Roger Allam — Actor (27)
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The Truth Commissioner (2016)
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Declan Recks actor: Roger Allam / Sean McGinley …
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
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The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2014)
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Jeremy Herrin actor: Roger Allam / Colin Morgan …
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach.
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Wilt (1989)
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Michael Tuchner actor: Mel Smith / Griff Rhys Jones …
other title: Puppenmord / The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.
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The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
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Michael Samuels actor: Jason Isaacs / Phil Davis …
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
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Inkheart (2008)
Inkheart
Iain Softley actor: Brendan Fraser / Sienna Guillory …
other title: Inkheart - La leggenda di cuore d'inchiostro / Coração de Tinta …
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
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Steve (2025)
Steve
★ 7.6 5 ratings
Tim Mielants / Farhan Rana Rajpoot actor: Cillian Murphy / Tracey Ullman …
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.
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A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
A Cock and Bull Story
Michael Winterbottom actor: Steve Coogan / Rob Brydon …
other title: Tristram Shandy / Tournage dans un jardin anglais …
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
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Parade's End (2012)
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actor: Benedict Cumberbatch / Rebecca Hall …
other title: Parade’s End - Der letzte Gentleman
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
★ 8.0 8 ratings
Ken Loach actor: Cillian Murphy / Pádraic Delaney …
other title: Il vento che accarezza l'erba / Vinden der ryster kornet …
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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The Lady in the Van (2015)
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Nicholas Hytner actor: Maggie Smith / Alex Jennings …
other title: A Senhora da Furgoneta / La Dame à la camionnette
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
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Churchill in Moscow
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Howard Brenton genre: theater
other title: 丘吉尔在莫斯科 troupe: 伦敦橙树剧院 theater: 伦敦橙树剧院 director: Tom Littler actor: Roger Allam
The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of English nobility, the other a Georgian peasant, hell-bent on destroying capitalism and the class system. Can Churchill and Stalin find common ground? As diplomats struggle to control the escalating chaos, two interpreters find themselves caught in the eye of the storm.
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The Woman in Black (2012)
The Woman in Black
★ 6.6 5 ratings
James Watkins actor: Daniel Radcliffe / Ciarán Hinds …
other title: A Mulher de Negro / Die Frau in Schwarz …
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
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The Angels' Share (2012)
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Ken Loach actor: Paul Brannigan / Siobhan Reilly …
other title: La "parte" degli angeli / A Parte dos Anjos …
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
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Endeavour (2013)
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Russell Lewis actor: Shaun Evans / Roger Allam …
other title: Der junge Inspektor Morse / Les enquêtes de Morse …
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.