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  • Vera Drake
  • Vera Drake review by from Northern Ireland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Compelling drama 6 December 2005
    ...as well as her family. But she has a secret not even her husband (the brilliant Phil Davis) knows. She carries out abortions on young women. Set in the 1950's when the pr...   Read customer review
  • Whitechapel
  • Whitechapel review by DrPeeGee from Norn Irn
    Rated - 4.0 stars Looking forward to series 2 19 August 2010
    ...Phil Davis is fab in all he does ('shake me up Judy'). I liked the mix of character flaws and how they can still be used to advantage in a given situation. ...   Read customer review
  • Mike Leigh At The BBC - Who's Who / Grown-Ups
  • Rated - 3.0 stars A combination of farce, comedy and social realism 3 December 2010
    ... genuine laugh-out-loud moments and excellent performances from Blenda Blethyn, Phil Davis, and Lesley Sharp. Although at times bordering on farce, it is well worth seing...   Read customer review

Phil Davis - filmography


  • Whitechapel - Series 2 (2010)
    Starring: Rupert Penry Jones,  Phil Davis,  Steve Pemberton
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The unlikely team of fast-track cop-on-the-rise DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and DS Miles (Phil Davis) are back on the case, along with their uninvited amateur expert on local murder Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton) in Whitechapel. Hot on the heels of the Jack the Ripper murders, something dark ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 59 members
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  • Collision (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Zoe Telford,  Dean Lennox Kelly,  Paul McGann
    Director: Marc Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Collision tells the story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change their lives. Amid the tangle of twisted metal and emotional turmoil wrought by the tragedy of a crash of this scale, are the stories of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 570 members
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  • Dead Man Running - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Monet Mazur,  50 Cent,  Danny Dyer
    Director: Alex De Rakoff,  Ali Asad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Notorious New York loan shark Mr. Thigo (Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson-GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN', THE RIGHTEOUS KILL) arrives in London to make an example of Nick (Tamer Hassan-THE BUSINESS, LAYER CAKE), a reformed ex-con who owes him £100,000. Given just 24 hours to come up with the money, and with his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,473 members
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  • Dead Man Running on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Monet Mazur,  50 Cent,  Danny Dyer
    Director: Alex De Rakoff,  Ali Asad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Reformed ex-con Nick is given 24 hours to come up with £100,000 by notorious New York gangster and loan shark Mr Thigo. As a guarantee, Thigo's men hold Nick's wheelchair-bound mother hostage, leaving him no choice but to comply. Enlisting the help of his best mate, Bing, the boys embark on a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,260 members
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  • Whitechapel on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Rupert Penry Jones,  Phil Davis,  Steve Pemberton
    Director: S.J. Clarkson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The streets of London's East End are awash with blood. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. But this is not the 19th Century and this is not Jack the Ripper - this is a copycat killer and once again the police remain clueless... For fast-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,987 members
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  • Whitechapel: Series 1 (2008)
    Starring: Rupert Penry Jones,  Phil Davis,  Steve Pemberton
    Director: S.J. Clarkson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The streets of London's East End are awash with blood. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. But this is not the 19th Century; this is not Jack the Ripper - this is a copycatkiller and once again the police remain clueless... For fast-tracked,..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 3 members
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  • Cassandra's Dream on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Colin Farrell,  Tom Wilkinson
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 6,146 members
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  • Casanova on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Heath Ledger,  Sienna Miller,  Jeremy Irons
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova is about to meet his match when the alluring Francesca does the one thing the notorious lover of women never thought possible - refuse him. Through disguises, subterfuges and wit, Casanova manages to get closer and closer to Francesca... but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 25,251 members
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  • Rose and Maloney - S02 E04 (2005)
    Starring: Sarah Lancashire,  Phil Davis
    Director: Roger Gartland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Investigators for the Criminal Justice Review Agency, the duo strive to put right the injustices of the past as, regardless of risk, they try to get to the truth despite the frustrations of separating reality from misleading memories.? Rose (Sarah Lancashire) is as impetuous, uncompromising and ..read more »
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  • Rose and Maloney - S02 E02 (2005)
    Starring: Sarah Lancashire,  Phil Davis
    Director: Metin Hüseyin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Investigators for the Criminal Justice Review Agency, the duo strive to put right the injustices of the past as, regardless of risk, they try to get to the truth despite the frustrations of separating reality from misleading memories. Rose is as impetuous, uncompromising and tactless as ever, and ..read more »
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  • Vera Drake on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Imelda Staunton,  Estelle Harris,  Phil Davis
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mike Leigh produces another devastating masterpiece with the heartbreaking VERA DRAKE. Imelda Staunton is the title character, beloved wife of Stan (Phil Davis) and mother of Sid (Daniel Mays) and Ethel (Alex Kelly). Vera spends her days cleaning houses for money and looking in on elderly and sick ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 51,338 members
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  • Trance on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Neil Pearson,  Susannah Harker,  John Light
    Director: Joe Ahearne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A gang of thieves led by Brendan (Neil Pearson) snatch a piece of art from a auction house, with the help of Tony, an employee. It's an inside job that shouldn't fail, but in the middle of the heist, Tony takes a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia. Only Tony knows where the painting was ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 287 members
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  • Rose and Maloney - S01 E01 (2002)
    Starring: Phil Davis,  Sarah Lancashire
    Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rose Linden works at a Government Agency that reviews and investigates possible miscarriages of justice. Rose is not a popular employee - she's headstrong, difficult and thoroughly chaotic. Indeed were it not for her unerring ability to seek out the truth and get results, she would have been fired ..read more »
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  • Prime Suspect 5 - Errors Of Judgement on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  John McArdle,  Julia Lane
    Director: Phil Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Indomitable Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison confronts new and unfamiliar worlds in this fifth outing of Masterpiece Theater's award-winning, remrkably bold police detective series. When she is transferred to Manchester, Jane becomes mired in a murder to which an adolescent boy has confessed, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,763 member
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  • I.D. on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Charle,  Warren Clarke,  Reece Dinsdale
    Director: Phil Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Reece Dinsdale stars as John, an undercover cop who finds himself immersed in the world of football hooliganism in this football film that deals entirely with what happens when the players and fans are off the field. Focusing on the fictional East London Shadwell FC club, the film follows as John ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,059 members
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  • I.D. - Blu-ray (1994)
    Starring: Warren Clarke,  Reece Dinsdale,  Sean Pertwee
    Director: Phil Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Reece Dinsdale stars as John, an undercover cop who finds himself immersed in the world of football hooliganism in this football film that deals entirely with what happens when the players and fans are off the field. Focusing on the fictional East London Shadwell FC club, the film follows as John ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 49 members
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  • High Hopes - Blu-ray (1988)
    Starring: Phil Davis,  Ruth Sheen,  Edna Dore
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Another bittersweet comedy from acclaimed director Mike Leigh (HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, SECRETS AND LIES), HIGH HOPES weaves a wonderful tapestry of hippies and yuppies, fantasy and reality, broken dreams and high hopes. Lampooning every aspect of modern English society, the film is a biting satire with a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 94 members
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  • High Hopes on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Phil Davis,  Ruth Sheen,  Edna Dore
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,098 member
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  • Comrades - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Keith Allen,  David Atkins,  Stephen Bateman
    Director: Bill Douglas
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bill Douglas’ beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia, Douglas has created a film rich with carefully ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 148 members
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  • Comrades on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Keith Allen,  David Atkins,  Stephen Bateman
    Director: Bill Douglas
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bill Douglas’ beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia, Douglas has created a film rich with carefully ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 451 members
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  • The Bounty on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Fox
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Captain Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,572 members
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  • Grown - Ups (1980)
    Starring: Brenda Blethyn,  Phil Davis,  Lindsay Duncan
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Interesting comedy-drama in which Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and are besieged by some familiar faces.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 48 members
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Phil Davis facts

5 most recent films

Whitechapel - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Whitechapel - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Collision - 3.5 stars
Dead Man Running - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Dead Man Running - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Whitechapel - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Prime Suspect 5 - Errors Of Judgement - 4.0 stars
Mike Leigh At The BBC - Who's Who / Grown-Ups - 3.5 stars
Mike Leigh At The BBC - Hard Labour / The Permissive Society - 3.5 stars
Whitechapel - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

I.D. - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Whitechapel - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Whitechapel: Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Trance - 2.5 stars
Cassandra's Dream - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Douglas Henshall - 8 times - show films
Paul McGann - 8 times - show films
Sarah Lancashire - 6 times - show films
Brenda Blethyn - 6 times - show films
David O'Hara - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marc Evans - 7 times - show films
Bill Douglas - 6 times - show films
Mike Leigh - 6 times - show films
Marc Evans  - 6 times - show films
Ali Asad - 3 times - show films