Oliver Tobias
Also Known As: Oliver Tobias Freitag
Biography: Oliver Tobias is a Swiss-born UK-based film, stage, and television actor and director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zurich, Switzerland
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Calliope
Overview: A writer begins to discover that his femme fatale character has come to life in the real world.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-06
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Deadly Instincts
Overview: It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-09
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Cobra Mission
Overview: Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-31
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Mata Hari
Overview: Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-05
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Arabian Adventure
Overview: An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-08
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Overview: An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-16
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Arthur? Arthur!
Overview: The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Overview: Annabella marries Soranzo. She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni — who also happens to be her brother. Destiny, and jealousies threaten to expose her past, and Soranzo plots revenge.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-20
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Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow
Overview: Go back to the 1980s and discover the extraordinary true story of Cliff Twemlow! You’ve never heard of him… but polymath Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, novelist, composer, singer, screenwriter, producer and actor who was the most prolific indie filmmaker in the UK for a decade! Witness how this 20th-century Renaissance man created his own innovative micro-film industry in Manchester. Shooting his feature films on clunky early pioneering video technology, G.B.H. (1983) was even branded a Video Nasty! A warmly hilarious portrait that will take you back to an era where literally anything could happen. And did!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-27
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Lord Montagu
Overview: As the youngest member in parliament and sole heir to his family's estate, Lord Montagu's life was rich and privileged. However, in 1954 he become the focus of a national scandal that changed his life forever and set him on course to be one of England's most controversial and iconic aristocrats.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-04
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Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown
Overview: A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Broken Lullaby
Overview: Rich Hungarian-born orphan Katya Davidov commissions Jordan Kirkland to research her past starting from a photograph, showing her as a child next to an elusive Fabergé music box. Luckily experienced Yankee-Hungarian treasure hunter and womanizer Nick Rostov gently forces his help upon her, although Jordan stubbornly risks dealing with his dodgy competitor Gudrun Kuper and her ruthless employer, count Borodin.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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The Stud
Overview: Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-17
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Ein Glas Wasser
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-16
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Overview: Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-27
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Overview: A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-06
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The Wicked Lady
Overview: Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-21
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Method
Overview: The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-16
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Der Bestseller: Millionencoup auf Gran Canaria
Overview: Crime novelist Leo Leitner tries to overcome his creative crisis on Gran Canaria. His lively roommate Bianca puts him on the trail of a real crime. The imprisoned millionaire fraudster Horst Rogner is said to have hidden his loot on the island. The money is being chased by prosecutor Anja Krüger, inspector Eva Kollek and police chief Miguel Gonzales. For Leitner, all three are suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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Grizzly Falls
Overview: When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a lifetime, full of breathtaking excitement, harrowing danger and thrilling surprises.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-05
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Hunkeler macht Sachen
Overview: Two dead with their earlobes slashed. Inspector Hunkeler believes that the brothel owner Garzoni is the culprit. However, his colleagues Madörin and Lüdi are researching the drug milieu. Then prosecutor Suter withdraws Commissioner Hunkeler from the case because of bias. Has Hunkeler grown old? The third film adaptation of a case with the Basel inspector Hunkeler based on the novel by Hansjörg Schneider.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-30
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Wechselspiel der Liebe
Overview: The twin sisters Flora and Rose were separated after giving birth. The mother left the father to go to America. At the age of 22, the two girls met again by accident in London. It is a shock for both of them, since they believed until then that they had no siblings.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-15
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Flügel der Hoffnung
Overview: Auf der Isle of Wight spielt sich heute ein besonders kompliziertes Familiendrama ab: Tom (Oliver Boysen) gerät zwischen seine neue Verlobte Sam und seine alte Liebe Virginia.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-04-15
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King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Overview: This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior's quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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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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Savage Hearts
Overview: When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head man won't rest until he gets his two million dollars back.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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Sharpe: The Legend
Overview: Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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Firestar: First Contact
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Last Video and Testament
Overview: Rich old businessman suspects his much younger wife of cheating on him. When his weak heart forces him to have a risky surgery he leaves a videotaped last will and testament - with a sadistic twist.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-12
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Eldorado
Overview: The Stranger, a tall striking creature dressed in white sets into motions a series of events whilst reciting the Edgar Allen Poe Poem "Eldorado", which will have an effect on those heading towards the mythical city.
Genres: Comedy Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-30
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Journey of a Lifetime - Europe and the Middle East
Overview: Readers Digest Journey of a Lifetime Series (2001) - Narrated by Oliver Tobias
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Journey of a Lifetime - Australia to the Americas
Overview: Readers Digest Journey of a Lifetime series (2001) - Narrated by Oliver Tobias
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Journey of a Lifetime - Africa and Asia
Overview: Readers Digest Journey of a Lifetime series (2001) - Narrated by Oliver Tobias
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Last Match
Overview: The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of jail fail, his coach and teammates show up in full football gear and armed to the teeth, ready to free her by any means necessary.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Open My Eyes
Overview: The story follows the mysterious and sinister disappearance of a quantum physicist who is involved in a ground-breaking scientific discovery at CERN in Geneva.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Mozart in Turkey
Overview: British director Elijah Moshinsky traveled to Istanbul's Topkapi Palace with a cast of gifted singers and actors to film a lavish production of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (aka The Abduction From The Harem), and this documentary offers a look at both the behind-the-scenes efforts to put the project on screen and extended highlights from the resulting production. Mozart in Turkey also touches on the opera's performance history and Mozart's life at the time it was composed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-19
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Nexus 2.431
Overview: This international co-production, shot at Barrandov Studios with international cast including Czech actors is an attempt to create a sci-fi fantasy in the tradition of Star Wars and Star Trek. Sometime in the distant future, several earthlings turn up on a strange planet ruled over by a despotic ruler with magic powers. A young earth-man initiates a successful uprising.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Brylcreem Boys
Overview: In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-14
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The God King
Overview: Epic tale set in 5th century Sri Lanka, following the battle for the throne between Kassapa and his father King Dhatusena
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Vendetta
Overview: Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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Diana & Me
Overview: Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-04
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Won't Write Home, Mom–I'm Dead
Overview: A woman hears her fiancee's ghostly voice telling her to find him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Alec to the Rescue!
Overview: Alec travels to Africa to be with his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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A Dangerous Kind of Love
Overview: Story of the first woman to climb the Matterhorn in 1871.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-30
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100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Overview: Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and authors/critics.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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