Mary Maddox
Actor
Series11
TV7.1ComedyDramaRoguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Minder
1979 · 30 votes
TV7.0DramaA one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974 · 1 votes
TV7.1DramaComedyRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · 24 votes
TV6.0DramaIn the aftermath of Upstairs Downstairs, chauffeur Thomas Watkins and housemaid Sarah Moffat have gone their separate ways. But when a near fatal auto accident reunites them, the duo team up to hatch get-rich-quick schemes, pose as wealthy investors, or take on various odd jobs—often at the expense of others.
Thomas & Sarah
1979 · 3 votes
TV6.0DramaComedyAnnie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.
A Year in Provence
1993 · 6 votes
- TVDrama
Salim and Marianne love each other and their children, but there are different ways of loving. Marianne knows an affair is wrong - but suspects she can get away with it.
Stolen
1990
TV6.9DramaComedyA British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985 · 14 votes
TV6.9ComedyDramaThe everyday traumas and emotional upheavals of the legendary teenage diarist as he struggles to come to terms with life in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s England.
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
1987 · 8 votes
TV9.0DramaComedyN.K. Edwards and Vijay Shah are a pair of warring solicitors whose conflict spills out of the courtroom and into chambers, their quarrel witnessed by Councillor Judith Silver.
Little Napoleons
1994 · 1 votes
TVDramaDrama series about the staff and patients of an upmarket psychiatric practice in London.
Shrinks
1991
- TVComedy
Satirical comedy about "loony left" London councils in the 1980s. Pigott-Smith's character is pitched against Paul Rogers' traditional Labour figure.
Struggle
1983
Movies9
Movie7.2AdventureAnimationWhen the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Watership Down
1978 · 735 votes
Movie9.0ComedyAgainst the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.
Long Shot
1978 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Movie6.0DramaTV MovieJill has everything; a successful career, four close, if somewhat exotic, friends (her 'family') and a live-in lover. They provide for all her needs including, eventually, a baby. But that is where reality sets in.
Only Children
1984 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentarySong tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.
Movie4.8DramaIn this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
Riddles of the Sphinx
1977 · 13 votes
Movie5.3DramaTV MovieAlan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
One Fine Day
1979 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaExperimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock musician; Vermilion, an analyst of satellite photography; and Julian, an old friend of the illustrator who has just finished his Ph.D thesis on the fairy-tales of Charles Perrault. Their four lives are closely interlinked as events happen to each of them.
Crystal Gazing
1982 · 2 votes
MovieInspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse and her essay Professions for Women, both read by feminist filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey.