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Filmography

John Alexander - filmography


  • White Heat on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Juliet Stevenson,  Hugh Quarshie,  Jessica Gunning
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All six episodes of the drama following a group of seven friends over the course of four decades. In 1965, students Jack (Sam Claflin), Charlotte (Claire Foy), Lilly (MyAnna Buring), Jay (Reece Ritchie), Alan (Lee Ingleby), Victor (David Gyasi) and Orla (Jessica Gunning) meet and, despite being an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 146 members
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  • Zen (2 discs) on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Marco Pancrazi,  Cosima Shaw,  Sargon Yelda
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All three feature-length episodes of the BBC mystery series based on the novels by the late crime novelist, Michael Dibdin. Set in and around contemporary Rome, the series stars Rufus Sewell as resourceful Italian detective Aurelio Zen, who must juggle the demands of his elderly Mama and hot-headed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 846 members
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  • Exile on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Olivia Coleman,  Shaun Dooley,  John Simm
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All three episodes of the BBC psychological thriller series starring John Simm as a journalist returning to his northern roots. With his career now in tatters, formerly successful London hack Tom Ronstadt (Simm) travels back to his Lancashire hometown to try to unravel the mysterious events ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 631 members
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  • Small Island on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ashley Walters,  Benedict Cumberbatch,  Ruth Wilson
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two-part BBC drama based on the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy. Set in Jamaica and London in the aftermath of the Second World War, the drama follows the interconnected lives of Londoners Queenie and Bernard (Ruth Wilson and Benedict Cumberbatch), the young Jamaican couple Gilbert and Hortense (..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 956 members
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  • Survivors (3 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Max Beesley,  Phillip Rhys,  Bryony Afferson
    Director: Andrew Gunn,  John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All six episodes from the first series of the BBC science fiction drama, based on Terry Nation's novel, in which 95% of the population have been wiped out by a freak plague, leaving the remaining survivors to rebuild civilisation. Awakened into a surreal nightmare, where basic commodities such as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 2,327 members
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  • Sense and Sensibility on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Lucy Boynton,  David Morrissey,  Dan Stevens
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel from acclaimed writer Andrew Davies. Marianne Dashwood (Charity Wakefield) wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby (Dominic Cooper), ignoring her sister Elinor's (Hattie Morahan) warning that her ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 1,811 member
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  • Teachers - S02 E03 (2002)
    Starring: Gillian Bevan,  Adrian Bower,  Daon Broni
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jenny's house-shaking romping with new boyfriend Alec is driving Susan crazy, so when Simon asks her to get a flat with him, she agrees. However, on the back of advice from Brian and Kurt, Simon then convinces himself he fancies her...
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 6 members
  • Men In Black on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio,  Tony Shalhoub,  John Alexander
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After chasing a fugitive with an advanced alien weapon, New York cop James Edwards (Will Smith) finds himself recruited to the MiB, a top secret agency in charge of alien immigration on Earth. He is partnered with K (Tommy Lee Jones), and sent to investigate an alien prediction of the end of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 39,161 members
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John Alexander facts

5 most recent films

White Heat - 3.5 stars
Zen - 3.5 stars
Zen - E01 - Vendetta - 4.0 stars
Exile - 3.5 stars
Zen - E03 - Ratking - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Life On Mars - Series 1 - Complete - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Life On Mars - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Sense and Sensibility - 4.0 stars
Teachers - Series 2 - Episodes 1 To 10 - 4.0 stars
Small Island - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Roberto Devereux - Donizetti - 3.0 stars
Hearts And Bones - Series 1-2 - Complete - 3.5 stars
Men In Black - 3.5 stars
White Heat - 3.5 stars
Zen - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Simm - 10 times - show films
Caterina Murino - 9 times - show films
Rufus Sewell - 9 times - show films
Liz White - 8 times - show films
Philip Glenister - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John McKay - 8 times - show films
Jon Jones - 6 times - show films
Christopher Menaul - 6 times - show films
Tom Shankland - 5 times - show films
Peter Lydon - 4 times - show films