Simon Callow
Also Known As: Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, 사이먼 캘로우, سایمن کالو
Biography: Simon Phillip Hugh Callow (CBE)(born 15 June 1949) is an English actor. Known as a character actor on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including an Olivier Award and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to acting by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999. Callow rose to prominence originating the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1979 Peter Shaffer play Amadeus, for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. Callow joined the Miloš Forman 1984 film adaptation, this time portraying Emanuel Schikaneder. In 1992, Callow won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Musical for Carmen Jones. As an actor, he won acclaim for his comedic roles in A Room with a View (1985) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) earning a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination for each. Other notable roles include in Maurice (1987), Howards End (1992), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004). His television roles include Tom Chance in the Channel 4 series Chance in a Million (1984) and The Duke of Sandringham in the series Outlander from 2014 to 2016. He portrayed Napoleon in The Man of Destiny (1981), and Charles Dickens in numerous television projects. He has also appeared on numerous shows such as Midsomer Murders, Rome, Angels in America, Doctor Who, Galavant, Hawkeye, and The Witcher. Callow was born on 15 June 1949 in Streatham, South London, the son of Yvonne Mary (née Guise), a secretary and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. His father was of French descent and his mother was of Danish and German ancestry. His father left when Simon was 18 months old, and he was brought up by his mother and grandmothers. He and his mother travelled to Northern Rhodesia (now called Zambia) when he was nine to try and reconcile with his father. This did not happen and Callow was sent for three years to boarding school in South Africa. He and his mother returned to Britain when he was twelve. He was raised as a Catholic. Callow was a student at the London Oratory School in West Brompton, and then went on to study briefly at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, where he was active in the gay liberation movement.[5] He gave up his degree course after a year to take a three-year acting course at the Drama Centre London. He made his first film appearance in 1984 as Schikaneder in Amadeus. The following year, he appeared as the Reverend Mr Beebe in A Room with a View. His first television role was in the Carry On Laughing episode "Orgy and Bess" in 1975, but it was cut from the final print. He starred in several series of the Channel 4 situation comedy Chance in a Million, as Tom Chance, an eccentric individual to whom coincidences happened regularly. Roles like this and his part in Four Weddings and a Funeral brought him to a wider audience. Callow portrayed Pliny the Elder in CBBC's 2007 children's drama series, Roman Mysteries in the episode "The Secrets of Vesuvius". He played Armand Duquesne in Marvel's Hawkeye on Disney+
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Streatham, London, England, UK
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Amadeus
Overview: Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Overview: Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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James and the Giant Peach
Overview: When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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Shakespeare in Love
Overview: Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
Genres: Romance History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-11
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Save Our Bacon
Overview: The story of an honest Lincolnshire farmer, hit hard by the credit crunch, squeezed by a greedy supermarket and struggling to survive. All his fortunes lie in the farm's one remaining pig, and a rather dubious plan to cross it with an earthworm.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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George and the Dragon
Overview: In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to follow his dream of a peaceful life on his own piece of land. However, in order to obtain his land from the ruling King Edgaar, he must help find the King's missing daughter, Princess Lunna, a quest which sees George drawn into an unexpected battle with the kingdom's last surviving dragon.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-28
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A Room with a View
Overview: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Ice
Overview: It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find indisputable evidence. Upon arrival, he realizes humankind is under immediate threat, and races home to save his family. The glacier collapses, with devastating consequences. Astonishing weather patterns emerge and plunge the world's temperatures into steep decline.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Postcards from the Edge
Overview: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Creditors
Overview: A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Street Fighter
Overview: Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Maurice
Overview: After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Overview: Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Genres: Crime Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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The Best Man
Overview: When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior to the nuptials, Olly is drawn to a woman whom he thinks is the bride's sister -- only she turns out to be the bride, Sarah. Can Murray, who dislikes James, help get Sarah and Olly together?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-09
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-08
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Arn: The Knight Templar
Overview: Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Overview: Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the wicked Mr and Mrs Wickens. And Lucy and Jamie’s strange visitor seems to be the key to it all. With his help, they must travel back to 1821 to save Sara and Georgie and redeem their remorseful new friend – The Amazing Mr Blunden.
Genres: Fantasy Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-20
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
Overview: Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment in the afterlife, the cruel and greedy Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to show him how the course of his life led him to where he is - and where it will lead if he doesn't change his ways.
Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Overview: Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four decades. Mayall's characters include the Black Country's investigative nerd Kevin Turvey, Felicity Kendal-adoring student and 'People's Poet' Rik in The Young Ones, ruthless MP Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman, seedy loser Richie in Bottom and larger-than-life characters Robin Hood and flying ace Lord Flashheart from Blackadder. Narrated by Simon Callow, this programme salutes Rik Mayall and celebrates his part in the UK's comedy history using rare and unseen archive footage. It also features contributions from people who knew or admired him, including Michael Palin, Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, Christopher Ryan, Tim McInnerny, Jools Holland, Ruby Wax and Greg Davies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-20
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Chemical Wedding
Overview: A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-04
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Victory
Overview: Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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The Good Father
Overview: Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Overview: Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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There's Something About Romcoms
Overview: The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen Merchant, Tim Bevan, Bobby Farrelly and Simon Callow. Narrated by Julie Walters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-20
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Overview: Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conceived and created. Witness firsthand what it took to pull off the show’s pulse-pounding action set pieces, and discover how iconic characters from the pages of Marvel Comics such as Kate Bishop were adapted and brought to life for the six-episode series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-09
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The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
Overview: Collection of highlights from the first and second series of British comic Sarah Millican's show about television. The programme includes stand-up routines, sketches and interviews with stars. In this collection Sarah has a makeover à la 'Geordie Shore', bakes scones with chef Paul Hollywood and attempts to do a forward roll with help from gymnast Beth Tweddle and commentary from sports presenter Clare Balding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-11
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The Holiday List
Overview: A woman sets out a well-intentioned plan of bringing her dysfunctional family together in the wake of the family's matriarch, her mother-in-law.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-11
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The Scarlet Tunic
Overview: Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor (Emma Fielding) in this period tearjerker adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy. Longing to escape their own personal imprisonments -- he, his service to the king, and she, her engagement to a man she doesn't love -- they find solace in each other's arms.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Late Bloomers
Overview: Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-13
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Overview: Simon Callow's one-man show about Charles Dickens.
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-17
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Overview: Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-23
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Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
Overview: A diverse collection of horror shorts by several different film makers. A few are presented as trailers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-31
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American: An Odyssey to 1947
Overview: In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII begins, an American boy visits abroad, and an American soldier enlists in the army.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Moses
Overview: In the middle of the night, Egyptian soldiers search for Moses (Martin Jarvis) whose brother Aaron (Tony Leader) swfitly dispatches him on a camel. Back at the royal palace, Ramses warns his son Meneptah (Simon Callow) of compassion towards the Hebrews.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-15
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Theatreland
Overview: 8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow. Also covers the early stages of Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Anna Friel and Joseph Cross.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Manifesto
Overview: In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-27
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Overview: Five months following the murders, Christopher Robin struggles to maintain a regular life while dealing with PTSD. However, deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after their existence is revealed.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-26
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The Trials of Oz
Overview: Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-09
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Revisiting Brideshead
Overview: Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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The British Guide to Showing Off
Overview: Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-11
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Surprised by Oxford
Overview: Brilliant but emotionally-guarded Caro Drake arrives in Oxford with the singular goal of attaining her PhD, but through a turbulent friendship with a charming young man she starts to open herself up to mystery, vulnerability, and love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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Miss in Her Teens
Overview: An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in order to find true love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-15
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Thunderpants
Overview: An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-24
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Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
Overview: The rapid rise and violent fall of rock band Stack of Corpses whose attempt to jump start their career by stealing another singer’s song ends up with bloody and unexpected consequences. Told through 6 chapters of the band's life.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-29
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Merchant Ivory
Overview: The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and intelligence. With six Oscar winners among the notable artists participating, these close and often long-term collaborators intimately detail the transformational cinematic creativity and personal and professional drama of the wandering company that left an indelible impact on film culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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Around The World In 80 Days
Overview: Travel back in time to a scene set in London in 1872, where a young Phileas Fogg is about to wager a fortune in the hope of completing an impossible challenge, to travel around the world in 80 days or less. Together with his new man servant, Passpartout, the two men set sail across the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans in hope of finishing their journey in time and winning their bet. However, trouble is afoot when a mysterious gentleman thief steals over £50,000 from the Bank of England. The hunt is on to find him and Inspector Fix suspects Fogs to he the bank robber and begins tailing him. Will this jeopardise Phileas Fogg's plans - an he complete his journey around the world in 80 days? Enjoy Jules Verne's classic tale of discovery and adventure.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Overview: An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-10
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A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-30
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The Fringe, Fame and Me
Overview: The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a crucible where new stars are forged, careers made, and sometimes, dreams dashed. Told by the stars who first found fame at the Edinburgh Fringe, this is the inside story of what it takes to make a name here, from those who enjoyed overnight success to those who slogged for years to make it. Through their triumphs, favourite jokes, and sometimes painful failures, we’ll discover a hidden history of British comedy – revealing how the gags we find funny and the comedians we love reflect our changing culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-08
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Eternal Return
Overview: The film follows Cass, a young woman who has resigned herself to a life of emotional invulnerability until she meets Virgil, a cartographer who makes maps to imaginary places. Along with his partner Malcolm, a vibrant renaissance man, the pair relentlessly attempts to travel back in time to awaken Cass to love again.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-06-19
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Cariani and the Courtesans
Overview: When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger and deceit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Jefferson in Paris
Overview: His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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The Reluctant Dragon
Overview: A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-31
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Dodger Special: Coronation
Overview: Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-29
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The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Overview: After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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The Pay Day
Overview: A broke and frustrated IT technician decides to embark on a one woman heist to steal valuable data worth millions on the black market.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Overview: Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-02
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Femme Fatale
Overview: Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the villagers makes them drop dead.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-07
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Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
Overview: Based on Dava Sobel’s bestselling book, Galileo’s Daughter, this documentary reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist – that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-29
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Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Overview: A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a look at her work in TV favourites such as A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By, where Judi's performances won her four BAFTA awards, and her tenure in the James Bond franchise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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Surveillance 24/7
Overview: Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-11
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Doctor Jekyll
Overview: Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Bob the Butler
Overview: Bob, an incompetent man, is searching for an available job by alphabetical order. He had just failed all of the A's, and discovers an ad in the Yellow Pages for a butler school. He is the only one in the butler school course to pass, because all of the other people quit due to the embarrassment and pressure of the teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-10
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Bright Young Things
Overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Revolutionary Witness
Overview: Four monologues by playwright Peter Barnes celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Overview: The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Golden Years
Overview: Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-29
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Victoria & Abdul
Overview: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
Overview: Join renowned actor Simon Callow as he uncovers the moving origins of the song Silent Night that has been 200 years in the making. A story that begins in humble circumstances, ends with the world's most popular carol. Simon journeys to the Austrian village of Oberndorf as well as the city of Salzburg, where the story of the world's favourite carol had its origins. The First Silent Night introduces us to two impoverished children - Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber - who grew up in Austria's cobbled streets and wooded villages. The hard years that shaped them would also destine them to meet one day in a poor country church to unite Gruber's music and Mohr's text into this classic carol about the birth of a third poor boy on a quiet night in ancient Palestine. Silent Night would speak a message of hope to their country, recovering from the harsh Napoleonic wars that had devastated their cities and villages. The guns would fall silent at last, replaced by the gentle strains of music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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England, My England
Overview: The story of Henry Purcell.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Viceroy's House
Overview: In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Thank You, Doctor Rey
Overview: A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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Bedrooms and Hallways
Overview: At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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Notting Hill
Overview: London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Howards End
Overview: A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Hampstead
Overview: Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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Art of Freedom
Overview: The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned the highest mountaintops of the world for more than 20 years. They not only set down new trails, but new rules of behavior. They set themselves apart with an original style of climbing, endurance, conscientiousness about the overall well-being of the team - and solidarity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-21
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Mindhorn
Overview: A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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El pasajero clandestino
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Deadly Appearances
Overview: Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-23
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Acts of Godfrey
Overview: At a two-day business conference, God (Simon Callow) decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis, Jacqui. However, fate, assisted by unique and corrupt characters, attempt to beset God's arrangements.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-27
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Rag Tale
Overview: A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Blue Iguana
Overview: He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-23
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Overview: In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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The Crucifer of Blood
Overview: A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-04
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How Gay Sex Changed the World
Overview: Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to today's advances in gay sexual freedom, How Gay Sex Changed the World examines how the gay sexual revolution gathered pace in the face of gradually changing legislation, from the first Gay Pride march to groundbreaking dramas such as Queer as Folk.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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No Man's Land
Overview: Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Genres: Action History War
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2001-05-12
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Old Flames
Overview: Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and sad. This reluctant pair are caught up in an alliance againstu an ingenious conspiracy which threatens both of their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-14
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Overview: Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-11
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50 Years Legal
Overview: Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the influence of gay culture on society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-27
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The Dead Room
Overview: Set and filmed at the iconic Maida Vale studios, The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter and national treasure Aubrey Judd. But times are changing. Tastes are shifting. There’s a new young producer. Whatever happened to the classic ghost stories? The good old days? Aubrey soon discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped…
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-24
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Love's Kitchen
Overview: Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye - and taste buds - of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts - and their stomachs - in full.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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Men of Mystery
Overview: Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Reviving Harry Lime
Overview: Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-18
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Based on Charles Dickens’s own performance adaptation, Simon Callow and director-designer Tom Cairns have created a one-man theatrical extravaganza of festive storytelling that is both heart-warming and deeply moving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Overview: As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-31
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Honour, Profit & Pleasure
Overview: British biopic of composer George Frideric Handel
Genres: History Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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The Woman In White
Overview: Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Madness of Boy George
Overview: Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George's appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his subsequent sentencing to 5 days community service as a street cleaner by order of the US justice department.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-17
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The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Overview: A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-20
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Orson Welles Over Europe
Overview: When Orson Welles went into self-imposed exile in Europe, he first found stardom with The Third Man and then immersed himself in challenging films, television, theatre and bullfighting. Simon Callow trails the complex actor-director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-27
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Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
Overview: BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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The Man of Destiny
Overview: One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it features a battle of wits between Napoleon Bonaparte and a mysterious, daring woman who has stolen his documents. Can she really challenge the strategic mind of a general still celebrating a famous victory?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-05
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Overview: Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchhiker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Being Shakespeare
Overview: Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare is a one-man show about the life and work of the world’s greatest playwright. Written by the renowned scholar Jonathan Bate, and taking its cue from Jacques’ famous ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in As You Like It, the drama traces Shakespeare’s life from his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to his burial there fifty-two years later. Weaving together this story with extracts from many of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Simon Callow presents a vivid and very human portrait of the man and of the Elizabethan world in which he lived. Recorded before an audience during the play’s triumphant London run, Being Shakespeare is both a wonderful introduction to the author and a richly nuanced, funny and fascinating study for those who already love his plays.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-01-31
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Overview: Released alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this beautifully produced DVD features specially filmed performances of all 154 Sonnets by a stellar cast of actors including, Fiona Shaw, Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant. William Shakespeare’s Sonnets are among the most beautiful and most fascinating poems ever written. All of the poems, together with their enigmatic Dedication, are featured in readings by a star-studded cast. A full-colour accompanying booklet features each actor, a list of their Sonnets and a short biography.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-18
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Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
Overview: English National Ballet has been performing a version of Nutcracker every year since 1950. In 2020, the tradition lives on. Join Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker on a hot air balloon ride to the Land of Snow, and enjoy iconic scenes featuring the Sugar Plum Fairy, Snowflakes, Flowers and more. As London moved into Tier 4 COVID-19 restrictions with the subsequent cancellation of all scheduled performances of Nutcracker Delights, the Company decided to film and share a recording of this specially-adapted production with its audience as a thank you at the close of its 70th Anniversary year. Nutcracker Delights was filmed on 18 and 19 December at the London Coliseum by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt.
Genres: Music Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-24
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Animated Epics: Don Quixote
Overview: A Claymation version of the classic story of Don Quixote.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Ripley Under Ground
Overview: After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-06
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An Audience with Charles Dickens
Overview: A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Camp Christmas
Overview: Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-24
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Overview: The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-03
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The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Overview: A look at Dame Maggie Smith's life from a two-up two-down in Essex to Broadway and Hollywood. Starring in more than 60 films and 70 plays across her 70-year career, Maggie's incredible determination and talent landed her among the elite.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-23
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