Richard Laxton

All Movies of Richard Laxton

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  7.5
  Rain Dogs (TV Series)
  Rain Dogs is a wild and punky tale of a mother's love for her daughter, of deep-rooted and passionate friendships, and of brilliance thwarted by poverty and prejudice.
  Director of the film

   2023

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  The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (TV Miniseries)
  Four-part drama based on the extraordinary story of how prison officer John Darwin faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy - unbeknownst to his two sons.
  Director of the film

   2022

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  7.2
  Mrs. Wilson (TV Miniseries)
  TV Mini-Series. 3 Episodes. The drama follows Alison Wilson who thinks she is a normal, happily married woman. But when her husband Alec suddenly dies, a woman turns up on her doorstep, claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. A...
  Director of the film

   2018

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  5.0
  The Mist (TV Series)
  TV Series (2017). 10 Episodes. After an eerie mist rolls into a small town, the residents must battle the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain their morality and sanity.
  Director of the film

   2017

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  8.0
  Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (TV Series)
  Centers on the titular holistic detective who investigates cases involving the supernatural. Based on the "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" novel series, written by Douglas Adams and published by Simon and Schust
  Director of the film

   2016

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  Mum (TV Series)
  Cathy is attempting to move on with her life after the death of her husband. Through a year of new beginnings she rebuilds her life surrounded by her sometimes problematic family and friends.
  Director of the film

   2016

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  6.3
  Fortitude (TV Series)
  Fortitude is a place like nowhere else on Earth. Surrounded by the savage beauty of the polar landscape, its future sparkling with the promise of Arctic opportunity, wealth and discovery, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on ea...
  Director of the film

   2015

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  7.7
  River (TV Series)
  TV Series (2015). 1 season, 6 episodes. John River is a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault is the fragility of his mind. The character is haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.
  Director of the film

   2015

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  5.9
  Effie Gray
  A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
  Director of the film

   2014

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  6.4
  Burton & Taylor (TV)
  Legendary acting duo and husband and wife, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play, "Private Lives".
  Director of the film

   2013

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  6.0
  The Night Watch (TV)
  In post-war London Viv Pearce, seeing married spiv Reggie, runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver, who lives with her older lover, authoress Julia Standing. Viv's younger brother Duncan, a tormented homosexual, has been in prison...
  Director of the film

   2011

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  7.4
  Accused (TV Series)
  TV Series (2010). Accused is a drama series broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. Each episode features an everyday person who has ended up in the dock accused of different crimes.
  Director of the film

   2010

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  6.0
  Him & Her (TV Series)
  TV Series (2010-2013). 4 Seasons. 25 Episodes. An acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all look at a working-class couple in their mid-20s.
  Director of the film

   2010

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  7.1
  An Englishman in New York
  Following the success of his television biography 'The Naked Civil Servant' Quentin Crisp is invited to America to lecture on How To Be Happy, and falls in love with New York's more permissive ambiance. Agent Connie Clausen enable...
  Director of the film

   2009

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  Hancock & Joan (TV)
  In the mid-1960s, Joan, not long married to comic actor John Le Mesurier, meets and is mutually attracted to comedian Tony Hancock, married to the long-suffering Freddie. Hancock's most successful period is in the past and he has ...
  Director of the film

   2008

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  The Ghost Squad (TV Series)
  Director of the film

   2005

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  Outlaws (TV Series)
  Director of the film

   2004

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  Wing and a Prayer (TV Series)
  (1997-1999). 2 seasons.
  Director of the film

   1997

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  Band of Gold (TV Series)
  (1995-1997). 3 Seasons. Gina Dickson, a young mother in Yorkshire, has thrown out her abusive husband but goes to a loan-shark to pay off her debts. But Gina can't find work, and there's no one to look after the children. She meet...
  Director of the film

   1995

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  The Innocent
  This densely-packed film is based on a book by Tom Hart about the struggles of a young Yorkshire boy trying to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mother...
   1985