
John Bett
Actor · b. 1949 · Cupar, Scotland, UK
John Bett is a British stage, film and television actor, director, and writer.
Movies21
Movie6.1AdventureFantasyIn a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
The Golden Compass
2007 · 4.9K votes
Movie7.0CrimeThrillerWhen David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.
Shallow Grave
1994 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.7ThrillerAdventureIn Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
The First Great Train Robbery
1978 · 450 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceA young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Tamara Drewe
2010 · 491 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceA strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.
Tess
1979 · 392 votes
Movie6.2DramaComedyAfter thirty-five years abroad, Donal returns to his native Scotland to make amends with his estranged brother Sandy.
Glenrothan
2026 · 15 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaA memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
My Life So Far
1999 · 37 votes
Movie6.2ComedyScience FictionBritannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Britannia Hospital
1982 · 74 votes
Movie5.8RomanceComedyWhen a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked, he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too happy and she can't write when she's happy. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realizes he's in love with her.
Not Another Happy Ending
2013 · 131 votes
Movie4.8DramaA tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
Sacred Hearts
1985 · 4 votes
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceA teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
Gregory's Girl
1980 · 150 votes
Movie6.6MysteryDramaWhat led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005 · 7 votes
Movie8.0DramaMusicIn their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMore comedy sketches from Scottish comedian Rikki Fulton. Characters include: Michael Jackson - from Jordanhill; Shirley Bassey - from Bearsden; Jonathan Partington; Bonnie Prince Charlie; and the Last Call team.
Triple Scotch & Wry
1990 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryOverview of Vorticism, a radical art movement of the early 20th Century.
BLAST
1975
Movie8.0CrimeDramaSet in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.
Down Among the Big Boys
1993 · 3 votes
Movie9.0ComedyVideo Compilation of the Scottish TV Comedy Sketch Show. Stand out characters include Supercop, an idiot motorcycle policeman whose catchphrase was 'Alright Stirling, oot the car' and whose goggles would spring off his helmet; Dirty Dickie Dandruff; Gallowgate Gourmet, the unbelievably unhygienic TV chef; and McGlinchey, a colourful wide-boy.
Scotch & Wry
1986 · 2 votes
- MovieComedy
Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph and disaster.
MovieComedyTV MovieA student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in their lives are even greater than his own.
Movie8.0DramaFantasyAn 18th century couple separated by war gets a second chance at love when a present day singer becomes mixed up in their story.
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002 · 1 votes
Movie3.8CrimeDramaTank is an investigative reporter and jailbird, framed on scant evidence supplied by the London mob. Helen is the sensuous call-girl who offers Tank ammunition and retribution. But, retaliation is swift and brutal, in the guise of Sir Robert Knights and his equally lethal lawyer, Dunboyne. A series of hideous murders follow as the devil protects his own. Only Malling and Helen can halt the onslaught. But, for how long, and at what price?
Tank Malling
1989 · 5 votes
Series9
TV6.6DramaPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
TV7.6DramaCrimeFather Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Father Brown
2013 · 142 votes
TV7.9CrimeDramaInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
Inspector Morse
1987 · 146 votes
TV7.6DramaIn early 19th-century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Vanity Fair
1998 · 19 votes
TV7.1DramaIt's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
A Very English Scandal
2018 · 184 votes
TV5.8DramaSci-Fi & FantasyWorlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.
Worlds Beyond
1986 · 5 votes
TV7.0ComedyHapless bank clerk Willie Melvin dreams of being a successful writer but is held back by his own incompetence, the dodgy dealings of his best friend Chancer, and lack of support from his mother, the bank's manager Adam McLelland and his obsequious fellow teller, Brian.
City Lights
1986 · 5 votes
TV10.0DramaWar & PoliticsA three-episode mini-series chronicling the history of Scotland from ancient times through the union with England and culminating with the rise of Thatcherism and the introduction of the Poll Tax.
Border Warfare
1990 · 1 votes
TV6.7ComedyNorman Lovett stars as an eccentric artist in this alternative comedy from the mid 90s. Norman plays a character, named for himself, that lives in an imaginary world where his companion is a talking dog. In this alternate reality, inanimate objects often speak to him.
I, Lovett
1993 · 3 votes