Adrian Lester
Also Known As: 艾德里安·莱斯特
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birmingham, England, UK
Birthday: August 14, 1968
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Gender: Male
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Primary Colors
Overview: In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-20
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Case 39
Overview: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-13
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The Penitent - A Rational Man
Overview: A psychiatrist, Charles, has his career and life become derailed after he refuses to testify on behalf of a former patient who had become clinically violent and unstable, resulting in the deaths of multiple people following a tragic breakdown of his mental complications. The patient then claims that Charles will not testify in court or to the police because the patient is openly part of the LGBT community. Further, the patient claims that Charles has recently gone through a religious conversion in his own personal identity which has resulted in a fully prejudiced reassessment of the gay community as a whole. Charles claims that the basis of these accusations are false and due to a misunderstanding. The resulting recriminations put Charles's entire career at risk and threaten to end his practice permanently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-09-04
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Maybe Baby
Overview: Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-02
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The Final Curtain
Overview: The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his biography, in the hope of sealing his immortality in the hearts and minds of the British public. This is made more difficult by his rivalry with fellow gameshow host Dave Turner (Aidan Gillen), and events from his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-12
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Dust
Overview: Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-29
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Overview: Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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As You Like It
Overview: Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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Sleep With Me
Overview: A couple are torn apart when a French woman enters their loves and pulls them into personal a game of lust and obsession.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-30
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David Harewood on Blackface
Overview: At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than 20 million people. David Harewood goes on a mission to understand the roots of this strange, intensely problematic cultural form: where did the show come from, and what made it popular for so long? With the help of historians, actors and musicians, David uncovers how, at its core, blackface minstrelsy was simply an attempt to make racism into an art form - and can be traced back to a name and a date.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-27
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
Overview: Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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National Theatre Live: Othello
Overview: The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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The Tragedy of Hamlet
Overview: Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-22
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Company
Overview: Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-10
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Breakable You
Overview: A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-07
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Doomsday
Overview: The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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Elizabeth: Her Passions and Pastimes
Overview: Throughout her life, The Queen had her passions and pastimes that she enjoyed. From her dogs and horses, through theatre, film, music and TV, to her love of photography, the sea, and family outings, her interests were both many and varied.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-14
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The Day After Tomorrow
Overview: After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-26
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Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday'
Overview: The Making of 'Doomsday'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-29
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Born Romantic
Overview: In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Up on the Roof
Overview: Five friends who meet at Hull University in the late 1970's and form a barbershop-style quartet. They blow their chance to sing at a graduation gig and vow to meet fifteen years later at the Cote d'Azur villa of one of their parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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Hymn
Overview: Two men meet at a funeral. Benny is a loner anchored by his wife and children. Gil longs to fulfil his potential. They form a deep bond but as cracks appear in their fragile lives they start to realise that true courage comes in different forms.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-26
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Storm Damage
Overview: A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-23
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Les Sœurs Soleil
Overview: This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie couple gets the chance to appear in a raucous music video starring a raunchy, aging female rocker. When pipe-puffing patriarch and solid citizen Brice learns that his daughter Clemence has been to selected for the music video with tacky has-been rocker Gloria, he nearly comes unglued. His prim wife, Benedicte, the organist for the local congregation, has a different perspective and understands her daughter's eagerness. She quietly agrees to secretly accompany Clemence during the shoot. Once there, the two are filmed dancing around and having fun. Neither realize that they will become special-effects victims by time production on the film ends and find themselves apparently dancing amongst men who but for the presence of small rubber sea creatures, would be buck naked.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-02
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Ballet Shoes
Overview: An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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Euphoria
Overview: The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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Britain's Racist Election
Overview: Channel 4 documentary Britain's Racist Election follows the controversial 1964 Smethwick election battle between Peter Griffiths and Gordon Walker, fought on grounds of racial denomination
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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The Affair
Overview: A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-14
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Best
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-05-10
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Overview: To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-02
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Grey Lady
Overview: A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-28
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Starting Out in the Evening
Overview: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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Mary Queen of Scots
Overview: In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Overview: Ten big name actors, including Jim Broadbent, Jodie Whittaker, David Tennant and Olivia Colman, come together to record an album for Children In Need
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-30
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Jimi: All Is by My Side
Overview: A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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Respect: A Felix Dexter Special
Overview: A special programme celebrating the life in comedy of the much-loved and respected actor, Felix Dexter. Charting his influence as a pioneer of black comedy, from his early days in stand-up, then the landmark Real McCoy, The Fast Show, Down the Line, Absolutely Fabulous, Bellamy's People and Citizen Khan. Friends and colleagues gather to remember Felix, including Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson and Adil Ray.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-17
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Romeo & Juliet
Overview: An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern-day Italy where two young lovers strive to transcend a violent world where Catholic and secular values clash.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-28
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Mutiny
Overview: After his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime — leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-01-09
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Angel Pavement
Overview: A tale from Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures. Corky and Loopy are two ordinary girls who happen to also be secret angels! With the aid of a magic pencil that can draw in the air, they go on 'angel patrol;, amazing people in their town with beautiful art and rescuing the odd animal. When they meet street artist Sid, they decide to help him take part in a local drawing competition by lending him the special pencil. Sid creates incredible drawings in the sky and brings joy and wonder to all.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-04
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