Anton Lesser
Also Known As: 安东·莱瑟, آنتون لسر, أنتون ليسير
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birmingham, England, UK
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Birthday: February 14, 1952
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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The Miracle Maker
Overview: A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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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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Miss Potter
Overview: Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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From A Strange Land
Overview: An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about over-stepping the line and how we find common ground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-02
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The Man who Crossed Hitler
Overview: In the summer of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, and the city of Berlin turning into a paramilitary war-zone, audacious young prosecutor Hans Litten (Stoppard) chose to summon a star witness to a trial of Nazi thugs. In spite of the risk to his own safety and against the advice of those who love him, Litten forced rising political star Adolf Hitler (Hart) to make a sensational appearance in the witness stand of Berlin's central criminal court. Litten aimed to expose the true character of Hitler and his politics to the German public, to reveal his hypocrisy and his violent ambitions, and in doing so, halt the electoral success of the Nazi Party. In a humiliating and hostile cross-examination, Hitler was forced to account for his political beliefs, his contempt for the law and his desire to destroy German democracy. For a brief moment, Hitler's political future was genuinely in the balance.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-21
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Class of '76
Overview: Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Otherworld
Overview: Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-26
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The Moonstone
Overview: Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-29
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The Scapegoat
Overview: In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.
Genres: Mystery Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-09
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Stanley
Overview: The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination he needed two wives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-31
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The Project
Overview: The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Their journey takes us deep into the world of New Labour headquarters in Millbank, and later Downing Street, exposing the machinations behind the party's transformation into the sharp, media-aware voice of professional, middle-England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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Troilus & Cressida
Overview: The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Overview: Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-15
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Tick Tick Tick
Overview: When the company Justin works for is taken over, he must choose between standing up for what he thinks is right or being made redundant.
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Original Language: en
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The Mill on the Floss
Overview: Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Charlotte Gray
Overview: This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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The Yellow Tie
Overview: Sergiu Celibidache's fairy tale journey: from Moldavia to the Berlin Philharmonic. Despite World War II and countless challenges, he pursued his musical dreams with relentless dedication and refusal to compromise, inspiring many.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
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Making 1899
Overview: Go behind the scenes and see how the creators of "Dark" used groundbreaking virtual technology "The Volume" to shoot their new mystery series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Good and Bad at Games
Overview: The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-18
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Lorna Doone
Overview: The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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Traitors
Overview: A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-05
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Overview: The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-29
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Flutter
Overview: Chancer John lives for playing the odds - and he's always willing to take a calculated risk. But when he meets the mysterious and beautiful female bookie Stan, he discovers there's much more to gambling than just greyhounds and horses. Lured by her huge payoffs, John finds himself sucked into a surreal and dangerous word ruled by money, power and control. The question is how far will John go for the ultimate last big win?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-05
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Einstein's Big Idea
Overview: Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among Einstein's ideas, E = mc2 is by far the most famous. Yet how many people know what it really means? In a thought-provoking and engrossing docudrama, NOVA illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unraveling the story of how it came to be.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-11
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Overview: A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-22
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Overview: The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disguises herself as a man and takes service with Duke Orsino, who has fallen in love with Lady Olivia. Entrusted with pleading on her master's behalf, Viola is utterly disconcerted to find that Olivia has fallen in love with her. Thus begins the confusion of this delightful comedy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-30
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Einstein and Eddington
Overview: A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-29
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Dirty Filthy Love
Overview: A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-24
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Eroica
Overview: British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-04
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Ahead of the Class
Overview: Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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The Missionary
Overview: In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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Allied
Overview: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Genres: Action Drama War Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Overview: Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery and the murder of a policeman. The only witness to the killing of Stephen Cameron was his fiancée, Danielle Cable, who was forced to change her identity after giving the evidence which convicted Noye.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-14
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Into the Blue
Overview: Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's background and her reasons for visiting Rhodes in the first place.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-30
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Closer to the Moon
Overview: A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-07
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The Exception
Overview: Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with a local Jewish woman.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-02
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A United Kingdom
Overview: The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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Monsignor Quixote
Overview: Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Uprising
Overview: In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-04
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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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Disobedience
Overview: New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-24
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The Assam Garden
Overview: An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-04
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Esther Kahn
Overview: A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-04
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-14
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On Chesil Beach
Overview: In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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King Lear
Overview: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-19
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Guinevere
Overview: As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-07
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Gatecrash
Overview: A dark psychological thriller which follows a couple who find themselves in a hit and run situation, with the evidence suggesting there was no accident.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Kindred
Overview: When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling stepbrother who are determined to care for her. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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Benediction
Overview: Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-23
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River Queen
Overview: An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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The Courier
Overview: Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Genres: Thriller History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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Airbase
Overview: Hidden beneath an airbase the elite F-111 pilots live in a secret fantasy world as they wait, primed for the ultimate war game of World War Three. The arrival of the delicious Lieutenant Madeline Kohler detonates a chain reaction of deep rooted antagonism that explodes with cataclysmic consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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The Lady
Overview: The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-30
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Moses
Overview: An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lovingly told production of the Old Testament story. When the Pharaoh of Egypt begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Moses leads them to freedom.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-18
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Andor Season 2 | A Special Look
Overview: Get a special look at Season 2 of “Andor,” streaming only on Disney+.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-05
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