Nicholas Woodeson
Biography: Nicholas Woodeson (born November 30, 1949) is an English film, television and theatre actor, and Drama Desk and Olivier award nominee. Woodeson was born in Sudan and lived in the Middle East as a boy. He started performing at prep school in Sussex, and Marlborough College. He read English at the University of Sussex, and became involved in student drama productions, where he met Michael Attenborough, Jim Carter, and Andy de la Tour. He took part in the 1970 National Student Drama Festival. Next was a season in rep at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, after deciding not to pursue an academic career. He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1972–74). His first work after drama school was a season at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1974–75), in a company that included Jonathan Pryce (artistic director), Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy. He has worked in regional theatre in the UK and US, at the Hampstead Theatre Club, the Young Vic and the Almeida Theatre in London and at the Manhattan Theatre Club (Off-Broadway). He joined the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1982 and worked with them for seven years. On Broadway his work includes Straker in Man and Superman (1978), Piaf (1981), Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (1995), and Burleigh in Mary Stuart (2009). In 2011, he played Mr Prince in the National Theatre revival of Odets' Rocket to the Moon. He has appeared in the West End in Funny Peculiar (1976), in Good (1982) (also Broadway), as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (2009), as Bonesy in Jumpers (2003) (also Broadway), as Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (2012), and as Harold Wilson in The Audience (2015). He has been in two productions of Pinter's 'The Birthday Party', playing McCann at the National Theatre in 1994, and Goldberg in the Lyric Hammersmith's 50th centenary production in 2008, and two productions of Pinter's The Homecoming, playing Lenny in the 25th Anniversary West End revival in 1991, and Max at the RSC in 2011. In 2017, following the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, he took over the role of Willy Loman in the Royal & Derngate theatre's tour of Death of a Salesman, for which he was nominated for a UK Theatre Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role. Woodeson's first film work was a role in Heaven's Gate, released in 1980. By chance, he spent more time on location in Montana than any other actor in the film. He has also appeared in, among others, The Russia House (1990), The Pelican Brief (1993), Shooting Fish (1997), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Titanic Town (1998), The Avengers (1998), Mad Cows (1999), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999), Amazing Grace (2006), Hannah Arendt (2012), the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), Mr. Turner (2014), The Danish Girl (2015), Race (2016), Disobedience (2017), The Death of Stalin (2017) and The Hustle (2019).
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Birthday: November 30, 1949
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My Kingdom for a Horse
1991-03-12
My Kingdom for a Horse
Overview: Steve Deakin teaches history and is a foot soldier in the Sealed Knot Society. In a fortnight between two English Civil War battles he finds he faces challenges, both personal and professional.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-12
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Heaven's Gate
1980-11-19
Heaven's Gate
Overview: Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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A Paris Proposal
2023-02-11
A Paris Proposal
Overview: Emily and Sebastian travel to his hometown of Paris to land the Ad account of famed Durand Diamonds and end up in a tricky situation when the client mistakes them for a happy couple.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-11
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997-11-14
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Overview: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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The Avengers
1998-08-13
The Avengers
Overview: British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-13
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Beirut
2018-04-11
Beirut
Overview: In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-11
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Skyfall
2012-10-24
Skyfall
Overview: When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Bad Girl
1992-07-14
Bad Girl
Overview: A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-14
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Ramona & The Chair
2016-01-01
Ramona & The Chair
Overview: Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Hannah Arendt
2012-09-11
Hannah Arendt
Overview: HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-11
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999-10-29
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Overview: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Maria's Child
1993-03-28
Maria's Child
Overview: Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-28
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Men of the Month
1994-05-25
Men of the Month
Overview: Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling office block - each of them with an interest in the women within.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-25
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Hedda Gabler
1993-03-27
Hedda Gabler
Overview: Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-27
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A Fatal Inversion
1992-05-10
A Fatal Inversion
Overview: Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-10
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009-02-28
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Overview: After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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The Eichmann Show
2015-01-20
The Eichmann Show
Overview: The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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Piaf
1984-06-10
Piaf
Overview: Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-10
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The Blackheath Poisonings
1992-12-07
The Blackheath Poisonings
Overview: The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-07
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Max and Helen
1990-01-08
Max and Helen
Overview: In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated by the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-08
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The Russia House
1990-12-21
The Russia House
Overview: Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Conspiracy
2001-05-19
Conspiracy
Overview: At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-19
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Pope Joan
2009-10-22
Pope Joan
Overview: A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008-05-27
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Overview: The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-27
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The Danish Girl
2015-11-27
The Danish Girl
Overview: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
2025-01-13
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
Overview: Wendy Darling strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan who intends to send him to Neverland. Along the way she meets a twisted Tinkerbell, who is hooked on what she thinks is fairy dust.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-13
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Race
2016-02-19
Race
Overview: Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Great Expectations
1999-04-12
Great Expectations
Overview: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-12
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Savage House
Savage House
Overview: Set against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – this is a timely and darkly satirical story of Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage and their blind pursuit of a better life. It is not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed. Filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed, this is a madcap play on class and power.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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John Carter
2012-03-07
John Carter
Overview: John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-07
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Loving Miss Hatto
2012-12-23
Loving Miss Hatto
Overview: Drama inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Victoria Wood's new strange-but-true drama about musical deception and enduring love
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-23
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Poppy Shakespeare
2008-03-31
Poppy Shakespeare
Overview: N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-31
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Mr. Turner
2014-10-31
Mr. Turner
Overview: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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Shooting Fish
1997-08-22
Shooting Fish
Overview: Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.
Genres: Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Topsy-Turvy
1999-12-15
Topsy-Turvy
Overview: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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Amazing Grace
2006-09-16
Amazing Grace
Overview: The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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The Limehouse Golem
2016-10-18
The Limehouse Golem
Overview: A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-18
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Hysteria
2011-06-06
Hysteria
Overview: Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Paddington 2
2017-11-09
Paddington 2
Overview: Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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The Death of Stalin
2017-10-20
The Death of Stalin
Overview: When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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Disobedience
2018-04-24
Disobedience
Overview: A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-24
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Titanic Town
1998-08-08
Titanic Town
Overview: Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-08
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Mad Cows
1999-10-29
Mad Cows
Overview: When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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The Woman In White
1997-01-01
The Woman In White
Overview: Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Hustle
2019-05-09
The Hustle
Overview: Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-09
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The Pelican Brief
1993-09-17
The Pelican Brief
Overview: A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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One of the Hollywood Ten
2002-06-07
One of the Hollywood Ten
Overview: Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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On the Beaches
2019-11-19
On the Beaches
Overview: England, 1933. Runaway siblings Kitty and David's game of soldiers takes a surprising turn when they find their clifftop hideout occupied by Jewish refugee Albert Einstein.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-19
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Firebird
2021-10-29
Firebird
Overview: At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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Christine
2004-02-13
Christine
Overview: Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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Rome
2005-08-28
Rome
Overview: A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-28
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