George Costigan
Biography: Born in Portsmouth in 1947, Costigan grew up in Salford and joined the esteemed Liverpool Everyman theatre company in 1974. He has been a regular on our screens since 1978
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Girls' Night
1998-06-26
Girls' Night
Overview: Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-26
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The Sailor's Return
1978-11-15
The Sailor's Return
Overview: Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-15
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too
1987-05-20
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Overview: Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-20
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The Arbor
2010-10-22
The Arbor
Overview: The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 18-year-old Andrea penned a play about growing up in the community titled "The Arbor".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-22
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A Mind to Murder
1995-01-01
A Mind to Murder
Overview: Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Hawk
1993-12-03
The Hawk
Overview: Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-03
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Bloody Kids
1980-03-22
Bloody Kids
Overview: Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys - the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike - arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-22
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Jenny Can't Work Any Faster
1975-12-08
Jenny Can't Work Any Faster
Overview: Jenny is an autistic teenager. Her father is concerned about her being withdrawn and hopes that employing her in his own business will bring her out of her shell. He also employs a new young assistant called Brian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-08
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Sin Bin
1994-05-18
Sin Bin
Overview: A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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Red Monarch
1983-06-16
Red Monarch
Overview: British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-16
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Safe
1993-10-13
Safe
Overview: Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-13
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Happy Since I Met You
1981-08-08
Happy Since I Met You
Overview: A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Somewhere More Central
1981-05-16
Somewhere More Central
Overview: A TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Formby. As the family gathers for Grandma's funeral, it seems to Olive that the eccentric old lady they have come to bury is far from dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-16
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Calendar Girls
2003-09-02
Calendar Girls
Overview: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-02
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Hancock & Joan
2008-03-26
Hancock & Joan
Overview: Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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Frozen
2005-03-12
Frozen
Overview: It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another reality and from this portal Kath is trying to say something.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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The Life and Death of King John
1984-11-24
The Life and Death of King John
Overview: The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-24
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The Tribe
1998-06-21
The Tribe
Overview: Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-21
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Garage
2007-10-05
Garage
Overview: Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his boss' girlfriend, comes to work with him. Josie hangs out with David and his teenage friends, bringing them beer, and despite being a grown man himself, finds that the new company lifts his spirits. But his simple-mindedness blinds him to some potential legal dangers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Hereafter
2010-10-22
Hereafter
Overview: Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-22
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Shirley Valentine
1989-08-30
Shirley Valentine
Overview: Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-30
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Summer
2008-12-05
Summer
Overview: Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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Director: Alan Clarke
1991-07-12
Director: Alan Clarke
Overview: Documentary - Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" and "Elephant" inspired a generation of British actors, writers and directors that changed cinema forever. This documentary features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with friends and colleagues of Clarke, including Tim Roth, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels. -
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-12
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Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
2007-12-25
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
Overview: When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Love or Money
2001-10-16
Love or Money
Overview: Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony took place on television, then married life really starts. To collect the price money of one million pounds, they have to stay together for at least six months.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-16
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Under the Skin
1982-01-19
Under the Skin
Overview: "When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-19
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016-06-13
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Overview: A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-13
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