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The Night Manager

An Englishman, Jonathan Pine (played by Tom Hiddleston), is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), an English billionaire. She is soon found dead, murdered due to her having this information. Fearing for his own life, Pine flees, ending up working at a remote hotel in Switzerland. Four years pass, and then Roper visits the Swiss hotel. This rekindles Pines thirst for revenge, and he is enlisted by British Intelligence to spy on Roper. What follows is a very dangerous game of intrigue and deception. Use this page to compare tone, genre fit (Crime, Drama, Mystery), first airing in 2016, and whether this series is worth starting now.

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Story of The Night Manager

An Englishman, Jonathan Pine (played by Tom Hiddleston), is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), an English billionaire. She is soon found dead, murdered due to her having this information. Fearing for his own life, Pine flees, ending up working at a remote hotel in Switzerland. Four years pass, and then Roper visits the Swiss hotel. This rekindles Pines thirst for revenge, and he is enlisted by British Intelligence to spy on Roper. What follows is a very dangerous game of intrigue and deception.

Use this page to compare tone, genre fit (Crime, Drama, Mystery), first airing in 2016, and whether this series is worth starting now.

Title facts

  • Type Series
  • Release year 2016
  • Released 19 Apr 2016
  • Runtime 358 minutes
  • Content rating TV-14
  • IMDb rating IMDb 8.0/10 from 131,241 votes
  • Genres Crime, Drama, Mystery
  • Languages English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, Latvian
  • Countries United Kingdom, United States
  • Seasons 1 season

Cast

Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman

Direction and writing

Written by: David Farr

Awards and recognition

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 27 wins & 52 nominations total

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