Bob Hoskins
Also Known As: Robert William Hoskins, Jr., Боб Хоскинс
Biography: Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (October 26, 1942 – April 29, 2014) was an English actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), and Mona Lisa (1986), and lighter roles in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
Birthday: October 26, 1942
Deathday: April 29, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Brazil
Overview: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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Enemy at the Gates
Overview: A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Genres: Drama War History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-28
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Overview: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-21
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Hook
Overview: The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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Hollywoodland
Overview: When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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Shattered
Overview: Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who has supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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The Cotton Club
Overview: Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Mona Lisa
Overview: George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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The Lost World
Overview: This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-25
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Unleashed
Overview: Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-02
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Paris Je T'aime
Overview: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Michael
Overview: Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
Overview: Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs. Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-08
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Mermaids
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-14
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Nixon
Overview: A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Balto
Overview: An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Beyond the Sea
Overview: Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-16
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TwentyFourSeven
Overview: In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-31
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A Room for Romeo Brass
Overview: Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-23
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Maid in Manhattan
Overview: Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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Spice World
Overview: World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-18
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Vanity Fair
Overview: Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-01
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Stay
Overview: Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-24
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
Overview: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-14
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Inserts
Overview: A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Overview: Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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The Sleeping Dictionary
Overview: A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-31
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Super Mario Bros.
Overview: Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Pinocchio
Overview: The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-01
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A Prayer for the Dying
Overview: Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Outlaw
Overview: A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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Doomsday
Overview: The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Overview: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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The Wind in the Willows
Overview: Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast within yet another version of Kenneth Grahame's classic book.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-18
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Heart Condition
Overview: Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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American Virgin
Overview: When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you announce that you're going to lose your virginity -- live on the Internet, for the whole world to see.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-02
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Last Orders
Overview: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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The Long Good Friday
Overview: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Sparkle
Overview: Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-17
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Passed Away
Overview: Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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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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Blue Ice
Overview: An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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The Secret Agent
Overview: In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Den of Lions
Overview: A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-13
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Felicia's Journey
Overview: Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Up the Front
Overview: In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The White River Kid
Overview: Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Sweet Liberty
Overview: Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Zulu Dawn
Overview: In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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Ding Dong
Overview: Door to Door Make Overs...Madness...Murder!!! Ding Dong is the story of two women in love. They are successful, popular and beautiful. But they have one fatal flaw. Like most lesbians these days, they are serial killers.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-14
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The Honorary Consul
Overview: Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Cousin Bette
Overview: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Go Go Tales
Overview: A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Ruby Blue
Overview: An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-17
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The Inner Circle
Overview: Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-28
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Captain Jack
Overview: Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century. Assembling a crew of oddballs and misfits, the cantankerous captain weighs anchor and voyages into the unknown. His ship has been certified unseaworthy, and he's pursued by the Royal Navy, NATO and journalists, but nothing is going to stop Captain Jack fulfilling his wildest dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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Will
Overview: Brennan is Liverpool's number one fan, able to recite facts ad infinitum about the club and at a public school in the south of England since his father Gareth is emotionally unable to care for him following the death of Will's mother. Gareth appears one day out of the blue with tickets for Liverpool's trip to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Lassiter
Overview: A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Where Eskimos Live
Overview: Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-11
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Snow White and the Huntsman
Overview: After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
Overview: When the British Amnesty shows finally resumed in 1987 after a six-year hiatus, the show format was retooled in an effort to take advantage of the growing number of rock musicians supporting Amnesty. Instead of the live show being primarily a comedy show with a few musical cameos, the event made a point of giving equal emphasis to the comedy and the music.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Overview: Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to "Venthaven" the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mockumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten artforms. Nina was his protégé in ventriloquism and has been said to have reinvented the artform. This film is truly unique in genre and style. No one has seen ventriloquism like this before.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-11
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Outside Bet
Overview: A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Overview: A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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Mussolini and I
Overview: A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-14
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Schmoedipus
Overview: Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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The Good Pope
Overview: Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of his life. When he feels a need to serve God, Angelo goes to study theology in Bergamo, and in Apollinare School (Rome) and becomes a priest. During his studies, he gets to know his two dearest friends, Mattia and Nicola. Very soon, most people see marvelous talents in him, including his wide knowledge and a constant readiness for sacrifice. The Holy See makes him go further to bishop and cardinal, and the Holy Father sends him to various places as a representative of the Church. When Pius XII dies on October, the 9th, 1958, 77 year-old Angelo goes to Rome, to conclave to choose a new pope. However, this time, it is him who hears gentle words of Jesus "Tu es Petrus!" ("You are Peter!") and from October, the 28th leads the church as pope John XXIII
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-28
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Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Overview: The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft – sending the Kleptonite Ball, their precious cargo and the key to Universal Conquest, hurtling to a planet inhabited by primitive life forms: Earth. Having materialised in a bar, the Ball variously functions as a Christmas tree decoration, a bathroom ornament, and a fortune-teller's prop. The Metaliens must retrieve the Kleptonite Ball if their mission is ever to succeed. And that's when their problems really begin…
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Raggedy Rawney
Overview: During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-20
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The National Health
Overview: Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-06
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Don Quixote
Overview: Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-09
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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Overview: Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-03
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The Forgotten Toys
Overview: A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Genres: Documentary Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-14
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
Overview: By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-05
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An Audience with Dudley Moore
Overview: Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with his hilarious edition of the long-running An Audience With series. Backed by a full orchestra - and interrupted by both Peter Cook and the Dagenham Girl Pipers - Dudley entertains his audience of celebrities (including Stanley Baxter, Martin Shaw, Clive James, Lulu and Rolf Harris) and duets with singer-songwriter Christopher Cross on the award-winning 'Arthur's Theme'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-26
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The Big Freeze
Overview: A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Overview: The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-25
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
Overview: Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-26
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The Last Word Monologues
Overview: Three contemplative monologues about killing, written by Hugo Blick.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-25
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The Beggar's Opera
Overview: A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
Overview: A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-03
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Rainbow
Overview: Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. With the aid of computers and an irrepressible belief, they achieve the impossible, finding and riding the multicolored arc.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday'
Overview: The Making of 'Doomsday'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-29
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Noriega: God's Favorite
Overview: The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-04
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Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
Overview: A documentary about the making of The Long Good Friday, including interviews with John Mackenzie, stars Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, producer Barry Hanson and Phil Meheux.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-04
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Super Mario Bros: The Lasagna Workprint
Overview: An alternate, extended version of 1993's Super Mario Bros. Restored by The Bigger Pictures Film Restoration from a 1992 workprint and released on the 2024 4K edition from Umbrella Entertainment.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-01
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Big Jim and the Figaro Club
Overview: In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gripping the Figaro Club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-24
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The Movie Life of George
Overview: When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story of him and Handmade Films.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-10
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Parting Shots
Overview: Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he decides that since he is dying anyway, he will kill or destroy all the people that ever crossed or hurt him during his life - after all, he will be dead anyway long before he can come to trial and get his just desserts from society. Harry hires an assassin to finish himself off in style, and even has time to fall in love with Jill. However, there's just one small problem with Harry's master plan - the cancer diagnosis is totally inaccurate and now he's got a hitman on his trail and several policemen wanting to talk to him about some murders...
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-14
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Royal Flash
Overview: Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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Brecht and Co
Overview: Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
Overview: Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantasies that her newly-moustachioed husband is her screen idol, Clark Gable.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-28
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Othello
Overview: Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-04
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An Accidental Studio
Overview: Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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The Dunera Boys
Overview: At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Overview: The incredible evolution of George Lucas' special effects dream factory, including an inside look at "Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace."
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-15
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Son of the Mask
Overview: Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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The Changeling
Overview: Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man she loves, she persuades the love-struck henchman De Flores to murder her fiance, but does not anticipate the tragic consequences of her actions.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-11
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Let the Good Times Roll
Overview: A short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-09
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The Bankrupt
Overview: Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-27
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Her Majesty's Pleasure
Overview: They are all 'in' for life so the pleasures are sparse, and strictly of their own making.Their really big event is the Christmas pantomime, only this year they have lost their star. Mother Bear has escaped. Still, there is some consolation. The new arrival looks a likely Goldilocks. "There's one or two who'll be after him", says Woodbine - and he knows all their weaknesses.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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Nothing Like a Dame
Overview: BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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Kill Two Birds
Overview: Two female tourists are taken hostage by criminals who are chasing a man recently released from prison who knows the whereabouts of stolen money
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-28
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The Story of Pantomime
Overview: This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Overview: A documentary about actor Michael Caine. Narrated by Caine himself, it includes interviews of his family, friends and colleagues and clips from some of his films.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-01
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Three Piece Suite
Overview: Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Rabbit Ears - The Bremen Town Musicians
Overview: Follow the inspiring adventures of a dog, cat, rooster, and donkey who prove it's never too late to start over. Well along in years already—and worried that life may have passed them by—these four spunky animals decide to begin new lives as traveling musicians. Their comic escapades and dogged attempts to harmonize will amuse young and old alike. And you'll want to thank the Brothers Grimm for offering a valuable message about following your dreams. The inspired musical score brings this ultimate musician's tale vividly to life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Overview: Documentary focused on the creation of movie and television special effects, hosted by Roy Scheider and Jonathan Brandis, featuring behind the scenes look at how the visual effects were created for popular films of the era.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-22
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