Timothy Spall
Also Known As: Tim Spall, Тимоти Сполл, 티모시 스폴, 提摩西·司伯, تیموتی اسپال
Biography: Timothy Leonard Spall (born February 27, 1957) is an English actor and presenter. He became a household name in the UK after appearing as Barry Spencer Taylor in the 1983 ITV comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Spall performed in Secrets & Lies (1996), and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Subsequently, he starred in many films, including Hamlet (1996), Still Crazy (1998), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Enchanted (2007), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Damned United (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Ginger and Rosa (2012), Denial (2016), and The Party (2017). He voiced Nick, a cynical, portly rat in Chicken Run (2000). He played Peter Pettigrew in five Harry Potter films, from Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). Spall has collaborated with director Mike Leigh, making six films together: Home Sweet Home (1982), Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), and Mr. Turner (2014). Spall won great acclaim for his performance in the last of these for his portrayal as J. M. W. Turner winning him the Best Actor Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He starred in the television documentary Timothy Spall: ...at Sea (2010–2012) and in 2019 he appeared as Lord Arthur Wallington in the 6-part BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Battersea, London, England, UK
Birthday: February 27, 1957
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Gender: Male
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The Last Samurai
Overview: Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-05
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Immortality
Overview: A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Overview: When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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Still Crazy
Overview: In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Overview: As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-15
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Vanilla Sky
Overview: David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance Drama Fantasy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-14
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Quadrophenia
Overview: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-14
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Enchanted
Overview: The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-20
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Secrets & Lies
Overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-24
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The Damned United
Overview: Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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The Sheltering Sky
Overview: An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-25
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Chicken Run
Overview: The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-23
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Gettin' Square
Overview: Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-09
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Rich Flu
Overview: A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the whole world panicking, people try to flood the market with assets the world no longer wants.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-12
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Vatel
Overview: In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-01
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Intimacy
Overview: Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventually disrupts their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-20
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-03
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Gothic
Overview: Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-30
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-17
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-12
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All or Nothing
Overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Bolan's Shoes
Overview: A love letter to 70s glam rock told through the eyes of Jimmy and Penny, two children who grew up in a children’s home and were involved in an accident after attending a T. Rex concert.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Appaloosa
Overview: Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Genres: Drama Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Desert Flower
Overview: The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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The Fattest Man in Britain
Overview: Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-20
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-20
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Death Defying Acts
Overview: On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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Dutch Girls
Overview: In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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Lucky Break
Overview: Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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The Bride
Overview: Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect victorian woman.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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My House in Umbria
Overview: Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-25
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The Pale Blue Eye
Overview: West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Life Is Sweet
Overview: Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-15
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Overview: Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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Neville's Island
Overview: Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Heartless
Overview: The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the East End of London, an area notorious for its violent hooded gangs. According to news reports, the gangs are now wearing demon masks. But, one night, Jamie discovers the terrifying truth.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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Roots
Overview: Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political matters by her boyfriend Ronnie. Through trying to pass on what she has learned, she discovers her own voice and views.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-28
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Topsy-Turvy
Overview: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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To Kill a Priest
Overview: A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Overview: A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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Dream Demon
Overview: As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-06
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From Time to Time
Overview: A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-15
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Oliver Twist
Overview: The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-23
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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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The Missionary
Overview: In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Overview: Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting 'Sell, sell, fucking sell' and his punters are up to their eyes in debt. Even Tommy admits his 'soul's in holes'. He's sure the Golden Vac (the holy grail of vacuum salesmanship) can be his - if only he hadn't been saddled with Pete, a meek sales trainee trying to help his girlfriend quit stripping.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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Upside Down
Overview: In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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Wake Wood
Overview: The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Jackboots on Whitehall
Overview: A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
Genres: War Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Reuniting the Rubins
Overview: An up-tight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a Jewish holiday. They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny's eyes, his grown-up children are certainly not even from the same planet: a ruthless control-freak and hard-nosed capitalist, an outspoken, argumentative eco-warrior committed to the cause, an outer-worldly Buddhist Monk; and to cap it all, a bible bashing born-again Rabbi. While they might quarrel, fight, and perhaps even be starting a war in Africa, they are still family. It is going to take a whole lot of soul-searching and sacrifice for everyone to come together in this comic drama. Written by monterey media inc.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Ginger & Rosa
Overview: A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Love Bite
Overview: Four teenaged lads set off to get laid in order to stay alive. However, the boys have to attract the girls first in order to complete their mission. Otherwise, they will be hunted and killed by a vicious Werewolf which only seems interested in Virgins.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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The Rise
Overview: A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-09
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Room on the Broom
Overview: Animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The story of a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her cat. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone. A magical tale about friendship and family from Magic Light Pictures, the producers of the hugely successful The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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Rough for Theatre II
Overview: Two bureaucrats discuss the potential suicide of a man standing perfectly still in front of a door that opens into the night sky and a fatal drop.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Comes a Bright Day
Overview: A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Assassin's Bullet
Overview: In Assassin's Bullet, Slater plays Robert Diggs, a black ops agent who comes to work for Ambassador Ashdown (Hunger Games star Donald Sutherland), tracking down a vigilante assassin in Eastern Europe. The maverick hit(wo)man has been taking out high-profile targets on the U.S. hit list, and Diggs must uncover the killer's identity before there's an international incident. The usual game of cat and mouse ensues.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-01
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The Clandestine Marriage
Overview: A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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Body Contact
Overview: In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-06
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Boy
Overview: The winner of British Airways ”Great Britons” competition, the film tells the story of a carpenter at the Olympic Velodrome track and his cyclist son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-23
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Gunrush
Overview: Set against the rising wave of gun crime in Britain, Gunrush sees a father driven to take the law into his own hands after his daughter is shot dead.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-22
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The Love Punch
Overview: Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind the fraud.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-13
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Teenage Tourettes Camp
Overview: Follows five British teenagers with Tourette's Syndrome as they spend a week in an American summer camp.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-02
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My Angel
Overview: Fifteen year old Eddie's mother falls very ill after a serious car accident. Eddie and his brother Stewart end up having to take care of themselves and one night when they have ran out of food and electricity, Eddie dreams that his mother asks him to find an angel's halo so that she can be saved. Will Eddie be able to save his mother in time for Christmas?
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-09
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1871
Overview: A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-09
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Northern Comfort
Overview: A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course's final challenge is an experience flight from London to Iceland, which ends up being a horrendous ordeal. Lost in Iceland, freezing and terrified, they must find a way of facing their fears and working together to spread their wings... and fly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2023-08-09
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Mr. Turner
Overview: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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The King's Speech
Overview: The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-26
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Dread Poets' Society
Overview: Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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Mysterious Creatures
Overview: Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham couple locked in a deeply dysfunctional relationship with their 32-year-old daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton). In a culmination of years spent unsuccessfully trying to obtain a diagnosis and get state help to deal with with Lisa's condition - which eventually turns out to be Asperger's syndrome - Bill and Wendy are ultimately driven to desperate measures with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-29
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The Heist Before Christmas
Overview: After a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus holds up a bank, a child disillusioned with Christmas encounters a man in the woods who, also dressed as Santa, claims to have fallen out of his sleigh. The pair strike up a friendship and go on an adventure.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-24
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Say No to Strangers
Overview: A short film to warn children of sexual predators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Spencer
Overview: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Overview: Composer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-16
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This Is Christmas
Overview: Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire carriage to hold their own Christmas party together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-04
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Wicked Little Letters
Overview: When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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Untitled 13
Overview: Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Overview: Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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The Brylcreem Boys
Overview: Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-21
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9 Kisses
Overview: 2014's best actors pair up in a series of intimate encounters.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-11
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The Three Sisters
Overview: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-29
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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S.O.S. Titanic
Overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Cider with Rosie
Overview: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-27
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Ivor the Invisible
Overview: Written by Raymond Briggs, this beautifully animated film tells the story of ten-year-old John. After being woken up early one morning. John finds a big invisible something sitting on his bed.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-24
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Rock Star
Overview: A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his bandmates kick him out of the group he founded. Things begin to look up for Izzy when he is asked to join Steel Dragon, the heavy metal rockers he had been imitating for so long. This film is loosely based on the true story of the band Judas Priest.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-04
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Back With The Boys Again
Overview: In September 2013, members of the cast, writers and crew gathered on Tyneside to reminisce and celebrate the show that captured the imagination of a generation and made it trendy to be a Geordie. Back With The Boys Again – The Story of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Also on this DVD – Previously unseen footage from Sunday for Sammy 2000 featuring Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail and Brendan Healy. This sketch was the inspiration for Auf Wiedersehen Pet's return and has never been commercially released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-01
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Broke
Overview: Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by Ron, a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Francis finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend Ron's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Nona
Overview: British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly woman who is causing a drain on the resources of her entire family, with her constant craving for food and demands, which everybody indulges, in spite of falling into prostitution and bankruptcy. Her two grandsons hit on the idea of marrying her off to an elderly man who runs a tobacconists and sweet kiosk, however, the latter believes that Chico is trying to hitch him up with the beautiful young Marta.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-19
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Fungus The Bogeyman
Overview: Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next door comes to life on Sky 1. Timothy Spall, Victoria Wood and Keeley Hawes star
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-27
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Overview: Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit first came to life.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-26
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A Room with a View
Overview: Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in particular — who both surprise and intrigue her. When piqued interest turns to potential romance, Lucy is whisked home to England, where her attention turns to Cecil Vyse. But now, with a well-developed appetite for adventure, will Lucy make the daring choice when it comes to love?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-04
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Remembrance
Overview: A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Night and Day
Overview: Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. The story of Katharine’s bold challenge to the Edwardian patriarchy is set against the backdrop of the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology, at the turn of the 20th century.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
Overview: A teacher comes to terms with his past during a school trip to Salisbury Cathedral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-26
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Overview: Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-16
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Away
Overview: A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who form an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-22
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Denial
Overview: Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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Crusoe
Overview: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-30
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Hamlet
Overview: Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting themes of familial honor, moral duty and dynastic corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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The Party
Overview: Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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The Journey
Overview: Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-30
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The Changeover
Overview: Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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Finding Your Feet
Overview: A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-26
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Stanley, a Man of Variety
Overview: A man who has been stuck in prison for far too long starts to see hallucinations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Sucker
Overview: When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter Sarah, and learns that even the sneakiest scam can't conjure up love. Is it a true story? That might be another of Leung's tricks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-15
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
Overview: In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-24
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Cherished
Overview: A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidence about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death Syndrome) which has since been discredited.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-22
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Early Man
Overview: Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.
Genres: Family Comedy Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Overview: Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-08
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Journey's End
Overview: A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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White Hunter, Black Heart
Overview: Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-16
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The Corrupted
Overview: Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen, who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Overview: Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and narrowly outwits inept German spies. Dashing off to Prague, he then arranges for a telephone installation to await an important call, which becomes a bureaucratic nightmare until Franz Kafka intervenes.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-14
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The Vanishing Army
Overview: "Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-29
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David Macaulay: Pyramid
Overview: How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology, and religions of Egypt's people, combining live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II and buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-04
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Mrs Lowry & Son
Overview: An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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The Grand Duke Of Corsica
Overview: A cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred, embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for a man who calls himself 'The Grand Duke of Corsica'. An epidemic hits the Island and all must flee, but Alfred remains to finish the job.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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This Time Away
Overview: The elderly Nigel is haunted by his past and the memories of his long-lost family. Then a visitor arrives and turns his world upside down..
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-30
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The Last Bus
Overview: Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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It Snows in Benidorm
Overview: Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to discover that he's disappeared.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-12-11
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Overview: Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believing he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree; the truth of the matter is more sinister.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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A Cotswold Death
Overview: A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's best technicolor detective, except for the victim-the 20th-century lord of the manor, Sheik Ali Ben Hassim.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-12
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Grizzly II: Revenge
Overview: All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [This sequel to "Grizzly" (1976) was left unfinished after production wrapped prematurely in 1983, and was not officially released until 2020, though a bootleg workprint version had been in circulation for some years prior to this.]
Genres: Horror Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-17
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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Overview: Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the restless heart of a risk-taker. Don't miss this engaging biography.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-07
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Goodbye June
Overview: A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Swords
Overview: A man becomes involved with a woman who can be penetrated by swords.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-20
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