Biography: Peter Wight is a British character actor of stage, film and TV who is perhaps best known for his work with Mike Leigh on films such as Meantime, Naked, Vera Drake, Another Year and Mr Turner. Wight regularly plays a police officer - most notably in the BBC sitcom Early Doors and in the mid 90s BBC drama Out of the Blue, as well as films like Shiner, Atonement and The Look of Love - and has had numerous period roles in dramas such as Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Our Mutual Friend. His other films include Hot Fuzz, Babel, Cass, and The Sense of an Ending.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1950
Deathday: N/A
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2006-10-26
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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2021-09-09
Overview: Early Doors was a TV hit when the sitcom was originally aired on the BBC in 2003 and gained cult status over its twelve-episode run. The cast took the show on a sell-out tour in 2018 and 2019 and have now released a recording of the live show to raise vital funds for The Christie Charitable Fund.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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2004-10-22
Overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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1993-09-14
Overview: An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-14
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2008-06-21
Overview: A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Slaps’ – slaps that can break a man’s hand. Three years ago, James’ alcoholic father Michael left him and his mother, but promised he’d be back to make them proud – now, James believes the man in the mask is his father, returning as a hero, but things are not what they seem...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-21
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1992-01-31
Overview: A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-31
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2001-08-24
Overview: Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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2010-11-05
Overview: During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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2006-03-16
Overview: Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome his homosexuality in 1950s Britain. This film follows his life and eventual death based on the many diaries he kept
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-16
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2021-04-14
Overview: A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-14
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1983-10-16
Overview: A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-16
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2010-07-15
Overview: A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-15
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1978-11-01
Overview: Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Overview: A desperate for work actor auditions for Shakespeare's Henry IV part 2 & is forced to perform more & more ridiculous characters by two good cop bad cop directors
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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2013-04-26
Overview: Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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2002-11-10
Overview: The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Their journey takes us deep into the world of New Labour headquarters in Millbank, and later Downing Street, exposing the machinations behind the party's transformation into the sharp, media-aware voice of professional, middle-England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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1959-12-15
Overview: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-15
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1987-01-18
Overview: Inspired by the true story of Mary Bell; Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings to an ideal : 'What I want most in the whole world is to be in love and to be loved'. Reality can be harsh and unforgiving.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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2003-02-23
Overview: Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her to convalesce at a large rural home, where she becomes friends with the woman's stepson, Michael. As Cassie delves into Michael's research about an old, newly discovered area church, it triggers some strange premonitions and offers gradual clues about her deeper links to this British community.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-23
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2012-08-24
Overview: The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2012-08-24
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1999-05-01
Overview: During a rural representation of The Passion of Christ, a young actor and a married costume designer start a romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-01
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1979-03-13
Overview: Dissatisfied with life with Jack, Penny offers a home to baby Zero and his homeless mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-13
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1994-07-27
Overview: Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-27
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1994-09-25
Overview: Brilliant, brutal and shocking drama starring Jonny Lee Miller and John Simm, following an ex-convict who falls for a prostitute, but makes a dangerous enemy of her pimp.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-25
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2007-02-14
Overview: Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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2007-02-27
Overview: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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1991-04-10
Overview: Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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2003-12-31
Overview: Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-31
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2012-03-18
Overview: Eddie Brewer is an old-school paranormal investigator, being followed as part of a documentary.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-18
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2011-06-24
Overview: ‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the new prisoner, Paul. Jack’s cell mate Ahmed, attempts to guide him on a path of salvation, a path that involves saving Paul from the clutches of the wing beast, Clay.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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2015-09-16
Overview: An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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2000-10-08
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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2008-11-17
Overview: Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believes is a high-profile Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear at Stratford upon Avon, Steel thinks he has finally landed the plum role he has been waiting for. However, he soon discovers that he has been tricked into joining an amateur dramatics group for a charity production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-17
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2016-10-15
Overview: This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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2012-02-03
Overview: David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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2005-01-03
Overview: A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive relationship with his niece Geli Raubal, which eventually led to the girl's suicide, then goes on to tell the story of how Eva Braun became his wife.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-03
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2007-04-01
Overview: Royal Navy Captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true love. Now he visits their former seaside country estate, rented by his brother-in-law, Admiral Croft, so the financially stressed baronet can afford a fashionable, cheaper residence in trendy Bath. The former lovers meet again on the estate, where they feel vibes again, but neither dares admit them until it seems too late.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-01
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2014-10-31
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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1996-05-24
Overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-24
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1997-03-09
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 TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-09
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1979-09-19
Overview: The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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2008-01-08
Overview: The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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2017-03-24
Overview: The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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2005-12-16
Overview: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-16
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2016-10-14
Overview: Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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2017-03-10
Overview: A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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2012-03-09
Overview: Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-09
Popularity:
2017-11-24
Overview: Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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1987-02-12
Overview: The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows Christine Painter as the down-at-heel waitress who, with the help of prostitute Shirley and cross-dressing Wing Commander Morten, seeks to up her earnings by turning her suburban home into a brothel. Before long she and her girls are chaining up judges, spanking Generals and attending to the needs of Honourable Members. Christine sees herself as providing a vital service to these harmless pervs and when finally the house is busted and the case comes to court, it's fair to say that the presiding judge isn't unfamiliar with her work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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2005-08-19
Overview: Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-19
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2000-09-22
Overview: The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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2003-12-12
Overview: The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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1997-10-24
Overview: Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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2011-11-23
Overview: London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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2012-03-09
Overview: A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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2001-08-15
Overview: Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-15
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2007-08-24
Overview: Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-24
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2003-10-08
Overview: Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of internet chat rooms, webcam sites and virtual communication. One evening, Thomas witnesses the brutal murder of a webcam friend and in a vain attempt to protect her he becomes the prime suspect in the homicide. Determined to prove his innocence, Thomas teams up with Claire, a specialist in internet crimes to uncover the truth. To expose the murderer, Claire and Thomas decide to set up their own webcam site using Claire as the cyber bait. Somewhere down the line the truth becomes blurred and Thomas no longer knows where to turn or who to trust. As his life starts to spiral out of control, he has to face the terrifying reality that he could be the next victim.........the virtual nightmare has only just begun.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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2019-07-12
Overview: A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
Popularity:
2013-04-12
Overview: A group of night security guards working at the fictional Whittington shopping centre in Greater Manchester must create an elaborate scheme to hide a robbery that has taken place on their watch.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-12
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2018-03-31
Overview: Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter Theatre. Robert Icke's innovative modern-dress production, featuring Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Angus Wright and Jessica Brown Findlay, has been widely acclaimed as a dazzlingly intelligent, forcefully contemporary staging. The Evening Standard hailed Andrew Scott's 'career-defining performance... he makes the most famous speeches feel fresh and unpredictable.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-31
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1980-05-21
Overview: The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-21
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1973-09-12
Overview: SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia call it “a structured diary film which investigates the process of living in Sydney, which uses a repeating light modulation to intensify experiences of light, heat, colour”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-12
Popularity:
2018-07-13
Overview: In the days following her return from hospital, new mother Kate is rocked by finding her world altered beyond recognition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-13
Popularity:
1988-03-29
Overview: At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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2005-09-16
Overview: A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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2020-10-27
Overview: During a hot summer, Sonya and her uncle Vanya spend their days idle in a dilapidated farmhouse deep in the countryside. Alone and isolated, they only receive occasional visits from Astrov, the local doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-27
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2007-09-30
Overview: The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges of filming a deeply interconnected narrative across four continents. Directed by Carlos Armella and Pedro González-Rubio, the documentary reveals Iñárritu’s commitment to authenticity and cultural sensitivity, from collaborating with local actors and communities to meticulously recreating environments. Through behind-the-scenes footage and the director’s reflective commentary, it delves into themes of human connection, the boundaries we hold within ourselves, and the visceral nature of communication, offering profound insights into the philosophy behind the acclaimed film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-09-30
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