Charles Simon
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 04, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 16, 2002
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Exchange and Divide
Overview: A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Sir Norbert Smith: A Life
Overview: A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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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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Shadowlands
Overview: C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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OcchioPinocchio
Overview: A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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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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Life for Ruth
Overview: John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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102 Dalmatians
Overview: Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots! Together they embark on a laugh-packed quest to outwit the ever-scheming Cruella De Vil.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-07
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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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Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Sherlock Holmes is called upon to deal with a serial killer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-19
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Topsy-Turvy
Overview: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Overview: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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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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Jake's Journey
Overview: A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Night Flight
Overview: Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber at just 20. His now middle-class world is thrown into disarray when former comrade Vic Green lands. A tale of secrets, scandal and corruption based on ghosts as yet not laid to rest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Codename: Kyril
Overview: At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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O Fat White Woman
Overview: The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-04
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Stiff Upper Lips
Overview: Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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The Darwin Adventure
Overview: The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-27
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Rolling Home
Overview: Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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Catch a Fallen Star
Overview: A portrait of Jessie Matthews, a once famous British singer, dancer and film star
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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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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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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