Roger Allam
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roger Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film and television. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Allam, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: October 26, 1953
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Gender: Male
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Overview: In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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The Queen
Overview: The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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V for Vendetta
Overview: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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Tetris
Overview: In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
Genres: Thriller History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-15
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Overview: Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-15
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Speed Racer
Overview: Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
Genres: Family Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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The Real Spies Among Friends
Overview: Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
Genres: Documentary History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-08
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Tamara Drewe
Overview: A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-14
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The Woman in Black
Overview: The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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IN THE BLACKOUT
Overview: A show unlike any other. Wolfie runs the local burlesque gentlemen's club in which the dancers re-enact scenes from fairy tales. When the newest dancer Lily joins she suddenly finds herself caught in Wolfie's unnerving attention.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Angels' Share
Overview: Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-01
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Overview: An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-04
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The Book Thief
Overview: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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A Class Apart
Overview: An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover the headmaster offered a place merely to win a bet.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-23
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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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A Landing on the Sun
Overview: Brian Jessel, a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is asked to investigate the mysterious death of the civil servant Stephen Summerchild twenty years earlier. Summerchild was working on a Cabinet project, under the Oxford philosophy don Elizabeth Serafin, to find the "quality of life" in Britain. Jessel finds a box of audio tapes from the project containing all the discussions up to the time Summerchild fell off the Admiralty Building.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Overview: This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original production at the Queen's Theatre, the 1985 original production by the London company, and the 2010 production at the Barbican together for one performance. Together with talents like Michael Ball, Hadley Fraser, and John Owen-Jones, the performers present the play's musical numbers in a semi-theatrical style, fully costumed and with all the emotion of the musical's heyday.
Genres: History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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Les Mis at 25: Matt Lucas Dreams the Dream
Overview: Les Miserables is the world's best-loved musical. It has been seen by 57 million people and in 2010 celebrated its 25th anniversary with its two largest ever productions at London's O2 Arena. Matt Lucas, a lifelong fan of 'Les Mis', was invited to fulfil his dream of performing in these shows alongside more than 300 stalwarts from previous productions. This documentary tells the story of a musical that many thought would fail, but which became a worldwide phenomenon with unforgettable songs like I Dreamed A Dream. We follow Matt as he prepares for the performance of a lifetime, we hear from those involved with the show's creation, including Cameron Mackintosh and Michael Ball, and of course we enjoy wonderful moments from the show itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-29
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A Cock and Bull Story
Overview: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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A Royal Night Out
Overview: The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-14
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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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Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: Hotspur is dead and Prince Hal has proved his mettle on the battlefield, but King Henry IV lies dying and the rebels show no sign of surrendering. Even Sir John Falstaff is forced out of the taverns to raise a militia, but will his attachment to Hal be rewarded with promotion and the life of ease he feels sure he deserves? Henry IV Part 2 includes some of the greatest moments in Shakespeare: the deathbed scene of the old King, when Hal contemplates the crown; and Hal's devastating rejection of Falstaff himself. Roger Allam ('a Falstaff to treasure' - The Times) won the 2011 Best Actor Olivier Award for his performance in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. 'Jamie Parker (Prince Hal) is 'terrific to watch' (London Evening Standard); he appeared in As You Like It at the Globe in 2009, and was also in The History Boys at the National Theatre, on Broadway and on film.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-25
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Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: Prince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and the whores, boozers and petty rogues of Eastcheap. But beside these scenes of glorious misrule gathers a nationwide rebellion led by the Duke of Northumberland and his charismatic son, Hotspur. The first installment of Shakespeare's gripping account of the rise of Hal from idle barfly to monarch-in-waiting combines compelling power politics with the hilarious antics of Falstaff, Shakespeare's greatest comic creation.
Genres: Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-27
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Margaret
Overview: A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-26
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The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach. - Shakespeare's Globe
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-28
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Overview: Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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Sarah & Duck: New Challenges
Overview: Sarah and her best friend Duck embark on simple but exciting adventures, exploring the world both near and far in their own wobbly and imaginative way.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-06
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Endeavour
Overview: 1965. The hunt for a missing school girl draws Police Constable Endeavour Morse back to the place which will ultimate define his destiny — Oxford. While Detective Inspector Fred Thursday leads the investigation, Morse begins his own quest, risking all in the hunt for a truth that will haunt him for the rest of his days.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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The Truth Commissioner
Overview: Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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The Curse of Steptoe
Overview: In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-18
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Promenade
Overview: In Brighton on the South coast of England, sharpened by the sting of sea spray, and mellowed by numinous light, a tight-knit community of oddballs and heart-felts live together in a tatty old mansion, the Fletcher Apartments. When a golden feather, the priceless antique mascot of the building, unexpectedly disappears, the residents have a mystery to solve. Will they find the talisman that previously bound them together, or will their community, now divided against itself, irrevocably unravel?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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The Rise of the Nutters
Overview: With Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior minister Ben Swain. He is one of the 'Nutters', the group keen to take power when the P.M. resigns and keen to make a name for himself - which he does in the wrong sense when Jeremy Paxman skewers him on 'Newsnight'. This is music to Tucker's ears as it is in his interest for the P.M. to remain in power for as long as he can. Ollie's new girlfriend Emma is working for Shadow Minister Peter Mannion and hopes to impress by stealing one of Ollie's idea for use on their immigration policy though things do not go fully to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-02
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The Choral
Overview: Set in Ramsden, Yorkshire in 1916, the plot centers on the chorus master and most of the men of the ambitious local Choral Society, who have volunteered for the front. Under the direction of the demanding, driven Dr. Guthrie, the Choral recruits a crop of teenage boys and girls. Together they discover the joys of singing and the urgency of desire as the new boys come to terms with their imminent conscription into the army.
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Original Language: en
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Ending Up
Overview: A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (who all have their quirks and eccentricities) ends in tragedy after a practical joke goes horribly wrong.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Il était une fois... « The Queen »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-07-23
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The Iron Lady
Overview: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-26
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Ethel & Ernest
Overview: This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Wilt
Overview: Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Learners
Overview: When a cantankerous widower reluctantly agrees to teach his son's unemployed girlfriend to drive, an unlikely friendship is sparked.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Mr. Holmes
Overview: In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
Genres: Drama Crime Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-19
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Overview: To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-02
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The Hippopotamus
Overview: Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-08
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Inkheart
Overview: The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-11
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Uncle Vanya
Overview: During a hot summer, Sonya and her uncle Vanya spend their days idle in a dilapidated farmhouse deep in the countryside. Alone and isolated, they only receive occasional visits from Astrov, the local doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-27
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Say Your Prayers
Overview: Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the famed atheist writer Professor John Huxley.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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RKO 281
Overview: In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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Stranded
Overview: A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-12
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The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Brave New World
Overview: Set against the post war period of debt, austerity and rationing, the 1951 Festival of Britain showed how to carve out a bright new future through design and ingenuity, while still having fun. Told by the people who made it happen and making use of some previously unseen colour footage, this is the story of how an extraordinary event changed Britain forever.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-24
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Sarah & Duck On The Big Screen
Overview: Sarah, a 7-year-old girl, and her best friend, Duck, go on a series of adventures around their local area in this gentle and reassuring children's animation, which compiles episodes of the popular TV series for thearical screening.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-10
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Morse and the Last Endeavour
Overview: Documentary marking the end of the epic tale of Inspector Morse, the iconic Oxford detective celebrated throughout the world; from his original TV series to the finale of Endeavour.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-12
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