Bill Paterson
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Biography: Bill Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish stage, film and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Birthday: June 03, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Overview: Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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The Witches
Overview: A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
Genres: Fantasy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Comfort and Joy
Overview: Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-14
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Complicity
Overview: Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-06
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Dutch Girls
Overview: In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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Miss Potter
Overview: Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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Defence of the Realm
Overview: A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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The Return of the Musketeers
Overview: It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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Amazing Grace
Overview: The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Ghosts in the Machine
Overview: Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and controversial shows. Contributors include Derren Brown and Yvette Fielding.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-27
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The Riddle of the Sands
Overview: Documenting the life in the estuary of the River Aithen in North-East Scotland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Victory
Overview: Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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The Man Who Lives with Bears
Overview: A man shows the gentle and agressive side of Brown and Black Bears living with and around them. After "Grizzly Man" died in Alaska trying to do the same thing, it's truly amazing to watch this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-03
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Hilary and Jackie
Overview: The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Yellowbacks
Overview: Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-30
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Documenting John Grierson
Overview: The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-28
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Arthur's Whisky
Overview: When Joan’s husband dies, she is shocked to discover he had invented an elixir which makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two friends, the three women paint the town red but soon discover that they are no longer equipped to be young in the modern world.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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The Man who Crossed Hitler
Overview: In the summer of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, and the city of Berlin turning into a paramilitary war-zone, audacious young prosecutor Hans Litten (Stoppard) chose to summon a star witness to a trial of Nazi thugs. In spite of the risk to his own safety and against the advice of those who love him, Litten forced rising political star Adolf Hitler (Hart) to make a sensational appearance in the witness stand of Berlin's central criminal court. Litten aimed to expose the true character of Hitler and his politics to the German public, to reveal his hypocrisy and his violent ambitions, and in doing so, halt the electoral success of the Nazi Party. In a humiliating and hostile cross-examination, Hitler was forced to account for his political beliefs, his contempt for the law and his desire to destroy German democracy. For a brief moment, Hitler's political future was genuinely in the balance.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-21
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The Colour Room
Overview: A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff rises to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Overview: Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester. Its screenplay was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss, Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 5 August 2009.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-05
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The List
Overview: Christopher Cowin is in his mid 30s, a family man who owns a small advertising agency. A court case he had recently lost has shown him the rich and powerful always win! That is why Christopher creates the website THE LIST. On this site, users can label corrupt individuals in public life and award them points as to how much of a menace they are. The result is a list of politicians, CEOs and bankers. The website quickly becomes a worldwide success but suddenly, whoever is number one on THE LIST appears murdered and public opinion starts to turn against Christopher.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
Overview: Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The special centres around a wealthy car dealer Jonathan Donald who befriends a terminally ill teenager Freddie Copeland and makes his Christmas wish come true.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-27
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Friendship's Death
Overview: A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, comes to her aid when she is found wandering without papers following a bombing and grants her refuge in his hotel room. But there she tells him she is a robot, sent as a peace envoy from another planet. He is not sure whether to believe her story or not, but finds her unusual view of the world appealing. They examine the human condition in a series of incredibly insightful and entertaining conversations.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-17
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Creation
Overview: A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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A Bear Named Wojtek
Overview: Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.
Genres: Animation War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-19
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Coming Up Roses
Overview: An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued by money problems, devises an ingenious plan to make money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Overview: In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.
Genres: Drama Documentary Music Comedy History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Overview: A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-25
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The Writing on the Wall
Overview: When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further he begins to dig into the secrets behind the terrorism, the more he finds himself immersed in dodgy goings-on in the corridors of power of NATO itself.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-21
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Hard Times
Overview: Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Lie with Me
Overview: In this made-for-television thriller, Roselyn Tyler (Eve Best) awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that she was drugged and sexually assaulted -- and her roommate is dead. When investigating cop Will Tomlinson (Andrew Lincoln) can't make the charges stick against the prime suspect (Paul McCann), he and Roselyn scheme to put him behind bars. But she soon learns that lies have hazardous consequences.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-15
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The Interrogation of John
Overview: A suspect is brought to a London police station charged with gross indecency. Police at the station believe he is connected with a murder in the area earlier that night, but the suspect refuses to speak.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-30
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Lily My Love
Overview: Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're going on.'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-29
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Truly Madly Deeply
Overview: Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Intervention
Overview: An eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for twenty-eight days with one thing in common, addiction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Killing Fields
Overview: New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-23
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Clydescope
Overview: A panorama of the Clyde, from Biggar to Brodick, with Billy Connolly as your guide. Directed by Murray Grigor for the Films of Scotland Committee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Chaplin's Goliath
Overview: A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Licking Hitler
Overview: 1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-10
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Byrne About Byrne
Overview: In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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A War on Science
Overview: When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 150 years ago, he shattered the dominant belief of his day – that humans were the product of divine creation. Through his observations of nature, Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. This caused uproar. After all, if the story of creation could be doubted, so too could the existence of the creator. Ever since its proposal, this cornerstone of biology has sustained wave after wave of attack. Now some scientists fear it is facing the most formidable challenge yet: a controversial new theory called intelligent design.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-26
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God's Chosen Car Park
Overview: Nathaniel Box, a self-styled prophet, along with his daughter Barbara and her fiancé Curtis, holds a night time press conference in an underground car park, devoutly believing that "a new Messiah for a New Age" will appear there before dawn - and their wait does not go unrewarded.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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The Vote
Overview: On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-07
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Chaplin
Overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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One Fine Day
Overview: Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Dad's Army
Overview: A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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A Private Function
Overview: In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Bright Young Things
Overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Churchill's Secret
Overview: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-29
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Othello
Overview: With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London of the near future, a crime-ridden metropolis virtually torn apart by racial hostilities. By order of the Prime Minister, black police officer John Othello (Eamonn Walker) is promoted to Commissioner, a post dearly coveted by Othello's friend, mentor and fellow officer Ben Jago (Christopher Eccleston). Seething with jealousy, Jago contrives to discredit Othello in the eyes of the public, and to destroy John's interracial marriage to the lily-white Dessie (Keeley Hawes). Among those used as unwitting dupes to gain Jago's ends are Othello's trusted lieutenant, Michael Cass (Richard Coyle), scrupulously honest police constable Alan Roderick (Del Synnott), and Jago's own wife, Lulu (Rachael Stirling).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-23
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The Whistle-Blower
Overview: A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-04-14
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Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
Overview: A journey into the history, pageantry and characters that have shaped a Scottish phenomenon. Acclaimed actor Bill Paterson narrates the astonishing story of the Highland Games. From the battling clans to Queen Victoria's infatuation with her Highland subjects, the games have become a symbol of community and identity in Scotland and all across the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-08
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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The White Room
Overview: In a world obsessed with knowing the future, we find Alberto, a Colombian immigrant working as a massage therapist in the City of London. Mild-mannered, almost shy, he blends into the multi-ethnic city to which he has come to earn money to pay for his mother's operation back home. The streets of London aren't paved with gold but with old chip wrappers, and Alberto has found himself trapped in a vicious circle. Staying in London beyond his plans, the fervently religious man becomes obsessed that God has a destiny marked out for him. Everywhere he begins to see signs - on the streets, in bars and most potently on the clients he massages. When one day, a 'third-way' politician, Jackie Jordan, visits the spa Alberto sees a sign that will set him on the path to his ultimate destiny. Absorbing the Bible, Nostradamus, Palmistry and the Qur'an in its mythology, this is a taut, poignant East London based thriller with a supernatural twist.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
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The Object of Beauty
Overview: American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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1929: The Great Crash
Overview: A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual wealth was lost. Later, three thousand banks failed, taking people's savings with them. Surviving eyewitnesses describe the biggest financial catastrophe in history.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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In Dreams
Overview: Lenny has some perplexing dreams.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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Mr White Goes To Westminster
Overview: A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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Richard III
Overview: A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Jackie McCafferty's Romance
Overview: A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-05
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Crush
Overview: Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the town's police chief and a cynical, thrice-divorced doctor.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Overview: Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery and the murder of a policeman. The only witness to the killing of Stephen Cameron was his fiancée, Danielle Cable, who was forced to change her identity after giving the evidence which convicted Noye.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-14
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Sunshine
Overview: The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Overview: An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-07
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Overview: Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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Hidden City
Overview: Cassies Stuart leads the uncooperative Charles Dance into a world of misplaces government secrets, capalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the truth be out, or will the attempts of agents suppress the truth hidden within government propaganda films, classified as top secret by complete mistake, be successful. Or is it the mysterious medical records that are the true catch of the spies.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-24
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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Overview: BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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Just Ask for Diamond
Overview: Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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The Ploughman's Lunch
Overview: As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-30
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Spice World
Overview: World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-18
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Overview: Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny messes up, he loses a lot of money, his girlfriend Kate's money. Alone, desperate and on the run from a couple of hit-men, he applies for a job as an entertainer's assistant becoming a dancing bear. Unwittingly learning of secrets around him, his past catches up with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-05
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High-Rise
Overview: Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-22
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The Match
Overview: Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Heart
Overview: A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Rag Tale
Overview: A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Overview: In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Kingdom of Heaven
Overview: After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-03
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Overview: Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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United Kingdom
Overview: Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents who attempt to organise against persistent rent rises.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-08
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The Odd Job
Overview: Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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The Rachel Papers
Overview: Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Wonderdate
Overview: A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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The Vanishing Army
Overview: "Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-29
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Into the Storm
Overview: This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-31
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The Turnaround
Overview: Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-05
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The Garden Beyond
Overview: The Garden Beyond is a dramatised portrayal of the life of bed-ridden Perth poet William Soutar - the first independently produced Scottish film to be broadcast on the BBC One UK network. Made in 1977, it reflected, as well as Soutar's own passion and commitment, the debate then current in the run-up to the 1979 devolution referendum. Forty-odd years later with a second independence referendum in prospect, it has, we believe, a renewed relevance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Chrono-Perambulator
Overview: Teddy Knox, a failed inventor, finds the key to a Stone Age riddle.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-12
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The Day Mountbatten Died
Overview: On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, great uncle to Prince Charles, was blown up at sea by the IRA off the west coast of the Republic of Ireland. Three others were killed on the boat that day, including two teenage boys. Later that afternoon, in a second strike, the IRA killed 18 British soldiers, across the border in Northern Ireland. Forty years on, this is the story of that remarkable Bank Holiday Monday – movingly told by those directly affected by it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-19
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Tell Tale Hearts
Overview: Anthony Steadman, a child murderer, is being released from prison after 17 years. Sally McCann, a mother whose child disappeared around the time of the original murders, pursues Steadman. Also on his trail is Becky Wilson, a local radio reporter, for whom the case brings back ghosts from her own past.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Wall of Silence
Overview: A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-17
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Marionette
Overview: A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-28
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Love Sarah
Overview: A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-02
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Fascism in Colour
Overview: After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he founds the National Fascist Party in 1921 and assumes political power in 1922, becoming the Duce, dictator of Italy. His success encourages Hitler to take power in Germany in 1933, opening the dark road to World War II. (Originally released as a two-part miniseries. Includes colorized archival footage.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Overview: A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in television and film. Featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Bill Paterson, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, and Jeremy Isaacs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Overview: This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away from the truth, even when it comes to himself, and so this documentary is self-effacing and refreshingly frank. The documentary details not only the battles Gilliam had with Columbia in getting the film finished and released, but also the imagination and innovation that went into the production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-08
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The Entity
Overview: The Entity is a documentary into the phenomenon of sleep paralysis, the state in which a person cannot move as they pass from sleep to a woken state.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-09
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Rebecca
Overview: After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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The Thin End of the Wedge
Overview: A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in their lives are even greater than his own.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-20
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Behind Bars
Overview: Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-14
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Home Road Movies
Overview: A sweet reminiscence about a family of four children and their RAF-veteran dad, who knows the timetable of every bus in London, but realizes his large family needs a car. He buys a Peugeot station wagon - license plate GFP831E, and the family sets off for annual holidays exploring every corner of Europe - "adopting local customs but never forgetting who won the war." The narrator is one of the children who, as he ages, sees things he missed as a lad - the car no rocket, dad no speedster. As the years wear on, and the car sits in the driveway, dad keeps it ready for the next great summer holiday.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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God on the Rocks
Overview: Growing up in a household incapable of showing love and affection, Margaret's life is transformed when Lydia, a worldly teenage maid, arrives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-29
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Children of the Wicker Man
Overview: 50 years on from the making of The Wicker Man (1973), director Robin Hardy’s lost papers come to filmmaker son Justin. Enlisting his brother Dominic, they journey to discover the complex nature of independent filmmaking and fatherhood. Justin’s view of the film is tainted because it robbed him of his father, his home and his mother too. Dominic is more distanced, his experience relating more to the film’s subsequent cult status. The sons can ask: what was Robin Hardy’s creative contribution to The Wicker Man? Viewers may not always like what the brothers find, but will come closer to understanding the evolution of one of cinema's most famous cult classics, and the maverick director behind it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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The Pen
Overview: A man frantically searches for a pen while stuck on a train journey somewhere in Scotland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema
Overview: When the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, north London, celebrated its centenary year in 2010, On-Par Productions were invited to document the cinema's history through the stories of its staff, patrons and local residents.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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The House Was Not Hungry Then
Overview: While searching for her estranged father, a young woman breaks into an empty house in the countryside where every visitor disappears. Now she must avoid the man posing as a real estate agent who lures victims inside.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-22
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