Paul Brooke
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Biography: Paul Brooke is a retired English actor. He made his film debut in 1972 in the Hammer film Straight on till Morning, followed by performances in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Return of the Jedi (1983), Scandal (1989), Saving Grace (2000), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Alfie (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and Oliver Twist (2005). Brooke is the father of actor Tom Brooke. – Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Birthday: November 22, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
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For Your Eyes Only
Overview: A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-24
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Overview: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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Saving Grace
Overview: Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-24
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Agatha
Overview: England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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Somewhere to Run
Overview: Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-11
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Revolution
Overview: New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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Lighthouse
Overview: A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor got there first - the murderous & psychotic Leo Rook. Stranded, with no means of escape or call for help, the survivors must face a night of terror as they struggle to survive.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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Doc Martin
Overview: Doc Martin tells the tale of Martin Clunes' character in the film, in the months leading up to the Saving Grace story. Martin Bamford is a heart-broken London obstetrician, in a jealous rage after he finds out that his wife has been sleeping with three of his buddies. He escapes to a small Cornish fishing village, which he grows surprisingly attached to, and is extremely reluctant to return with his cheating wife when she comes to pick him up. Although he has only been looking for a week's R & R, Dr Bamford stumbles across a network of secrets in the village of Port Isaac, and finds himself embroiled in the most exciting scandal the village has seen for centuries.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
Overview: Doctor Bamford has had enough of village life and is desperate for some distance from inquisitive Cornish neighbours. When the local estate agent shows him Tregunnt Farm # derelict and miles from anywhere # it's love at first sight. But the Bowden family from London also have their eye on the property with a view to developing the surrounding land into ugly holiday cottages. After being gazumped, the Doc decides to try and spook the family into leaving by pretending to be the Beast of Bodmin.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-30
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The Edge of Love
Overview: When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-20
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The Trial
Overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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The Moonstone
Overview: Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-29
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A Class Apart
Overview: An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover the headmaster offered a place merely to win a bet.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-23
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The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Blott on the Landscape
Overview: Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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The Lair of the White Worm
Overview: When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-21
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The Scold's Bridle
Overview: Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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Genghis Cohn
Overview: In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-09
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The Comedy of Errors
Overview: The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-17
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Adam Bede
Overview: Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
Overview: Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour as an oddball in a suit. And his crusade is more of a "who ami" than a "whodunit".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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Einstein and Eddington
Overview: A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-29
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Overview: Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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The Edge of Love
Overview: When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-20
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Bertie and Elizabeth
Overview: The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-04
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Blood and Dust
Overview: The warlike and sentimental adventures of a young French knight who participates in the crusades.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-09-06
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A Masculine Ending
Overview: While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-12
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The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Overview: A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of eccentric characters. With his passion for the railways and naïve disposition, Benjamin inadvertently encourages them to reveal their innermost fears and darkest secrets.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Overview: A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Overview: Television version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-24
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Scandal
Overview: An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed killed in a fire, plans his revenge on all those he deems responsible for her suicide.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-29
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Splitting Heirs
Overview: A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Overview: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Genres: TV Movie Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-17
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Still Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-05
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Oliver Twist
Overview: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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A Dry White Season
Overview: During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
Overview: Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sends thousands of men to their deaths for virtually no territorial gain. In Paris, Indy falls in love with the seductive German spy Mata Hari, only to suffer the pains of deceit.
Genres: Action Adventure War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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Alfie
Overview: A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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All's Well That Ends Well
Overview: Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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Children of the North
Overview: The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-30
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Return of the Jedi
Overview: Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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The Affair of the Necklace
Overview: In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Straight On Till Morning
Overview: Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-09
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-08
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into the palace courtyard, and is seen by young Prince Edward, who takes him in. Each desiring to see what the other's life is like, the boys impulsively switch identities... little knowing what disaster lies ahead at this fault of thought. And soon Thomas becomes a pawn in the hands of Edward's malicious and greedy uncle, who would have the kingdom for himself.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-01
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Minor Complications
Overview: Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-18
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Hancock
Overview: Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the peak of his powers as Britain's number one comedian to his eventual mental, alcoholic decline and suicide in Australia.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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The Kitchen Child
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Mountain and the Molehill
Overview: It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-15
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