Results for : James Wilby

The Dark Room

3.0

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The Dark Room [HD] (1999)

1999–

The Dark Room [HD] (1999)

In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same manner as Jinx's first husband - makes Jinx the prime suspect. Then, with the help of eminent neuroscientist Dr.Alan Protheroe, some memories begin to surface. Memories of desperation and paralysing terror.

3.0 /10

The Siege of Venice

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The Siege of Venice [HD] (1991)

1991–

The Siege of Venice [HD] (1991)

Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the sole heir to an enormous patrimony, becoming in this way the most coveted party of the Serenissima.

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Sparkling Cyanide

4.5

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Sparkling Cyanide [HD] (2003)

2003–

Sparkling Cyanide [HD] (2003)

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 secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.

4.5 /10

Vindication Swim

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Vindication Swim [HD] (2024)

2024–

Vindication Swim [HD] (2024)

The inspirational story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel and her battle against both the cold waters of the Channel and the oppressive society of the 1920s England.

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The Treasure Seekers

6.5

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The Treasure Seekers [HD] (1996)

1996–

The Treasure Seekers [HD] (1996)

Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.

6.5 /10

Churchill's Secret

6.2

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Churchill's Secret [HD] (2016)

2016–

Churchill's Secret [HD] (2016)

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

6.2 /10

A Risk Worth Taking

4.0

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A Risk Worth Taking [HD] (2008)

2008–

A Risk Worth Taking [HD] (2008)

A wife nursing her terminally ill husband finds herself falling for his friend.

4.0 /10

It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You

6.9

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It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You [HD] (2007)

2007–

It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You [HD] (2007)

An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.

6.9 /10

Dreamchild

6.7

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Dreamchild [HD] (1985)

1985–

Dreamchild [HD] (1985)

Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.

6.7 /10

An Ideal Husband

6.7

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An Ideal Husband [HD] (1999)

1999–

An Ideal Husband [HD] (1999)

Rising politician Robert Chiltern once sold secret information and is now being blackmailed by Laura Cheveley. She has proof, and it will damage his career and marriage severely. Chiltern calls in the help of his friend Arthur Goring.

6.7 /10

Tom's Midnight Garden

5.8

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Tom's Midnight Garden [HD] (1999)

1999–

Tom's Midnight Garden [HD] (1999)

When Tom Long's brother Peter gets measles, Tom is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly and reclusive landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, living upstairs. Because he may be infectious he is not allowed out to play, and feels lonely. Without exercise he is less sleepy at night and when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13, he investigates and finds the small back yard is now a large sunlit garden. Here he meets another lonely child called Hatty, who seems to be the only one who can see him. They have adventures which he gradually realises are taking place in the 19th century. And each night when Tom visits, Hatty is a different age, chronologically out of sequence.

5.8 /10

The Woman In White

6.9

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The Woman In White [HD] (1997)

1997–

The Woman In White [HD] (1997)

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 around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.

6.9 /10

Regeneration

5.9

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Regeneration [HD] (1997)

1997–

Regeneration [HD] (1997)

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.

5.9 /10

The Last Days of the Raj

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The Last Days of the Raj [HD] (2007)

2007–

The Last Days of the Raj [HD] (2007)

Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

7.1

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare [HD] (2024)

2024–

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare [HD] (2024)

During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret British WWII organization – the Special Operations Executive. Founded by Winston Churchill, their irregular warfare against the Germans helped to change the course of the war, and gave birth to modern black operations.

7.1 /10

The Chess Game

6.5

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The Chess Game [HD] (1994)

1994–

The Chess Game [HD] (1994)

In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talent. Years later, he's a success, but game of life and love has higher stakes than chess.

6.5 /10

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years [HD] (2001)

2001–

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years [HD] (2001)

It is 1997 and Adrian is now 30 and the Head Chef in a top Soho restaurant. He currently lives in the upstairs room of the restaurant; the rest of his family remain in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. He is estranged from his wife Jo Jo, a Nigerian woman who has returned to her home country following their separation, and they are in the middle of a divorce. The real love of Adrian's life is, as ever, Pandora, who is now standing for Labour MP of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and tipped for power as one of Blair's Babes in the New Labour government that follows.

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Jump Tomorrow

6.6

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Jump Tomorrow [HD] (2001)

2001–

Jump Tomorrow [HD] (2001)

When shy, straitlaced George (Tunde Adebimpe) meets vivacious, adorable Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard (Hippolyte Girardot), a lovesick, voluble Frenchman who overcomes George's sense of propriety and takes him on a meandering road trip to amour.

6.6 /10

Masquerade

6.876

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Masquerade [HD] (2022)

2022–

Masquerade [HD] (2022)

Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorbike accident, wastes his youth in the laziness of the French Riviera, where he is looked after by Martha, a former movie star. Adrien’s life is turned upside down when he meets Margot, a captivating beauty who lives for the thrill of scams and romantic entanglements. Together, they fantasise about a better life and set up a diabolical scheme, an emotional masquerade.

6.876 /10

Immaculate Conception

5.8

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Immaculate Conception [HD] (1992)

1992–

Immaculate Conception [HD] (1992)

A childless British couple visit a fertility shrine of Gulab Shah in Karachi run by eunuchs and set off a huge culture clash.

5.8 /10

Maurice

7.5

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Maurice [HD] (1987)

1987–

Maurice [HD] (1987)

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.

7.5 /10

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

4.0

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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life [HD] (2002)

2002–

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life [HD] (2002)

Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

4.0 /10

Bertie and Elizabeth

5.6

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Bertie and Elizabeth [HD] (2002)

2002–

Bertie and Elizabeth [HD] (2002)

The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.

5.6 /10

A Handful of Dust

5.8

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A Handful of Dust [HD] (1988)

1988–

A Handful of Dust [HD] (1988)

English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony's wife, Brenda. Together, they continue their relationship in a series of bedroom assignations in London. Trusting to a fault, Tony is unaware that anything is amiss until his wife suddenly asks for a divorce. With his life in turmoil, Tony goes on a haphazard journey to South America.

5.8 /10

Clapham Junction

6.3

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Clapham Junction [HD] (2007)

2007–

Clapham Junction [HD] (2007)

Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.

6.3 /10

Shadows In The Sun

4.6

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Shadows In The Sun [HD] (2009)

2009–

Shadows In The Sun [HD] (2009)

A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.

4.6 /10

The Sense of an Ending

6.1

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The Sense of an Ending [HD] (2017)

2017–

The Sense of an Ending [HD] (2017)

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him re-think his current situation in life.

6.1 /10

Dutch Girls

5.0

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Dutch Girls [HD] (1985)

1985–

Dutch Girls [HD] (1985)

In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.

5.0 /10

Howards End

7.1

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Howards End [HD] (1992)

1992–

Howards End [HD] (1992)

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.

7.1 /10

Adam Bede

7.2

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Adam Bede [HD] (1992)

1992–

Adam Bede [HD] (1992)

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

7.2 /10