Alex Jennings
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexander "Alex" Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. A three-time Olivier Award winner, he won for Too Clever by Half (1988), Peer Gynt (1996), and My Fair Lady (2003). He is the only performer to have won Olivier awards in the drama, musical and comedy categories. He played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen. His other film appearances include The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Babel (2006) and The Lady in the Van (2015). He also played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 10, 1957
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The Queen
2006-09-15
The Queen
Overview: The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Riot at the Rite
2005-10-18
Riot at the Rite
Overview: In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-18
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1999-11-26
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Overview: Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, is betrayed by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph perseveres through wit and faith and becomes the Governor of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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The Disappeared
2008-08-25
The Disappeared
Overview: Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-25
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The Wings of the Dove
1997-09-04
The Wings of the Dove
Overview: Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-04
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Five Children and It
2004-10-15
Five Children and It
Overview: A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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The 39 Steps
2008-12-28
The 39 Steps
Overview: Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when a secret agent bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must personally crack.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-28
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The Forgiven
2022-07-01
The Forgiven
Overview: Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-01
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Munich: The Edge of War
2022-01-06
Munich: The Edge of War
Overview: At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-06
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Dickens in London
2012-02-07
Dickens in London
Overview: The life of Charles Dickens recreated using puppets, live action and animation. An experimental visualisation by Chris Newby of a pre-recorded radio drama written by Michael Eaton and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-07
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996-11-29
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of umbrellas and lightbulbs.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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Operation Mincemeat
2022-04-01
Operation Mincemeat
Overview: In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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Hancock & Joan
2008-03-26
Hancock & Joan
Overview: Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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The Lady Vanishes
2013-03-17
The Lady Vanishes
Overview: Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-17
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023-12-07
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Overview: They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Dread Poets' Society
1992-09-23
Dread Poets' Society
Overview: Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
2010-04-22
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Overview: National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour, returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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A Very Social Secretary
2005-10-10
A Very Social Secretary
Overview: Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-10
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War Requiem
1989-01-06
War Requiem
Overview: During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images by maintaining hope in his love for an army nurse. But he also begins to accept his fate as another battlefield sacrifice.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-06
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Castles in the Sky
2014-10-07
Castles in the Sky
Overview: England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-07
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The Four Feathers
2002-09-08
The Four Feathers
Overview: A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-08
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Your Christmas or Mine?
2022-12-02
Your Christmas or Mine?
Overview: Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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The Lady in the Van
2015-10-30
The Lady in the Van
Overview: The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Churchill's Secret
2016-02-29
Churchill's Secret
Overview: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-29
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On Expenses
2010-02-23
On Expenses
Overview: Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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Denial
2016-09-30
Denial
Overview: Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017-07-23
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-07-23
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Blitz
2024-11-01
Blitz
Overview: In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Babel
2006-10-26
Babel
Overview: In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
2009-09-09
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
Overview: The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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We'll Take Manhattan
2012-01-26
We'll Take Manhattan
Overview: We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-26
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013-11-02
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Overview: To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-02
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National Theatre Live: Collaborators
2011-12-01
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Overview: John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-01
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004-11-10
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Overview: Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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Belle
2013-05-01
Belle
Overview: Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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National Theatre Live: Hansard
2019-11-07
National Theatre Live: Hansard
Overview: It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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Trap for Cinderella
2013-07-12
Trap for Cinderella
Overview: A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-12
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The Hunley
1999-07-11
The Hunley
Overview: CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy boat in time of war. It also relates the human side of the story relating the uncommon and extaordinary temperament of the 9 men who led the Hunley into history and died valiantly accomplishing this feat.
Genres: History War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-11
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Hard Times
1994-04-29
Hard Times
Overview: Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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