Ruth Sheen
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1952-01-01
Locus Natus: London, England, UK
Et ut:
Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
release : 2004.10.22popularis : 11.478
Run Fatboy Run
Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
release : 2007.09.06popularis : 9.642
All or Nothing
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...
release : 2002.05.17popularis : 9.376
Bait
A single father prepares for a job interview while his young son, Clint, prepares sandwiches for their lunch. When he goes for the interview, Clint...
release : 2000.10.13popularis : 0.541
Another Year
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
release : 2010.11.05popularis : 9.884
Heartless
The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world...
release : 2010.05.21popularis : 5.809
The Young Poisoner's Handbook
Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a...
release : 1995.01.20popularis : 4.197
High Hopes
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's...
release : 1989.01.13popularis : 4.014
Fanny Hill
Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies's offer to join the London 'working girls'...
release : 2007.10.22popularis : 1.788
Clubland
Sylvie, a Belgian girl living in London, arrives at her local police station. She starts to tell how she was picked up in a nightclub by the handsome...
release : 1991.08.28popularis : 0.494
Cyrano
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But,...
release : 2021.12.17popularis : 7.738
The English Harem
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian...
release : 2005.12.27popularis : 1.316
A Class Apart
An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover...
release : 2007.03.23popularis : 1.217
The After
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.
release : 2024.02.16popularis : 11.262
A Fatal Inversion
Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to...
release : 1992.05.10popularis : 1.164
Sweetly It Turns
A kitchen-sink drama following the lives of a working-class family in Wolverhampton as they deal with change and the passing of time.
release : 2023.01.01popularis : 0.377
Touch
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what...
release : 2024.05.29popularis : 32.885
Sin Bin
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.
release : 1994.05.18popularis : 0.989
Different for Girls
Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up...
release : 1996.10.01popularis : 3.317
Mr. Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
release : 2014.10.31popularis : 8.966
A Royal Night Out
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in...
release : 2015.05.14popularis : 9.236
Lorna Doone
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the...
release : 2001.03.11popularis : 2.639
Night Voice
Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a...
release : 1990.07.25popularis : 0.966
Ghostwatch
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky...
release : 1992.10.31popularis : 6.112
SuperBob
After six years without a date, Robert, the world's only superhero, is looking for love. The only barrier to his plan is that he regularly has to...
release : 2015.10.16popularis : 3.704
Footprints in the Snow
Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her...
release : 2005.09.11popularis : 0.96
The Hardest Part
An aging actor finally secures the audition of a lifetime. But just how badly does he want the role?
release : 2010.10.01popularis : 0.806
Brave Young Men
Owen and Jamie are a pair of nobodies who prevent global disasters with the help of a time-transient civil servant.
release : 2009.03.22popularis : 0.362
Virtual Sexuality
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
release : 1999.07.02popularis : 3.904
The One and Only Mike Leigh
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about...
release : 2014.11.24popularis : 1.064
Secrets & Lies
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...
release : 1996.05.24popularis : 10.644
Imagine Me & You
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when...
release : 2006.01.27popularis : 18.241
Welcome to the Punch
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's...
release : 2013.03.15popularis : 8.876
A Street Cat Named Bob
James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.
release : 2016.11.04popularis : 46.797
When Pigs Fly
The ghosts of a middle-aged woman and a precocious little girl help an unwed jazz musician and a bar dancer reverse their bad fortune.
release : 1993.09.12popularis : 1.311
VS.
VS. is an urban rites of passage drama set in the hostile and exciting UK rap battle scene.
release : 2018.10.19popularis : 0.941
Vanity Fair
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a...
release : 2004.09.01popularis : 14.106
Hush Your Mouth
A young man is killed for trying to stop what he sees as evil and his friends seen as fun. Whilst his sister starts an unwitting relationship with...
release : 2007.01.01popularis : 0.433
Cheeky
Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a...
release : 2003.09.08popularis : 1.262
Little Dorrit
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young...
release : 1987.12.11popularis : 2.567
Plain Jane
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
release : 2002.05.27popularis : 0.68
The Angry Earth
About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 0.583
Don Quixote
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a...
release : 2000.04.09popularis : 4.791