...

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  • 1964
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    Crooks in Cloisters

    Crooks in Cloisters

    5.4 1964 HD

    Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a...

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  • 1982
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    Coming Out of the Ice

    Coming Out of the Ice

    7 1982 HD

    A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

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  • 1991
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    Absolute Hell

    Absolute Hell

    5.7 1991 HD

    Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men,...

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  • 1992
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    Weep No More, My Lady

    Weep No More, My Lady

    3.8 1992 HD

    When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is her husband Ted. Adapted from the novel by Mary...

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  • 1964
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    The Eyes of Annie Jones

    The Eyes of Annie Jones

    6 1964 HD

    Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.

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  • 1983
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    The Secret Adversary

    The Secret Adversary

    6.8 1983 HD

    After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue...

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  • 1959
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    The Cat Gang

    The Cat Gang

    6 1959 HD

    The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. ...

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  • 2024
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    7.8 2024 HD

    A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological...

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  • 1961
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    His and Hers

    His and Hers

    4.9 1961 HD

    Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent...

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  • 1964
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    Flipper's New Adventure

    Flipper's New Adventure

    6.9 1964 HD

    While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains...

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  • 1988
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    Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

    Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

    6.3 1988 HD

    Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and...

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  • 1983
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    The Maze

    The Maze

    1 1983 HD

    A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted.

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  • 1968
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    The Explorer

    The Explorer

    1 1968 HD

    Drama about the emotional problems left behind by a young explorer murdered in the Matto Grosso jungle in South America. (Shotlist)Work historyTV...

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  • 1978
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    Stronger Than the Sun

    Stronger Than the Sun

    1 1978 HD

    Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is....

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  • 1973
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    Penny Gold

    Penny Gold

    5.7 1973 HD

    While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.

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  • 1966
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    Run with the Wind

    Run with the Wind

    1 1966 HD

    A young woman is unable to decide between a boxer and folk singer, and ends up losing both.

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  • 2014
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    Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

    Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

    5 2014 HD

    A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth featuring interviews with the director, producer...

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  • 1972
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    Polanski Meets Macbeth

    Polanski Meets Macbeth

    1 1972 HD

    A 1971 documentary by Frank Simon featuring rare footage of the film’s cast and crew at work.

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  • 1972
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    Big Truck and Sister Clare

    Big Truck and Sister Clare

    5 1972 HD

    A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pretty nun, gets stuck and are forced to wait to be...

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  • 1969
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    The Sky Pirate

    The Sky Pirate

    1 1969 HD

    Low-budget film illustrates the various factors which have lead a man to hijack a plane to Cuba.

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  • 1999
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    Milk

    Milk

    2 1999 HD

    Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly...

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  • 1998
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    Reckless: The Sequel

    Reckless: The Sequel

    1 1998 HD

    One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other idea. He schemes to rip the couple apart. Can Anna...

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  • 1986
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    El río de oro

    El río de oro

    3.7 1986 HD

    During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's...

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  • 1970
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    The Walking Stick

    The Walking Stick

    7.5 1970 HD

    A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into...

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  • 2018
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    King of Thieves

    King of Thieves

    5.5 2018 HD

    London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in...

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  • 1990
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    Romeo.Juliet

    Romeo.Juliet

    1 1990 HD

    The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been...

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  • 1964
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    Murder Most Foul

    Murder Most Foul

    6.963 1964 HD

    A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.

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  • 1963
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    West 11

    West 11

    6.7 1963 HD

    Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own...

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  • 1993
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    A Haunting Harmony

    A Haunting Harmony

    6 1993 HD

    A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.

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  • 1960
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    No Kidding

    No Kidding

    6 1960 HD

    A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the...

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  • 2018
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    The London Studios: Home of the Stars

    The London Studios: Home of the Stars

    1 2018 HD

    The end of an era as the studios where ITV filmed its many shows for 45 years closes its doors for the last time.

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  • 1978
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    The Comedy of Errors

    The Comedy of Errors

    8.8 1978 HD

    The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together...

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  • 1999
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    Onegin

    Onegin

    6.2 1999 HD

    In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat – a man often lacking in empathy, who...

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  • 1974
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    The Wood Demon

    The Wood Demon

    1 1974 HD

    A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden...

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  • 1974
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    Sign it Death

    Sign it Death

    7 1974 HD

    A young woman schemes to marry a wealthy businessman by becoming his secretary.

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  • 1999
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    Wives and Daughters

    Wives and Daughters

    7.2 1999 HD

    Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth...

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  • 1978
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    Lillie

    Lillie

    8.2 1978 HD

    The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future...

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  • 1983
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    Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

    Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

    6.143 1983 HD

    Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.

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  • 2007
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    Cranford

    Cranford

    8.1 2007 HD

    A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth...

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  • 1997
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    Reckless

    Reckless

    6.7 1997 HD

    Owen is a Junior Doctor who falls for Anna - a sophisticated and glamorous older woman. Little does he know that she is married to his boss,...

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  • 1987
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    I'll Take Manhattan

    I'll Take Manhattan

    5.8 1987 HD

    I'll Take Manhattan is a 1987 American television miniseries, adapted from Judith Krantz's novel of the same name. Screened by CBS, it tells the...

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  • 1975
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    Madame Bovary

    Madame Bovary

    4.7 1975 HD

    Francesca Annis and Tom Conti star in this acclaimed UK miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's classic tale of one woman's attempts to mold her...

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  • 2000
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    Deceit

    Deceit

    6 2000 HD

    Deceit is a 2000 British two-part mystery television serial categorized as both a drama and a thriller. The film is based on a novel of the same name...

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  • 1961
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    Sir Francis Drake

    Sir Francis Drake

    4 1961 HD

    Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden...

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  • 2015
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    Home Fires

    Home Fires

    8.432 2015 HD

    The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As...

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  • 1989
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    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

    7.958 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...

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  • 1968
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    Ooh La La!

    Ooh La La!

    1 1968 HD

    Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken...

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  • 2005
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    Jericho

    Jericho

    6.3 2005 HD

    Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay...

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  • 2010
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    The Little House

    The Little House

    2 2010 HD

    The Little House is a drama series based on the novel by Philippa Gregory. The drama follows the story of Ruth, who is married to career minded...

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  • 2006
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    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    7.7 2006 HD

    Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the...

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  • 1963
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1963 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

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  • 1992
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    Between the Lines

    Between the Lines

    5.6 1992 HD

    Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims...

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  • 1991
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    The Gravy Train Goes East

    The Gravy Train Goes East

    7 1991 HD

    A fictitious Balkan state adaps to life after Communism.

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  • 2004
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    Agatha Christie's Marple

    Agatha Christie's Marple

    7.7 2004 HD

    The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and...

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  • 1960
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    Danger Man

    Danger Man

    7.4 1960 HD

    Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.29 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1967
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    1 1967 HD

    A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

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  • 1963
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    The Young Jacobites

    The Young Jacobites

    6 1963 HD

    Two children on holiday on The Isle of Skye, Scotland, go back in time and help Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland to France.

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  • 1991
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    Performance

    Performance

    1 1991 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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  • 2017
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    Bancroft

    Bancroft

    6.6 2017 HD

    A dark and compelling thriller centering on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, a female detective with an explosive secret.

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  • 2020
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    Flesh and Blood

    Flesh and Blood

    6.3 2020 HD

    Three adult siblings find their family thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother, Vivien, declares she is in love with a new man. The...

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  • 1956
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    Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

    5.8 1956 HD

    Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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