Simon Callow
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, writer, theatre and opera director.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.388 |
| Birthday | 1949-06-13 |
| Place of Birth | Streatham, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, 사이먼 캘로우, سایمن کالو, |
1984
Amadeus
8.033/4315
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese...
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Amadeus
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
6.763/2743
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
1996
James and the Giant Peach
6.6/1335
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 strang...
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James and the Giant Peach
1998
Shakespeare in Love
6.9/3028
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman a...
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Shakespeare in Love
2010
Save Our Bacon
0/0
The story of an honest Lincolnshire farmer, hit hard by the credit crunch, squeezed by a greedy supermarket and struggling to survive. All his fortune...
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Save Our Bacon
2004
George and the Dragon
5.331/89
In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to follow his dream of a peaceful life on his own piece o...
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George and the Dragon
1985
A Room with a View
6.954/769
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...
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A Room with a View
2011
Ice
5.6/58
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacie...
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Ice
1990
Postcards from the Edge
6.6/273
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continu...
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Postcards from the Edge
2015
Creditors
5/4
A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.
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Creditors
1994
Street Fighter
4.6/1500
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
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Street Fighter
1987
Maurice
7.6/548
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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Maurice
1995
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
6.318/4213
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...
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
2004
The Phantom of the Opera
7.3/1652
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
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The Phantom of the Opera
2005
The Best Man
5.4/72
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start t...
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The Best Man
2007
Arn: The Knight Templar
6.3/281
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden...
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Arn: The Knight Templar
2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
6.2/41
Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. Th...
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2001
Christmas Carol: The Movie
5.1/67
Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment i...
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
2014
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
7.5/13
Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit...
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Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2008
Chemical Wedding
4.446/28
A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.
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Chemical Wedding
1996
Victory
5.1/11
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, He...
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Victory
1985
The Good Father
5.7/13
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so...
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The Good Father
2021
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
0/0
Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.
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Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2016
There's Something About Romcoms
6/1
The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen Merc...
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There's Something About Romcoms
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
7/43
Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conceived and...
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2013
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
0/0
Collection of highlights from the first and second series of British comic Sarah Millican's show about television. The programme includes stand-up rou...
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The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
2024
The Holiday List
5.25/10
A woman sets out a well-intentioned plan of bringing her dysfunctional family together in the wake of the family's matriarch, her mother-in-law.
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The Holiday List
1998
The Scarlet Tunic
4.5/3
Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor...
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The Scarlet Tunic
2011
Late Bloomers
5.2/19
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hu...
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Late Bloomers
2002
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
8/1
Simon Callow's one-man show about Charles Dickens.
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
1990
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
6/70
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...
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
2017
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
6.5/2
A diverse collection of horror shorts by several different film makers. A few are presented as trailers.
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Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
2022
American: An Odyssey to 1947
0/0
In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII begi...
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American: An Odyssey to 1947
1996
Moses
0/0
In the middle of the night, Egyptian soldiers search for Moses (Martin Jarvis) whose brother Aaron (Tony Leader) swfitly dispatches him on a camel. Ba...
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Moses
2009
Theatreland
0/0
8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen, Patrick...
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Theatreland
1988
Manifesto
4/8
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small...
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Manifesto
2024
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
6.029/344
Five months following the murders, Christopher Robin struggles to maintain a regular life while dealing with PTSD. However, deep within the 100-Acre-W...
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
1991
The Trials of Oz
6/5
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
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The Trials of Oz
2005
Revisiting Brideshead
0/0
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
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Revisiting Brideshead
2011
The British Guide to Showing Off
6.6/8
Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a histo...
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The British Guide to Showing Off
2023
Surprised by Oxford
5.8/21
Brilliant but emotionally-guarded Caro Drake arrives in Oxford with the singular goal of attaining her PhD, but through a turbulent friendship with a...
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Surprised by Oxford
2014
Miss in Her Teens
3/2
An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in ord...
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Miss in Her Teens
2002
Thunderpants
3.5/83
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 becom...
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Thunderpants
2023
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
0/0
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...
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Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
2024
Merchant Ivory
7.7/3
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...
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Merchant Ivory
2000
Around The World In 80 Days
0/0
Travel back in time to a scene set in London in 1872, where a young Phileas Fogg is about to wager a fortune in the hope of completing an impossible c...
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Around The World In 80 Days
2008
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
7.667/3
An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.
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Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
2005
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
10/1
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A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
0/0
The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a crucibl...
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The Fringe, Fame and Me
Eternal Return
0/0
The film follows Cass, a young woman who has resigned herself to a life of emotional invulnerability until she meets Virgil, a cartographer who makes...
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Eternal Return
1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
0/0
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger a...
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Cariani and the Courtesans
1995
Jefferson in Paris
5.2/42
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...
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Jefferson in Paris
1987
The Reluctant Dragon
6/1
A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.
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The Reluctant Dragon
2023
Dodger Special: Coronation
10/1
Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.
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Dodger Special: Coronation
2005
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
4.4/8
After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
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The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2022
The Pay Day
4.5/6
A broke and frustrated IT technician decides to embark on a one woman heist to steal valuable data worth millions on the black market.
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The Pay Day
2012
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
5/3
Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impr...
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
1993
Femme Fatale
0/0
Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the...
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Femme Fatale
2002
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
0/0
Based on Dava Sobel’s bestselling book, Galileo’s Daughter, this documentary reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist – that his closest...
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Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
8/1
A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a look...
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Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2007
Surveillance 24/7
4.1/14
Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
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Surveillance 24/7
2023
Doctor Jekyll
4.9/9
Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.
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Doctor Jekyll
2005
Bob the Butler
5.6/88
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...
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Bob the Butler
2003
Bright Young Things
6.3/86
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...
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Bright Young Things
1989
Revolutionary Witness
0/0
Four monologues by playwright Peter Barnes celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
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Revolutionary Witness
2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
6.7/34
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter,...
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2016
Golden Years
6.3/37
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 M...
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Golden Years
2017
Victoria & Abdul
6.9/1155
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Victoria & Abdul
2014
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
0/0
Join renowned actor Simon Callow as he uncovers the moving origins of the song Silent Night that has been 200 years in the making. A story that begins...
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The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
1995
England, My England
5/1
The story of Henry Purcell.
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England, My England
2017
Viceroy's House
6.655/283
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the...
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Viceroy's House
2004
Thank You, Doctor Rey
5.7/6
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...
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Thank You, Doctor Rey
1998
Bedrooms and Hallways
6.2/46
At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members...
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Bedrooms and Hallways
1999
Notting Hill
7.261/6206
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in...
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Notting Hill
1992
Howards End
7.021/544
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, al...
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Howards End
2017
Hampstead
6/190
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse,...
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Hampstead
2011
Art of Freedom
9.2/4
The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned t...
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Art of Freedom
2016
Mindhorn
6.1/298
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer say...
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Mindhorn
1995
El pasajero clandestino
5/1
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El pasajero clandestino
2000
Deadly Appearances
5/1
Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,
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Deadly Appearances
2012
Acts of Godfrey
0/0
At a two-day business conference, God (Simon Callow) decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis, Jacq...
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Acts of Godfrey
2005
Rag Tale
3.8/4
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
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Rag Tale
2018
Blue Iguana
5.7/102
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 a...
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Blue Iguana
1991
The Crucifer of Blood
6.5/19
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen t...
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The Crucifer of Blood
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
6.8/819
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when,...
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
2007
How Gay Sex Changed the World
5.5/2
Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to today's advanc...
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How Gay Sex Changed the World
2001
No Man's Land
7.5/451
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefir...
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No Man's Land
1990
Old Flames
0/0
Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and...
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Old Flames
2006
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
5.1/48
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...
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2017
50 Years Legal
7.2/4
Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the influenc...
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50 Years Legal
2018
The Dead Room
5.7/7
Set and filmed at the iconic Maida Vale studios, The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter and nat...
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The Dead Room
2011
Love's Kitchen
5.3/87
Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and...
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Love's Kitchen
2006
Men of Mystery
0/0
Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")
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Men of Mystery
2006
Reviving Harry Lime
0/0
Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.
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Reviving Harry Lime
2018
A Christmas Carol
7.7/7
Based on Charles Dickens’s own performance adaptation, Simon Callow and director-designer Tom Cairns have created a one-man theatrical extravaganza of...
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A Christmas Carol
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
7.1/138
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other...
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
1985
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
0/0
British biopic of composer George Frideric Handel
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Honour, Profit & Pleasure
1997
The Woman In White
6.7/23
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving...
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The Woman In White
2006
The Madness of Boy George
3.5/2
Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George's appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his subsequent senten...
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The Madness of Boy George
2010
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
8.5/1
A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.
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The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
2009
Orson Welles Over Europe
7/1
When Orson Welles went into self-imposed exile in Europe, he first found stardom with The Third Man and then immersed himself in challenging films, te...
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Orson Welles Over Europe
1979
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
4.5/1
BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.
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Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
1981
The Man of Destiny
0/0
One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it fe...
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The Man of Destiny
1993
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
6.2/11
Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name i...
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder
2012
Being Shakespeare
0/0
Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare is a one-man show about the life and work of the world’s greatest playwrigh...
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Being Shakespeare
2012
Shakespeare's Sonnets
0/0
Released alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this beautifully produced DVD features specially filmed performa...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
2020
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
8/1
English National Ballet has been performing a version of Nutcracker every year since 1950. In 2020, the tradition lives on. Join Clara and her enchant...
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Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
2000
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
0/0
A Claymation version of the classic story of Don Quixote.
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Animated Epics: Don Quixote
2005
Ripley Under Ground
5.6/57
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name a...
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Ripley Under Ground
1996
An Audience with Charles Dickens
0/0
A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.
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An Audience with Charles Dickens
1993
Camp Christmas
3.5/2
Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.
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Camp Christmas
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
0/0
The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.
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