Ralph Riach
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Biography: Ralph McKenzie Riach (26 January 1936 – 20 March 2022) was a Scottish actor from Elgin, Moray.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Elgin, Scotland, UK
Birthday: January 26, 1936
Deathday: March 20, 2022
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Gender: Male
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Copying Beethoven
Overview: A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-10
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Death Defying Acts
Overview: On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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The Rocket Post
Overview: Switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Scotland. Based on fact, this film will take you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery. The Rocket Post will give a convincing portrayal of island life, beliefs and culture of the time A definite for those who have even the tiniest drop of Scottish blood..... as it will tug at the heart strings and stir the soul. Something that can be shared with the family and watched time and time again..................a real classic, one that I am sure will walk alongside some of the great films that never die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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The Long Roads
Overview: An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-31
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Overview: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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Braveheart
Overview: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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Byrne About Byrne
Overview: In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Overview: Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-22
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Is Anybody There?
Overview: A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-17
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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Overview: What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Genres: Mystery Drama Documentary Crime History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-08
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What We Did on Our Holiday
Overview: Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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One Last Chance
Overview: A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-13
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The Big Man
Overview: An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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Mosley
Overview: Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. The mini series charts Mosley's rise to political notoriety through his personal life – from youthful rising star of the Conservative Party to potential leader of the Labour Party, and later abandonment of conventional party politics to become a figurehead of burgeoning fascism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-12
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The Party's Just Beginning
Overview: In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by bittersweet memories, she struggles to find someone to talk to or some reason to make life worthwhile at the most stressful time of the year.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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Grandpa's Great Escape
Overview: Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight Towers, an old people's home. It soon becomes clear that Miss Dandy is running Twilight Towers for her own ulterior motives, and it is up to Grandpa and grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Failure could have the direst of consequences, but success will give Grandpa a final chance to relive his past and take to the sky once again in his beloved Spitfire.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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The Governess
Overview: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-31
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Cloud Atlas
Overview: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Low Winter Sun
Overview: Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Dangerous Beauty
Overview: Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-20
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The House of Mirth
Overview: In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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Changing Step
Overview: Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-26
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The Lucky Suit
Overview: The fates of four people are interwined over one night.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-16
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