Simon McBurney
Biography: Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Théâtre de Complicité in England, now called Complicite. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon McBurney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: August 25, 1957
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The Last King of Scotland
2006-01-12
The Last King of Scotland
Overview: Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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The Golden Compass
2007-12-04
The Golden Compass
Overview: After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-04
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Body of Lies
2008-10-09
Body of Lies
Overview: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-09
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Friends with Money
2006-04-07
Friends with Money
Overview: As she reaches her mid-thirties and quits her lucrative job, singleton Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. She begins to envy the security of her richer friends and, although their lives may seem easier, Olivia's friends have their problems too: screenwriters Christine and Patrick are unable to collaborate on their latest project, Jane and Aaron have lost the romance in their relationship, and Franny and Matt have difficulties handling the demands of parenthood.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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The Duchess
2008-09-05
The Duchess
Overview: A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010-11-17
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-17
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The Manchurian Candidate
2004-07-30
The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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The Pale Blue Eye
2022-12-22
The Pale Blue Eye
Overview: West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Bright Young Things
2003-10-03
Bright Young Things
Overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Jane Eyre
2011-03-11
Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011-09-16
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Overview: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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Sweet Dreams
2003-03-14
Sweet Dreams
Overview: Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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Eisenstein
2000-09-08
Eisenstein
Overview: A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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A Business Affair
1994-03-16
A Business Affair
Overview: This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-16
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Magic in the Moonlight
2014-07-25
Magic in the Moonlight
Overview: Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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Boogie Woogie
2009-06-26
Boogie Woogie
Overview: In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his assistants, Beth, is sleeping with Art's most acquisitive client, Bob Macclestone. Beth wants Bob to set her up in her own gallery, so she helps him go behind Art's back for the Mondrian. Bob's wife, Jean, sets her eye on a young conceptual artist, Jo, who lusts after Art's newest assistant, Paige. Meanwhile, self-absorbed videographer Elaine is chewing her way through friends and lovers looking to make it: if she'll throw Dewey, her agent, under the bus, Beth may give her a show. And the Mondrian? No honor among thieves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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The Reckoning
2004-02-26
The Reckoning
Overview: In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-26
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The Crying Game
1992-05-05
The Crying Game
Overview: Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England in the European Cup Final. To add to this he becomes a national hero, having seemingly saved a young lad from drowning. But Roy has a secret - he is gay - and the editor of the scurrilous 'Scum' tabloid is making it his business to out him. However, with the help of his manager, Roy can triumph at an inspirational climactic football match, where his tears touch the heart of the nation - and pundit Jimmy Twizzle gets very high on mushroom tea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-05
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Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993-05-13
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Overview: Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At the same time the extremely boring Gregory Dawson,who is interested in serial killers,is building his own torture chamber and making a very mundane video diary about his life. However the two worlds are shortly about to collide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-13
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The Theory of Everything
2014-11-26
The Theory of Everything
Overview: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Burning Ambition
1988-07-27
Burning Ambition
Overview: When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they think they're on to a winner - but they soon discover they're on course for disaster.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-27
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015-07-23
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Overview: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-23
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The Actor
The Actor
Overview: New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio. Stripped of his memory and stranded in a mysterious small town, Paul struggles to get back home, piece together and reclaim the life and identity he's lost.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
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For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
2013-10-03
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
Overview: Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-03
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Inside-Out
1999-01-01
Inside-Out
Overview: Girl cleaning windows of an Oxford St store catches the eye of a guy in the street who larks about much to her amusement.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Mesmer
1994-08-25
Mesmer
Overview: A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-25
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The Conjuring 2
2016-06-08
The Conjuring 2
Overview: Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-08
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Robin Hood
2010-05-12
Robin Hood
Overview: When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-12
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The New Man
2016-11-18
The New Man
Overview: A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Genres: Drama Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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Allied
2016-02-12
Allied
Overview: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Genres: Action Drama War Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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John Berger or The Art of Looking
2016-06-11
John Berger or The Art of Looking
Overview: Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Being Human
1994-05-06
Being Human
Overview: One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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The Encounter
2017-05-19
The Encounter
Overview: In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus. Simon McBurney traces McIntyre's journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into his solo performance to build a shifting world of sound.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-19
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Tom & Viv
1994-04-15
Tom & Viv
Overview: The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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The Mercy
2018-02-09
The Mercy
Overview: In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-09
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The Ogre
1996-09-12
The Ogre
Overview: Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-09-12
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Cousin Bette
1998-06-12
Cousin Bette
Overview: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Kafka
1991-11-15
Kafka
Overview: Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-15
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Siberia
2020-07-02
Siberia
Overview: Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-02
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Wolfwalkers
2020-10-26
Wolfwalkers
Overview: In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-26
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Onegin
1999-12-22
Onegin
Overview: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat – a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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A Mistake
2024-09-20
A Mistake
Overview: In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner, a nurse at the hospital, turns her back on her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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Nosferatu
2024-12-25
Nosferatu
Overview: A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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Gardening
Gardening
Overview: In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do 'the right thing', she realizes that she must regain her voice and find new paths to healing, before she and her garden are destroyed completely.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
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