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Television Viewed by Kathy in 2013

TV Show list created by kathy

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8.2

Any Human Heart

Director: Michael Samuels
Based on the novel by William Boyd
Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell, Gillian Anderson, Tom Hollander, Kim Cattrall, Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger, Ed Stoppard, Samuel West, Ken Bones, Stuart McQuarrie and Emerald Fennell

The story of Logan Mountstuart's tumultuous and unpredictable journey through the 20th century.

kathy's rating:

7.8

Broken Trail (2006)

Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi, Chris Mulkey, Rusty Schwimmer, Scott Cooper, Donald Fong, Gwendoline Yeo, Valerie Tian, Caroline Chan, Olivia Cheng, Jadyn Wong and James Russo

Based on real life events. Set in 1898, Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Ritter and Harte's attempts to care for the girls are complicated by their responsibility to deliver a herd of horses while avoiding a group of bitter rivals intent on kidnapping the girls for their own purposes.

kathy's rating:

8.4

7.6

The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)

Director: Marc Munden
Starring: Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Hale, Shirley Henderson, Katie Lyons, Mark Gatiss and Richard E. Grant

Set in 1870s London, a young prostitute finds potential power and status after becoming the mistress of a powerful patriarch.

kathy's rating:

236

7.9

8.1

The Fall

Directors: Jakob Verbruggen and Allan Cubitt
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Archie Panjabi, Niamh McGrady, John Lynch, Stuart Graham, Gerard McCarthy, Aisling Franciosi, Bronagh Waugh, Emmett J Scanlan, Ian McElhinney and Valene Kane

A psychological thriller that examines the lives of two hunters. One is a serial killer who stalks his victims at random in and around Belfast and the other is a talented female Detective Superintendent from the Met who is brought in to catch him.

kathy's rating:

7.9

7.5

Great Expectations

Director: Brian Kirk
Starring: Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet, Vanessa Kirby, Shaun Dooley, Jack Roth, Mark Addy, Paul Rhys, Harry Lloyd and Susan Lynch

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. Based on Charles Dickens' novel.

kathy's rating:

7.8

7.5

The Gruffalo (2009) (2009)

Directors: Max Lang and Jakob Schuh
Based on the children's book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Starring (voices): Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt, Rob Brydon and Robbie Coltrane

A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators.

kathy's rating:

968

8.3

8.5

Hannibal

Directors: James Foley, Peter Medak, Guillermo Navarro, Vincenzo Natali and Michael Rymer
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Hettienne Park, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Gillian Anderson and Eddie Izzard

Will Graham is a gifted criminal profiler who is on the hunt for a serial killer with the FBI. Graham's unique way of thinking gives him the astonishing ability to empathize with anyone - even psychopaths. He seems to know what makes them tick. But when the mind of the twisted killer he's pursuing is too complicated for even Will to comprehend, he enlists the help of Dr. Lecter, one of the premier psychiatric minds in the country. Armed with the uncanny expertise of the brilliant doctor, Will and Hannibal (known as a serial killer only to the audience) form a brilliant partnership and it seems there's no villain they can't catch. If Will only knew...

kathy's rating:

102

8.3

8.4

Forbrydelsen

Directors: Kristoffer Nyholm, Hans Fabian Wullenweber and Charlotte Sieling
Starring: Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, Lars Mikkelsen, Søren Malling, Bjarne Henriksen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Marie Askehave, Anne Marie Helger and Michael Moritzen

Acclaimed Danish crime thriller spanning the course of a 20-day murder investigation.

kathy's rating:

184

8.2

The Returned (2012)

Directors: Fabrice Gobert and Frédéric Mermoud
Starring: Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, Clotilde Hesme, Céline Sallette, Samir Guesmi, Grégory Gadebois, Guillaume Gouix, Pierre Perrier, Ana Girardot and Laetitia de Fombelle

A small French mountain community is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly re-appear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely unaware of their own fatality. Determined to reclaim their lives and start over, they slowly come to realize that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. Their return augers torment for their community when a series of gruesome murders bear a chilling resemblance to the work of a serial killer from the past. This is a homecoming like no other.

kathy's rating:

6.6

7.1

The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012)

Director: Hilary Audus
Based on characters created by Raymond Briggs

A young boy whose dog has just died moves into the house in whose back garden the snowman was built. Finding a photograph of the snowman, the boy rebuilds him, fashioning a snow dog out of the excess snow. The trio fly off in a plane to meet Santa who gives the boy a magical dog collar which will make it the happiest Christmas ever for him.

kathy's rating: