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BEST OF BRITISH AND IRISH MOVIES & TV SERIES
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Movie: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey ( 2023 )
After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.
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Movie: Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins ( 2021 )
Soldier tony tucker returns from the falklands war, a bitter and angry man he soon makes a name for himself in the Essex underworld with his security business and drug dealing, after entering a partnership with gangster Bernard o Mahoney, his life spirals out of control in a cycle of drugs and violence, things get even worse when he meets notorious hard man pat tate and local drug dealer graig Rolfe, culminating in the rettendon Range Rover murders of 1995
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TV Show: Waking the Dead ( 2000 )
Drama series following the members of a Cold Case investigation team as they use advanced forensic techniques to uncover the truth and bring criminals to justice.
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Movie: Steptoe and Son Ride Again ( 1973 )
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold must pay off the debt, ...Read all
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TV Show: Undercover ( 2016 )
Undercover is a drama series in which a defence lawyer tries to finally uncover the truth of an old miscarriage of justice, while her husband goes to any lengths to conceal the truth about his own past.
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Movie: Irish Wish ( 2024 )
When the love of Maddie's life gets engaged to her best friend, she puts her feelings aside to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland.
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TV Show: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 )
Crime drama series featuring Life on Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.
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TV Show: Bedlam ( 2011 )
Set in Bedlam Heights - an apartment building converted from a pre-Victorian lunatic asylum - the inhabitants in this sexy, contemporary paranormal program experience the darker side of the building's history when former asylum spirits come back to claim what they believe to be theirs and seek revenge on those who have wronged them. The terrifying hauntings that follow reveal that sometimes when you scratch away the surface, things aren't always what they seem.
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TV Show: Thriller ( 1973 )
Each story of the anthology is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Movie: Bonded by Blood ( 2010 )
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
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Movie: Rise of the Footsoldier Part II ( 2018 )
The life of underworld icon Carlton Leach.
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Movie: The Crow ( 2024 )
Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
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Movie: Dead Cert ( 2010 )
A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of businessmen make an offer to buy their club, the Inferno. They turn out to be nothing less than Vampires wanting their land back and turn viciously on the gangsters when their demands are not met.
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TV Show: Case Histories ( 2011 )
Jackson Brodie, a former policeman turned private detective, comes to the rescue of the bereaved, even as he struggles with past and present-day personal problems.Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. 
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Movie: Freeze Frame ( 2004 )
After being accused of a triple-murder, a man films his every moment of his to provide an alibi. Things takes a worst turn when a detective suspects him and the tapes goes missing which can prove his innocence.
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Movie: Lord of Misrule ( 2024 )
A desperate search for the young daughter of the town's new minister.
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TV Show: Minder ( 1979 )
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard.
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TV Show: The Full Monty ( 2023 )
The Full Monty will follow the original cast as they navigate the post-industrial city of Sheffield and society's crumbling healthcare, education and employment sectors and explore how communal effort can still triumph over adversity.
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TV Show: Wolf ( 2023 )
DI Jack Caffery is a young man searching for himself. Obsessed with the neighbour he believes murdered his 10 year-old brother in the 90s, Jack finds himself trying to right the wrongs of others - but at what cost? In an isolated house in Monmouthshire, the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family find themselves the victims of a psychopath's cruel games, trapped and terrorised. When the two narratives collide, it's a thrilling, nail-biting and deeply disturbing race against time.
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Movie: Jekyll and Hyde ( 2022 )
When his close friend Dr Henry Jekyll is accused of a horrific murder, lawyer Gabriel Utterson launches his own investigation, only to discover a secret more shocking than he could have imagined.
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Movie: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 ( 2024 )
Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger take their fight to the town of Ashdown, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake.
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Movie: Bullet Boy ( 2005 )
In one of East London's most volatile neighborhoods, pride, rivalry and revenge are the only codes on the street. Touted as a British Boyz in the Hood, Bullet Boy is a gripping and authentic drama that takes an unflinching look at two troubled, street-smart boys. Fresh out of jail, 18-year-old Ricky (Ashley Walters, Get Rich or Die Tryin') and his 12-year-old brother, Curtis, struggle to walk the straight and narrow when a minor street clash escalates into an all-out neighborhood war. For Ricky and Curtis, friendships, family and loyalty will be tested to the extreme in a world where guns are a fact of everyday life and boys try to be men before they're even teenagers. Music by Massive Attack.
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Movie: Charlie ( 2004 )
A man who ran a brutal gang in the 1960s.
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Movie: Love Thy Neighbour ( 1973 )
Two men who are next-door neighbors constantly battle over seemingly-trivial offenses; on the other hand, their wives are the best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying.
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Movie: Brotherhood ( 2016 )
First, there was Kidulthood, then Adulthood, and now comes Noel Clarke's lastest instalment: Brotherhood. Sam is facing up to the new world. He realises it also comes with new problems; new challenges he must face which he knows, will require old friends to help him survive new dangers.
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TV Show: Vincent ( 2005 )
This exciting, fast-paced new drama series follows ex-cop Vincent Gallagher, head of a team of private investigators who are the last resort for troubled people with nowhere left to turn.
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TV Show: Births, Marriages and Deaths ( 1999 )
Alan, Graham and Terry have been best mates since primary school. Now pushing forty, the three friends are still inseparable and celebrating the impending marriage of Terry to his pregnant girlfriend Pat.Naturally, Alan and Graham are going to give Terry a stag night to remember. But when the boys pay a late night revenge visit to their despised former headmaster, things begin to go disastrously wrong. A tragic accident sets off an unforeseen chain of events revealing terrible secrets.Life will never be the same again.All dressed up in dark suits and shades, looking remarkably like the characters in Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs', Alan, Graham and Terry set out on a marathon stag day. All is going well, with a stretch limo at their disposal, copious amounts of champagne and old times lovingly mulled over. But, as the night progresses, the three friends make a decision that is t...
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TV Show: The Interceptor ( 2015 )
Drama following an undercover team on the hunt for Britain's most ruthless criminals.
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Movie: Redirected ( 2014 )
Three friends try to make money and invite another friend in on a plot.
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TV Show: Clean Break ( 2015 )
There's nothing like money - or the lack of it to bring out the worst in people. Frank Mallon, a car dealer running out of fiscal rope, catapults himself into serious trouble with the botched tiger kidnapping of local bank manager Desmond Rane's family, the repercussions of which rock his hometown and all the people around him.
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TV Show: Heat ( 2023 )
Heat unfolds to the backdrop of the looming Australian bushfire season when two families who are long-time friends, venture to a secluded home for a summer vacation. As secrets and lies unravel it becomes a tinderbox – and not everyone will make it out alive.
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TV Show: Desperate Measures ( 2023 )
Rowan's life spirals when Finn is coerced into a botched drug deal by a local gang. With Finn's life on the line and a violent gang leader encroaching on her life, Rowan is faced with recuperating the money that Finn lost. Desperate to save her son and having exhausted all options, Rowan commits to a dangerous heist at the bank she works in
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Movie: Sumotherhood ( 2023 )
This British crime comedy sees two hapless friends run into trouble after an attempted bank robbery goes wrong.
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Movie: 44 Inch Chest ( 2010 )
A jealous husband and his friends plot the kidnapping of his wife's lover with the intention of restoring his wounded ego.
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Movie: Vendetta ( 2013 )
Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents. With police closing in & his old unit on his trail, he has to to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.
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Movie: Adulthood ( 2008 )
The story revolves around Sam who is released from prison and has to face the people he hurt on a daily basis.
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Movie: Sket ( 2011 )
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.
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Movie: The Hooligan Factory ( 2014 )
Danny wants something more. Expelled from school and living in his grandfathers flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father Danny Senior. Sent to prison for force feeding a judge his own wig Danny Senior was a legend and Danny is looking for a way to emulate his father's achievements and rise to be "top boy". Meanwhile in Wormwood Scrubs prison legendary football hooligan Dex is about to be released. Dex is on a quest of his own, one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader Yeti. But when Danny and Dex's paths cross they embark on a journey as old as hooliganism itself. Dex, Danny and The Hooligan Factory travel the length of the country on a mission to re-establish their firm's glory days. However, the police are closing in and we get a sense that the Hooligan Factory's best days may be behind them, but with Danny on their side, and Dex finding his old form who knows where this may lead. After all... Its a funny old game.
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Movie: Cass ( 2008 )
An orphaned Jamaican baby is adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London and becomes one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. Based on a true story.
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Movie: Kidulthood ( 2006 )
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
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Movie: The Business ( 2005 )
Frankie is sent from London to Spain to make a delivery to Charlie, who likes the kid and shows him the ropes including the use of guns and drugs. Frankie likes the sun, pools and the cute, bikini clad girls and stays in Spain.
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Movie: Mean Machine ( 2001 )
A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.
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TV Show: The Control Room ( 2022 )
The Control Room tells the story of Gabe, an ordinary man who works as an emergency call handler for the Scottish Ambulance Service in Glasgow. His world is turned upside down when he receives a desperate life-and-death call from a woman who appears to know him. With Gabe under pressure to work out who she is, he makes a decision that threatens to have devastating consequences.
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Movie: Love, Honor and Obey ( 2000 )
A north London postman who gets involved with a gang of criminals
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Movie: Awaydays ( 2009 )
On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and fighting.
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Movie: My Brother the Devil ( 2012 )
Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being British Arabs growing up on the streets of gangland London.
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TV Show: Undercover ( 2015 )
Family. It can be the most important thing in the world. And it can also be a massive pain in the arse. Undercover, a brand new, original scripted comedy for Dave, is a high stakes action comedy about Chris (Daniel Rigby), a lonely, over analysing neurotic traffic police officer who finds himself hopelessly out of his depth when he infiltrates an Armenian crime family.
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TV Show: Crooks ( 2024 )
Charly lives a peaceful life with his family in Berlin, until his dark past catches up with him. Old "acquaintances" threaten his family's life and force him to work a heist of a valuable coin. Joseph, a clan driver from Vienna, is supposed to take the loot to Austria. But the well-thought-out plan fails, a shoot-out ensues and someone dies. Inevitably, the fates of Charly and Joseph collide. They must flee and get Charly's family out of danger. During the attempt to save what is important to them, the two crooks must assert themselves against the clans from Berlin, Vienna and Marseille. Both can only succeed if they rely on their friendship. An adventurous and action-packed road trip across three national borders begins.
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Movie: Rise of the Footsoldier 3 ( 2017 )
Notorious gangster, Pat Tate, rises through the ranks of Essex's criminal underworld. A prequel to the 'Rise of the Footsoldier' franchise.
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TV Show: The Way ( 2024 )
The Way taps into the social and political chaos of today's world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town.Meet the Driscolls - an ordinary family, in an extraordinary story of life, death and survival. Caught in a chain of events and power struggles that ripple out unleashing civil unrest, they are forced to escape the country they've always called home and the certainties of their old lives.Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will the Driscolls lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future?
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TV Show: Chiller ( 1995 )
Chiller is a 5-episode horror/fantasy anthology series originally shown erratically in the UK on ITV. The stories each involve, to some extent, the supernatural, and feature lead actors with familiar faces from UK television.
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Movie: The Football Factory ( 2004 )
An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.
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Movie: London Heist ( 2017 )
Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father's murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts his life in danger. The devastation that Jack soon discovers puts his very own existence into question. Set around Spain's glamorous Marbella and London's dark underworld, he battles to unravel the mystery and exact brutal revenge on all those responsible while being pursued by gangland criminals and a corrupt police detective. GET READY FOR REVENGE!
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Movie: To Be Someone ( 2020 )
A lighthearted adventure movie set in the world of Mods.
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TV Show: Luther ( 2021 )
It's not easy being a cop. Théo Luther is a formidable policeman. Yet after months of tracking down a child killer, he loses his footing, suffers from depression, and puts his marriage in jeopardy. Reinstated in his unit but closely watched, Théo must fight his personal demons more than the criminals. His first investigation: a young woman whom he suspects of the murder of her parents. But he is unable to prove his guilt. Worse, she even seems to taunt him. 
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Movie: East Is East ( 2000 )
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
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Movie: Strange ( 2002 )
John Strange is an unfrocked priest who lost his vocation after his involvement in unsolved deaths, which he says were caused by demons. He is now a committed demon hunter, assisted by computer nerd Toby and Kevin, who has Downs Syndrome ,which makes him sensitive to demonic presences. Kevin is the gardener to Canon Black, John's former boss and a cold figure who has no truck with satanic theories. When the Reverend Rutt dies in mysterious circumstances Strange is sure that demonism was involved and enlists the support of Jude, a nurse on whose ward the vicar died. Jude lives with wealthy lover Rich and their little son. However Rich is about to be exposed as a very terrifying creature. . .
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TV Show: Daylight Robbery ( 1999 )
Daylight Robbery focuses on four Essex housewives struggling with personal and domestic problems begin to consider the possibility of armed robbery as a way out of their various dilemmas.
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TV Show: The Sixth Commandment ( 2023 )
The Sixth Commandment tells the story of how the meeting of an inspirational teacher, Peter Farquhar, and a charismatic student, Ben Field, set the stage for one of the most complex and confounding criminal cases in recent memory. It also focuses on how suspicions around Field's relationship with Ann Moore-Martin, Peter's deeply religious neighbour, unlocked a series of chilling revelations.The Sixth Commandment explores the way in which both Peter and Ann were manipulated by Field, capturing the extreme gaslighting, the gripping police investigation and the high-profile trial, while poignantly highlighting the devastating effect of isolation and loneliness, as Field closed in on them. It also celebrates both Peter and Ann's lives as cherished mentors, much loved relatives and adored friends.
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TV Show: The Trials of Jimmy Rose ( 2015 )
After a 12-year prison sentence for armed robbery, Jimmy Rose returns home to mixed emotions from his family. His daughter and grandson welcome him with open arms, but his wife and son are cold and indifferent, having learned to live life without him.
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Movie: Against the Law ( 2017 )
Peter Wildeblood's affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly during the time homosexuality was a crime and the devastating consequences of their relationship.
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Movie: Jackdaw ( 2024 )
A former motocross champion and army veteran is now caring for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the North Sea.
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Movie: Take Cover ( 2024 )
A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.
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Movie: The Hot Potato ( 2012 )
London's East End 1969. Based on real events. Two chancers 'find' a lump of Uranium and crisscross Europe to find a buyer. Accompanied by Danny's girl,the lovely Carole. They encounter a diverse cast of bizarre characters, all trying to steal the 'Hot Potato', but a deal agreed inside the Vatican has the co-conspirators confounding each other. The story twists and turns to an exciting and unexpected finale.
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Movie: Terry ( 2011 )
In the summer of 2009, Charlie Ruez made a documentary. 6 months later the footage was seized for evidence by the Metropolitan Police Department. In 2010, the footage was released.
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Movie: Run for Your Wife ( 2013 )
John Smith (Danny Dyer) has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie (Sarah Harding) in Finsbury and Michelle (Denise Van Outen) in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work. Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell Police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic twenty-four hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary Gardner (Neil Morrissey), rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the Police and prevent the two loving wives from coming face to face.
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TV Show: Afterlife ( 2005 )
University Lecturer Robert Bridge and medium Alison Munday become involved in a number of supernatural events in this chilling drama series.
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Movie: This Is England? (Short 2012) ( 2012 )
What if in 'This Is England' the counter-culture wasn't skinhead, it was français.
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TV Show: Marley's Ghosts ( 2015 )
Marley's Ghosts has a very intriguing premise - Marley has a rare gift that comes with mixed blessings. She can talk to the dead, which sadly now includes both her husband Adam, her lover Michael as well as the local vicar. Dead awkward.So begins a bizarre ménage-a-quatre, with Adam, Michael and the vicar all moving in, albeit in ghostly form, to Marley's haunt, sorry, home.Naturally Marley isn't crazy about this new set up - but all looks rosy again when the ghosts convince her that they're just a figment of her overwrought imagination, and for a moment she really believes they've gone. But, no, these apparitions ain't evaporating - they're going nowhere.
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Movie: Sherlock Holmes 3
The plot is unknown at this time.
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Movie: Sweeney! ( 1977 )
Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of his girlfriend. Framed on a drunk-drive charge and suspended from the force, with his partner and best mate George Carter unable to help, Jack must rely on his wits to evade deadly government hitmen and expose the real villain of the piece.
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Movie: Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher ( 2022 )
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
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TV Show: Extremely Dangerous ( 1999 )
Neil Byrne is an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison. The boss of a local crime syndicate, a former associate, hears of his escape and sends out the word to bring him in. On the run from the police and disowned by his NCIS colleagues, he is faced with the fact that he may be guilty.
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Movie: Assassin ( 2015 )
Ruthless killer for hire (Danny Dyer) breaks the rules of his profession and falls for a beautiful young woman. Discovering the notorious gangland brothers (Martin & Gary Kemp) had hired him to kill her father, his world breaks down and he must turn against his criminal employers and their gang to save the woman he loves.
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TV Show: Hunter ( 2009 )
This sequel to the mesmerising Five Days takes two of the police officers from that, Detective Sergeant Amy Foster and Detective Superintendent Iain Barclay, into the environs of a brand new case.