Richard Harrington
Biography: Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975 in Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor of stage and screen. He stars as DCI Richard Matthias in the acclaimed Welsh drama "Hinterland"/"Y Gwyll".
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 12, 1975
Deathday: N/A
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Leaving Lenin
1994-06-03
Leaving Lenin
Overview: Seven teenagers and three teachers from a Welsh school visit Russia in a bid to rediscover themselves. On the overnight sleeper service to St Petersburg the students get separated from the teachers, which allows the students ample scope for rediscovery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1994-06-03
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The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
2021-11-07
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Overview: A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-07
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Havoc
Havoc
Overview: After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Hope Eternal
2008-09-15
Hope Eternal
Overview: After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 2008-09-15
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Little Munchkin
2011-08-28
Little Munchkin
Overview: A well-to-do couple goes to an orphanage to adopt a child, but will they find one who fits their persnickety lifestyle?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-28
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Mathilde
2006-01-01
Mathilde
Overview: A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation into the circumstances of their first meeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Nineteen96
1989-09-17
Nineteen96
Overview: Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-17
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Creepy Pasta Salad
2019-09-26
Creepy Pasta Salad
Overview: Anxious citizens of Wales survive Halloween, compulsory fancy dress, the endless drudgery of being put on hold and the apocalypse (sort of).
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Rehab
2003-03-26
Rehab
Overview: TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-26
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Royal Wives at War
2016-01-08
Royal Wives at War
Overview: The Queen Mother and Wallis Simpson look back at the dramatic events of 1936, which led to King Edward Vlll giving up the throne for the woman he loved.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-08
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Just Jim
2015-09-25
Just Jim
Overview: In a small Welsh town where people talk to themselves we meet Jim, a lonely teenager who is given the chance to increase his popularity when a cool American kid moves in next door. Written and directed by Craig Roberts, who also plays the lead role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-25
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Elfie Hopkins
2012-04-20
Elfie Hopkins
Overview: An aspiring teen detective stumbles into her first real case, when investigating the mysterious new family in her neighborhood.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Care
2000-10-08
Care
Overview: A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-08
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Deadly Instincts
1997-08-09
Deadly Instincts
Overview: It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-09
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Daddy's Girl
2006-01-01
Daddy's Girl
Overview: Nina, a troubled teen, is fixed on an uninterrupted feast of destruction when she’s forced to confront her immortality and twisted blood lust. Trapped between light and dark, psychosis and reality, the living and the dead, she’ll stop at nothing to satiate her CRAVINGS. Every addiction has a price, and usually it’s the cost of a life. Her price will be life too…but never her own.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Under Milk Wood
2014-06-01
Under Milk Wood
Overview: An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth. The plot reveals the innermost thoughts of the residents of the small, Welsh fishing village Llareggub as it delves into the dreams of various townspeople including blind sailor Captain Cat, who is haunted by visions of drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, who dream of each other, and Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard, who dreams of her former husbands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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The Proposition
1996-12-18
The Proposition
Overview: In early 19th century Wales, Catherine Morgan, a widow with two daughters, must endure the bumpy road to a distant market in order to sell her cattle to save her farm and family.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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The Contractor
2007-07-10
The Contractor
Overview: Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-10
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Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War
2017-04-15
Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War
Overview: Richard Harrington, star of Hinterland and Poldark, sets out to trace the journey of his grandfather, who went to Spain 80 years ago to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. In this journey of self-discovery Harrington travels from Wales, through Paris and across the Pyrenees into Spain, uncovering the reasons for his own lack of political motivation and discovering a story that kick-starts his own political awakening.
Genres: War History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-15
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Score
2001-06-05
Score
Overview: Comedy about a Sunday League football team who win the Lottery.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-05
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Gwen
2018-07-12
Gwen
Overview: A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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Last Summer
2018-06-07
Last Summer
Overview: During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-07
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The All Together
2007-05-11
The All Together
Overview: With a house to sell and no time to be there in person, overworked TV producer Chris Ashworth is forced to leave his incompetent flatmate Bob to show real estate agents around the property. Knowing that Bob is not the most attentive flatmate, Chris tells him to show anyone that calls inside. When Chris finally returns home he finds that Bob has taken him at his word, literally. With four estate agents, some Jehovah's Witnesses, an incontinent American, a corpse and two armed gangsters, Chris's world may look like its falling in, but there's worse to come.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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House of America
1997-01-01
House of America
Overview: "House of America" is a 1997 film directed by Marc Evans. The film, set in a depressed Welsh mining town, centres on a dysfunctional family unit of brothers Boyo and Sid, their sister Gwenny and their controlling mother. The film tackles issues such as Welsh identity, its need for indigenous heroes and the nation's perceived inferiority complex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Fatigue - Don't play with the fire
2005-08-29
Fatigue - Don't play with the fire
Overview: Welcome to the worlds most dangerous job.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-29
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Bitter Sky
2019-12-02
Bitter Sky
Overview: In the Welsh wilderness a young girl must break away from the coercive control of her adopted father, reluctantly befriending a lad from the local scrapyard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-02
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Fisherman's Friends: One and All
2022-08-19
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
Overview: Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-19
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Dafydd
1995-01-17
Dafydd
Overview: A young gay hustler from South Wales, Dafydd is working in Amsterdam where he meets David, a music lecturer also from Wales. Two kindred spirits in a foreign land. Originally aired as episode 2, series 3, of the television program "Wales Playhouse".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-17
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