David Thewlis
Also Known As: 데이빗 듈리스, David Wheeler, 大卫·休里斯, دیوید تیولیس
Biography: David Wheeler (born March 20, 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television. He has received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and acted in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993), winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the latter. He then appeared in films such as Black Beauty (1994), Restoration (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He became more widely known to film audiences for his roles as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011) and Ares / Sir Patrick Morgan in Wonder Woman (2017). Other film roles include Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Anomalisa (2015), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022). Thewlis' most notable television roles include V. M. Varga in the third season of FX's Fargo (2017), the voice of the Shame Wizard in the Netflix animated sitcoms Big Mouth (2017–present) and Human Resources (2022–present), Christopher Edwards in the HBO miniseries Landscapers (2021), and John Dee in the Netflix drama series The Sandman (2022). His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: March 20, 1963
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Gender: Male
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Seven Years in Tibet
Overview: Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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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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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Overview: Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Overview: Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-08
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Overview: As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-15
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The Omen
Overview: A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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James and the Giant Peach
Overview: When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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Basic Instinct 2
Overview: Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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Gangster No. 1
Overview: An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Enola Holmes 2
Overview: Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends — and Sherlock himself — to unravel.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-30
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Damage
Overview: The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-02
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The Miracle Maker
Overview: A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Naked
Overview: An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-14
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Goodbye Charlie Bright
Overview: Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate where they live. With Tommy about to join the army and Francis having fallen in love, friendships and loyalties are tested as the friends drift in their own directions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-11
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DragonHeart
Overview: In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-31
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-17
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-12
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
Overview: A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Timeline
Overview: A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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Veronika Decides to Die
Overview: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-16
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Restoration
Overview: An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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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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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Overview: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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Total Eclipse
Overview: Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-03
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Life Is Sweet
Overview: Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-15
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Afraid of the Dark
Overview: A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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Anonymous
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Divorcing Jack
Overview: He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Besieged
Overview: While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-02-05
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All the Invisible Children
Overview: Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Mr. Nice
Overview: Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Endgame
Overview: Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-10
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London Boulevard
Overview: A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Overview: A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but as time passes she becomes more and more unattainable.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-11
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Overview: It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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The Trial
Overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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The Making of 'DragonHeart'
Overview: This documentary was first released on the laserdisc for DragonHeart, and was then re-released on both the Collector's Edition and Franchise Collection DVDs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-14
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War Horse
Overview: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Genres: War History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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Resurrected
Overview: A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
Genres: War Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-12
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The Lady
Overview: The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-30
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Cheeky
Overview: Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-08
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RED 2
Overview: Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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The Zero Theorem
Overview: A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-20
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Filipina Dreamgirls
Overview: Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for romance and possible marriage. None of the women are the ideal Asiatic beauties the men imagined, but by the end of the tour, most of the Englishmen return with a new bride.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-15
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Littlemouth
Overview: It tells the story of a computer scientist who is recruited by a tech billionaire to work on a project that could change humanity's place in the universe.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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The Fifth Estate
Overview: A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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D.I.Y. Hard
Overview: A hostage situation takes an unusual turn.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-30
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Road
Overview: A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Overview: A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Vroom
Overview: Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubblegum pink chevrolet.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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The New World
Overview: A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-25
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Queen & Country
Overview: In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-14
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The Theory of Everything
Overview: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Macbeth
Overview: Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-22
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Regression
Overview: Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Overview: A cockroach with artistic aspirations follows an angst-ridden and talentless artist from pub to studio in pursuit of his dream, and comes to a sticky end.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Stonehearst Asylum
Overview: An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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Legend
Overview: Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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The Big Lebowski
Overview: Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-06
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The Short & Curlies
Overview: A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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Swords at Teatime
Overview: Michael climbs on to the roof of the block of flats where he lives with his mother, and finds a world of make-believe, duels, and chickens existing over their heads.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-14
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An Inspector Calls
Overview: Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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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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Little Wolf's Book of Badness
Overview: He washes his paws, brushes his teeth and goes to bed early. He is packed off to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College, where he will learn the Nine Rules of Badness and hopefully win a Badness Badge.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-08
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Love Story
Overview: A short film by Nick Love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Wonder Woman
Overview: An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-30
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Journey to Knock
Overview: Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-17
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American Perfekt
Overview: Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice, at a cheap motel before continuing on to visit their ailing mother. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. Or worse. Jake and Sandra's romance is soon driven by chance acts of crime and kindness, all governed by the flip of a coin - at least until Sandra mysteriously disappears and Jake unwittingly picks up her suspicious sister, Alice ...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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The Mercy
Overview: In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-09
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Little Dorrit
Overview: A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film originally released in two parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Hamilton Mattress
Overview: Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Dinotopia
Overview: After a plane crash strands two brothers on a lost continent where dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony, they disagree over escape plans. (Condensed cut of original mini-series to be a feature length as seen on Peacock).
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-12
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Separate We Come, Separate We Go
Overview: Separate We Come, Separate We Go is the story of a 10-year-old girl, Thea who escapes her bleak domestic life to find sanctuary in the surreal desert landscape of Dungeness. Roaming around the barren skeletons of boats and abandoned fishing huts, she is increasingly aware of her loneliness and vulnerability. Seemingly out of nowhere a man (David Thewlis) appears; she is so intrigued by him she defies all lessons taught about strangers and approaches him. As they walk and talk she discovers he is a widower and has lost his son; she realises she is not alone in experiencing loss. He notices her sadness and unusual maturity and decides to help lift her out of her melancholy. Through the metaphor of the freedom of flying birds, he shows her that life does have exciting possibilities. This redemptive story shows that in life you should not allow fear to limit your horizons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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How to Get a Head in Sculpture
Overview: From the heads of Roman Emperors to the 'blood head' of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the greatest figures in world sculpture have continually turned to the head to re-evaluate what it means to be human and to reformulate how closely sculpture can capture it. Witty, eclectic and insightful, this film is a journey through the most enduring subject for world sculpture, one that carves a path through politics and religion, the ancient and the modern. Actor David Thewlis has his head sculpted by three different sculptors, while the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, artist Maggi Hambling and art critic Rachel Johnston discuss art's most enduring preoccupation, ourselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-23
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Overview: A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story through objects in their collection, in an ambitious new exhibition: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic. J.K. Rowling, who is lending unseen manuscripts, drawings and drafts from her private archives (which will sit alongside treasures from the British Library, as well as original drafts and drawings from Jim Kay) talks about some of the personal items she has lent to the exhibition and gives new insight into her writing, looking at some of the objects from the exhibition that have fired her imagination.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Justice League
Overview: Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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Eternal Beauty
Overview: When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Overview: Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew him in the industry, and a discussion of the start of the #MeToo movement.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-21
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Guest of Honour
Overview: Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-09
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Rare Beasts
Overview: Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of her parents' separation and professionally writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who’s searching for a sense of worth, belonging and ‘restored’ Male identity.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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Skulduggery
Overview: Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The robbery never happens because the boys soon realise Sweeny hasn't put enough thought into the job. His closest friend Tel has a more gentle side to him and falls for a girl at a party called Kak. Gombo is released from a young offenders, and along with Tony finds Sweeny to give him a kicking which actually ends up with Sweeny giving Gombo a kicking! In the end they find an empty house where the owners are away on holiday so they decide to break in. This doesn't quite go to plan either.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-29
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Black and Blue
Overview: When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-27
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Overview: In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-11
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Athena
Overview: Chuck, a loner who had better days, runs a Halliday store in the middle of Californian desert. Customers are rare and he has only one regular, old Bill, who never fails to appear each and every morning and invariably buys a cup of coffee and a pack of cigarettes. But at a time his routine is broken when two living creatures get into his life. One is a - chicken which takes to him and that he will call "Athena". The other one is a charming hiker by the name of Patricia who chooses to stop at his place for some time. Both will help him to get his feet back on the ground.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-21
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Anomalisa
Overview: An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-30
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The Amazing Maurice
Overview: Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down the drain.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-07
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Overview: Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Val
Overview: For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Overview: Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-28
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Deep Red Instant Love
Overview: Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Lander’s colourful satire on capitalism.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Discovering Dinotopia
Overview: The citizens of Waterfall City flee for the tenuous safety of Earthfarm, abandoning their city to the dangerous Outsiders - who discover the key to Dinotopias future and threaten its survival.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-07
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The Thing with Feathers
Overview: A young father hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons. This mysterious creature, known as “Crow”, seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-25
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Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
Overview: A revealing and often ribald look at the seaside resort where people can let their hair down, whether in the sedate atmosphere of the Tower Ballroom or on the world's biggest and fastest rollercoaster. Actor David Thewlis returns to his home town, a place where beer is drunk and dreams are played out against the backdrop of a thoroughly British fantasy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-29
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