Blake Ritson
Also Known As: Blake Adam Ritson, Μπλέικ Ρίτσον
Biography: Blake Ritson won a scholarship to St. Paul's School in London before attending Cambridge University and was soon appearing in the West End in the Tom Stoppard play 'Arcadia', for which he received excellent notices. In addition to acting - notable television roles have included 'Emma', 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Mansfield Park' with Billie Piper - he has also co-directed and co-written four prize-winning short films with his brother Dylan, another Cambridge graduate and ex-member of the Footlights company. He also plays musical instruments and was one of the backing band on the album 'Cowley Road' by fellow thespian - and 'Mansfield Park' co-star - Douglas Hodge.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: England, UK
Birthday: January 14, 1978
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Gender: Male
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God on Trial
Overview: In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-03
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Dead Man Running
Overview: A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it's too late for them both
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-29
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Titus
Overview: Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Breaking the Code
Overview: A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-17
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Love Hate
Overview: A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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Serena
Overview: North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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Mansfield Park
Overview: In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual politics of high society along the way.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-18
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Different for Girls
Overview: Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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The Cicerones
Overview: A tourist encounters some strange characters in a foreign cathedral.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Me Without You
Overview: During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Overview: The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid. As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-14
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Hyde Park on Hudson
Overview: The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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For Elsie
Overview: Glenn is a disillusioned piano teacher, who once aspired to be a concert pianist. He is moving back to his parents house and is on the brink of giving up the piano for good when Kilov, a Russian gangster, offers him a unique opportunity: £10,000 if Glenn teaches his daughter Beethoven's "Fur Elise"... in a day.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-26
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Bricks
Overview: When a wealthy stockbroker hires a rough builder to renovate the wine cellar underneath his country house, the two men fall out with chilling consequences. A Gothic suspense thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and hailed by David Fincher as 'a morbid yet classy take on a morbid classic'. A tense thriller about wealth, wine and the art of bricklaying, BRICKS updates Edgar Allan Poe's classic revenge tale 'The Cask of Amontillado' for our times. Rich stockbroker William (Blake Ritson, DA VINCI'S DEMONS) hires rough builder Clive (Jason Flemyng, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON) to renovate his wine cellar. The two men couldn't be more different: William is rich and refined; Clive is tough and uncouth. But in the shadowy cellar they find common ground. At least at first...
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-05
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AKA
Overview: In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his family. In order to make something of himself, he assumes another identity and manages to enter high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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Breakthrough
Overview: Toby is keen to impress his mentor and admits disturbed new patient Judith on the professor's behalf. Lowry conducts the initial interview unaware that Judith's arrival is no accident but part of a carefully orchestrated plan to bring the two of them together.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-01
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RocknRolla
Overview: When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-04
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Breaking The Codes
Overview: Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought far from the bombs and shells of any battlefront. A war that involved the brilliant skills of mathematicians and chess players. Revealed here are the remarkable exploits of American and British code-breakers and their immense contribution to victory in during WWII.
Genres: History War Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-23
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