Kenneth Cranham
Also Known As: Ken Cranham , Кеннет Крэнем
Biography: Scottish born actor Kenneth Cranham is one of the most recognisable character actors in Britain. Having trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, Cranham first came to prominence as Noah Claypole in the 1968 Carol Reed musical Oliver! In the late '70s, Cranham memorably played Sapper Salt in Euston Films' Danger UXB, before taking the title role in the popular postwar set period comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon. His most famous film role from around this time was Dr. Philip Channard in Hellraiser II. In more recent years he has starred in the HBO series Rome, as well as the films Hot Fuzz, Layer Cake, Valkyrie, Made in Dagenham, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool. Among many stage credits are West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot, An Inspector Calls (both transferring to Broadway), The Ruffian on the Stair, The Birthday Party and Gaslight (at the Old Vic). For his role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2016, Cranham won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Andre in Florian Zeller's The Father. The play originated at the Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio in the Autumn of 2014, before touring the country and transferring to the West End in the Summer of 2015, and returning to the Duke of York's Theatre in Spring 2016. The play received an unprecedented five star review from every leading national press publication, and Cranham's performance was described as "the performance of his life" His first wife was actress Diana Quick. He has two daughters: Nancy Cranham with actress Charlotte Cornwell, and Kathleen Cranham with his second wife, actress Fiona Victory, whom he met on the set of Shine on Harvey Moon.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
Birthday: December 12, 1944
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Gender: Male
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Overview: In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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Gangster No. 1
Overview: An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Layer Cake
Overview: When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-30
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Bed of Roses
Overview: The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems for love to conquer all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Prospero's Books
Overview: An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-30
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Chocolat
Overview: On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-18
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Dead Man's Folly
Overview: During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Overview: Confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty Cotton insists her supposedly dead father is stuck in hell, controlled by sadomasochistic demons after being betrayed by his evil, occult-obsessed wife, Julia. Few believe Kirsty, except the thrill-seeking Dr. Channard, who is intrigued by the young woman's lurid stories. So when Kirsty and fellow patient Tiffany head to hell for a rescue, Channard and Julia are close behind.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-23
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A Good Year
Overview: Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Under Suspicion
Overview: In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Joseph Andrews
Overview: Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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Tale of a Vampire
Overview: Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.
Genres: Romance Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Overview: The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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The Vision Thing
Overview: In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-06
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Royal Celebration
Overview: A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administration there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner. Meanwhile, there's the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-26
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Sling Your Hook
Overview: A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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Death of a Private
Overview: An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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Two Men Went To War
Overview: Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Oliver!
Overview: Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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A Master of the Marionettes
Overview: Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, one of which he and his family inhabit with conspicuous success. Then one Saturday morning a violent street encounter starts a chain of events which calls into question his every assumption and changes his life for good
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-18
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On Dangerous Ground
Overview: Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-13
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Midnight Man
Overview: British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain. - Written by Ørnås
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-20
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Killing Hitler
Overview: A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-30
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Pollyanna
Overview: Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest cloud, and her sunny nature, good humor and determination to look on the bright side of life prove to have an astonishing effect on those around her. With the help of her orphaned friend, Jimmy Bean, she casts her spell on the grumpiest townsfolk of Beldingsville -- including the cynical shut-in Mrs. Snow, the morose millionaire Mr. Pendleton and the enigmatic Dr. Chilton. And Pollyanna masterminds the romance between her Aunt's maid, Nancy, and the handyman, Tim. It is only Aunt Polly, who cannot bring herself to embrace Pollyanna's innocence and joy. But all is not straightforward in Pollyanna's war against pessimism, since she must overcome a personal tragedy that threatens to banish "glad" from her vocabulary forever.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Maleficent
Overview: A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-28
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Women Talking Dirty
Overview: A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Stealing Heaven
Overview: Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Closed Circuit
Overview: A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Flying Blind
Overview: Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Shes never married, and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father, who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student, twenty years younger than her. One day, she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-12
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The Legend of Hercules
Overview: In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of his time. The story behind one of the greatest myths is revealed in this action-packed epic - a tale of love, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-10
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Normal Service
Overview: It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-02
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A Little Bit of Lippy
Overview: When working-class Liverpudlian Rick Fairley reveals his long-standing interest in cross-dressing to his wife, Marian, she is understandably surprised -- as are her parents, Reggie and Alma Titherington. But, as Rick's eye-opening interest leads the long-stagnant Fairleys into titillating new romantic territory, the couple find that a little bit of lipstick goes a long way when it comes to reinvigorating their marriage.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-16
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Overview: It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles to challenge his enemies on their own soil. It was an act so daring that few people believed it possible.
Genres: History Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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Making Waves
Overview: A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His problem is something else entirely.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Just Another Secret
Overview: An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Lavender List
Overview: A political drama about the last days of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the 1970s and his curious relationship with his personal secretary Marcia Williams
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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All the Way Up
Overview: Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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Graffiti Wars
Overview: A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-14
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The Night Watch
Overview: Four Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexuality and social convention have been broken down, they enjoy a freedom never experienced before.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-04
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Monkey Boy
Overview: Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength. But the reporter finds out the hard way that nothing, and nobody, can stand in the way of progress. (Re-titled for its American VHS release, "Monkey Boy" is an abbreviated film version of Lawrence Gordon Clark's 1991 mini-series "Chimera".)
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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Born Romantic
Overview: In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Trauma
Overview: Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Panto!
Overview: Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittington' opposite glamorous soap star Tamsin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Donkeys' Years
Overview: Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Overview: Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II films.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-18
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The Black and Blue Lamp
Overview: Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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Vampira
Overview: In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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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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RPM
Overview: A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-23
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Overview: Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-15
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Man Dancin'
Overview: Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
Overview: No shortlist of the greatest generals in history would be complete with out the name of Hannibal. This film shows why he was both feared and respected by his enemies. Hannibal's tactical genius is illustrated with the latest three-dimensional graphics technology and exciting dramatic reconstructions of his victories. This is the story of the General who took on the might of Rome.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-15
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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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The Changeling
Overview: Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-20
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Sparkling Cyanide
Overview: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-05
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Overview: Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester. Its screenplay was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss, Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 5 August 2009.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-05
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Requiem Apache
Overview: Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave his life of crime behind. Featuring Alfred Molina, David Ross, Amanda Mealing, Andrew Schofield and Julie Walters. Raymond Murtagh's Requim Apache tells the story of Hamish, who was once one of the criminal underworld's best getaway drivers. Now a new father and retired to the Suffolk countryside, he has to watch the baby at home alone. However, Hamish's peaceful and idyllic new life is shattered when his past rears its ugly head once again, and the old gang comes over for a visit. They make him an offer he dare not refuse to take on one last bank job. However, with no babysitter available, he is forced to take the baby with him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-11
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Made in Dagenham
Overview: A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Overview: In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-24
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National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-30
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Deep in the Heart
Overview: Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Overview: Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-17
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Overview: Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother Giovanni. Sorenzo discovers the truth, and his ambitious, scheming servant Vasques, resorts to murder (and worse) to ensure that the whole affair ends in a heart rending tragedy! The original 17th century play was set in Italy, this version the action takes place in Victorian England.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-07
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Fragment of Fear
Overview: A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Otley
Overview: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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Shiner
Overview: The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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Lady Audley's Secret
Overview: When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the lovely young woman's motives. Soon, Robert's friend disappears, and Robert believes Lucy may be involved. But as he attempts to unearth the truth about Lucy's past, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to her dangerous allure. Betsan Morris Evans's period drama is based on the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-17
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Official Secrets
Overview: The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Genres: Thriller History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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Blackball
Overview: Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Overview: Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-18
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Overview: Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and narrowly outwits inept German spies. Dashing off to Prague, he then arranges for a telephone installation to await an important call, which becomes a bureaucratic nightmare until Franz Kafka intervenes.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-14
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Night Flight
Overview: Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber at just 20. His now middle-class world is thrown into disarray when former comrade Vic Green lands. A tale of secrets, scandal and corruption based on ghosts as yet not laid to rest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Robin and Marian
Overview: Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Vigo
Overview: Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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The Caretaker
Overview: The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-07
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The Boxer
Overview: Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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The Sin Bin
Overview: TV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers participate in group therapy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-17
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Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Overview: The dramatic story of Egon Schiele in his own words, celebrating his remarkable artistic achievements but also debating the controversies around his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-10
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Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
Overview: Seven strangers are invited to a house to be offered a large inheritance, instead they find themselves trapped in a deadly game to the death.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
Overview: When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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The Birthday Party
Overview: It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production broadcast on the Theatre Night series.]
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-21
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Mr. Jones
Overview: In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-03
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Joe Orton Laid Bare
Overview: Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-25
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-17
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Achilles Heel
Overview: A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-18
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Suspension of Disbelief
Overview: Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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The Dumb Waiter
Overview: In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-23
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Butterflies Don't Count
Overview: A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-28
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Overview: Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during the Troubles. Local girl, Mary Malloy (Tara O'Neil) decides that since she has probably slept with every man in town Eamonn should be next on her list. He proves to be quite a catch... and Mary gets pregnant even though she took precautions. A doctor discovers that Eamonn has a very high sperm count and, with the birth rate in Ireland decreasing, Millicent (Bronagh Gallagher) decides to hire out Eamonn to women whose husbands have been firing blanks; all with the blessing of the local Catholic church which sees it as morally better than artificial means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-08
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The Last Yellow
Overview: Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
Overview: Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying on his success in the new and dangerous revolutionary society, his mother and siblings become embroiled in Napoleon's struggle. The opponents are the English but the enemy are the revolutionaries authorities who seek to keep him in his place. Using his astonishing tactical mind, his sheer audacity and extraordinary military bravery, Napoleon emerges victorious and sets out on a path that would one day lead him to the throne of France.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-11
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The Party
Overview: 10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a dialogue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Born a King
Overview: A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abd Al-Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-04-25
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The Voynich Mystery
Overview: This documentary explores the authenticity of the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book that contains over 200 pages of indecipherable text and drawings that are difficult to identify.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Up Pompeii
Overview: A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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