James McAvoy
Also Known As: ジェームズ・マカヴォイ, 제임스 맥어보이, جيمس مكافوي, เจมส์ แม็กอะวอย, 詹姆斯·麥艾維, Джеймс МакЭвой, Джеймс Макэвой, James Andrew McAvoy, Τζέιμς Μακαβόι, 詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊, ג'יימס מק'אבוי, Джеймс Макевой, جیمز مکآووی
Biography: James McAvoy (born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and appeared mostly on television until 2003, when his feature film career began. His notable television work includes the thriller State of Play, science fiction miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune and the channel 4s BAFTA award-winning series Shameless (British TV series) He has performed in several West End productions and has received four nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, and has also done voice work for animated films including Gnomeo & Juliet, its sequel Sherlock Gnomes, and Arthur Christmas. In 2003, McAvoy appeared in a lead role in Bollywood Queen, then in another lead role as Rory in Inside I'm Dancing in 2004. This was followed by a supporting role, as the faun Mr. Tumnus, in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). His performance in Kevin Macdonald's drama The Last King of Scotland (2006) garnered him several award nominations, including the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. The critically acclaimed romantic drama war film Atonement (2007) earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination and his second BAFTA nomination. He later appeared as a newly trained assassin in the action thriller Wanted (2008). In 2011, McAvoy portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in the superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Dark Phoenix (2019). McAvoy starred in the crime comedy-drama film Filth (2013), for which he won Best Actor in the British Independent Film Awards. In 2016, he portrayed Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man with 23 alternate personalities, in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, for which he received critical acclaim, and later reprised the role for the sequel Glass (2019). Since 2019, he has portrayed Lord Asriel Belacqua in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Birthday: April 21, 1979
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Gender: Male
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Overview: Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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The Last King of Scotland
Overview: Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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Becoming Jane
Overview: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-02
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Atonement
Overview: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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Strings
Overview: Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people - and where he least expects it - he finds true love.
Genres: Adventure Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-24
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The Sands Between
Overview: A woman has a phone conversation with her significant other which slowly deteriorates as she comes to realize that the world around her might not be real.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-25
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The Pool
Overview: International students at an elite Prague school are stalked and murdered by a masked killer while holding a party in an abandoned water park.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-04
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Inside I'm Dancing
Overview: Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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Penelope
Overview: Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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Wimbledon
Overview: British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-13
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Wanted
Overview: Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets a sexy woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-19
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Starter for 10
Overview: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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The Last Station
Overview: A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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The Conspirator
Overview: Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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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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Bollywood Queen
Overview: A cross cultural romance set in London's East End about a young girl of Indian heritage.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-11
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Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Gnomeo & Juliet
Overview: A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-13
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Speak No Evil
Overview: When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-11
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Control
Overview: A troubled doctor wakes up one morning to the sound of a mysterious voice in his head. With his reality now in question, the voice makes a series of escalating demands he must follow or devastating consequences will unfold.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
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X-Men: First Class
Overview: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Trance
Overview: A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-27
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Arthur Christmas
Overview: For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
Genres: Drama Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Welcome to the Punch
Overview: When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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Filth
Overview: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-23
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The Bubble
Overview: Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-25
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
Overview: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Overview: A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-14
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The Near Room
Overview: Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in an alleged child pornography scandal with a top ranking police officer. As the trail to Tommy begins to heat up, so the bodies begin to mount up. Allegiances fall by the wayside as Charlie's life begins to spiral out of control and the deadly world of drugs, blackmail and murder that lies in the deepest heart of the underworld threatens to consume him and his missing daughter forever.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-11
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Victor Frankenstein
Overview: Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-10
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White Teeth
Overview: An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-16
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Turn Up the Sun!
Overview: Two couples accidentally book the same countryside mansion for a weekend of work and pleasure but discover things may not be as they seem.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
Overview: Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Overview: Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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X-Men: Apocalypse
Overview: After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-18
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Muppets Most Wanted
Overview: While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-20
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The Book of Clarence
Overview: Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power of belief may be his only way out.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-11
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Sherlock Gnomes
Overview: Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Comedy Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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California Schemin'
Overview: In the late '90s, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd had their musical ambitions consistently ridiculed for having the 'wrong' accents, so they went for broke and reinvented themselves as Californian rappers. The duo re-recorded their own tracks with fake accents and turned up in London claiming to be an established duo on the Cali scene as well as childhood friends with Eminem. They quickly bagged themselves a record deal, a hefty sum in advances, and an appearance on MTV... until it all came crashing down.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Split
Overview: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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Atomic Blonde
Overview: An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-26
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Submergence
Overview: While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
Overview: An eight-part behind-the-scenes featurette, charting the film from pre-production through post-production, including visual effects techniques and cataloguing “X-Men” transformations through prosthetic make up and costume design
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Regeneration
Overview: Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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Lorna Doone
Overview: The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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Dark Phoenix
Overview: The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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Glass
Overview: In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Genres: Thriller Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-16
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It Chapter Two
Overview: 27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-04
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Once Upon a Deadpool
Overview: A kidnapped Fred Savage is forced to endure Deadpool's PG-13 rendition of Deadpool 2, as a Princess Bride-esque story that's full of magic, wonder, and zero Fs.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-11
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Macbeth
Overview: A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-14
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Deadpool 2
Overview: Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-10
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The Summers of It – Chapter Two: It Ends
Overview: This documentary focuses on the actors and their journey over two summers to create the remake to the original IT, by Stephen King. The documentary originally released as bonus material, bundled with IT: Chapter Two.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-10
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National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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The Making of 'Split'
Overview: A piece in which Shyamalan discusses his growth as a person and a filmmaker, how the film reflects his growth, casting, script secrecy, characters, the film's style, influences (namely It Follows), locations and set design, and budget.
Genres: Documentary Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-18
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My Son
Overview: When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Together
Overview: A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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One World: Together at Home
Overview: A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise funds in support of front line health workers in the global response to COVID-19.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-18
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The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Overview: The programme offers unique access to Julia Donaldson, her family, her rich archives and home movies, and the remarkable cast of characters that have sprung from her imagination. Specially commissioned animations from Julia's long-term illustrator Axel Scheffler bring her biography to life. With contributions from well-known admirers and collaborators, this is a tribute to the woman who has created the characters and stories that have become a fixture of children’s bedtime routines all around the world and spawned multi-award-winning adaptations for stage and screen. Looking at her works, the programme uncovers the surprising stories behind how Julia's iconic characters were created and what they mean to a generation of readers. It also explores why Donaldson’s books appeal to both children and adults alike – tackling serious themes of love, loss, fear and bullying in a poignant but subtle way.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
Overview: TV special about the making of "X-Men: First Class".
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-05
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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Overview: This was of course a fitting look into the world of Julia Donaldson, whose books have kept the BBC in Christmas animations for the last few years, and will probably do so for years to come.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-23
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