Alec Newman
Also Known As: Алек Ньюман
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alec Newman is a Scottish stage, television and film actor. He was born in Glasgow on 27 November 1974. Prior to joining the National Youth Theatre in London at age 17, he considered becoming a professional footballer. He trained at LAMDA. His highest profile appearances are tied to science fiction works. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alec Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
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Dark Shadows
Overview: The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB network but was not picked up and has never aired on television. The pilot instead premiered in 2005 at the Dark Shadows Festival in Los Angeles and has screened at various such festivals since.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-01
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Long Time Dead
Overview: A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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The Fifth Patient
Overview: John Reilly wakes up in an African Hospital with only fragments of his memory intact. An officer of the local regime, Mugambe, accuses him of being an American spy.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-23
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Krays: Code of Silence
Overview: The 60s, London: The Krays are on the rise, using their inimitable violent ways to gain power over the city. One man, the fearless Detective Nipper Read, is sent in to tackle the unenviable task of bringing the city back under the rule of law and taking on the country's most feared mobsters in the process. As he faces bent coppers, political backstabbing, and terrified witnesses, Nipper becomes increasingly obsessed, putting everything and everyone he knows at risk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-27
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The Gene Generation
Overview: In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks (Loan Sharks) and Gangs
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-27
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Chevalier
Overview: The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Constellation
Overview: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Overview: Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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A Lonely Place to Die
Overview: A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-09
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Reichenbach Falls
Overview: A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-boiled detective Jim Buchan whose life starts to unravel as he investigates a 100-year-old murder case in the Scottish capital with an old friend - a crime writer researching the new novel. Buchan's investigation takes him into the dark underworld of Edinburgh's literary past and leads him to question the very nature of his own existence.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-01
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The Boys in the Boat
Overview: The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-25
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Overview: Five months following the murders, Christopher Robin struggles to maintain a regular life while dealing with PTSD. However, deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after their existence is revealed.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-26
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The Principles of Lust
Overview: Crippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-29
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Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. Joseph Bell, from whom he drew his inspiration, after meeting him as a medical student in Edinburgh. This TV movie served as the pilot for the later released minisseries Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes produced by the BBC. The series then picks up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's time as a general practitioner in Southsea, solving mysteries with the help of his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, who is still based in Edinburgh.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-05
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All That Glitters
Overview: A desperate teenager snatches a rich woman's handbag but in a bizarre twist of fate discovers her life is not as rosy as it seems and that they have more in common than he realizes.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-24
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The Hunted
Overview: After their boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea, a group of refugees are rescued by rich Europeans who offer them shelter on an idyllic island. But the miracle soon becomes a nightmare when the saviors turn into ruthless manhunters.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-18
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Greyhawk
Overview: A reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran is prompted into action when his only friend goes missing on a down-at-heel council estate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-28
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Mary Anning
Overview: A woman hunts for fossils and makes a big discovery. But she doesn't get credit again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Bright Young Things
Overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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The Snowman
Overview: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-24
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Four Corners of Suburbia
Overview: A group of young adults spending a weekend together on a secluded island in Maine find themselves haunted by the choices they didn't make as they confront the meaning of love, friendship, and their lives in a world of virtual wonders and genetic cloning.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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260 Days
Overview: The carefree and somewhat idyllic life of a ten year old boy named Marijan is violently interrupted when war ravages his small town of Dalj and his families closest friends and neighbors turn on them purely because they are Croatian. Marijan is forced to witness and experience things an adult would have an incredibly difficult time dealing with. He is nevertheless faced with the inexplicably horrid events war brings out in people. The story centers on a present day Marijan- now the very successful owner of a wood manufacturing business. On one random day a man walks into his store and all of the memories he wishes he could long forget come flooding back, forcing him to relive them. Despite his immense hardships, Marijan lives on in forgiveness, always seeking the positives that lay in the future rather than rehashing and remaining in the past.
Genres: History War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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Where Hands Touch
Overview: Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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Suzanne & Martin
Overview: Martin invites Suzanne, his ex-wife to his country-side home for a friendly game of tennis. What starts off as a swing of their rackets soon leads into a swing of their emotions. Dangerously re-kindling their past over a drink, leads to both heartbreak and pain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-16
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The Marine 6: Close Quarters
Overview: Jake Carter and another former Marine, Luke Trapper, join forces to rescue a young kidnapped girl from a gang of international criminals.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Staring at the Sun
Overview: When a fortune teller refuses to reveal her vision of Clay's future, he becomes so obsessed with learning the truth that he unwittingly fulfills his fate.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
Overview: An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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Eullenia
Overview: A wealthy western businessman in Thailand uses his power and wealth to feed his darkest desires.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-02
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Moonlight Serenade
Overview: A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns his living as a financial manager, but when night falls, he helps the girl with her singing career at the jazz club, where she performs one night a week. In time both realize they share something special other than the music.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-08
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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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