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The BFG (1989)
6.4/10
Director: Brian Cosgrove
Starring: David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne
Roald Dahl's best selling children's book comes to life in this charming animated feature about the Big Friendly Giant. Read more
Persuasion (1995)
7.7/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Corin Redgrave
A young woman (Amanda Root) still loves the suitor she foolishly rejected years before (Ciaran Hinds); now she watches in agony as he courts her broth... Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Man Who Cried (1993)
7.5/10
Director: Michael Whyte
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Amanda Root, Daniel Massey, Gemma Craven
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick. When the one woman he love... Read more
The Impressionists (2006)
8.2/10
Director: Tim Dunn
Starring: Amanda Root, Julian Glover, Richard Armitage, Crispin Bonham-Carter
The French Impressionists' struggle for recognition in the face of massive hostility from the 19th Century art world is brought vividly to life in thi... Read more
Poirot: Mrs McGinty's Dead (2008)
8.6/10
Director: Ashley Pearce
Starring: Amanda Root, David Suchet, Richard Hope, Ruth Gemmell, Sian Phillips, Zoe Wanama...
Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) takes on his toughest challenge yet as he races to prove a convicted killer is innocent. Mrs McGinty was killed by a bru... Read more
Daniel Deronda (2002)
7.3/10
Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Romola Garai, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Dancy, Jodhi May, Edward Fox,...
George Eliot's last and most underrated novel has been wittily adapted to the small screen by the BBC. Daniel Deronda (Hugh Dancy), though intelligen... Read more
Time for Murder (1985)
Director: David Carson, Patrick Lau, Brian Mills
Starring: Amanda Root, Charles Dance, Claire Bloom, Jane Asher, Patrick Allen, Sylvia Syms...
In original screenplays specially commissioned for this series, Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, Gordon Honeycombe, Frances Galleymore, Michael Robson, and... Read more
Empire (2005)
6.5/10
Director: John Gray, Kim Manners, Greg Yaitanes
Starring: Santiago Cabrera, Vincent Regan, Emily Blunt, James Frain, Jonathan Cake, Michae...
Set in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, this epic mini-series charts the ensuing scrap over power between Octavius, the named heir,... Read more