The best Mark Gatiss’s drama movies

Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss

17/10/1966 (57 años)
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The Favourite

The Favourite
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaHistory
  • Release: 23/11/2018
  • Character: John Churchill, Lord Marlborough
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.

The Father

The Father
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/02/2021
  • Character: The Man
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

Match Point

Match Point
7.6/10
Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would take him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.

Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein
5.9/10
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
8/10
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

Denial

Denial
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 30/09/2016
  • Character: Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

Starter for 10

Starter for 10
6.7/10
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

Locked Down

Locked Down
5.3/10
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.

The Mercy

The Mercy
6/10
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Brexit: The Uncivil War
7/10
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
6.5/10
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.

Consenting Adults

Consenting Adults
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/09/2007
  • Character: PC Butcher
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
8.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/2014
  • Character: Menenius Agrippa
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.

Against the Law

Against the Law
7.2/10
The film tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly – during the time homosexuality was a crime – turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s - the infamous Montagu Trial.

Worried About the Boy

Worried About the Boy
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/05/2010
  • Character: Malcolm McLaren
In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter, who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange's trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk. Through Kirk George meets the handsome drummer Jon Moss, on whom he develops a crush, but sacked by the Blitz and spurned by Kirk, George turns to Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren to further his music career. George's spell with McLaren's group Bow Wow Wow is short but fan Mikey North is impressed and asks George to sing in a group he is forming, where George again meets Jon. They will have an affair and the group will become the very successful Culture Club. Four years later, however, hounded by the tabloid press amid stories of his drug addiction, an unhappy George turns to Jon for advice on his future.

Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali

Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
6.7/10
A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film charts Dali's meteoric rise from obscurity to the world's most publicised artist.

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows
6.4/10
Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast within yet another version of Kenneth Grahame's classic book.

The Quatermass Experiment

The Quatermass Experiment
5.1/10
A contemporary adaptation of Nigel Kneale's seminal 1953 science fiction serial.

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 05/08/2009
  • Character: Ernest Dunks
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester. Its screenplay was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss, Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 5 August 2009.

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