Tom Wilkinson

Tom Wilkinson

Birthday: 1948-02-05

Place of Birth: Leeds, England, UK

Biography: Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (5 February 1948 – 30 December 2023) was an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Wilkinson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making his West End debut portraying Horatio in Hamlet (1980) for which he received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He returned to the West End playing Dr. Stockmann in the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People (1988) receiving a Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival nomination. Wilkinson received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Full Monty (1997) as well as two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Actor for In the Bedroom (2001) and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Clayton (2007). He became known as a character actor, acting in numerous films such as In the Name of the Father (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Patriot (2000), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Valkyrie (2008), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Belle (2013), Selma (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Denial (2016). In 2009 he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for playing Benjamin Franklin in the HBO limited series John Adams (2008). His other Emmy-nominated roles were as Roy/Ruth Applewood in the HBO film Normal (2003), James Baker in the HBO film Recount (2008), and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in the limited series The Kennedys (2011).

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, dec...

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Batman Begins
Batman Begins

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corrup...

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Rush Hour
Rush Hour

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't...

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Valkyrie
Valkyrie

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native German...

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The Ghost and the Darkness
The Ghost and the Darkness

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...

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Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

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In the Bedroom
In the Bedroom

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in tran...

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The Patriot
The Patriot

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants not...

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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events ...

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Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while repres...

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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...

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Cassandra's Dream
Cassandra's Dream

The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime...

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Chain of Fools
Chain of Fools

An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in t...

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Ride with the Devil
Ride with the Devil

Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of...

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The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Ada...

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The Last Kiss
The Last Kiss

Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He love...

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Black Knight
Black Knight

Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in ...

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed ...

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The Full Monty
The Full Monty

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it ...

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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...

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Stage Beauty
Stage Beauty

Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the mal...

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Sakharov
Sakharov

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri...

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The Gruffalo
The Gruffalo

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering p...

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Priest
Priest

The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face...

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RocknRolla
RocknRolla

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members...

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The Green Hornet
The Green Hornet

Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has b...

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Dedication
Dedication

A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is ...

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44 Inch Chest
44 Inch Chest

Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he ...

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Recount
Recount

In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of F...

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The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill durin...

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The Conspirator
The Conspirator

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Li...

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A Good Woman
A Good Woman

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne t...

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All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Bright and Beautiful

A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a mani...

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Sometime in August
Sometime in August

Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation i...

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Separate Lies
Separate Lies

Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed....

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Duplicity
Duplicity

Two romantically involved corporate spies team up to manipulate a race to corner the market on a med...

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Ripley Under Ground
Ripley Under Ground

After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers ...

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Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican mini...

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The Debt
The Debt

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surg...

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Essex Boys
Essex Boys

Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind ...

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Normal
Normal

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

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Burke & Hare
Burke & Hare

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable busin...

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The Gruffalo's Child
The Gruffalo's Child

A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and...

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Another Life
Another Life

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of...

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Letting the Birds Go Free
Letting the Birds Go Free

A farm family catch a young man stealing eggs from their barn. Seemingly homeless, the man stays wit...

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel...

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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks,...

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Paper Mask
Paper Mask

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of ...

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The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Ran...

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Jackboots on Whitehall
Jackboots on Whitehall

A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band t...

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The Governess
The Governess

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a g...

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The Man Who Saved Paris
The Man Who Saved Paris

The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore th...

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Cold Enough for Snow
Cold Enough for Snow

Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and f...

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The Samaritan
The Samaritan

After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive yo...

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars ...

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A Number
A Number

A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill...

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An Angel for May
An Angel for May

When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, a...

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Wetherby
Wetherby

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the ...

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Belle
Belle

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an importa...

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Felony
Felony

Three detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in...

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Eskimo Day
Eskimo Day

Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that...

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Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure

Modern dress adaptation of Shakespeare's play....

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Space Junk 3D
Space Junk 3D

50 years after launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring o...

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Little Boy
Little Boy

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his fat...

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Good People
Good People

Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family ho...

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The Shadow-Line
The Shadow-Line

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph C...

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The Woman He Loved
The Woman He Loved

In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorce...

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Selma
Selma

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...

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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...

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Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business

A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most import...

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A Business Affair
A Business Affair

This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Ale...

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First and Last
First and Last

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of B...

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Bone in the Throat
Bone in the Throat

A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary sk...

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Snowden
Snowden

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press....

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The Choice
The Choice

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that ...

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If Only
If Only

After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a figh...

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Jenny's Wedding
Jenny's Wedding

Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out th...

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The Night of the White Pants
The Night of the White Pants

The patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daug...

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Sylvia
Sylvia

New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting ...

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This Beautiful Fantastic
This Beautiful Fantastic

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale ...

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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, afte...

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In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...

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Jilting Joe
Jilting Joe

Joe and Olivia are childhood sweethearts, about to embark on their wedding day. But, the so-called h...

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Squaring the Circle
Squaring the Circle

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dic...

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Before You Go
Before You Go

The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's thre...

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Denial
Denial

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Hol...

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Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Resnick: Lonely Hearts

Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of ...

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Resnick: Rough Treatment
Resnick: Rough Treatment

A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV ...

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Burden
Burden

Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subse...

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Wilde
Wilde

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

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Prince of Jutland
Prince of Jutland

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne....

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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Le...

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The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the...

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Parker
Parker

An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released...

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The Titan
The Titan

On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But hi...

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Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim

Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an ...

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Crossing the Floor
Crossing the Floor

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservat...

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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the islan...

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A Very Open Prison
A Very Open Prison

The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons...

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Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, his struggle ...

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WWII in 3D
WWII in 3D

For the first time, you will see dramatic moments of WWII that were captured in 3D with stereographs...

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SAS: Red Notice
SAS: Red Notice

An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the ...

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The Liar
The Liar

Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ab...

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The Catcher Was a Spy
The Catcher Was a Spy

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic...

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Sharma and Beyond
Sharma and Beyond

A young would-be science-fiction writer finds out that his new girlfriend's father is his favorite a...

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