Greg Wise
Biography: Greg Wise (born Matthew Gregory Wise) is a British stage, film and television actor who appeared in many supporting roles in British television series' as well as feature films, most notably as John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility. He later married actress Emma Thompson in 2003.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 15, 1966
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
Known For
The Discovery of Heaven
2001-10-01
The Discovery of Heaven
Overview: Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-01
Popularity:
Sense and Sensibility
1995-12-13
Sense and Sensibility
Overview: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-13
Popularity:
Five Moons Plaza
2003-05-09
Five Moons Plaza
Overview: Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes on the case he along with his team finds more compelling and secretive evidences. Too many secrets are found that should stayed as secrets.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-09
Popularity:
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
2006-01-17
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Overview: Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-17
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Johnny English
2003-03-14
Johnny English
Overview: A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneur sponsors the exhibition of the Crown Jewels—and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night and on English's watch—the newly-designated agent must jump into action to find the thief and recover the missing gems.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-14
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003-01-05
Hornblower: Loyalty
Overview: Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-05
Popularity:
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
2005-10-29
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Overview: This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-29
Popularity:
Number 13
2006-12-22
Number 13
Overview: In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition. During the night, noise conspires to keep him awake and the historian is astonished to come face to face with door number 13. Continuing his work, a history of a reformation era witchcraft scandal emerges. The nocturnal disturbances escalate, leading Anderson with no choice but to open the door to room number 13...
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-22
Popularity:
The Moonstone
1996-12-29
The Moonstone
Overview: Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-29
Popularity:
Honeymoon for One
2011-06-14
Honeymoon for One
Overview: A woman finds out her fiancé has been cheating on her so she ends her engagement just a week before the wedding. She embarks on an unexpected adventure when she goes on her honeymoon to a beautiful Irish castle estate - alone.
Genres: Romance TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-14
Popularity:
Blackwood
2014-08-01
Blackwood
Overview: Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
Popularity:
Three Days in Havana
2014-03-28
Three Days in Havana
Overview: A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-28
Popularity:
Madame Bovary
2000-06-02
Madame Bovary
Overview: A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-02
Popularity:
Feast of July
1995-10-12
Feast of July
Overview: After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-12
Popularity:
Walking on Sunshine
2014-06-19
Walking on Sunshine
Overview: Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-19
Popularity:
A Cock and Bull Story
2005-07-17
A Cock and Bull Story
Overview: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-17
Popularity:
The Place of the Dead
1997-01-18
The Place of the Dead
Overview: It was one of the last unexplored places on Earth; a terrifyingly deep gully in the heart of the Borneo jungle. It was the ultimate challenge – to climb down into it and explore what the locals call, "The Place of the Dead." Based on a true story that made headlines around the world, this adventure drama is the tale of men pushed to their limits and beyond, battling against forces that they could not comprehend.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-18
Popularity:
Unknown Heart
2014-04-21
Unknown Heart
Overview: A fatal accident changes the destiny of two families when Elizabeth Lancaster's wish comes true and she receives the heart transplant she desperately needs. The operation leaves her physically healthy but emotionally estranged from her husband and children. When the husband of the woman whose heart now beats in Elizabeth?s body, pays her a visit the two fall in love. Having betrayed her husband, Elizabeth must decide which of the two men she wants to be with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-04-21
Popularity:
Effie Gray
2014-03-08
Effie Gray
Overview: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-08
Popularity:
A Masculine Ending
1992-04-12
A Masculine Ending
Overview: While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-12
Popularity:
Judas Kiss
1998-09-16
Judas Kiss
Overview: The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
Popularity:
Hospital!
1997-03-30
Hospital!
Overview: Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-30
Popularity:
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998-12-26
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-26
Popularity:
Beautiful Devils
2017-03-22
Beautiful Devils
Overview: A modern retelling of Shakespeare's Othello set within the music scene of East London. Oz and Ivan are lifelong friends and music producers. When Oz gets offered a lucrative recording contract, he makes the decision to separate from Ivan professionally. This rejection turns to rage, as Ivan plots to undermine Oz's success and get him kicked off the label. The plan kickstarts an escalation of jealousy and paranoia in Oz. With deadly consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-22
Popularity:
Love of My Life
2017-02-17
Love of My Life
Overview: What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-17
Popularity:
Carmilla
2020-07-17
Carmilla
Overview: Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine. Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-17
Popularity:
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009-01-09
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Overview: The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-09
Popularity:
Military Wives
2020-03-06
Military Wives
Overview: Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-06
Popularity:
A Private War
2018-11-16
A Private War
Overview: One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-16
Popularity:
Africa
1999-02-18
Africa
Overview: A troubled supermodel struggles to survive after a car accident leaves her stranded in the African bush.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-18
Popularity:
After Louise
2019-12-30
After Louise
Overview: Kath, a shy young woman, befriends Bob, the reclusive gardener at a seaside hotel where she's getting married. Kath has never come to terms with her mother leaving home when she was eight and that her overbearing father, Ken, never talks about her. Now she is getting married to escape, only to discover that her fiancée, Steve, is completely dominated by Ken as well. Bob is a gentle, eccentric man with a dry sense of humour and a troubled past. He spent a long time in prison and in the years he's worked at the hotel he has never ventured beyond the gardens, which he tends with obsessive care. Kath sparks a connection to an unresolved relationship from Bob's past with a girl called Louise which resonates so strongly that he feels compelled to leave the safety of the hotel and confront his past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-30
Popularity:
Typhon's People
1993-01-01
Typhon's People
Overview: A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
Early Works
2020-08-17
Early Works
Overview: A teenage girl forgets to do her English homework, and hands in a plagiarized poem. Her lie spins out of control and propels her to a national stage at the London Children's Poetry Awards - but will she get found out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-17
Popularity:
Hills Like White Elephants
2002-06-01
Hills Like White Elephants
Overview: Hills Like White Elephants is a 2002 short film based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's story was published in 1927 in the second collection of short stories titled Men without Woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-01
Popularity: