David Morrissey

David Morrissey
Total Credits at Criticker: 58 (Actor)
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Born Romantic
Three young men, cursed with two left feet, pursue three beautiful women across London. (United Artists)
Captain Corelli\
In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion. (imdb)
The Deal
The Deal (2003) - TV Movie
This political drama chronicles the early career of Tony Blair, when, as a Member of Parliament, he supposedly struck a deal with Gordon Brown to obtain leadership of the Labour party.
Hilary and Jackie
This movie tells the true story of the tragic life of the brilliant international concert cellist Jacqueline Du Pré and her sister, Hilary. Despite starting out in music together, Hilary chooses a more normal life in having a husband and children. Jacqueline gets married too but can never seem to quite achieve the happiness of the mundane life Hilary has and Hilary's devotion to her sister causes them to take some rather drastic measures in their lives. The irony of having a great musical ability fades away as Jacqueline transcends into a slow decline when struck with a deadly illness. (imdb)
Derailed
Charles Schine (Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Aniston) have noticed each other on the commuter train before. One morning their conversation leads to a flirtation which turns into an evening drink and then, before either one can stop it, a passionate one-night stand. But suddenly a stranger explodes into their world, threatening to expose their secret and lures them into a terrifying game with more surprises then they saw coming and more danger then they may survive. (The Weinstein Company)
Stoned
In 1962, Brian Jones was the founding member of one of the most famous rock and roll bands of all time: The Rolling Stones. A gifted musician, influential fashion icon and indiscriminate womanizer, Jones (Gregory) rode a glittering staircase to stardom for seven short years before being fired by the band. Shortly afterwards, he was found dead in the deep end of his own swimming pool and in the wake of his tragic death he became a legend. This is the directorial debut of Stephen Woolley, longtime producer for filmmaker Neil Jordan. (Landmark Theatres)
Basic Instinct 2
A slick psychological thriller, Basic Instinct 2 explores what happens when the darker side of human nature is uncovered. Has the intelligent, seductive and manipulative Catherine Tramell (Stone) finally met her match? (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Drowning by Numbers
Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured (imdb)
Robin Hood
Yet another version of the classic epic, with enough variation to make it interesting. The story is the same, but some of the characters are quite different from the usual, in particular Uma Thurman's very special maid Marian. The photography is also great, giving the story a somewhat darker tone. (imdb)
The Reaping
Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith after her family was tragically killed, and has since become a world renowned expert in disproving religious phenomena. But when she investigates a small Louisiana town that is suffering from what appears to be the Biblical plagues, she realizes that science cannot explain what is happening and she must regain the faith to combat the dark forces threatening the community. (Warner Bros.)
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend. (imdb)
The Other Boleyn Girl
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII. (imdb)
Some Voices
Part love story, part comedy, part study of madness, Some Voices is above all a beautifully observed, elegantly written and brilliantly acted low-key British film. (Amazon.co.uk)
Taking Liberties
A documentary investigating the civil liberties policies of Tony Blair's New Labour government in the United Kingdom.
Waterland
Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting - with his class, with his wife. He ventures into telling his class stories about his young adulthood in the Fens district in England. The emotional wounds from his younger life wash over him in present day, affecting his work and his relationships with his students and his wife. (imdb)
Is Anybody There?
Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the onset of mid-life crisis, Edward is busy tape-recording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die...
Red Riding: 1974
A rookie journalist looks to solve the increasingly vexing case of a serial killer on the loose.
Red Riding: 1980
Police corruption interferes with the search for a killer in Yorkshire, England.
Red Riding: 1983
The seemingly untouchable, corrupt West Yorkshire police, and the true evil mastermind behind the child abductions and murders of the last 14 years, can't resist doing it again. Against them, a fat useless lawyer, and one remorseful copper.
State of Play
State of Play (2003) - TV Mini-Series
A thriller set in London, in which a politician's life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage drug dealer is shot dead. (imdb)
Fanny and Elvis
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable. (imdb)
Nowhere Boy
The debut feature of Sam Taylor-Wood, tells the never seen before story of John Lennon's childhood.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend (1998) - TV Mini-Series
Based on Dickens' novel about a rich misanthrope who leaves his estate to his estranged son with an odd condition.
Sense & Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility is a story of two young sisters on a voyage of burgeoning sexual and romantic discovery. The death of rational Elinor and romantic Marianne's (Newcomers Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield) father throws their privileged world into chaos. With no entitlement to his estate, they are forced to live in poverty. Although the sisters' chances of marriage seem doomed, attractive men are drawn to the girls. (Wikipedia)
Centurion
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack.
This Little Life
A drama that centres itself on the life of a married couple following the premature birth of their son.
Cause Celebre
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. (allmovie.com)
Blitz
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Mrs Mandela
Fact-based drama which charts how Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to politicised fighter against apartheid, and from an adoring and loving wife to firebrand revolutionary. (BBC)
Welcome to the Punch
When a notorious criminal is forced to return to London, it gives a detective one last chance to take down the man he's always been after. (imdb)
Around the World in 60 Minutes
A view of Earth from an altitude of 200 miles, as a camera circumnavigates the planet to show changes that occur on its surface during one orbit. British-born astronaut Piers Sellers discusses what it is like to live and work in space, while the film reveals forces of nature that bring 100-mile-wide storms and reshape continents. Narrated by
The 7.39
The 7.39 (2014) - TV Movie
After fighting for a seat on their morning commute, Sally and Carl begin talking and suddenly their daily train journey becomes a lot more interesting. Carl is happily married, Sally's engaged - where's the harm? The consequences of discovery will be life-changing, catastrophic perhaps, and yet they can't help falling in love. A romantic drama for grown-ups.
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9 invites viewers into six very different No. 9s, where the ordinary and mundane rub shoulders with the extraordinary and macabre.These unpredictable tales feature high comedy and claustrophobic horror by turns.
South Riding
South Riding (2011) - TV Mini-Series
Sarah Burton returns to a small, working-class town in Yorkshire, as headmistress of a local, failing girls' school, full of idealism and opinions. Britain's unforgiving class system is in strict effect as Sarah tilts against windmills to try to give all of South Riding's young women a chance at education and realizing their dreams. (amazon.com)
The Commissioner
A member of the British Government is sent to Brussels to become British Commissioner to the European Community. He is made aware of a web of political and industrial corruption through a series of anonymous letters. Despite his own history of political expediency, the Commissioner rises to the moral challenge and faces off with the evil forces responsible. (imdb)
The Walking Dead
Sheriff's Deputy Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies. (imdb)
Blackpool
Blackpool (2004) - TV Mini-Series
Soon after local entrepreneur Ripley Holden (Morrissey) opens his arcade in his beloved home town of Blackpool, a murder investigation makes tears at the fabric of his personal and professional lives. (imdb)
Extant
Extant (2014) - TV Series
An astronaut struggles to learn how she became pregnant while on a 13-month-long solo space mission. (imdb)
The Missing
The Missing (2014) - TV Series
When Tony and Emily Hughes travel to France with their 5-year-old son Oliver, their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears into the crowd of a busy French street. (imdb)
Cape Wrath
Cape Wrath (2007) - TV Series
A married couple and their teenage twins move to Meadowlands, a friendly and seemingly safe suburban town, to start a new life. Here, they will soon realize that secrets and mysteries are plentiful, and past is a difficult thing to bury.
Ronaldo
This is the first official and fully authorized film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend. Through in-depth conversations, state of the art football footage and never before seen archival footage, the film gives an astonishing insight into the life of triple Ballon D'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo. (imdb)
The Ones Below
A couple expecting their first child discover an an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below them who are also having a baby. (imdb)
The Driver
The Driver (2014) - TV Mini-Series
A burned out taxi driver accepts a job driving for a criminal gang. (imdb)
London\
Set in Clapham Junction, London's Burning is a dramatic interpretation of a single night of rioting and looting that took place in August 2011. (junipertv.co.uk)
The City and the City
Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad in the European city-state of Beszel, investigates the murder of a student from Beszel's twin-city of Ul Qoman - which occupies the same space but is perceived differently. (imdb)
Britannia
Britannia (2017) - TV Series
In 43 AD, the Roman Army - determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Or so they say. (imdb)
The Singapore Grip
The Singapore Grip (2020) - TV Mini-Series
The son of a British family living in South East Asia becomes involved in a love triangle. (imdb)
Viva Blackpool
Ripley returns from Las Vegas with some big ideas in the form of a chain of wedding chapels and along the way gets roped into trying to steal the World Cup. (imdb)
Sherwood
Sherwood (2022) - TV Series
Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades before. (imdb)
Macbeth
Counted among his greatest tragedies, Shakespeare's unsettling combination of warring soldiers and 'weird sisters' is brought to life in this post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Scottish play.
Inside No. 9 - Season 5
The Long Shadow
The Long Shadow (2023) - TV Mini-Series
A desperate cat and mouse hunt ensues when Yorkshire is being haunted by a serial killer.
Slingshot
An astronaut struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. (imdb)
Daddy Issues
Weekend partier in Manchester, Gemma's life turns upside down after a vacation encounter leaves her pregnant. She must simultaneously handle her pregnancy and help her sad dad Malcolm following his marriage's collapse. (imdb)
One Summer
One Summer (1983) - TV Mini-Series
Two teenagers, Icky and Billy, grow tired of their life in Liverpool and decide to run away to North Wales. But it's not long before their past catches up with them. (imdb)
Framed
Framed (1992) - TV Mini-Series
A cat-and-mouse game between a charismatic and manipulative criminal and his interrogator, played out over the four episodes of the miniseries. (imdb)
Big Cat
Big Cat (1998) - TV Movie
Alice no longer expects a knight on a white charger to enter her life. Then she meets Leo. For the first time Alice begins to understand love and, for a while, it seems that she is going to live happily ever after.