Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

Denmark

2019

English

6.2

♡ 6

Action

Comedy

Drama

Adrian Shergold Director

Russell Gomer as Chip Shop Man

Steve Speirs as Harry the Horse

Rafe Spall as Herb

Rosalind March as Herb's Mother

Herb’s life is a mess. He’s lost his welfare, can’t hold a job, can’t talk to his son, has a neighbour who won’t shut up and a diet that consists mainly of cheap beer and mushy peas. It’s no way to live and he knows it. Then he learns from a TV news report that Danish prisoners have it way better than he does: a job, accessible healthcare, the quiet of the countryside, even an HDTV. They’re practically living in hotels. He says goodbye (and good riddance) to his dingy flat and smuggles himself to Denmark aboard a cargo ship, landing in a quaint town with everything he needs -- including a bank to rob. But when he meets a friendly local barmaid and a lovable stray dog that won’t leave his side, he begins to wonder if prison really is his only chance of a fulfilling life.

Funny Cow

2017

English

6.5

♡ 2

79%

Adrian Shergold Director

Stephen Graham as Funny Calf's Dad / Older Mike

Christine Bottomley as Funny Calf's Mum

Hannah Walters as Jean

Diane Morgan as Margaret

A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.

Dirty Filthy Love

2004

English

7.1

♡ 6

78%

Drama

obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd)

Romance

tourette syndrome

Adrian Shergold Director

John Salthouse as Bob

Shirley Henderson as Charlotte

Michael Sheen as Mark Furness

Steve Oram as Zookeeper

A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.

Cordelia

2019

English

4.6

♡ 10

73%

Adrian Shergold Director

Drew Edwards as Cab Driver

Johnny Flynn as Frank

Catherine McCormack as Kate

Kamil Lemieszewski as Knight

Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practising his cello in the upstairs flat – a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.

Persuasion

2007

English

7.4

♡ 12

Action

based on novel or book

Adrian Shergold Director

Sally Hawkins as Anne Elliot

Joseph Mawle as Harry Harville

Alice Krige as Lady Russell

Tobias Menzies as William Elliot

Royal Navy Captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true love. Now he visits their former seaside country estate, rented by his brother-in-law, Admiral Croft, so the financially stressed baronet can afford a fashionable, cheaper residence in trendy Bath. The former lovers meet again on the estate, where they feel vibes again, but neither dares admit them until it seems too late.

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Denmark

Funny Cow

Dirty Filthy Love

Cordelia

Persuasion