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Secrets & Lies

  • 1996 film

Mike Leigh's comedy drama in which an adopted optometrist sets out to find her birth mother. Also features Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan and more.

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Chance In A Million. Tom Chance (Simon Callow). Copyright: Thames Television TV

Chance In A Million

Sitcom from Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss starring Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn as walking disaster Tom Chance and his girlfriend, Alison.

High Hopes. Image shows from L to R: Shirley (Ruth Sheen), Mrs Bender (Edna Doré), Cyril (Phil Davis) Film

High Hopes

Bleak comedy-drama about London life across the social spectrum. By Mike Leigh.

All Good Things. Image shows from L to R: Shirley Frame (Brenda Blethyn), Phil Frame (Warren Clarke). Copyright: BBC TV

All Good Things

Comedy drama about a woman who can't help helping others.

Outside Edge. Image shows from L to R: Maggie Costello (Josie Lawrence), Kevin Costello (Timothy Spall), Miriam Dervish (Brenda Blethyn), Roger Dervish (Robert Daws). Copyright: Central Independent Television TV

Outside Edge

Gentle relationship-based sitcom set around an amateur cricket club and two very different couples brought together by it.

The Chain

Film about moving house.

Life Is Sweet. Aubrey (Timothy Spall) Film

Life Is Sweet

A comedy film by Mike Leigh starring Jim Broadbent and Alison Steadman as an ordinary couple struggling to cope with family life.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation TV

White Teeth

The lives of three families are woven together across three decades in multi-cultural Britain.

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