Timothy West
Also Known As: Tim West, Timothy Lancaster West, Timothy West CBE
Biography: Timothy Lancaster West, CBE was an English film, stage, presenter and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: October 20, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 12, 2024
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Overview: Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Lenin: The Train
Overview: March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-30
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The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Animated Epics: Beowulf
Overview: Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuring the voice of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf. found.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Beyond Borders
Overview: Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-23
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Night of the Broken
Overview: In 1965, a Jewish doctor, Gertrude Rosen, is called to a remote care home in England to help identify and treat a dying patient. As Gertrude slowly wins the patient's trust, she discovers the horrible truth of who he is, and faces an awful dilemma. To help end his life peacefully, or let the monster suffer in pain like the millions of her people who died at his hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-01
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Blore M.P.
Overview: Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an added Russian complication, he finds a national scandal engulfing him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-22
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Survival of the Fittest
Overview: Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to help her keep her independence, but Molly keeps trampling on people.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Overview: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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Florence Nightingale
Overview: This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-07
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Oliver Twist
Overview: The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-23
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The Book of Water
Overview: The Book of Water is a chamber music theatre project based upon the novella Man in the Holocene by Swiss author Max Frisch. The work centres around the character of Geiser, a 73-year-old widower, who is dealing with memory loss.
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Original Language: en
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Villa Des Roses
Overview: In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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The Fourth Angel
Overview: Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-15
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Twisted Nerve
Overview: Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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The Deadly Affair
Overview: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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Martin Luther
Overview: Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man's relationship with God and, by extension, a redefinition of man's relationship with authority. Filmed across Europe -- from the rustic rural Germany to the opulence of the Vatican City -- you'll witness the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
Genres: Documentary History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-09
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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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Idle-Hands
Overview: Catastrophe is the fruit of boredom when a man with too much time on his hands becomes involved in an unexpected surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-30
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What the Butler Saw
Overview: White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-23
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King Lear
Overview: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Overview: Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-09
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Overview: The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-02
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EverAfter
Overview: Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-31
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The Devil's Advocate
Overview: A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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The Place of the Dead
Overview: It was one of the last unexplored places on Earth; a terrifyingly deep gully in the heart of the Borneo jungle. It was the ultimate challenge – to climb down into it and explore what the locals call, "The Place of the Dead." Based on a true story that made headlines around the world, this adventure drama is the tale of men pushed to their limits and beyond, battling against forces that they could not comprehend.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-18
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Dirty Beasts
Overview: Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things, in irreverent and absurdly comic verse. Including Crocky-Wock, the crocodile, who every Saturday has six young children for his lunch and how Miss Milky Daisy, the cow, punished a very rude man.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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Revolting Rhymes
Overview: Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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The Big Snow of '47
Overview: Houses buried under snow. Rivers frozen solid. World War II bombers dropping bread to isolated villages. How did Brits survive the snowiest winter ever recorded - and could it happen again? A host of familiar faces including John Craven, Amanda Barrie, Timothy West and Neil Kinnock share their childhood memories of the icy winter of '47 and explain why it remains unparalleled to this day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-01
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Bring Back My Bonnie
Overview: An elderly man with dementia continues to speak with his late wife to keep her alive. When his daughter sees his decline she tries her best to make him comfortable and the memories they share embolden their relationship. An exploration of the highs-and-lows of memories fading through illness and natural inclinations.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-08
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Run For Your Wife
Overview: John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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News from Nowhere
Overview: In 1880, William Morris travels with his family and friends, as they navigate the Thames en-route to Oxford. Their journey is punctuated by champagne breakfasts, musings on matters aesthetic and socialist, flashbacks to Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, and glimpses of Morris stomping about Iceland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Vote
Overview: On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-07
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Rough Cut
Overview: Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-19
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Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Overview: Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-06
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Consuming Passions
Overview: Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-06
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A Room with a View
Overview: Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in particular — who both surprise and intrigue her. When piqued interest turns to potential romance, Lucy is whisked home to England, where her attention turns to Cecil Vyse. But now, with a well-developed appetite for adventure, will Lucy make the daring choice when it comes to love?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-04
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Endgame
Overview: The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward insurrection. A British mining concern is convinced that their interests would be better served in a stable South Africa and they quietly dispatch Michael Young, their head of public affairs, to open an unofficial dialogue between the bitter rivals. Assembling a reluctant yet brilliant team to pave the way to reconciliation by confronting obstacles that initially seem insurmountable, Young places his trust in ANC leader Thabo Mbeki and Afrikaner philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. It is their empathy that will ultimately serve as the catalyst for change by proving more powerful than the terrorist bombs that threaten to disrupt the peaceful dialogue.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-18
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Edward II
Overview: The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-06
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Cry Freedom
Overview: A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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Station Jim
Overview: At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-30
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Beecham
Overview: 1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. With Timothy West as Beecham.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Looking Glass War
Overview: When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Eleven Men Against Eleven
Overview: A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season draws to a climax his club are staring into the abyss of relegation. Can new manager Ted save City from the drop?
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-31
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Iris
Overview: True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-14
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Murder Is Easy
Overview: American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she is murdered after disembarking the train, Williams vows to pursue the case himself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-02
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The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Overview: In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested for murdering one of his elderly patients.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-12
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Churchill and the Generals
Overview: The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-23
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Agatha
Overview: England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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The Thirty Nine Steps
Overview: The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-04
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Delirium
Overview: International composer Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life: to deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Celebrations while facing down revelations about his past and living up to his new authority as High Master
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-26
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We the Kings
Overview: Jack, on the run for attempted murder, hides in the house of a deaf and mute man. A power struggle forms between the two.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Henry VIII
Overview: Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-25
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Horatio Bottomley
Overview: Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-28
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102 Dalmatians
Overview: Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots! Together they embark on a laugh-packed quest to outwit the ever-scheming Cruella De Vil.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-07
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The After Dinner Game
Overview: Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-16
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The Tragedy of King Richard II
Overview: The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-30
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Overview: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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Colditz
Overview: While World War II allied officer Jack Rowe is held prisoner in Germany's notorious Colditz castle, he recruits a band of fellow escape artists in the ultimate break-out only to discover that the greatest betrayal awaits him on safe ground.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-27
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When We Are Married
Overview: Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Hedda
Overview: Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provide her with an elegant home. But when she learns that Jorgen's rival for a university position, Ejlert, has made a surprising comeback with a recent publication, she's quick to push him back into his former alcoholism, steal the sequel to his book and even encourage the writer to kill himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Overview: The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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