Alun Armstrong
Biography: Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 17, 1946
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Paradise Found
2003-01-01
Paradise Found
Overview: Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Saint
1997-04-03
The Saint
Overview: Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Genres: Thriller Action Romance Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-03
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Krull
1983-07-29
Krull
Overview: A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-29
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The Mummy Returns
2001-05-04
The Mummy Returns
Overview: Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Eragon
2006-12-14
Eragon
Overview: In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-14
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Sleepy Hollow
1999-11-19
Sleepy Hollow
Overview: Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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An Awfully Big Adventure
1995-05-11
An Awfully Big Adventure
Overview: Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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The Nicky Nack
2021-10-07
The Nicky Nack
Overview: A man walking home from his local pub one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Van Helsing: The London Assignment
2004-05-11
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Overview: It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decidedly supernatural murders, being committed by the mad scientist Dr. Jekyll, in the form of his evil alter-ego, Mr. Hyde.
Genres: Action Animation Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-11
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Van Helsing
2004-05-03
Van Helsing
Overview: Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-03
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It's All About Love
2003-01-10
It's All About Love
Overview: The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-10
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Split Second
1992-05-01
Split Second
Overview: In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
Genres: Action Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Patriot Games
1992-06-04
Patriot Games
Overview: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-04
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
1994-11-24
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Overview: A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-24
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Black Beauty
1994-07-29
Black Beauty
Overview: The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-29
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Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
1995-10-14
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Overview: The top stars from the original London and Broadway productions join together with a 150-voice chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's venerated Royal Albert Hall for a truly magical gala performance of Les Misérables. You'll watch and listen time and again to the magnificent Tony Award-winning score as sung by stars forever linked to these roles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-14
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Sticky Wickets
1990-10-14
Sticky Wickets
Overview: It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster looms - it's the local cricket team's annual fancy dress bash and the theme is the Second World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
1999-10-01
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Overview: Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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The Duellists
1977-08-31
The Duellists
Overview: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Breaking the Code
1996-09-17
Breaking the Code
Overview: A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-17
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Carrie's War
2004-01-01
Carrie's War
Overview: Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.
Genres: Drama Family History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008-05-27
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Overview: The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-27
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Number One
1985-03-01
Number One
Overview: A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Witness Against Hitler
1996-03-10
Witness Against Hitler
Overview: The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, plotted to assassinate Hitler with a bomb in his briefcase.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-10
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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985-11-25
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Overview: Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.
Genres: Western Comedy Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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Our Day Out
1977-12-12
Our Day Out
Overview: When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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When I'm Sixty-Four
2004-08-04
When I'm Sixty-Four
Overview: When widowed cabbie Ray and retired teacher Jim meet by chance, they discover they long for the same things from life: adventure, challenge and love. Together Ray and Jim discover that being 64 means a new beginning: it's time to try the things they never dared in their youth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-04
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The Girls Who Came to Stay
2006-06-16
The Girls Who Came to Stay
Overview: The story of a couple who take in two girls from Belarus, a country that has been affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-16
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London Kills Me
1991-12-13
London Kills Me
Overview: For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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White Hunter, Black Heart
1990-05-16
White Hunter, Black Heart
Overview: Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-16
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Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
2010-10-03
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Overview: This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original production at the Queen's Theatre, the 1985 original production by the London company, and the 2010 production at the Barbican together for one performance. Together with talents like Michael Ball, Hadley Fraser, and John Owen-Jones, the performers present the play's musical numbers in a semi-theatrical style, fully costumed and with all the emotion of the musical's heyday.
Genres: History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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Fear of God
1980-02-26
Fear of God
Overview: A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-26
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Looking After Number One
1990-02-06
Looking After Number One
Overview: Dick is a pigeon fancier. Jean sort of fancies Dick. When a stray bird brings them together, Jean's admiration grows and she discovers Dick's true feelings towards his feathered friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-06
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The 14
1973-06-15
The 14
Overview: Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwhelming pressures to stay together after the death of their single mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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The Childeater
1989-01-01
The Childeater
Overview: Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned her that her uncle eats children who don't behave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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With or Without You
1999-09-10
With or Without You
Overview: Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Blue Ice
1992-10-09
Blue Ice
Overview: An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000-01-26
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Overview: This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-26
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Braveheart
1995-05-24
Braveheart
Overview: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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A Night on the Tyne
1989-07-12
A Night on the Tyne
Overview: When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-12
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All Day on the Sands
1979-02-24
All Day on the Sands
Overview: Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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The Likely Lads
1976-02-01
The Likely Lads
Overview: With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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The Dinner Party
2007-09-09
The Dinner Party
Overview: Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neighbor, they soon discover the strict social hierarchies of village life.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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The Widowmaker
1990-12-29
The Widowmaker
Overview: The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a woman whose husband has been arrested after going on a killing rampage and the reaction of her local community. It was produced In the United Kingdom by Central Independent Television for the ITV Network and aired on 29 December 1990. It received a nomination for Best Single Drama at the 1991 BAFTA Awards.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-29
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Risking It
1977-07-05
Risking It
Overview: "There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-05
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Sorry About Last Night
1995-12-27
Sorry About Last Night
Overview: A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are determined to find a drink after closing time, to prove to themselves that they are not careworn and middle-aged. What follows is a series of misadventures
Genres: TV Movie Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-27
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The Choral
The Choral
Overview: Set in Ramsden, Yorkshire in 1916, the plot centers on the chorus master and most of the men of the ambitious local Choral Society, who have volunteered for the front. Under the direction of the demanding, driven Dr. Guthrie, the Choral recruits a crop of teenage boys and girls. Together they discover the joys of singing and the urgency of desire as the new boys come to terms with their imminent conscription into the army.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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Golden Years
2016-04-29
Golden Years
Overview: Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-29
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Doggin' Around
1994-10-16
Doggin' Around
Overview: The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previously.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-16
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Get Carter
1971-02-03
Get Carter
Overview: Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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A Bridge Too Far
1977-06-15
A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Harrison's Flowers
2000-09-23
Harrison's Flowers
Overview: 1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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That Summer of White Roses
1989-01-01
That Summer of White Roses
Overview: World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Asunder
2016-07-10
Asunder
Overview: Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who fought in the fields to those who stayed behind to work in the region’s shipyards and munitions factories.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-10
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Inquisition
2002-12-22
Inquisition
Overview: Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the dead. There are rumours that he might be the second coming of the Messiah. He is brought before the Grand Inquisitor. Though questioned and tortured, he chooses to remain silent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-22
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Brazen Hussies
1996-11-30
Brazen Hussies
Overview: After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging business by turning it into a male stripper club, with the help of untrustworthy businessman Billy Bowman.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-30
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Funny Cow
2018-04-20
Funny Cow
Overview: A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Oliver Twist
2005-09-23
Oliver Twist
Overview: Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Strictly Sinatra
2001-06-29
Strictly Sinatra
Overview: In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his only friend. Toni dreams big and enters a local television talent show. About that time, a local Mob boss decides Toni is great entertainment and invites him to be his guest at a casino. Toni chats up Irene, a cigarette girl, he gets an odd job or two from Chisolm, the mobster's number two, the audition goes bust, and Toni's future is uncertain. One thing leads to another with the Mob. Is Toni at a crossroads, or is there in reality no turning or going back?
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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Millions
2004-04-29
Millions
Overview: Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-29
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Possum
2018-10-26
Possum
Overview: A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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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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7 Up 2000
2000-04-13
7 Up 2000
Overview: A new generation of British children feature in a follow-up to the original 7 Up series
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-13
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Proof of Life
2000-12-08
Proof of Life
Overview: Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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Only Make Believe
1973-02-12
Only Make Believe
Overview: Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-12
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Mr Moon's Last Case
1983-01-01
Mr Moon's Last Case
Overview: Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protect a leprechaun from the investigations of the local police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Out of Innocence
2019-04-12
Out of Innocence
Overview: After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-12
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Aristocrats
1999-06-20
Aristocrats
Overview: 18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-20
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The House
1984-09-27
The House
Overview: Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-27
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Measure for Measure
1979-02-18
Measure for Measure
Overview: When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-18
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981-08-28
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Overview: In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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Shooting the Chandelier
1977-10-26
Shooting the Chandelier
Overview: During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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Easy Go
1974-03-07
Easy Go
Overview: A hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the rival factions to win it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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The Sex Victims
1973-04-04
The Sex Victims
Overview: A lone truck driver who is lured into the woods by a nubile Lady Godiva discovers after he’s slept with her that all is not as it seems. The Sex Victims (1973) is very much part of the Britsploitation fold, featuring gratuitous nudity, working-class vernacular and rough sex. Yet director Derek Robbins also veers into some of the same uncanny territory directors like José Larraz would later explore at feature length, making it a unique hybrid. In fact, The Sex Victims would make a perfect bill cousin for Larraz’s Vampyres (1974) for the way in which it combines ample nudity with supernatural elements. (BFI)
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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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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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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The Eyes Have It
1973-06-09
The Eyes Have It
Overview: A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the assassination of a politician who will soon be passing the school on a parade route. Only one student, Sally, suspects that the men upstairs may be dangerous...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-09
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985-01-01
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Overview: The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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American Friends
1991-03-22
American Friends
Overview: Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-22
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Freedom of the Dig
1978-10-23
Freedom of the Dig
Overview: After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but there are other problems apart from the weather
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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Liza
1978-03-28
Liza
Overview: Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-28
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Breaking The Codes
2020-01-23
Breaking The Codes
Overview: Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought far from the bombs and shells of any battlefront. A war that involved the brilliant skills of mathematicians and chess players. Revealed here are the remarkable exploits of American and British code-breakers and their immense contribution to victory in during WWII.
Genres: History War Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-23
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