Simon Callow
A miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic, following David Copperfield's life starting from his idyllic childhood and continuing through to adulthood.
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Actors: Colin Hurley, Brenda Bruce, Simon Callow, Jeremy Brudenell
In an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions, two world-renowned ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their most talented stars. From the Executive Producers of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel comes a bold new series celebrating the beauty, humor, and unpredictability of a life devoted to the arts, both on stage and off.
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Actors: Luke Kirby, Lou de Laage, David Alvarez, Simon Callow, Gideon Glick
Dominating the landscape for centuries, Britain's ancient cathedrals and abbeys reflect her turbulent history through their significant heritage and architectural grandeur. Intriguing stories of kings and queens, and the huge religious and social upheaval brought about by the English Reformation, wreath these magnificent landmarks in tales of mystery, love, faith and conviction.
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Actors: Simon Callow
For as long as he can remember, Tom Chance has had a life which lived up to his surname”from the coincidence that led to his meeting his true love to his run-ins with the law for crimes he didn't commit (run-ins that eventually have the police sergeant ordering his men not to arrest Tom, no matter what the circumstances!). Tom Chance is a very likeable bloke to whom bizarre things which are a-million-to-one-chance for most people happen to Tom Chance as a matter of course. For example, his shy librarian girlfriend Alison Little becomes enmeshed in Tom's bizarre world when a series of strange "coincidences" lead to the pair being arrested for housebreaking while dressed only in underwear. Nothing is ever Tom's fault, of course, just the inevitable chain of coincidence that seems to follow him wherever he goes.
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Actors: Simon Callow, Rosemary Smith, Geraldine Gardner, Deddie Davies, Bill Pertwee
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Director: John Miller
Actors: Bernard Hill, Virginia McKenna, Sue Johnston, Phil Davis, Una Stubbs
BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.
Director: John Bruce
Actors: Simon Callow, Tim Wylton, Deborah Norton, Christopher Malcolm, William Russell
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.
Director: Roger Michell
Actors: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny, Rhys Ifans
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
Director: Hadi Hajaig
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz, Al Weaver, Amanda Donohoe, Phoebe Fox
A knight returning from the Crusades takes on a dragon and becomes a legend.
Director: Tom Reeve
Actors: James Purefoy, Piper Perabo, Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bill Treacher
Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Actors: Casper Van Dien, Leonor Varela, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Hyde, Steven Waddington
The rapid rise and violent fall of rock band Stack of Corpses whose attempt to jump start their career by stealing another singer’s song ends up with bloody and unexpected consequences. Told through 6 chapters of the band's life.
Director: Mitchell Tolliday
Actors: Simon Callow, Fran McAteer, Luke de Belder, Imogen Wilde, Rhiann Connor
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
Director: James Ivory
Actors: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
Director: Joel Hopkins
Actors: Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, James Norton, Lesley Manville, Jason Watkins
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.
Director: Andrew Litvack
Actors: Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Bulle Ogier, Roschdy Zem, Jerry Hall
A student goes on a fantastical journey inspired by the words of social economist William Beveridge in his eponymous 1942 report.
Director: Christine Edzard
Actors: Sophie Jenkin, Simon Callow, Sebastian Armesto, Alan Cox, Michael Mears
Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,
Director: George Bloomfield
Actors: Wendy Crewson, Victor Garber, Robert Hays, Simon Callow, Domini Blythe
Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to today's advances in gay sexual freedom, How Gay Sex Changed the World examines how the gay sexual revolution gathered pace in the face of gradually changing legislation, from the first Gay Pride march to groundbreaking dramas such as Queer as Folk.
Director: Mark Turnbull
Actors: Craig Kelly, Simon Callow, David Furnish, Ian H Watkins, Jimmy Somerville
In the 1930s, a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, their friends seem to self-destruct, one-by-one, in an endless search for newer and faster sensations. Finally, when world events out of their control come crashing around them, they are forced to reassess their lives and what they value most.
Director: Stephen Fry
Actors: Stephen Campbell Moore, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer, Michael Sheen, James McAvoy
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
Director: Mary McGuckian
Actors: Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lucy Davis, John Sessions, Bill Paterson
Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
Director: Paul Oremland
Actors: Dawn Steele, Tom Harper, Sean Brosnan, Julian Date, Michael Elwyn
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Director: James Ivory
Actors: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandie Newton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Actors: Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Bob Gunton, Maynard Eziashi
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Director: James Ivory
Actors: Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Samuel West, Vanessa Redgrave
An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.
Director: Peter Hewitt
Actors: Bruce Cook, Rupert Grint, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie
Bob, an incompetent man, is searching for an available job by alphabetical order. He had just failed all of the A's, and discovers an ad in the Yellow Pages for a butler school. He is the only one in the butler school course to pass, because all of the other people quit due to the embarrassment and pressure of the teacher. Meanwhile, Tess (Genevieve Buechner) and Bates (Benjamin B. Smith) Jamieson
Director: Gary Sinyor
Actors: Tom Green, Brooke Shields, Genevieve Buechner, Benjamin B. Smith, Rob LaBelle
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Director: Henry Selick
Actors: Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Callow
Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Frances Viner, Simon Callow
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Director: James Ivory
Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh, John Bell
The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned the highest mountaintops of the world for more than 20 years. They not only set down new trails, but new rules of behavior. They set themselves apart with an original style of climbing, endurance, conscientiousness about the overall well-being of the team - and solidarity.
Director: Wojciech Słota
Actors: Wojciech Kurtyka, Jerzy Kukuczka, Andrzej Zawada, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Reinhold Messner
A woman struggles with her views on religion, complicated by her attraction to a devout believer.
Director: Ryan Whitaker
Actors: Rose Reid, RuairĂ O'Connor, Simon Callow, Phyllis Logan, Mark Williams