Rupert Penry-Jones
Also Known As: روپرت پنری-جونز
Biography: Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. He is best known for his role as Adam Carter in the BBC spy drama Spooks, as well as other television roles such as Silk, Whitechapel and Black Sails.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: September 22, 1970
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Gender: Male
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Virtual Sexuality
Overview: A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-02
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Charlotte Gray
Overview: This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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Persuasion
Overview: Royal Navy Captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true love. Now he visits their former seaside country estate, rented by his brother-in-law, Admiral Croft, so the financially stressed baronet can afford a fashionable, cheaper residence in trendy Bath. The former lovers meet again on the estate, where they feel vibes again, but neither dares admit them until it seems too late.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-01
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Joe's Palace
Overview: A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-04
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-09
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The 39 Steps
Overview: Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when a secret agent bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must personally crack.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-28
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Hilary and Jackie
Overview: The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Defeating the Hackers
Overview: Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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The Ring
Overview: During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-20
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Krakatoa: The Last Days
Overview: A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its eruption resulted in tsunami, rains of coals and ash, and ended with a very hot tsunami. The eruption killed more than 36,000 people and those survived were left with burns.
Genres: Drama Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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The Student Prince
Overview: The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal family and left school at fifteen. He certainly didn't volunteer for this job, and is damned if he's going to enjoy it. Yet he can't help liking the hopelessly unworldly young prince, at least, until they both set their eyes on the new American student!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-22
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Match Point
Overview: Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. But Chris has his eye on Tom's fiancee Nola.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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The Four Feathers
Overview: A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-08
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Still Crazy
Overview: In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Cold Comfort Farm
Overview: In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Fatherland
Overview: Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-26
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Crown for Christmas
Overview: Allie Foster, a struggling New York artist, reluctantly accepts to act as a governess to a rebellious Princess Theodora of Winshire. When Allie forms an unlikely bond with the princess, she attracts the attention of the handsome King Maximillian, who’s facing an arranged marriage against his heart’s wishes. As Christmas Eve draws near, Allie finds herself swept up in romance, royalty and the spirit of the holidays.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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The Moth
Overview: This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's furniture business but soon finds himself at odds with the old man. So he becomes a servant for the destructive Thormans, and falls for the lady of the house, Sarah. But in 1913 this upstairs/downstairs romance can only lead to disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Edward VIII's Murderous Mistress
Overview: The extraordinary story of Edward VIII's first love affair, involving a murder trial, a secret cache of vanished letters, and a cover-up to save the reputation of the future King.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-23
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A Little Chaos
Overview: A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-26
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The Tribe
Overview: Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-21
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Pegasus Bridge
Overview: Funding ceased due to Brexit pullout by backers. In the early hours of the 6th of June 1944 Allied Airborne Forces launched one of most daring assaults in history. 181 men in 6 gliders landed at night to capture two bridges vital to the success of the D-Day landings, one of these would become known as Pegasus Bridge.
Genres: Action History War
Original Language: en
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Vita & Virginia
Overview: Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-02
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Black Beauty
Overview: The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-29
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Food of Love
Overview: A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-19
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Red Tails
Overview: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-19
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Overview: After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
Genres: Drama Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-27
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Bent
Overview: Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-26
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Love Sarah
Overview: A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-02
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Prisoners of Paradise
Overview: In 1925, 17-year-old orphan Lucy Gladwell is sent from England to live under the guardianship of her uncle George Huyton. Initially seduced by the sumptuous beauty of her surroundings, Lucy finds herself at odds with her violent uncle who is not the benign influence he pretends to be, and she soon falls in love with Krishna, a laborer working on a nearby plantation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Getting to Know You
Overview: When his drunken ex-girlfriend won't leave him alone, a man asks a married woman staying at the same hotel to pretend to be his wife. What could go wrong? It's not like two strangers spending a weekend in a small town could possibly fall in love - Getting To Know You is a delightful love story for grownups starring Natasha Little, Rupert Penry-Jones and Rachel Blanchard.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-26
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The Batman
Overview: In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-01
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When Playboys Ruled the World
Overview: Produced by ITV Sport, When Playboys Ruled the World is a documentary that takes a look at the lives of 1970s legends Barry Sheene and James Hunt. First aired back in 2010, the documentary mixes period race footage, original interviews with Hunt and Sheene and conversations with friends and family. People like Stephanie Sheene, David Hunt, Sir Stirling Moss, Max Mosley, Murray Walker, Max Clifford and Kelvin MacKenzie provide an interesting perspective on how things were back then. If you haven't seen it already, get some cold beers and get ready to be transported back into a time that was magical...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-28
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