Richard Laxton

Total Credits at Criticker: 13 (Director)
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An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables. (imdb)
As a posse of South London DJs battle their rivals to the North, one falls for a singer from the other crew. (imdb)
Hancock and Joan (2008) - TV Movie
This drama features Ken Stott as British comedy legend Tony Hancock, and charts the last two years of his life. Maxine Peake appears as Joan, wife of Hancock's best friend, fellow performer John Le Mesurier, who had an affair with Hancock and attempted to rid him of the destructive alcoholism that was to ultimately prove his downfall. (imdb)
Burton & Taylor (2013) - TV Movie
Legendary acting duo and husband and wife, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play, "Private Lives". (imdb)
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray. (effiegraymovie.com)
Poldark (1996) - TV Movie
In the beginning of the nineteenth century it's a big chaos in England. The mighty king is distraught and performs a bloody war against France. Captain Ross Poldark becomes reluctantly embroiled in battle. His wife is waiting at home impatient and anxious for the return of her beloved.
The Night Watch (2011) - TV Movie
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 and is sought out by his - straight - ex-cellmate Robert Fraser, who served time as a conscientious objector and is now concerned for the boy's welfare. (imdb)
River (2015) - TV Mini-Series
John River is a brilliant police inspector whose genius lies side-by-side with the fragility of his mind. He is a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.
Him & Her (2010) - TV Series
An acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all look at a working-class couple in their mid-20s. (imdb)
Mrs. Wilson (2018) - TV Mini-Series
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. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage - and Alec's love for her - but is instead led into a world of dark and troubling secrets. Alec was a British spy and a best-selling novelist and Alison is pushed to the very brink to find out the truth. (imdb)
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (2023) - Season 1
- Scenes from a Crucifixion (2023) - Season 1
- You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (2023) - Season 1
- This Is Not an Exit (2023) - Season 1
Joan (2024) - TV Mini-Series
A woman who goes between her thriving and daring career as a jewel thief, all whilst trying to get her daughter back from social services, we see a mother in despair swept up in the exhilarating world of crime. (imdb)