Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall

Birthday: 1957-02-27

Place of Birth: Battersea, London, England, UK

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.

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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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Immortality
Immortality

A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him....

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling batt...

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Still Crazy
Still Crazy

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte...

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a...

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Vanilla Sky
Vanilla Sky

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins fall...

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Quadrophenia
Quadrophenia

Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Ji...

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Enchanted
Enchanted

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land ...

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Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...

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The Damned United
The Damned United

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dir...

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The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa....

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Chicken Run
Chicken Run

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens ...

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Gettin' Square
Gettin' Square

Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of...

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Rich Flu
Rich Flu

A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it ...

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Vatel
Vatel

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv...

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Intimacy
Intimacy

Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London...

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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on ...

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Gothic
Gothic

Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. T...

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining...

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just a...

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All or Nothing
All or Nothing

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...

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Bolan's Shoes
Bolan's Shoes

A love letter to 70s glam rock told through the eyes of Jimmy and Penny, two children who grew up in...

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Appaloosa
Appaloosa

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their jo...

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Desert Flower
Desert Flower

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later...

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The Fattest Man in Britain
The Fattest Man in Britain

Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie ...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London ...

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Death Defying Acts
Death Defying Acts

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...

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Dutch Girls
Dutch Girls

In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find ...

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Lucky Break
Lucky Break

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lu...

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The Bride
The Bride

Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the mal...

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Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends ...

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My House in Umbria
My House in Umbria

Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One d...

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The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye

West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his...

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Life Is Sweet
Life Is Sweet

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy c...

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific execu...

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Neville's Island
Neville's Island

Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district...

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Heartless
Heartless

The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeli...

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Roots
Roots

Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfol...

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Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in...

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To Kill a Priest
To Kill a Priest

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it....

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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killi...

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Dream Demon
Dream Demon

As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment w...

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From Time to Time
From Time to Time

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can...

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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

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Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to ha...

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The Missionary
The Missionary

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to Engl...

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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice ...

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Upside Down
Upside Down

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplan...

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Wake Wood
Wake Wood

The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days...

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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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Reuniting the Rubins
Reuniting the Rubins

An up-tight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ...

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Ginger & Rosa
Ginger & Rosa

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960...

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Love Bite
Love Bite

Four teenaged lads set off to get laid in order to stay alive. However, the boys have to attract the...

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Wasteland
Wasteland

A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug king...

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Room on the Broom
Room on the Broom

Animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustra...

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Rough for Theatre II
Rough for Theatre II

Two bureaucrats discuss the potential suicide of a man standing perfectly still in front of a door t...

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Comes a Bright Day
Comes a Bright Day

A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Someti...

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Assassin's Bullet
Assassin's Bullet

In Assassin's Bullet, Slater plays Robert Diggs, a black ops agent who comes to work for Ambassador ...

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The Clandestine Marriage
The Clandestine Marriage

A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of conven...

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Body Contact
Body Contact

In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beaut...

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Boy
Boy

The winner of British Airways ”Great Britons” competition, the film tells the story of a carpenter ...

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Gunrush
Gunrush

Set against the rising wave of gun crime in Britain, Gunrush sees a father driven to take the law in...

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The Love Punch
The Love Punch

Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a wo...

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Teenage Tourettes Camp
Teenage Tourettes Camp

Follows five British teenagers with Tourette's Syndrome as they spend a week in an American summer c...

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My Angel
My Angel

Fifteen year old Eddie's mother falls very ill after a serious car accident. Eddie and his brother S...

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1871
1871

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871....

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Northern Comfort
Northern Comfort

A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers...

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Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes inv...

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The King's Speech
The King's Speech

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabet...

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Dread Poets' Society
Dread Poets' Society

Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambri...

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Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the ...

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Mysterious Creatures
Mysterious Creatures

Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blet...

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The Heist Before Christmas
The Heist Before Christmas

After a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus holds up a bank, a child disillusioned with Christmas enc...

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Say No to Strangers
Say No to Strangers

A short film to warn children of sexual predators....

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Spencer
Spencer

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, D...

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Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited

Composer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to ...

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Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner....

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This Is Christmas
This Is Christmas

Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet t...

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Wicked Little Letters
Wicked Little Letters

When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of ...

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Untitled 13
Untitled 13

Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons...

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching ...

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The Brylcreem Boys
The Brylcreem Boys

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite ...

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The Three Sisters
The Three Sisters

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their fath...

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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter....

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S.O.S. Titanic
S.O.S. Titanic

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board....

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Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the Fi...

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Ivor the Invisible
Ivor the Invisible

Written by Raymond Briggs, this beautifully animated film tells the story of ten-year-old John. Afte...

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Rock Star
Rock Star

A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his bandmates ki...

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Back with the Boys Again
Back with the Boys Again

In September 2013, members of the cast, writers and crew gathered on Tyneside to reminisce and celeb...

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Broke
Broke

Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to in...

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Nona
Nona

British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly ...

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Fungus The Bogeyman
Fungus The Bogeyman

Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when t...

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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and h...

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A Room with a View
A Room with a View

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

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Remembrance
Remembrance

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise,...

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Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day

Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel, Night & Day is an unromantic comedy about a passionate ast...

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Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle

A teacher comes to terms with his past during a school trip to Salisbury Cathedral....

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The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and...

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, the...

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Away
Away

A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who f...

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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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Crusoe
Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools...

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Hamlet
Hamlet

Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting...

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The Party
The Party

Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of rev...

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The Journey
The Journey

Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, t...

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The Changeover
The Changeover

Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the e...

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Finding Your Feet
Finding Your Feet

A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair....

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Stanley, a Man of Variety
Stanley, a Man of Variety

A man who has been stuck in prison for far too long starts to see hallucinations....

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Sucker
Sucker

When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his ...

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The One and Only Mike Leigh
The One and Only Mike Leigh

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Par...

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Cherished
Cherished

A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her ...

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Early Man
Early Man

Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being sp...

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the retur...

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Journey's End
Journey's End

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R...

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White Hunter, Black Heart
White Hunter, Black Heart

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hun...

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The Corrupted
The Corrupted

Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and nar...

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The Vanishing Army
The Vanishing Army

"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good...

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David Macaulay: Pyramid
David Macaulay: Pyramid

How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone...

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Mrs Lowry & Son
Mrs Lowry & Son

An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. ...

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The Grand Duke Of Corsica
The Grand Duke Of Corsica

A cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred, embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for ...

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This Time Away
This Time Away

The elderly Nigel is haunted by his past and the memories of his long-lost family. Then a visitor ar...

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The Last Bus
The Last Bus

Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of ...

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It Snows in Benidorm
It Snows in Benidorm

Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decid...

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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captai...

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A Cotswold Death
A Cotswold Death

A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect...

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Grizzly II: Revenge
Grizzly II: Revenge

All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attac...

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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, b...

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Goodbye June
Goodbye June

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the...

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The Swords
The Swords

A man becomes involved with a woman who can be penetrated by swords....

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Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

This groundbreaking documentary unlocks the hidden psychology of J.M.W. Turner through his 37,000 pr...

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A Crack in the Ice
A Crack in the Ice

A comedy about injustice set in St Petersburg in 1839. The Tsar has tightened up security and mounte...

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The Life Story of Baal
The Life Story of Baal

An adaptation of the first play written by Bertolt Brecht, charting the decline and fall of Baal, a ...

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