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All Creatures Great & Small (2020) [TV] TMDB
All Creatures Great & Small
9.0 (42 ratings) director: Colin Callender actor: Nicholas Ralph / Samuel West
other title: Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh / James Herriot, chroniques d'un jeune vétérinaire
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
The Gentlemen (2020) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Gentlemen
7.6 (9 ratings) director: Guy Ritchie actor: Matthew McConaughey / Charlie Hunnam
other title: The Gentlemen - Senhores do Crime / The Gentlemen: Los señores de la mafia
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
director: Peter Harness actor: Bertie Carvel / Eddie Marsan
other title: Jonathan Strange y el Sr. Norrell / Jonathan Strange et Mr Norrell
With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds.
Suffragette (2015) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Suffragette
9.0 (6 ratings) director: Sarah Gavron actor: Carey Mulligan / Helena Bonham Carter
other title: As Sufragistas / Suffragette – Taten statt Worte
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Van Helsing (2004) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Van Helsing
5.5 (8 ratings) director: Stephen Sommers actor: Hugh Jackman / Kate Beckinsale
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Mr Selfridge (2013) [TV] TMDB
Mr Selfridge
director: Andrew Davies actor: Jeremy Piven / Ron Cook
other title: Mr. Selfridge
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows Harry Gordon Selfridge ('Mile a Minute Harry'), a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry created a theater of retail where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining - or just eccentric - was showcased.
Ring of the Nibelungs (2004) [TV] TMDB
Ring of the Nibelungs
director: Diane Duane / Peter Morwood actor: Benno Fürmann / Alicia Witt
other title: A Maldição do Anel / Die Nibelungen
The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.
Howards End (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Howards End
other title: Casa Howard / Regresso a Howards End
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.
Bread and Roses (2000) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Bread and Roses
director: Ken Loach actor: Pilar Padilla / Adrien Brody
other title: Pão e Rosas / Pan y rosas
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003) [Movie] TMDB
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
director: Brian Smith / Jim Kammerud actor: Barry Bostwick / Jason Alexander
other title: La carica dei 101 II - Macchia, un eroe a Londra / 101 Dalmatinere II - Kvik på eventyr I London
Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign.
The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001) [TV] TMDB
The Private Life of a Masterpiece
actor: Samuel West
other title: La vie privée des chefs-d'oeuvre
Private Life of a Masterpiece is a BBC arts documentary series that tells the stories behind great works of art reaching from the Renaissance to modern art. David by Michelangelo, The Scream by Edvard Munch, The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn, Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck, ... The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer. For behind the beautiful canvases and sculptures are tales of political revolution, wartime escapes, massive ego clashes, social scandal, financial wrangling and shocking violence. The series reveals the full and fascinating stories behind famous works of art, not just how they came to be created, but also how they influenced others and came to have a life of their own in the modern world.
Iris (2001) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Iris
director: Richard Eyre actor: Kate Winslet / Judi Dench
other title: Iris - Un amore vero
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Merchant Ivory (2024) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Merchant Ivory
director: Stephen Soucy actor: James Ivory / Jenny Beavan
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and intelligence. With six Oscar winners among the notable artists participating, these close and often long-term collaborators intimately detail the transformational cinematic creativity and personal and professional drama of the wandering company that left an indelible impact on film culture.