Perry Benson
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Biography: Perry Benson (born 9 April 1961, London) is an English character actor best known for his regular roles in British television sitcoms You Rang, M'Lord? (1988–1993), Oh, Doctor Beeching! (1995–1997) and Operation Good Guys (1997–2000). His first television appearance was as "Boy on Stairs" in the second episode of the BBC Children's drama, Grange Hill, in 1978.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England
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This Is England
Overview: A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Last Resort
Overview: Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya, intent on staying in England, is forced to apply for political asylum and transferred to Stonehaven, a grimy former seaside resort where refugees are housed. Tanya gradually develops a relationship with an amusement arcade manager, who helps them escape. She must then decide whether to stay with him or return to Russia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-23
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Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday
Overview: The Accident Man is back, and this time he must best the top assassins in the world to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save the life of his only friend and rekindle his relationship with his maniacal father figure.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Alien Autopsy
Overview: Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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Sid and Nancy
Overview: January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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Love, Honour and Obey
Overview: Jonny dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his childhood best friend, nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed, he wins his way into the toughest gang in North London. Hungry for action, Jonny sparks a feud between Ray's gang and a rival firm in South London headed by drug kingpin Sean and his lieutenant Matthew.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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Final Cut
Overview: A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Anuvahood
Overview: Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless "shotter", who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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Mum & Dad
Overview: Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Borrowed Time
Overview: The story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles. It is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth in parallel, united by the subconscious desire to seek out the missing elements in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Prisoners of Incest
Overview: Docudrama examining the effects of incest on a family - the secrecy, guilt, fear, and lack of communication that distort the structure of a family's relationships and make them prisoners.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-19
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Get Santa
Overview: A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-05
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Capital Punishment
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-01-04
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The Kemps: All Gold
Overview: Spandau Ballet brothers Martin and Gary Kemp return to the BBC for a New Year comedy documentary special. Rhys Thomas OBE has been given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to their lives for a whole year, and what a momentous one it’s been - with Martin publishing an explosive biography, his two wives, Pepsi and Shirlie, wanting a divorce, and Gary writing Spandau: The Ballet.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-29
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Annie: A Royal Adventure
Overview: Annie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Warbucks. They take a trip to England where Warbucks is going to be Knighted by the King. Annie and the gang stumbles onto a wicked scheme led by an evil noblewoman who plans to blow up Buckingham Palace so she can become Queen and claim the throne for herself! And now it is up to Annie and her friends to stop her!
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Overview: A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-27
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Backseat Driver
Overview: A London cabbie navigates his way through another night of picking up kinky couples and small talk serpents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-23
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Excluded
Overview: Ian, a newly qualified teacher, comes up against Mark, a troubled and disruptive pupil who teachers want to see excluded from school. Against the odds, Ian makes a connection with the boy, but will he put his career on the line to save him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-20
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Vinyl
Overview: Based on true events. When a new record by an old band is turned down by ageist record companies, the veteran punk band assemble a group of youngsters to stand in for them, and fool the music industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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Stars of the Roller State Disco
Overview: Video-shot on studio sets, Stars of the Roller State Disco borders on science fiction of the dystopian variety. Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the building in a wash of light, though we do not go through that door with them. For others it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drug freely available as distractions. (Television @ The Digital Fix)
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-04
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A Gangster's Kiss
Overview: For as long as Jack can remember, he and Danny have been friends, and Danny has always gotten Jack into trouble. He's had a few brushes with the law and blows up half a high street before deciding to turn to acting. Everything is going well until Jack lands his first feature film role and Danny agrees to shadow 'the family'. Jack soon realizes he is way over his head with deadly and hilarious consequences.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-24
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Somers Town
Overview: Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Members Club
Overview: Wet Dreams, a middle aged male stripper group, take one last gig at a rural working mens club only to discover they are to become sacrifices in a plot to raise a murderous 16th century witch from the dead.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-24
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Scum
Overview: Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-12
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Where's Johnny?
Overview: Adventure story for children about the accidental discovery of a formula for invisibility and the attempts of a couple of crooks to misuse it.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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What Next?
Overview: A boy's uncanny ability to foretell the future leads him into trouble.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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On Yer Bike!
Overview: Four friends fancy a cycle trip to the country. It's unknown territory for them and Benny in particular looks forward to impressing the 'natives' with a new racing bike. But the experience affects the group in ways they hadn't foreseen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-10
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Dead Cert
Overview: A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of businessmen make an offer to buy their club, the Inferno. They turn out to be nothing less than Vampires wanting their land back and turn viciously on the gangsters when their demands are not met.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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Outside Bet
Overview: A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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Birth of The Beatles
Overview: The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Accident Man
Overview: Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-06
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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Break Clause
Overview: A trio of con-artists rip off some gangsters and lie low in a rented house. Christy tries to see the sting through whilst an unwanted guest, Phil, soon has Nick under his spell and Chloe firmly in his sights.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-18
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The Kemps: All True
Overview: Spandau Ballet global superstars Gary and Martin Kemp, their lives, and their careers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-05
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Mr In-Between
Overview: A terrifying love triangle. An original twist on a story of divided loyalties, the perils of love and ultimate death. A haunting tale set in a London at times beautiful and ugly, but always captivating. A story that plays with the shadows and light of an underworld occupied by the fascinating and terrible.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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My Life Story
Overview: Is it a Drama? A Comedy? Or Music Hall dream? Director Julien Temple (The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners) takes a stage show, adds some drama, archive, animation and music, then shakes it all up for MY LIFE STORY where singer Suggs, takes a hilarious, yet moving, look back at his life in music and words. The death of Suggs' beloved cat on his 50th birthday triggers a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew. Stunned by what he learns Suggs is taken back through his life to a childhood on the streets of Soho featuring music written by The Kinks, Ian Drury and, of course, his beloved Madness.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-17
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The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Overview: In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-11
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Creation Stories
Overview: The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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The Last Heist
Overview: After a job goes sideways, four thieves bounded by honour meet back at the place it all began, the local boozer. Drink, drugs, jokes, reminiscing about old times and even politics, you would think this was a standard night in any South London drinking establishment however beneath the banter lies a dark secret that will test the loyalty of these four friends to the limit to see if there really is honour amongst thieves.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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To Be Someone
Overview: Life couldn’t be better for entrepreneur and British Mod, Danny. That is until he’s introduced to Mad Mike, an unhinged underworld mobster who is determined to coerce Danny into pulling off an illegal drugs run.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-09
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Hard Travelling
Overview: Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys whose encounters along the way bring humour, some comfort, but also danger.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-30
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Me, Myself & Di
Overview: After winning the 'trip of a lifetime' to a caravan park in Rhyl, North Wales, unlucky in love Northener, Janet, is ready for a holiday romance. Unfortunately, taking the advice of her best friend, Diana - that she should pretend to be the opposite of who she actually is in order to find love - doesn't quite lead to the happily ever after that Janet was hoping for.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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City of Fear!
Overview: A crime writer, looking for inspiration, encounters a group of juvenile delinquents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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