Neil Pearson
Also Known As: Neil Joshua Pearson
Biography: Neil Pearson is an English stage, screen and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: April 27, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
Overview: Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-31
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Loose End
Overview: A 5 minute drama.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Trance
Overview: Tony works in an auction house, where he is surrounded by many valuable works of art. Enlisting the help of London gangster Brendan and his associates, Tony hatches a plan to steal a priceless Goya painting. Things get complicated when the heist leaves Tony concussed and Brendan with no painting. When Brendan takes Tony to a Harley Street hypnotherapist to try to cure his amnesia and remember what he did with the painting, the hypnotherapist realises she's onto something, and uses her considerable skill to manipulate minds and memories to her own advantage..
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Bostock's Cup
Overview: Former players and associates of third division club Bostock Stanley gather for a celebratory dinner to commemorate their famous FA Cup victory twenty-five years previously during which a shocking truth is revealed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-24
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Work Experience
Overview: Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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The Secret Rapture
Overview: Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Overview: Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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The Mystery of Men
Overview: Four middle-aged men concoct a scheme which involves them insuring their lives, so that if one of them dies the others inherit a tidy sum. Suddenly fate throws a darkly comic chain of mishaps their way:
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-30
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Up Line
Overview: Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-04
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Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
Overview: A documentary about the life and tragic death of abstract artist Jackson Pollock. Features are interviews with Lee Krasner (Pollock's wife), and other friends and fellow artists. Also featured are scenes of Pollock as well as an interview he did. This is a great glimpse into the mind of a great artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Eskimos Do It
Overview: When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most essential freedom of all.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-03
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Matt Monro: The Man with the Golden Voice
Overview: Documentary telling the story of Matt Monro, the young Londoner who became one of the world's most popular ballad singers.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-16
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Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful
Overview: Hancock fan Jack Dee presents Tony Hancock: Very Nearly An Armful. Taking its title from celebrated Hancock episode The Blood Donor, this two-hour retrospective features previously unseen scripts, scrapbooks and production files belonging to the lad himself, as well as personal items such as photos and letters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-14
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Amnesty International's Big 30
Overview: In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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Latin for a Dark Room
Overview: In 19th century Edinburgh, against her husband's wishes, Maria McKillop opens the first camera obscura visitor attraction, but to one man it is Maria herself who is the main attraction.
Genres: History Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Kindness of Strangers
Overview: Ellie and Joe Farrelly are a busy couple bringing up a teenage son while running a large building company. When they suddenly have twins, a stranger comes into their life at just the time when they need help the most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-07
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Clapham Junction
Overview: Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-22
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Shades
Overview: 1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-created endless leisure, who experience (often pornographic) virtual reality-style fantasies by donning the titular ‘shades’, until a 1980s theme party (they predicted that right, at least) leads to ideology and political thought seeping in under the dazed lifestyle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-11
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Oi for England
Overview: In the Moss Side, Manchester "race riots" of 1981 a struggling punk band are tempted by a sinister entrepreneur to perform at a major gig in support of British extreme Right political organizations.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Fever Pitch
Overview: A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
Overview: The Booze Cruise is a series of three feature length comedy dramas written for British television by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. In this episode the same characters go on a treasure hunt, and end up with their car being washed out to sea on a beach. Marcus (a businessman who deals with Dave's company) first appears in this episode.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-25
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The Booze Cruise III: The Scattering
Overview: The gang return for their third adventure, this time on a trip to scatter Grace's mother's ashes on the Yorkshire Moors.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-21
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On Expenses
Overview: Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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The Whistle-Blower
Overview: A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-04-14
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The Booze Cruise
Overview: A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a booze cruise to France, with mixed success and many mishaps along the way. Events involving their wives and families back home also form a large part of the plot.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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Submariners
Overview: Play by Tom McClenaghan, about a routine patrol in the submarine HMS Superior. Strange, near-farcical take on tensions, eccentricities and sexuality among the crew of a Polaris submarine, on a six-week tour of duty off the coast of Faslane in Scotland. Among their number, Neil Pearson is the wily, mascara-wearing, cross-dressing messhand AB Seaman ‘Cock’ Roach, using his Bilko-esque charm to scale the naval pecking order and positively thrive in this tiny, cloistered world
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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A Lump In My Throat
Overview: Docudrama about the life of John Diamond - Author, jounalist and husband of food writer Nigella Lawson. Who wrote about the 'Stuff of life' in his weekly column in the Times. He then was diagnosed with cancer and this then became the backdrop to his writings. This programme was adapted fom the stage play by his friend Victoria Coren about his life and writings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-15
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Privates on Parade
Overview: It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops. The eccentric, bible-bashing Major Giles Flack (John Cleese) is in command of the unit. Flack is accompanied by an ageing, theatrical drama queen, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley) who hopes to entertain the troops with his flamboyant impressions, but the bored troops find other ways to enjoy themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama War Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-18
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ID2: Shadwell Army
Overview: Long-awaited sequel to the 1995 film. A young British Asian, Mo is a fast-rising police officer who goes under cover infiltrating Shadwell's resurgent hooligan element, who are fired up by Shadwells's takeover by a Russian oligarch and their unlikely adventure into European competition. Mo quickly becomes embroiled in the local schism between the BNP and EDL and plans to build a new mosque in the shadow of the Shadwell ground creates an explosive environment in which football and political violence form a perfect storm of social unrest. In the midst of this, Mo is faced with the essential existential question of of who he really is and where he really belongs. It's 20 years on and clever Trevor is now chief super, but what happens to the rest of the gang?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-03
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Bridget Jones's Baby
Overview: After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn - while a weekend away at a music festival, she meets a dashing American named Jack, who is everything Mark is not, and spends a night with him. A week later, she runs into newly-separated Mark, and has a one-night dalliance. In an unlikely twist, she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Overview: Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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Hogfather
Overview: It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke).
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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In Extremis
Overview: Alex is a man with everything – the well-paid executive job, the impressive house in the country and the beautiful wife and child. When he inexplicably decides to leave work early one Friday nothing will ever be the same again. Within hours of his return a cataclysmic storm threatens to destroy everything around them.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-19
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Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Overview: Tells the story of the photographers who cemented the image of swinging London and who, through their pictures, irreversibly altered the face of fashion and pop.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-10
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Crossing the Floor
Overview: Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-05
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The Portrait
Overview: The film examines some complex dilemmas within three generations of one family. Through the painting of a portrait we are asked to consider: Is it ever better not to know some things than to know them? Does secrecy protect or damage those we love? Can all things be forgiven and forgotten?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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Don't Knock Yourself Out
Overview: A documentary about the classic TV series 'The Prisoner (1967)'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-06
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The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter
Overview: Tribute to the much-loved character actor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-25
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Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
Overview: This first major retrospective of Cash's life, times and music features contributions from his daughter Rosanne Cash and son John Carter Cash, his longtime manager Lou Robin and fellow musicians including Little Richard, Cowboy Jack Clement, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Elvis Costello.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-27
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: Richard Bennett's business fails and he discovers that his wife, Deborah, is having an affair, his whole world comes crashing down. Richard apparently has a vision from God; from then on Richard's power grows and he starts to think of himself as God.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Overview: Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he's over twenty years her junior isn't the only thing causing problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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