Brian Bovell
Also Known As: برایان بوول
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England
Birthday: October 26, 1959
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Gender: Male
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Sealed with a Kiss
Overview: Cheating Edwardian escape artist Max can escape anything, except his wife's revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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The Football Monologues
Overview: The Football Monologues tells the stories of seven different people living in and around the beautiful game. Each of our subjects talks intimately, unveiling their innermost hopes and fears. One by one they touch on themes central to us all: the fragility of our mental selves, the failings of our bodies, the complexities of our relationships and ambitions and our need to connect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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Ecstasy
Overview: A short comedy film about a disabled father and his son's crazy attempt to buy drugs so that the dad can dance with his wife on her birthday... one last time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Running Late
Overview: Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-11
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Wall of Silence
Overview: A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-17
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The Service
Overview: On a regular morning, MI6 operative, Jenny calls at her colleague’s house on their usual car pool run to the office. What she discovers sparks a series of events that leads Jenny to make an impossible decision…
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-14
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Deadmeat
Overview: Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean streets. If Clarkie makes one false move he is...DEADMEAT.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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How to be Human
Overview: If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-27
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Hotel
Overview: A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-12
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Shoot the Messenger
Overview: Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-26
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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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Pan
Overview: Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Welcome II the Terrordome
Overview: Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white girlfriend, ran away from an abusive white boyfriend who, after seeing her with Spike, sets up a trap for her. Spike's 11-year old nephew Hector dies as a result of this trap, and Anjela, finding the body of her son, goes on a police-killing rampage. Her apprehension sets off tension between Spike and his brother-in-law, as a race war broods inside the Terrordome.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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Shoreditch
Overview: London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Richie) and his wife Massie (Natasha Wightman), it's a place where gangsters and aristocrats, home office gents, and loose women can kick back and relax. Thomas' job is to keep everything running smoothly. But when he starts having an affair with singer Butterfly (Joely Richardson), this carefully balanced world disintegrates into blackmail, drugs, and suicide.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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The Body Beautiful
Overview: This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-03
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Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Overview: The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-02
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Never Land
Overview: After mishearing a pair of fishermen talking about the superior flood barriers in The Netherlands, Noah devises an escape plan to Never Land. The only person who takes an interest in his plan is Katie, Noah's wild-hearted next-door neighbor. Noah's parents think his compulsion to turn off taps is foolish, but even they can't deny the growing storms that are threatening their little fishing village.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Digitopia
Overview: Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-28
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Burning an Illusion
Overview: A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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The Man in My Basement
Overview: In the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, Charles Blakey is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home. A knock on the door from mysterious businessman Anniston Bennet brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good. Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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Driving Ambition
Overview: A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-03
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Babylon
Overview: Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-07
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Love Actually
Overview: Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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Time Travel is Dangerous!
Overview: Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in North London. One day, their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine appears outside their shop. Mixing reality with fantasy, we explore the strange and outlandish world of The Unreason, as the girls traverse space and time sourcing items to sell.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-28
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Get Santa
Overview: A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-05
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Thin Air
Overview: Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-08
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Tiny Little Voices
Overview: Anna hasn't left her apartment since the pandemic. She's delighted in there, especially because she goes on great adventures with her imaginary friend Walter. Eventually, Nina, her best friend, drags her out of the house. Here Anna meets Zack, a germophobe, who runs around in a homemade Covid Hazmat suit. The rest of the movie is a very silly comedy about how two people who don't like getting close to humans, get close to each other.
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Original Language: en
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The Book of Clarence
Overview: Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power of belief may be his only way out.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-11
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Secrets & Lies
Overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-24
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Cla'am
Overview: A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.
Genres: Horror Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-11
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Overview: Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-12
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Sorted
Overview: A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother's mysterious death.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Playing Away
Overview: To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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When Love Dies
Overview: A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-20
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The Final Passage
Overview: In 1958, a Caribbean couple make the journey to a new life by moving to England.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-01
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Mama Africa
Overview: In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called their series "Mama Africa" and drew their tales from the depths of their hearts. The result is a groundbreaking initiative bringing together the incredibly fresh talents of six female directors from the vast and diverse continent of Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Dark Corners
Overview: Jack Strachan, a shady ex-sports star in hiding out in Norway, is stalked by a mysterious woman he cannot identify who closely resembles his murdered wife, Veronique. Convinced of her evil intent and determined to unmask her, he forces himself to re-live the harrowing events that culminate in Veronique's brutal murder at the hands of violent associate, Karim, and confront the demons that first drove him underground.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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All or Nothing
Overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Solitary
Overview: A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent on destroying everything.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-31
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
Overview: In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-26
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Listen
Overview: In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their children. The film portrays the tireless battle of these immigrant parents against the law to keep their family together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Tom & Jerry
Overview: Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the hotel. Her solution? Hiring Tom to get rid of the pesky mouse.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-10
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Down a Dark Hall
Overview: Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-01
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Lord of Misrule
Overview: Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-06
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The Licensed Fool
Overview: A travelling court jester, known as The Licensed Fool, begins to unravel when he learns of a sinister motive behind him being hired for an upcoming performance.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-09
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