Bill Nighy
Also Known As: William Francis Nighy, ויליאם פרנסיס "ביל" ניי, بیل نای
Biography: William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination. Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Overview: Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-06
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Underworld
Overview: Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Overview: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate dangerous waters, confront many foes and, ultimately, choose sides in a battle wherein piracy itself hangs in the balance.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-19
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Love Actually
Overview: Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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Notes on a Scandal
Overview: A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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Still Crazy
Overview: In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Shaun of the Dead
Overview: Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-09
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Underworld: Evolution
Overview: As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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Valkyrie
Overview: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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10 Lives
Overview: A pampered cat takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt after he is rescued and loved by Rose, a kind-hearted and passionate student. When he loses his ninth life, fate steps in to set him on a transformative journey.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-18
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The Constant Gardener
Overview: Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Guest House Paradiso
Overview: Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Hot Fuzz
Overview: Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Thirteen at Dinner
Overview: Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Overview: Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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Flushed Away
Overview: London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-22
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The Little Drummer Girl
Overview: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Overview: A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-22
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-17
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Overview: The Constant Gardener featurette.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-10
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Enduring Love
Overview: Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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Stormbreaker
Overview: Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.
Genres: Adventure Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-21
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The Girl in the Café
Overview: Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-25
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Lucky Break
Overview: Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Glorious 39
Overview: A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.
Genres: War Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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FairyTale: A True Story
Overview: In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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Wild Target
Overview: Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-17
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Rango
Overview: When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-02
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The Magic Roundabout
Overview: A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil ice sorcerer ZeeBad (Zebedee's evil twin). As the world is placed in mortal danger Zeebad who wants to turn the world to ice. Doogal and his friends must recover 3 diamonds that are needed to stop him.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-24
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Astro Boy
Overview: Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before returning to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who rejected him.
Genres: Animation Action Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-15
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Total Recall
Overview: Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-02
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Blow Dry
Overview: The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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I Capture the Castle
Overview: A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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True Blue
Overview: The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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The Boat That Rocked
Overview: An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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Longitude
Overview: Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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Arthur Christmas
Overview: For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
Genres: Drama Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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G-Force
Overview: A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on a mission for the US government to stop evil Leonard Saber, who plans to destroy the world with household appliances. But the government shuts them down and they are sentenced to a pet shop. Can they escape to defeat the villain and save the world?
Genres: Family Fantasy Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-24
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Real Creatures of Dirt
Overview: In this fun and educational piece, animal experts talk about the real creatures that inspired the characters of Rango and the filmmakers explain why they chose specific animals to reflect certain personality traits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-15
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Mack the Knife
Overview: In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her father "the king of thieves" gets the gangster arrested.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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Jack the Giant Slayer
Overview: The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-27
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Page Eight
Overview: Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-28
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The Young Visiters
Overview: The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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Unnatural Causes
Overview: Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a dinghy on the Suffolk coast. To add a further degree of difficulty, Dalgliesh must contend with a colleague on the case, the aptly named Inspector Reckless.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Overview: British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-23
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Wrath of the Titans
Overview: Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion – the gods are losing control of the long-imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-28
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Chalet Girl
Overview: While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated through her spoken-for boss, Jonny.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-02
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Lawless Heart
Overview: In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-28
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Gideon's Daughter
Overview: Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-04
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I, Frankenstein
Overview: 200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Overview: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Genres: TV Movie Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-17
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The World's End
Overview: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Genres: Comedy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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About Time
Overview: The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-04
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The First Omen
Overview: When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-03
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Alive and Kicking
Overview: A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Pride
Overview: In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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Joy
Overview: A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Overview: Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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Turks & Caicos
Overview: The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-20
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Salting the Battlefield
Overview: David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-27
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Easter 2016
Overview: Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Overview: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-26
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Role Play
Overview: Emma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey – she also has a secret life as an assassin for hire – a secret that her husband David discovers when the couple decide to spice up their marriage with a little role play.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-14
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Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
Overview: Family frenemies, Gracie and Pedro, must put their differences aside, embarking on a thrilling quest packed with perilous escapades in order to reunite with their owners.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-01
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National Theatre Live: Skylight
Overview: On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
Overview: Follows Christmas celebrations at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as staff prepare for one of their busiest times of year. Vegetables are prepared ready for a special feast and lights are hung from Britian's tallest living Christmas tree.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-14
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The Maitlands
Overview: There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Overview: A documentary about the making of Hot Fuzz.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-11
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Overview: Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-12
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A Fox's Tale
Overview: The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and courage.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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Darkling
Overview: The wanderer of Roger Hyams' films Sunday and Grand Union steps out into the night.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-23
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The Wild Robot
Overview: After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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500 Miles
Overview: A broken family is forced to come together when 16 year old Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie run away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather on Ireland’s stunning and wild west coast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Norm of the North
Overview: Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-14
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Their Finest
Overview: During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-19
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The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Overview: ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic movie “Love Actually” in this primetime special. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the special looks at how the film became a beloved Christmas tradition and a global sensation, with new insight into behind-the-scenes secrets and iconic scenes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-29
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Being Human
Overview: One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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Dad's Army
Overview: A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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Slapper
Overview: A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Slaps’ – slaps that can break a man’s hand. Three years ago, James’ alcoholic father Michael left him and his mother, but promised he’d be back to make them proud – now, James believes the man in the mask is his father, returning as a hero, but things are not what they seem...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-21
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Spectre of the Bear
Overview: One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's quest for the truth takes him on a journey into the unknown in this animated comedy about nostalgia, corporate conspiracy and bear-shaped snacks.
Genres: Animation Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-07
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That Christmas
Overview: It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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Bloody Fury
Overview: In the Far West, the fur trade is booming. Bloody Furry, one of the last red wolves still alive, decides to avenge his slaughtered family. But is revenge the best solution to find the road to redemption?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-23
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Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Overview: Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, friends and associates, the film documents Fletcher's chequered career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-29
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Overview: Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-01
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Burst
Overview: A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring Love'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Overview: Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit first came to life.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-26
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Don't Leave Me This Way
Overview: British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-30
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Absolute Hell
Overview: Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-05
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& Sons
Overview: Andrew is a novelist best known to the world as A.N. Dyer. He wrote his first book when he was 27, and it became an instant classic, selling 45 million copies and creating a cult around its elusive author. Andrew wakes up one morning, convinced that he is about to die. He knows that with his time on Earth dwindling, he needs to set right the major relationships of his life, and so he summons his sons to be with him. It’s been almost 20 years since an ‘incident’ tore apart the Dyer home. An incident has a name: Andy. Andy’s the reason his world-famous father, Andrew, no longer speaks to his adult sons, Richard and Jamie, nor to his ex-wife, Isabel. However, when his sons arrive, laden with their own problems, Andrew does not seek their forgiveness, as they expected; instead, he tells them something so wild it couldn’t possibly be true. Or could it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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A Masculine Ending
Overview: While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-12
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Astonish Me
Overview: When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical ticket that allows him to visit a restricted area of the museum, where a professor and a guide show him examples of the wondrous new species of animals being discovered every day on Earth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-26
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Fox
Overview: The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-10
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The Limehouse Golem
Overview: A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-18
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London: The Modern Babylon
Overview: London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-03
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Dreams of Leaving
Overview: William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very strange summer ... Caroline said the best of her life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-17
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The Bookshop
Overview: Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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Red Nose Day Actually
Overview: Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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We Love Cigarettes
Overview: A day in the life of the cigarette. A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed, tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man's fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the weirdest love affairs ever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-29
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Antonia and Jane
Overview: Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Overview: Documentary charting the rise of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from its original guise as a radio series through to becoming a Hollywood blockbuster.
Genres: Science Fiction Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-05
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Overview: In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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The Kindness of Strangers
Overview: Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-12
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Hope Gap
Overview: Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband of 29 years tells her he's leaving her for another woman. Through stages of shock, disbelief and anger -- and with support from her son -- Grace ultimately regains her footing while learning it's never too late to be happy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-03
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Great White Shark
Overview: Misrepresented, maligned and on the verge of extinction, the great white shark is an iconic predator: the creature we love to fear. Great White Shark will explore the great white's place in our imaginations, in our fears and in the reality of its role at the top of the oceanic food chain. The film will concentrate on key aggregation points around the world: Mexico, South Africa, Los Angeles and New Zealand. Key figures in the history of shark research, people whose lives have been changed by contact with the great white, will tell us of their experiences, culminating in a direct encounter between man and shark.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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Sometimes Always Never
Overview: Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Overview: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Emma.
Overview: In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-13
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Minamata
Overview: War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-13
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StarDog and TurboCat
Overview: When vigilante cat, Felix, and loyal canine, Buddy, set out to find Buddy’s lost owner, they discover not only the power of friendship, but their inner superpowers along the way.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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The Hungry Corpse
Overview: In London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient corpse meets a pigeon with a broken wing.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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Eye of the Needle
Overview: Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-24
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Death Watch
Overview: In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-23
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Overview: One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-05
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Living
Overview: London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Under the Skin
Overview: "When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-19
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Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Overview: Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her all-time favourite venue, crafting a unique and unforgettable Christmas musical to play in cinemas worldwide from 1 December. Katherine Jenkins: Christmas Spectacular sees the Welsh sensation perform seasonal favourites and carols with full nostalgic Hollywood musical glamour and wonder. The production was given unprecedented and exclusive access to the historic venue which also marked the 50th time that Katherine has performed there. Katherine and friends, including beloved actors Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Nighy, Operatic icon Sir Bryn Terfyl, Italian Tenor Alberto Urso, American Broadway star Marisha Wallace, English National Ballet Lead Principal Erina Takahashi, the Royal Air Force Regiment Band and many more will bring joy and festive celebrations to audiences around the world this Christmas.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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AKA
Overview: In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his family. In order to make something of himself, he assumes another identity and manages to enter high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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Buckley's Chance
Overview: A fish-out-of-water story of a young boy Ridley who becomes lost in the harsh Australian outback with nothing but his camcorder and new friend, a wayward Dingo.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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Occupy!
Overview: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hybrid about the occupation of the Fisher-Bendix Factory in Kirkby. Dohany uses a variety of imaginative techniques to explore the longstanding dispute, and a pronounced sense of urgency pervades this act of solidarity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Lotus: A New Dawn
Overview: This short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer 'Lotus'. In the past 'Lotus' has been famous for producing championship winning race cars and iconic sports cars, but it has struggled to remain in profit. With a new investor and managing director at the helm, they set out to build the first new Lotus road cars in over a decade. From the last ever petrol powered car, the 'Emira' and also their first pure electric British hypercar the 2000 brake horsepower 'Evija'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-28
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The Beautiful Game
Overview: A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-22
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Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Overview: An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-05
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Deasey (Desperate)
Overview: Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish Novel'. Perhaps a meeting with old friend, pop-star Noel, will clarify things in his unclear mind? But then again, perhaps it won't.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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Standing in for Henry
Overview: At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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The Bass Player
Overview: In the 1800s, a bass player's attempts to woo a young woman lead to both parties being trapped in an awkward situation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller
Overview: Mason's isolated life on a remote island of Scotland is life is upended when he rescues a girl from the ocean in a terrible storm, which brings on the unforeseen chain of events forcing him to confront his past.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
Overview: A selection of highlights from Sir Peter Ustinov's appearances on Parkinson. A look back at a multitalented writer, director, actor and ambassador for Unicef.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-22
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