David Calder
Also Known As: David Ian Calder, Dave Calder
Biography: David Calder is an English television, stage, and screen actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Birthday: August 01, 1946
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Gender: Male
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Overview: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Bread or Blood
Overview: Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globalization increasingly safeguarded the nation's food supply by the early nineteenth century
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-05
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Overview: Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-01
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The King Is Alive
Overview: Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-11
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The Trick
Overview: The Trick tells the story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism. With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of ‘truth’ took a back seat causing us to lose a decade of action.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-18
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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 World Is Not Enough
Overview: Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Love or Money
Overview: Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony took place on television, then married life really starts. To collect the price money of one million pounds, they have to stay together for at least six months.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-16
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United
Overview: United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Mr In-Between
Overview: A terrifying love triangle. An original twist on a story of divided loyalties, the perils of love and ultimate death. A haunting tale set in a London at times beautiful and ugly, but always captivating. A story that plays with the shadows and light of an underworld occupied by the fascinating and terrible.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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Rush
Overview: In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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A Question of Attribution
Overview: Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-20
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The Last Front
Overview: In a Belgian village during the start of World War I, the Lambert family finds themselves thrust into the heart of the conflict in The Last Front. Leonard Lambert, a devoted husband and father, grapples with protecting his family as German forces advance to their village. Amidst the war, a tender love story blossoms between Adrien Lambert, Leonard's son, and Louise Janssen, a local villager.
Genres: Drama War History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-07
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The Count of Solar
Overview: The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-02
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Henry IV
Overview: Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Queen of the Desert
Overview: A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Overview: After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Overview: Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-15
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A Doll's House
Overview: One of Ibsen's best known plays, A Dolls House caused a sensation when first published, as it provided a critique on the conventions of Victorian marriage. Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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Edward VIII: The Plot to Topple a King
Overview: Ever since King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, the official explanation had been simply that the government disapproved of his marriage to a twice-divorced woman. However newly-released documents, embargoed until recently, suggest that Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, played a large part in a plan to make certain that Edward VIII abdicated, not only because of his marriage to a divorcee but also because the archbishop disapproved of the King's whole lifestyle and modern attitudes to life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-03
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Wynne and Penkovsky
Overview: The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Shoot to Kill
Overview: Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-03
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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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Goya's Ghosts
Overview: Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-08
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Dangerous Lady
Overview: No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not make entirely of stone.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-23
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The Scandalous Lady W
Overview: A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-17
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Gossip from the Forest
Overview: The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-28
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The Lady in the Van
Overview: The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Sleepers
Overview: Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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The War That Never Ends
Overview: The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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On Expenses
Overview: Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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Edward II
Overview: The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-06
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The Black Stuff
Overview: A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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Fox
Overview: The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-10
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Moonlighting
Overview: A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-18
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Superman
Overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush: Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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Wallis & Edward
Overview: In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and Edward is the first time that the events have been considered from Wallis's point of view. The drama follows the beginning of their affair whilst Edward was Prince of Wales and Wallis was still married to Ernest Simpson.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-18
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Tumbledown
Overview: The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-29
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Casting the Runes
Overview: The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-24
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The Hatton Garden Job
Overview: In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly men. With the stolen property having a value of up to £200 million, the incident has been called the "largest burglary in English history".
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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The Lost City of Z
Overview: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-15
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Overview: A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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Anybody's Nightmare
Overview: Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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FairyTale: A True Story
Overview: Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Overview: Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-22
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Overview: Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-18
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The Tragedy of King Richard II
Overview: The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-30
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The Disappearance of Harry
Overview: Harry Webster (David Lyon) is an apparently normal husband and father who resides in contemporary Nottingham, England, which was once host to a flourishing textile industry. One day, Harry leaves his house and vanishes. A note he left behind alludes to a double life he no longer wishes to lead. His wife Liz (Annette Crosbie) conducts a search for her husband. Her findings raise a disturbing question: Did Harry have anything to do with a series of recent factory bombings?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Unreported Incident
Overview: Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-23
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