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  • Doctor Who - The Movie
  • Doctor Who - The Movie review by from Wolverhampton, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Sadly Unfulfilling 7 November 2004
    ...The presence of Paul McGann is what gets this 3 stars. Only just. This film was so disappointing. The TARDIS set is gorgeous but the poor plotline and awful continuity r...   Read customer review
  • Withnail And I
  • Withnail And I review by A customer from Glasgow
    Rated - 5.0 stars A classic 17 February 2004
    ...ouching, particularly the end scene and the performances by Richard E Grant and Paul McGann are infallible, particularly amazing as Grant doesn't drink. For anyone who's e...   Read customer review
  • Shackleton
  • Shackleton review by A customer from Somerset
    Rated - 4.0 stars Great film 30 July 2008
    ...w that the credits have got the wrong name: Crean was played by MARK McGANN not Paul McGann. This is an amazing docu/drama series and well worth watching. ...   Read customer review

Paul McGann - filmography


  • Luther - Series 2 (2 discs) on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Idris Elba,  Ruth Wilson,  Dermot Crowley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Afflicted by the brutal murder of his wife, DCI Luther has to continue policing in a very different world, fighting for his job and his freedom in two distinctive two-part stories.
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 1,230 member
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  • Luther (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Warren Brown,  Idris Elba,  Steven Mackintosh
    Director: Brian Kirk
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Luther is a dark psychological crime drama in which John Luther, a detective struggling with his own terrible demons, might just be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 3,452 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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  • The Foreign Legion - Tougher Than The Rest on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Paul McGann
    Director: Elisabeth Nord
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Men from all over the world have left their pasts behind to start a new life as elite soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Director/Producer Elisabeth Nord has been granted unprecedented access to follow this legendary defence force from the inside. The Foreign Legion - Tougher than the Rest ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 71 members
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  • Gypo on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Pauline McLynn,  Chloe Sirene,  Paul McGann
    Director: Jan Dunn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An engrossing and award winning drama following the dramatic events in the lives of one working class family when one of them befriends a refugee girl. Three very different but equally fascinating views of the same sequence of events are revealed as we see the impact of the friendship between hard ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,981 member
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  • Hornblower - Loyalty on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Ioan Gruffudd,  Robert Lindsay,  Paul McGann
    Director: Andrew Grieve
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The famed Horatio Hornblower series, which follows a man of humble beginnings who rises to maritime leadership and glory during the 18th century Anglo-French wars, now shows a slice of life during a quiet moment in an onging war with the unpredictable Napoleon. Our man Horatio takes advantage of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 2,116 members
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  • Shackleton on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Lorcan Cranitch,  Paul McGann
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of the most amazing and compelling adventure stories of all time, Ernest Shackleton's 1915 expedition to the previously unexplored, forbidding land of Antarctica has been a subject of great public fascination for decades. With 27 crew members, the intrepid man became trapped in the icey land ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 2,230 members
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  • Queen of the Damned on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Stuart Townsend,  Aaliyah,  Marguerite Moreau
    Director: Michael Rymer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A deep, dark, stylistic adaptation of the book by Anne Rice from her hugely popular series of vampire novels, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED is like a Nine Inch Nails rock video. Undernourished goth club kids are the focus of the film and they all look great with piercings, net t-shirts, tattoos, dyed ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 4,485 members
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  • My Kingdom on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Lynn Redgrave,  Emma Catherwood
    Director: Don Boyd
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bringing together two recent trends--British gangster movies and modern-dress Shakespeare--My Kingdom is King Lear in contemporary Liverpool. Richard Harris, who ought to be giving his real Lear about now, is fine in the early sections as the complacent gang boss who thinks he's above the street-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 503 members
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  • Doctor Who - The Movie on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sylvester McCoy,  Daphne Ashbrook,  Paul McGann
    Director: Geoffrey Sax
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this 1996 DOCTOR WHO TV movie, the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is returning to Gallifrey with the remains of the Master when the TARDIS malfunctions and lands in San Francisco on the eve of the new millennium. Events lead to the Doctor's eighth incarnation (Paul McGann) facing off against ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,199 members
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  • Bidding Adieu (1996)
    Starring: Sylvester McCoy,  Paul McGann,  Daphne Ashbrook
    Director: Andy Bell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A behind-the-scenes documentary in which TV's 'Doctor Who' Sylvester McCoy travels to Canada to meet the stars and production team on the set of the 'Doctor Who' movie.
    2 stars out of 5 33% from 6 members
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  • Alien 3 on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Charles S. Dutton,  Charles Dance
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 23,745 members
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  • Alien 3 - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Charles S. Dutton,  Charles Dance
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 73 members
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  • Paper Mask on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Paul McGann,  Amanda Donohoe,  Frederick Treves
    Director: Christopher Morahan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 234 members
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  • The Rainbow on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Sammi Davis,  Paul McGann,  Amanda Donohoe
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Defying the moral constraints of Victorian England and her parents, a young woman engages in unbridled promiscuity with two partners before setting out to capture the fuller sensuality of life itself. Based on the 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 594 members
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  • Dealers on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Paul McGann,  Rebecca De Mornay,  Derrick O'Connor
    Director: Colin Bucksey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    A beautiful woman is hired to recover the trading losses at a major bank. Her analytical style is in sharp contrast to that of her rival who was also up for her job and is secretly working to regain the bank's losses, too. But his wild trading style could put the bank, and their attraction to each ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 115 members
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  • The Monocled Mutineer (2 discs) on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Paul McGann,  Cherie Lunghi,  Jerome Flynn
    Director: Jim O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the novel by William Allison and John Fairley, this drama tells the story of a World War One mutiny which took place at the Etaples Training Camp in northern France in 1917 on the eve of the Passchendaele battle.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 596 members
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  • Withnail And I on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Paul McGann,  Richard E. Grant,  Richard Griffiths
    Director: Bruce Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 31,295 members
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Paul McGann facts

5 most recent films

Luther - Series 2 - 4.5 stars
Luther - 4.0 stars
Lesbian Vampire Killers - 3.0 stars
Lesbian Vampire Killers - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Collision - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Luther - Series 2 - 4.5 stars
Luther - 4.0 stars
Withnail And I - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Hornblower - Loyalty - 4.0 stars
The Monocled Mutineer - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Bidding Adieu - 2.0 stars
Downtime - 2.5 stars
Dealers - 2.5 stars
Lesbian Vampire Killers - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Rainbow - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Phil Davis - 8 times - show films
Douglas Henshall - 8 times - show films
Kate Ashford - 5 times - show films
Ralph Brown - 4 times - show films
Warren Brown - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marc Evans - 7 times - show films
Marc Evans  - 6 times - show films
David Fincher - 4 times - show films
none - 4 times - show films
Jim O'Brien - 3 times - show films