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Bill Paterson
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Filmography
Bill Paterson - what members say
review by from London
A magnificent piece of television 14 May 2004
review by from Glasgow
Fantastic 27 November 2005
review by from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales
Great British Comedy. 15 October 2005
Bill Paterson - filmography
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Law and Order UK - Season 4
(2010)
Starring: Freema Agyeman, Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber
Director: Mark Goddard
Certificate: 
LAW AND ORDER UK is the UK edition of the long-running U.S. TV drama that tells the stories of two separate yet equally important groups, the police, who investigate the crime and the attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. This box set features the complete forth series.
 
92%
from 7 members
Not available for rental
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Criminal Justice
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Pete Postlethwaite, Con O'Neill
Director: Otto Bathurst, Luke Watson
Certificate:
The worst thing Ben has ever done is, tonight, he takes his Dad's black cab out without his permission. But that's not why Ben ends the evening in a police cell. What looked to be a spontaneous evening of fun with a sexy stranger, Melanie, has culminated in a dead girl and Ben covered in her blood, ..read more »
78%
from 1,129 member
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Rag Tale
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bill Paterson
Director: Mary McGuckian
Certificate:
An editor who's sleeping with his deputy, who also happens to be the boss' wife. A pack of hacks whose weekly battle cry is "Who are we going to get this week?". A photographer whose camera does lie and who will stop at nothing to destroy his chairman's dream of a knighthood. Welcome to the world ..read more »
36%
from 1,393 member
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Doctor Zhivago
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Sam Neill, Chris Marshall, Hans Matheson
Director: Giacomo Campiotti
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A young married man Yury Zhivago falls in love with a Lara. Meanwhile Lara attempts to escape from her lover Komarovsky.This television mini-series, based on Boris Pasternak's romantic novel, set amid the atrocious, bloody events of the Russian Revolution, stars Hans Matheson as Yury Zhivago and ..read more »
64%
from 1,083 member
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Crush
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Estelle Harris
Director: John McKay
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Three forty-something women, Kate (Andie MacDowell), Molly (Anna Chancellor), and Janine (Imelda Staunton), gather weekly to swap stories, drink gin, and laugh about whose life is more pathetic, the prize for which is a box of chocolates. A constant problem for these ladies, who live in the sleepy ..read more »
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from 1,630 member
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Wives And Daughters
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Francesca Annis, Francesca Annis, Ian Carmichael
Director: Nicholas Renton
Certificate: 
The BBC presents Elizabeth Gaskell's timeless tale of romance in 19th-century England. WIVES AND DAUGHTERS is the humorous and often heart-wrenching story of two single women, one sweet and one sexy, searching for love and finding nothing but trouble when the man destined for one falls for her ..read more »
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from 4,296 members
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Oliver's Travels
(1995)
Starring: Alan Bates, Bill Paterson, Miles Anderson
Director: Giles Foster
Certificate: 
Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found ..read more »
47%
from 10 members
Currently unavailable
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Victory
(1995)
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Irčne Jacob
Director: Mark Peploe
Certificate:
This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation) is the one that stick's closest to the original story of a reclusive, hard-hearted fellow living on a private island in the Dutch East Indies who must protect his ..read more »
20%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Murder Most Horrid - Series 1
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Dawn French, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall
Director: Bob Spiers
Certificate: 
Dawn French stars in this comedy drama, playing a different character in each episode. Contains the episodes 'The Case Of The Missing', 'The Girl From Ipanema', 'He Died A Death', 'A Determined Woman', 'Murder At Tea Time', and 'Mrs. Hat And Mrs. Red'.
71%
from 331 members
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The Witches
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Bill Paterson
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, young Luke is taken to England by his grandmother, who delights him with her tales of dark forces, witches, and their wicked ways. While stopping at a seaside hotel, Luke discovers a plot by the Grand High Witch to turn all the children of England ..read more »
70%
from 3,692 members
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Truly, Madly, Deeply
(1990)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson, Bill Paterson
Director: Anthony Minghella
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In Anthony Minghella's directorial debut, Nina (Juliet Stevenson) is trying to put her life back together following the untimely death of her boyfriend, Jamie (Alan Rickman). She still hears his voice in her head, telling her to lock the back door, or instructing her in the proper way to brush her ..read more »
67%
from 10,445 members
Not currently released
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The Return of the Musketeers
(1989)
Starring: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay
Director: Richard Lester
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It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbot, and Athos, a brawler raising ..read more »
66%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Traffik
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Bill Paterson, Lindsay Duncan, Julia Ormond
Director: Alastair Reid
Certificate: 
TRAFFIK is the 5 1/2 hour miniseries that provided the basis for Stephen Soderbergh's Oscar-winning film TRAFFIC, and its length provides the production with an opportunity to delve more deeply into the drug trade and addiction, making it a more complete film than its Hollywood incarnation. TRAFFIK ..read more »
67%
from 619 members
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Just Ask For Diamond
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jimmy Nail, Susannah York, Peter Eyre
Director: Stephen Bayly
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When the man who left a package in his care is found murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, the clueless Diamond sets out to unravel the mysterious plot he has suddenly become the center of.
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from 116 members
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Dutch Girls
(1987)
Starring: Bill Paterson, Colin Firth, Timothy Spall
Director: Giles Foster
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A British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills--gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.
55%
from 16 members
Currently unavailable
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Defence Of The Realm
(1985)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott
Director: David Drury
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This fast-paced thriller examines the amorality of a nation's secret services and the responsibility of journalistic investigations in an era of nuclear tensions and bureaucratic deceit. The film examines an unspooling series of events occurring after a near crash of a nuclear bomber at an American ..read more »
60%
from 354 members
Not available for rental
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Comfort And Joy
(1984)
Starring: Bill Paterson, Clare Grogan, Eleanor David
Director: Bill Forsyth
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Writer/director Bill Forsyth's follow-up to his best film, LOCAL HERO, is another comic exploration of a man undergoing a personal crisis. In LOCAL HERO, the American played by Peter Riegert finds himself enchanted by the people and ambience of a Scottish village he has been dispatched to purchase ..read more »
61%
from 836 members
Not currently released
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Bill Paterson facts
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...ory strands are familiar but wider in scope and impact. Polititian Jack Lithgow(Bill Paterson) is in Pakistan investigating the opium fields where the drug trade commences. ...
