Robert Lang
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Biography: Robert Lang was a British an actor of stage and screen, best known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and the 1977-1978 BBC TV series 1990. He was married to the actress Ann Bell.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bristol, England, UK
Birthday: September 24, 1934
Deathday: November 06, 2004
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Gender: Male
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Overview: Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-19
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The Dance of Death
Overview: An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the veritable hell their marriage has been. Edgar, an aging schizoid who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Night Watch
Overview: A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Overview: All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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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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A Walk with Love and Death
Overview: During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monastery, their romance is overshadowed by the ongoing conflict between peasants and noblemen.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-05
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Rogue Male
Overview: In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Hawks
Overview: Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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Deathday
Overview: Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and she coolly tells him she has no intention of either giving up her lover or divorcing Adam. The top crime story of the moment is a serial murderer nicknamed "The Kitchen Killer". Adam sets out to murder his wife and blame it on this shadowy psycho
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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Interlude
Overview: A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Daylight Robbery
Overview: Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-16
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The Sandwich Man
Overview: A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Last Wishes
Overview: An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live i n her house - now it seems they will be homeless.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-08
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Beyond The Pale
Overview: Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. It's a place full of fond memories for all of them, but on this occasion their sense of ease and comfort is destroyed when a terrible secret is revealed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-30
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The Stick Insect
Overview: A married couple go to stay at a remote cottage. Once there, they discover there is no running water for tea. Then, a stranger appears, accompanied by his stick insect.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-18
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The Bargain Hunters
Overview: Tom and Cynthia buy a £20 painting and suddenly believe it to be valuable.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-10
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King Lear
Overview: An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-03
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Savage Messiah
Overview: In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-27
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Tracey Ullman: A Class Act
Overview: A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British class system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-09
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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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Donkeys' Years
Overview: Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Harem
Overview: A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-09
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The Dog It Was That Died
Overview: Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Overview: Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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The First Great Train Robbery
Overview: In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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The MacKintosh Man
Overview: A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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Runners
Overview: When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-18
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Overview: Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-15
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Rasputin
Overview: Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-23
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Wilde
Overview: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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Shout at the Devil
Overview: During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-12
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Trust
Overview: When her husband is accused of murder, solicitor Anne Travers defends him -- but as the evidence mounts, she begins to question their "perfect" life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-15
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Genghis Cohn
Overview: In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-09
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The Cherry on the Top
Overview: A comic play set against the background of the Air Force.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-27
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Theban Plays: Antigone
Overview: In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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The House That Dripped Blood
Overview: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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Compensation Alice
Overview: Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Edward G: Like the Filmstar
Overview: Edward G is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-11
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I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill
Overview: Returning home to her flat, Ann Rogers passes a stranger leaving the building. A few moments later she discovers her neighbor lying dead in the hallway, the latest victim of a serial killer. Ann could be able to identify the killer, but the killer also knows her face and knows he needs to silence the witness... TV episode from the series, "Thriller" was also released as feature film on home video starting in the 1980s.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-18
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Some Mother's Son
Overview: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Nancherrow
Overview: The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Othello
Overview: General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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Uncle Vanya
Overview: Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Olivier Talks About Othello
Overview: Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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And No One Could Save Her
Overview: The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contacts the airline and discovers he was not on the plane. Further investigation reveals that her husband is not who she thought he was. Her search ultimately takes her all the way to Ireland, where her sanity and, of course, her story come into question.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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The Medusa Touch
Overview: A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-13
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West 11
Overview: Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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Twenty-Nine
Overview: Graham Baird wakes up in strange clothes in a strange apartment, both he and his wife want to know where he had been the previous night.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Secret Thread
Overview: A writer, Arnold Reed, goes back to his former boyhood home in the East End, and there, finding it about to be torn down, he revisits his attic room, and stumbles on evidence of the operations of dealers in illegal traffic. He breaks his ankle and has to hide from the criminals, one of whom is a murderer.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-05
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Catch Us If You Can
Overview: Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-15
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The Sweet Scent of Death
Overview: An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by visiting a countryside mansion, but soon the trip turns into a nightmare with his wife haunted by a stalker seemingly from her past.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-17
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Braces High
Overview: A parcel left on a bus causes concern when the bomb squad are called. Instead it contains a pair of trousers with braces and £370 in one pound notes. Scotland Yard decide to bring Inspector Hammond out of retirement to solve the mystery.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-03
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