Kenneth Cranham
Scottish born actor Kenneth Cranham is one of the most recognisable character actors in Britain. Having trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, Cranham first came to prominence as Noah Claypole in the 1968 Carol Reed musical Oliver! In the late '70s, Cranham memorably played Sapper Salt in Euston Films' Danger UXB, before taking the title role in the popular postwar set period comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon. His most famous film role from around this time was Dr. Philip Channard in Hellraiser II. In more recent years he has starred in the HBO series Rome, as well as the films Hot Fuzz, Layer Cake, Valkyrie, Made in Dagenham, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool. Among many stage credits are West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot, An Inspector Calls (both transferring to Broadway), The Ruffian on the Stair, The Birthday Party and Gaslight (at the Old Vic). For his role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2016, Cranham won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Andre in Florian Zeller's The Father. The play originated at the Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio in the Autumn of 2014, before touring the country and transferring to the West End in the Summer of 2015, and returning to the Duke of York's Theatre in Spring 2016. The play received an unprecedented five star review from every leading national press publication, and Cranham's performance was described as "the performance of his life" His first wife was actress Diana Quick. He has two daughters: Nancy Cranham with actress Charlotte Cornwell, and Kathleen Cranham with his second wife, actress Fiona Victory, whom he met on the set of Shine on Harvey Moon.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.631 |
| Birthday | 1944-12-12 |
| Place of Birth | Dunfermline - Scotland - UK |
| Also Known As | Ken Cranham , |
1972
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
7/118
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. H...
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
2000
Gangster No. 1
6.411/203
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk a...
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Gangster No. 1
2004
Layer Cake
6.9/1998
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime an...
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Layer Cake
1991
Prospero's Books
6.8/89
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this un...
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Prospero's Books
1996
Bed of Roses
5.844/112
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies c...
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Bed of Roses
1986
Dead Man's Folly
6.134/41
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
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Dead Man's Folly
1988
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
6.397/1055
Julia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty, and the sinister Dr. Channard are sent into the dominion of the Cenobites themselves.
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1991
Under Suspicion
5.843/99
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to...
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Under Suspicion
2006
A Good Year
6.667/1451
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman...
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A Good Year
1993
Tale of a Vampire
5.467/15
Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.
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Tale of a Vampire
1977
Joseph Andrews
4.1/8
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...
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Joseph Andrews
2007
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
6.7/18
The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbour...
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Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
2002
Two Men Went To War
6.4/9
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
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Two Men Went To War
1968
Oliver!
6.971/408
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys he...
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Oliver!
1997
Midnight Man
4.8/6
British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and pre...
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Midnight Man
1996
On Dangerous Ground
3.5/4
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury h...
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On Dangerous Ground
2003
Killing Hitler
5.8/4
A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Killing Hitler
2003
Pollyanna
8.2/16
Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -...
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Pollyanna
2014
Maleficent
7.092/12852
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army th...
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Maleficent
2001
Women Talking Dirty
5/18
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
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Women Talking Dirty
1988
Stealing Heaven
6.5/14
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixtee...
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Stealing Heaven
2013
Closed Circuit
5.92/438
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their...
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Closed Circuit
2013
Flying Blind
5/11
Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Sh...
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Flying Blind
2014
The Legend of Hercules
4.778/1282
In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peac...
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The Legend of Hercules
1987
Making Waves
6.5/4
A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His pr...
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Making Waves
1989
Just Another Secret
0/0
An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
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Just Another Secret
2006
The Lavender List
0/0
A political drama about the last days of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the 1970s and his curious relationship with his personal secretary Marci...
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The Lavender List
1970
All the Way Up
6/3
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his famil...
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All the Way Up
2011
Graffiti Wars
6/4
A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
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Graffiti Wars
2011
The Night Watch
5.792/36
Four Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexuality and social convention have been broken do...
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The Night Watch
1992
Monkey Boy
0/0
Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant...
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Monkey Boy
1988
The Black and Blue Lamp
0/0
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In...
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The Black and Blue Lamp
2000
Born Romantic
6.2/24
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCorm...
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Born Romantic
2004
Trauma
5.252/54
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out...
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Trauma
2012
Panto!
0/0
Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittington' opposite glamorous soap star Tamsin.
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Panto!
1980
Donkeys' Years
0/0
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
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Donkeys' Years
2015
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
6.2/20
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker'...
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Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
2007
Hot Fuzz
7.557/7324
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he m...
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Hot Fuzz
1998
RPM
3/7
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
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RPM
1985
Lady Windermere's Fan
0/0
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord W...
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Lady Windermere's Fan
2004
Man Dancin'
2/1
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing...
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Man Dancin'
1974
Vampira
5/20
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, V...
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Vampira
2008
Valkyrie
6.93/3586
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...
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Valkyrie
1974
The Changeling
7/1
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Fil...
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The Changeling
1994
Requiem Apache
7/1
Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave his life of crime behind. Featuring Alfred Molina, D...
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Requiem Apache
2010
Made in Dagenham
6.689/286
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Made in Dagenham
2003
Sparkling Cyanide
4.6/11
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secre...
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Sparkling Cyanide
2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
7.5/2
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester...
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
0/0
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theat...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2011
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
10/1
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...
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National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
1996
Deep in the Heart
0/0
Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.
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Deep in the Heart
2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
6.412/164
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
1970
Fragment of Fear
6.1/27
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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Fragment of Fear
1980
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
5/1
Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1969
Otley
6.167/18
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
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Otley
2000
Shiner
5.6/21
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
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Shiner
2000
Lady Audley's Secret
3.5/2
When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the...
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Lady Audley's Secret
2019
Official Secrets
7.231/923
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint U...
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Official Secrets
1999
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
5.7/3
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminatin...
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
2003
Blackball
5.2/50
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he mana...
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Blackball
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
5.45/10
In the fourteenth film in the series, sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones joins an international trio of spies plotting against their German counterparts i...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2002
Night Flight
6/1
Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber...
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Night Flight
1998
Vigo
4.8/2
Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking....
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Vigo
1976
Robin and Marian
6.292/221
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Robin and Marian
1997
The Boxer
6.69/263
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlf...
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The Boxer
1981
The Caretaker
0/0
The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist.
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The Caretaker
1981
The Sin Bin
0/0
TV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers participate in group therapy.
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The Sin Bin
2018
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
0/0
The dramatic story of Egon Schiele in his own words, celebrating his remarkable artistic achievements but also debating the controversies around his w...
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Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2017
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
0/0
Seven strangers are invited to a house to be offered a large inheritance, instead they find themselves trapped in a deadly game to the death.
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Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
2000
Kevin & Perry Go Large
5/145
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to bec...
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
1987
The Birthday Party
6.7/3
It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production broadcast on the Theatre Night series.]
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The Birthday Party
2019
Mr. Jones
6.756/383
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the S...
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Mr. Jones
1980
The Merchant of Venice
7/5
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's fath...
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The Merchant of Venice
2017
Joe Orton Laid Bare
0/0
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
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Joe Orton Laid Bare
1973
Achilles Heel
1/1
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
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Achilles Heel
2012
Suspension of Disbelief
4.3/24
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happe...
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Suspension of Disbelief
1985
The Dumb Waiter
8/1
In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter.
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The Dumb Waiter
1978
Butterflies Don't Count
0/0
A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.
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Butterflies Don't Count
2000
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
5.7/7
Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during the Troubles. Local girl, Mary Malloy (Tara O'Neil)...
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
1999
The Last Yellow
6/1
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
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The Last Yellow
2007
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
0/0
Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying...
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Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
1988
The Party
0/0
10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a dialogue...
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The Party
2019
Born a King
8/16
A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior fathe...
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Born a King
1988
Chocolat
6.7/81
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrat...
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Chocolat
1993
Royal Celebration
6/1
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administrati...
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Royal Celebration
1988
Normal Service
0/0
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly...
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Normal Service
1992
A Little Bit of Lippy
0/0
Kenneth Cranham and Rachel Davies star as the parents of 19-year-old Marian Fairley, who finds a pair of women's knickers in her husband's laundry. Ou...
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A Little Bit of Lippy
2006
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
5.8/17
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destin...
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
1993
The Vision Thing
0/0
In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.
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The Vision Thing
1969
Sling Your Hook
0/0
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
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Sling Your Hook
1967
Death of a Private
0/0
An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.
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Death of a Private
1989
A Master of the Marionettes
0/0
Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, one of which he and his family inhabit with conspic...
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