Craig Roberts
Also Known As: Craig Haydn Roberts
Biography: Craig Haydn Roberts is a Welsh actor, writer and director. He is best known for playing the lead role of Oliver Tate in "Submarine", a coming-of-age comedy-drama, set in Swansea. Roberts was born in Newport, Wales, the son of Alison and Haydn Roberts, but was raised in Bargoed, Caerphilly.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newport, Wales
Birthday: January 21, 1991
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Gender: Male
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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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Submarine
Overview: 15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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The First Time
Overview: A shy senior and a down-to-earth junior fall in love over one weekend.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-19
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Red Lights
Overview: Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Comes a Bright Day
Overview: A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Neighbors
Overview: A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-08
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Benny & Jolene
Overview: The trials and tribulations of the latest Indie Folk Star - Jolene.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-06
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Under Milk Wood
Overview: An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth. The plot reveals the innermost thoughts of the residents of the small, Welsh fishing village Llareggub as it delves into the dreams of various townspeople including blind sailor Captain Cat, who is haunted by visions of drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, who dream of each other, and Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard, who dreams of her former husbands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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Premature
Overview: On the most important day of his young life, a high school senior is forced to relive his failed attempt at losing his virginity over and over again, until he gets it right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-02
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The Double
Overview: An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Just Jim
Overview: In a small Welsh town where people talk to themselves we meet Jim, a lonely teenager who is given the chance to increase his popularity when a cool American kid moves in next door. Written and directed by Craig Roberts, who also plays the lead role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-25
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Kill Your Friends
Overview: In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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The Fundamentals of Caring
Overview: Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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Spectre of the Bear
Overview: One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's quest for the truth takes him on a journey into the unknown in this animated comedy about nostalgia, corporate conspiracy and bear-shaped snacks.
Genres: Animation Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-07
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Sunday Roast
Overview: When a nervous young actor is sent to a mortuary to explore his fear of death, he is given the tour by a foul mouthed and bitter mortician who does everything he can to make sure that Arthur will never consider his own mortality in the same way ever again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Once Upon a Time in London
Overview: Elliot lives next door to Lucy, and is well aware of her existence as he spends a lot of his spare time spying on her until he finally gets to meet her....
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Care
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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Bittersweet Symphony
Overview: A musician who has just completed her first soundtrack to a Hollywood feature finds her personal life getting complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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Tolkien
Overview: England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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22 Jump Street
Overview: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-05
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
Overview: Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet Britain" where "the natives are revolting - quite literally". Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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The Current War
Overview: Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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The Return of the Yuletide Kid
Overview: The Christmas Kid stars Craig Roberts (Red Oaks, Submarine,) in a warm-hearted comedy from writer/director Jamie Adams (Black Mountain Poets), about a former child star who learns what’s really important at Christmastime. Anthony Richards (Roberts) – you know, the Anthony Richards, The Actor – is depressed. His agent (Dolly Wells) has just dropped him, he’s unemployed, and he has little choice but to go home for Christmas - home to his doting mother, his jealous brother and a claustrophobic Welsh community that still reveres him as the home town boy who made it big. Back in his childhood home Anthony has demons to confront. But when Patricia (Erin Richards), the Head of Drama at the area’s most prestigious stage school, presents Ant with an offer to write and direct a play, Anthony finally has the chance to leave his Christmas Kid’s baggage in the past, once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-14
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Let's Love
Overview: When a director, actor, screenwriter and actress reunite for the 10th Anniversary of their one-hit wonder film for a convention that suddenly gets cancelled, they must improvise and come up with ideas for a sequel while in rural Wales.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
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