Christopher Franke

biography:
Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1987, he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially, a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins. While he was not the first musician to use an analog sequencer, he was probably the first to turn it into a live performance instrument, thus laying the rhythmic foundation for classic Tangerine Dream pieces and indeed for the whole Berlin school sound.

After his departure from the group, he founded the Sonic Images record label, a new-age music label called Earthtone, and the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, and produced a number of solo music works. After leaving Tangerine Dream, his only live concert was on 9 October 1991 at the Astoria Theatre in London. He performed on stage with Edgar Rothermich (a.k.a. Richard E. Roth) who is also his producer and engineer on all his solo projects and film music after 1990.

Franke moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to pursue film work. In 1995 he scored the AFI short Requiem. He may be best known for composing the music for the science fiction television series Babylon 5, as well as the score of the anime movie Tenchi Muyo! in Love and in 2005 the music for the German musical Ludwig² (with Konstantin Wecker).

Babylon 5

job: Music

overview: Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.

department: Sound

original_name: Babylon 5

Scene of the Crime

job: Original Music Composer

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

original_language: de

Tales from the Crypt

overview: Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

original_name: Tales from the Crypt

The Family

overview: A middle-class clan from the Northeast is suddenly thrust into the world of the super rich. Sequestered in a 20,000-square-foot mansion on a 40-acre estate in Palm Beach, they are observed by around-the-clock cameras. They compete in high-society challenges for cruises on luxury yachts, private jets and spectacular prizes and ultimately, for control of the one million-dollar fortune. A full-service professional staff is at their beck and call, including a butler, personal trainer, stylist, kitchen staff, personal secretary, housekeepers, manicurist, tennis pro and countless others -- all used to working with high-end clientele. Unbeknownst to the 10 contestants, the staff picks the winners and losers, and the losers must remain in the house to watch the remaining contestants duke it out.

original_name: The Family

The Tommyknockers

overview: A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.

original_name: The Tommyknockers

Deutsch

biography: Christopher Franke ist ein deutscher Musiker und Komponist, bekannt als Mitglied der Gruppe Tangerine Dream von 1971 bis 1987.

also_known_as:
Chris Franke
Christoph Franke
Tangerine Dream

title: Tangerine Dream: Ricochet

overview: Ricochet - from 1975 - was the first live album from Tangerine Dream.  Remastered edition by Steven Wilson. In DTS-HD MA and FLAC 5.1 surround.

original_title: Tangerine Dream: Ricochet

title: Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral

overview: A short concert film for television which blends edited footage from a 1975 Tangerine Dream concert with music from the group's "Ricochet" album released that same year.

character: Himself

original_title: Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral

title: Tangerine Dream -  Signals from the Schwäbischen Strasse

overview: German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informal interviews and concert/studio footage, most of which seems to have been done exclusively for the film. The interviews are in the German language. The street name in the title refers to where Edgar Froese used to live in Berlin (apparently Klaus Schulze lived on the same street at the time) and is now the site of the TDI offices.

character: Self

original_title: Signale aus der Schwäbischen Straße

title: Babylon 5: The River of Souls

overview: A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.

original_title: Babylon 5: The River of Souls

title: Babylon 5: In the Beginning

overview: Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.

original_title: Babylon 5: In the Beginning

title: Babylon 5: Thirdspace

overview: Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.

original_title: Babylon 5: Thirdspace

title: Firestarter

overview: Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?

original_title: Firestarter

title: A Face to Die For

overview: A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.

original_title: A Face to Die For

title: Near Dark

overview: A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.

original_title: Near Dark

title: What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?

overview: Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story with scientists, and philosophers and religious leaders impart information directly to an off-screen interviewer about academic issues, and Amanda begins to understand the basis to the quantum world beneath. During her epiphany as she considers the Great Questions raised by the host of inserted thinkers, she slowly comprehends the various inspirations and begins to see the world in a new way.

original_title: What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?

title: Driving Me Crazy

overview: An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables and produces no pollution, but he runs into one madcap situation after another to find a buyer and financier for mass production.

original_title: Driving Me Crazy

title: Universal Soldier

overview: An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.

original_title: Universal Soldier

title: Green Street Hooligans

overview: After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. 'Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.

original_title: Green Street Hooligans

title: Tenchi Muyo! In Love

overview: The demonic space criminal Kain has escaped from prison and destroyed the Galaxy Police headquarters. To ensure that the Jurai will not stop him, Kain travels back to 1970 to eliminate Tenchi's mother before he is even born. Now, Tenchi and the gang must travel to the past to stop him before he ceases to exist.

original_title: 天地無用! in LOVE

original_language: ja

title: Requiem

overview: A waitress-dancer remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong.

original_title: Requiem

title: Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

overview: A glowing, prismatic portrait of the rise and fall of America's first celebrity designer—Halston—the man who was synonymous with fashion in the 1970s, and became the emperor of NYC nightlife. Interviews with friends and witnesses (including Liza Minnelli, Diane Von Furstenberg, André Leon Talley, Anjelica Huston, Bob Colacello, and Billy Joel, among others) round out this glittering evocation of the man who defined the most beautiful and decadent era of recent memory.

original_title: Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

title: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

overview: After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.

original_title: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

title: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark

overview: This instalment of Babylon 5 is in two parts: the first is about an entity that has possessed a worker.  Colonel Lochley prevents a priest from performing an exorcism. The host is returned to Earth. The second has Galen trying to dupe President Sheridan into assassinating the future Centauri emperor to stop him from attacking Earth in around 30 years time.

original_title: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark

title: What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole

overview: Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.

original_title: What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole

title: When Dinosaurs Roamed America

overview: Take a journey back to prehistoric America when mighty dinosaurs ruled the continent. From New York to New Mexico, these powerful animals lived, hunted and died in the very place you call home. Watch millions of years of violent evolution unfold before your eyes. You’ll meet the never-before-seen Zuniceratops, a uniquely North American creature that was first of its kind to have horns over its eyes. You’ll also visit all your favorites including the T-Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus and the ferocious Raptor, with a startling new appearance that’ ll surprise you. You won’t see more authentic and terrifying dinosaurs anywhere... except buried in your own backyard

original_title: When Dinosaurs Roamed America

title: Julia

overview: Julia is a young transgender woman who left her home country of Lithuania. Now living in Germany, she walks the streets of Berlin, working as a prostitute to survive. This documentary revisits Julia over a ten-year period of her life.

title: Tarzan and the Lost City

overview: Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.

title: Shy People

overview: A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

title: Footsteps

overview: Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything about her, and two men — one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.

title: Strange Behavior

overview: When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.

title: Tell Me No Secrets

overview: Jess Koster is a young attorney in Los Angeles, who is being stalked by the serial killer she is prosecuting.

title: She Woke Up

overview: A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.

title: Canyon Dreams

overview: The remarkable Grand Canyon film set to the synth music of Tangerine Dream.

title: Berkeley

overview: Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy, 18-year-old son of conservative businessman, Sy. Ben enters UC Berkeley in 1966 to avoid the draft, but finds himself smack in the middle of a home-grown revolution.

title: The Elizabeth Smart Story

overview: Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people in Salt Lake City, Utah.

title: Journey to the Center of the Earth

overview: This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.

title: The Yarn Princess

overview: Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her family.

title: Red Heat

overview: East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).

title: Hunter: Back in Force

overview: Lieutenant Rick Hunter and Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, now of the San Diego Police Department, must track down a group of women bank robbers who appear to be behind bars when the crimes occur, while simultaneously looking for an ex-con he put away who has just been released and is now on a vengeful crime wave.

title: A Holiday Romance

overview: A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.

title: The Surgeon

overview: Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years later, he returns to the hospital that condemned his work to begin practicing his grizzly experiments once more.

title: Terror in the Mall

overview: A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.

title: Wavelength

overview: Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways and help them make a rendezvous with a rescue ship sent from the alien home planet.

title: Public Enemies

overview: Ma Barker and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list in the 1930s.

title: Menno's Mind

overview: Menno is a computer programmer at The Resort, an enormous funhouse where people can live out their fantasies in virtual reality. Feeding their personal data into a software program called The System, head of security Felix Medina is setting up a big voting fraud, in order to win the presidential elections. His only concern is a group of terrorists, rebelling against his plans. As an ex-colleague of their leader, Menno is forced to help them.

title: Risky Business

overview: Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.

title: The Inheritance

overview: A beautiful orphan of mysterious parentage is asked by her adoptive family to help find a husband for their niece, but when two suitors both fall for the orphan girl, the niece instigates a scheme to discredit her in the eyes of her guardians. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.

title: McBain

overview: Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.

title: The Soldier

overview: Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

title: Murder on the Orient Express

overview: Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.

title: Dancing at the Harvest Moon

overview: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.

title: Three O'Clock High

overview: Nerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about the infamous new delinquent transfer student, Buddy Revell. When Jerry accidentally invades Buddy's personal space and touches him, Buddy challenges Jerry to an afterschool fight in the parking lot, which Jerry tries to avoid at all costs.

title: Flashpoint

overview: Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.

title: The Devil's Child

overview: A woman's mother makes a last-minute deal with the Devil to save her daughter's life, not realizing that her daughter's life is her stake. The daughter lives but with no chance of children. 20 years later, she mysteriously becomes pregnant after meeting a dashing stranger. Yet people are dying around her...

title: Heartbreakers

overview: Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue's best friend, works for his father's garment business and is still searching for a woman who's interesting enough to spend more than one night with. Blue and Eli's friendship is put to the test when they both fall for Liliane, Blue's exotic gallerist.

title: Night of the Running Man

overview: A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in pursuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.

title: Sorcerer

overview: Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

title: The Keep

overview: Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.

title: Vision Quest

overview: After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.

title: Legend

overview: Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess  Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.

title: The Park Is Mine

overview: A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.

title: The Inheritance

title: Manhood

overview: Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. A teenage son rebels against everything his parents hold sacred. A gather tries hard to own up to his responsibilities. A black-sheep brother-in-law revels in the depths of depravity. His estranged wife finds the freedom to explore her sexuality. Together, they create an emotionally charged family dynamic that builds to a powerful - and unexpected - ending.

title: Jack the Dog

overview: Jack is a dog. When he's not photographing women, as a profession, he's seducing them. Until now. Home from Paris, he feels empty and fed up with his promiscuous lifestyle. With his pal Buddy as a witness, Jack vows to find love and settle down. Jack keeps his word and marries Faith, but it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Even though they've had a child together, Jack soon falls into old patterns. He does his best to hide his infidelity, but Faith is not fooled. She leaves him, and takes their son Sam with her. Realizing how important Sam is to him, Jack pulls his act together and wins custody. Getting to know his son on a new level, Jack finds the one thing he's been longing for: pure, unconditional true love.

title: The Calling

overview: On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist

title: Solo

overview: An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in their plight. Having gained this information, his "creators" develop a more powerful android to try and defeat him.

title: Thief

overview: Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.

title: Raven: Return of the Black Dragons

overview: Raven is a ninja, a former member of the Black Dragons clan and also a former Special Forces agent, living in Hawaii, helping those in trouble and searching for his long-lost son while avoiding assassins sent to kill him.

title: A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster

overview: Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.

original_title: A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster

title: Reviving Ophelia

overview: No one listens when a teenager suspects that her cousin is in an abusive relationship.

title: Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral

title: Fortress 2

overview: John Brennick once again finds himself imprisoned, but this time in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not a man to give in easily, and with a 10-year-old son waiting for him back on earth, he's going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation.

title: Tangerine Dream: Ricochet

title: Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral

title: Babylon 5: The River of Souls

title: Babylon 5: In the Beginning

title: Babylon 5: Thirdspace

title: Firestarter

title: A Face to Die For

title: Near Dark

title: What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?

title: Driving Me Crazy

title: Universal Soldier

title: Green Street Hooligans

title: Tenchi Muyo! In Love

title: Requiem

title: Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

title: What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole

title: When Dinosaurs Roamed America

title: Julia

title: Tarzan and the Lost City

title: Shy People

title: Footsteps

title: Strange Behavior

title: Tell Me No Secrets

title: She Woke Up

title: Canyon Dreams

title: Berkeley

title: The Elizabeth Smart Story

title: McBain

title: Hunter: Back in Force

title: Dancing at the Harvest Moon

title: Murder on the Orient Express

title: A Holiday Romance

title: Terror in the Mall

title: The Inheritance

title: Menno's Mind

title: Public Enemies

title: The Surgeon

title: The Yarn Princess

title: Journey to the Center of the Earth

title: The Soldier

title: Three O'Clock High

title: Flashpoint

title: Wavelength

title: Risky Business

title: Red Heat

title: The Devil's Child

title: Heartbreakers

title: Night of the Running Man

title: Sorcerer

title: The Keep

title: Vision Quest

title: Legend

title: The Park Is Mine

title: The Inheritance

title: Manhood

title: Jack the Dog

title: The Calling

title: Solo

title: Thief

title: Raven: Return of the Black Dragons

title: Reviving Ophelia

title: Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral

title: Fortress 2


Nicolas Chagrin

biography: Nicolas Chagrin was an English actor, known for Beau Geste (1982), The Knock (1994) and Doctor Who (1963).

Minder

overview: Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

character: Mario

original_name: Minder

original_language: en

Campion

overview:
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates.

A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.

character: 'Squire' Mercer

original_name: Campion

Sherlock Holmes

overview: Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

character: Mr. Viviani

original_name: Sherlock Holmes

Van der Valk

overview: Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

character: Friso Jongkind

original_name: Van der Valk

Bergerac

overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way.

While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

character: Chef

original_name: Bergerac

Tales of the Tardis

overview: Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

character: Quillam

original_name: Tales of the Tardis

Bergerac

character: Francois Montauban

Lace

overview: A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.

character: Film Director

original_name: Lace

Highlander: The Series

overview: Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

character: Segur

original_name: Highlander: The Series

The House of Eliott

overview: Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.

character: David Devereaux

original_name: The House of Eliott

Bugs

overview: Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.

character: Cameron

original_name: Bugs

The Darling Buds of May

overview: An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.

character: Marcus Cope

original_name: The Darling Buds of May

The Box of Delights

overview: Patrick Troughton stars in this children's fantasy tale with dark undertones. When a young schoolboy is given a box for safekeeping by a mysterious magician, little does he know the wondrous things he’ll soon discover.

character: Bronze Head

original_name: The Box of Delights

The Man in the Iron Mask

overview: A completely lost BBC1 miniseries adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 19th century historical adventure novel of the same name. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

character: Louis XIV / Philippe

original_name: The Man in the Iron Mask

London Spy

overview: A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.

character: Charles

original_name: London Spy

Fortunes of War

overview: English literature lecturer Guy Pringle and his wife Harriet navigate the early years of WWII in Bucharest. They become involved in anti-fascist politics and are forced to flee as the war escalates, crossing paths with various characters along the way.

character: Ionescu

original_name: Fortunes of War

Bird of Prey

overview:
Bird of Prey is a British techno-thriller television serial written by Ron Hutchinson and produced by Michael Wearing and Bernard Krichefski for the BBC in 1982.

From its video game-inspired opening titles to its pervasive electronic music track, Bird of Prey went to great lengths to demonstrate its credentials as 'a thriller for the electronic age'. These elements, together with a clever and complex plot that combines a breathless fascination with the still-young field of computing with pan-European fraud, international terrorism, rogue intelligence operatives and organised crime, link it firmly to the early 1980s, expressing that era's growing anxieties about the burgeoning 'Eurocracy'.

character: Louis Vacheron

original_name: Bird of Prey

The Knock

overview: The Knock is a British television drama series, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV from 1994 to 2000, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. The series derived its name from the distinctive 'knock knock knock' command used over the radio to synchronise a raid.

character: Jules Laurens

original_name: The Knock

Hex

overview: Shy college student Cassie Hughes only wants to be accepted by others, but is only truly loved by her best friend Thelma Bates. Cassie later discovers that she possesses dangerous powers, and is being drawn into a world far beyond her control. And the man that she should fear the most manages to find a way into her heart.

character: Sir Ralph Cavendish

original_name: Hex

Upstairs Downstairs

overview: Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.

character: The Right Honourable Neville Chamberlain

original_name: Upstairs Downstairs

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

overview: In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

character: Mr Vivani

original_name: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Pусский

Николас Шагрин

biography: Николас Шагрин был английским актёром, известным по фильмам «Бо Гест» (1982), «Стук в дверь» (1994) и сериалу «Доктор Кто» (1963).

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

title: Murder on the Orient Express

overview: Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.

character: Pierre Michel

original_title: Murder on the Orient Express

title: Long Time Dead

overview: A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.

character: Dr. Hall (uncredited)

original_title: Long Time Dead

title: Lost in Siberia

overview: The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.

character: The shah

original_title: Затерянный в Сибири

original_language: ru

title: Arms and the Man

overview: First produced on the London stage in 1894, "Arms and the Man" immediately established Shaw's reputation as one of the greatest wits in London drama. This beautifully remastered BBC production brings to life an uproarious comedy that still resonates in its critique of warfare and romance.

character: Nicola

original_title: Arms and the Man

title: The Dancing Princesses

overview: A made-for-TV retelling of the story "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," directed by Ben Rea, featuring Jim Dale as the Soldier, Freddie Jones as the destitute King, and Gloria Grahame as the Witch. Significant changes were made to the story, including reducing the number of princesses to six, and the soldier ultimately declining to marry any of the princesses due to their deceitful nature.

character: A Prince

original_title: The Dancing Princesses

title: Young Toscanini

overview: A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

character: M° Miguez

original_title: Il giovane Toscanini

original_language: it

title: Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

overview: When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

original_title: Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

title: Dancin' Thru the Dark

overview: Linda is out on her hen night while her fiance Dave is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married. Both groups end up at the same club, only to discover that its band is fronted by her ex-boyfriend - and the love of her life - Peter. Linda has to decide: does she stay and settle down with Dave, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?

original_title: Dancin' Thru the Dark

title: Bose: The Forgotten Hero

overview: After resigning from the presidential post of the Indian National Congress, Subhas Chandra Bose plays an important role in India's freedom struggle during World War II.

character: General Auchinlek

original_title: Bose: The Forgotten Hero

original_language: hi

title: Suite Française

overview: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

character: Father Bracelet

original_title: Suite Française

title: Honungsvargar

overview: "Honey Wolves" - The young girl Mignon spend her life within art circles and among the quasi-intellectuals.

character: Nick

original_title: Honungsvargar

original_language: sv

title: The Comedy of Errors

overview: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...

title: Ridicule

overview: To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

title: Ripley Under Ground

overview: 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 alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.

title: The Yellow Hat

overview: When an exclusive designer hat blows off the head of the milliner's assistant who borrowed it, the quest to recover it leads her to find love.

title: The Fourth Square

overview: The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.

title: Murder on the Orient Express

title: Long Time Dead

title: Lost in Siberia

original_title: Затерянный в Сибири

title: Arms and the Man

title: The Dancing Princesses

title: Young Toscanini

title: Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

title: Dancin' Thru the Dark

title: Bose: The Forgotten Hero

title: Suite Française

title: Honungsvargar

title: The Comedy of Errors

title: Ridicule

title: Ripley Under Ground

title: The Yellow Hat

title: The Fourth Square


Anthony O'Donnell

biography: Anthony O'Donnell is a Welsh actor. In 1982, he was awarded the London Critic's Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer in the Stratford Season.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony O'Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Hotel Babylon

overview: Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.

original_name: Hotel Babylon

The Bill

overview: The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

original_name: The Bill

The Sweeney

overview: Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

character: Maurice

original_name: The Sweeney

Robin Hood

overview: Robin of Loxley returns to England after 5 years of fighting in the crusades alongside King Richard. After losing his estates and being branded an outlaw, he takes on the title of Robin Hood and assembles a ragtag band of outlaw companions. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all the while avoiding and outwitting their enemies Sir Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.

original_name: Robin Hood

The Storyteller

overview: The Storyteller, aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.

character: Little Man

original_name: The Storyteller

Lovely Couple

overview: In order to get parental permission to holiday together, a young couple announce their non-existent engagement.

character: David Mason

original_name: Lovely Couple

New Tricks

overview: New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

character: Roger Bowman

original_name: New Tricks

ShakespeaRe-Told

overview: Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.

character: Mr Berry

original_name: ShakespeaRe-Told

Minder

overview: Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

character: Big Dai

original_name: Minder

Bodies

overview: One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.

character: Clive Jones

original_name: Bodies

Pie in the Sky

overview: Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

character: Philip

original_name: Pie in the Sky

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

overview: A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.

character: Mr Sounder

original_name: Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

A Very English Scandal

overview: It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

character: Leo Abse

original_name: A Very English Scandal

The Paradise Club

overview: Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club following the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

character: Constantinou

original_name: The Paradise Club

The Sarah Jane Adventures

overview: Sarah Jane Smith is a truly remarkable woman who inhabits a world of mystery, danger and wonder; a world where aliens are commonplace and the Earth is under constant threat. A world that Maria Jackson, a seemingly ordinary girl, can only dream of – until she moves in next door. Nothing will ever be ordinary again.

character: Kaagh

original_name: The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Last Detective

overview: "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.

character: Anthony

original_name: The Last Detective

The Crown

overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.

The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

character: Mayor of Merthyr Tyfdil

original_name: The Crown

origin_country: GB US

Being Human

overview: Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.

character: Emrys

original_name: Being Human

Gavin & Stacey

overview: Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.

character: Ted

original_name: Gavin & Stacey

The Chief

overview: The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

character: Barry Maltby

original_name: The Chief

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

overview:
Charles II: The Power and the Passion is a four-part television miniseries, broadcast on BBC One from 16 November to 7 December 2003. The series depicts the reign of Charles II, covering the period just before his Restoration in 1660. It focuses on his conflicts with Parliament, his relationships with his mistresses—particularly Barbara Villiers—and his efforts to restore England after the Civil War.

When shown in the United States, as The Last King: The Power and the Passion of King Charles II, nearly an hour was removed for broadcast by the A&E Network. The edits often make little regard for either the full product's continuity or coherence.

character: Israel Tonge

original_name: Charles II: The Power and The Passion

A Very Peculiar Practice

overview: A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.

character: Geoffrey Perks

original_name: A Very Peculiar Practice

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

overview: Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child of Nature who is tossed around by the dark forces of fate. Jason Flemyng is the dark and sinister Alec D'Urberville whose relentless pursuit of Tess triggers the heroine's downfall. Oliver Milburn plays the handsome young Angel Clare, the caring rebel who falls deeply in love with Tess.

character: Crick

original_name: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

name: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

overview: Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five husbands and countless lovers to escape a life on the streets. In between using and deceiving her besotted paramours, she isn't above picking a pocket or two! All the while, though, her heart belongs to the charismatic Jemmy. Inevitably, even the most clever criminal's luck runs out and she is soon facing the noose. As her execution approaches, she devises on last desperate ploy to save not only her own neck, but also the life of her one true love.

character: Catholic Priest

Second City Firsts

overview: A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers.

character: Mr. Purvis

original_name: Second City Firsts

Deutsch

Anthony O'Donnell

biography: Anthony O'Donnell ist ein walisischer Schauspieler. 1982 wurde er mit dem London Critics Circle Theatre Award als vielversprechendster Nachwuchsschauspieler der Stratford-Saison ausgezeichnet.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

title: Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

overview: A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.

character: Kenward

original_title: Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

title: Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

character: Hercule Poirot

title: National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

overview: A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living in terror of her guests. A father who can no longer access his memories. A son in search of redemption. As they awake to boiled eggs and the postman, the residents of a small Welsh village juggle old secrets and new realities.

character: Captain Cat / Preacher

original_title: National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

title: Death Defying Acts

overview: On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

character: Oily Librarian

original_title: Death Defying Acts

title: The Baker

overview: Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.

character: Rhys Edwards

original_title: The Baker

title: Love's Labour's Lost

overview: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

character: Moth

original_title: Love's Labour's Lost

title: Litter Pickers

overview: Debbie Harris is the leader of the red litter-picking tribe in Porthcawl. With just days looming before the big Clean Rubbish Around Porthcawl competition, Debbie gathers her troop together to go up against the dreaded blue team.

character: Peter Thomas

original_title: Litter Pickers

title: Match Point

overview: Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.

character: Custodian

title: A Ferry Ride Away

overview: Heather Massie is on holiday with her crippled mother in the Isle of Wight. She meets a middle-aged doctor in search of romance, and has to make some agonising decisions.

title: Skyfall

overview: When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.

title: Scoop

overview: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

title: The Xango from Baker Street

overview: Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.

title: Two Men Went To War

overview: 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.

title: Nuts in May

overview: A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

title: Black Plague

overview: Paranoia sets in as the Black Death strikes European villagers in the 14th century.

title: Santa Claus: The Movie

overview: In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.

title: Beyond the Pale

overview: Mr. Whicher is hired by former Home Secretary Sir Edward Shore to investigate the violent threats made against his son Charles, who has recently returned from India with his family.

title: Vera Drake

overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

title: The Edge of Love

overview: When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.

title: Sweeney Todd

overview: A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.

title: Hawks

overview: Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

overview: Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

title: Secrets & Lies

overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

title: Car Trouble

overview: In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.

title: Robin Hood

overview: The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

title: Caught in the Act

overview: A corrupt parish council embezzle EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival in the EU cultural calendar.

title: Billionaire Boy

overview: The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.

title: Dream Horse

overview: The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.

title: Ready

overview: Naomi has known all her life that she will succumb to the same fate that has befallen her family for generations. Unlike her ancestors, who all made unmitigated fools of themselves trying to avoid the curse, Naomi has accepted her destiny and tells herself that she is ready.

title: Up the Catalogue

overview: HOLE_AID presents Up the Catalogue, an ambitiously small film set in a fictional shopping channel by the name of 4QTV. Tasked with flogging a seemingly endless cycle of questionable products, star presenter, Hailey Cartin, is starting to fear she might be trapped in live television.  When a rival product demonstrator eventually forces Hailey to confront her own quest-defying reality, will she ever be able to climb out of the hole she’s now in? Maybe. But maybe not. (And certainly not without the generous help of the film’s sponsors, HOLE_AID.)  A story for the ages, Up the Catalogue boldly takes the shopping channel film genre away from cult classic territory and straight into the mainstream.

title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

title: The Storyteller: The Luck Child

overview: Seeking to avert a prophecy which foretells of a seventh son someday supplanting the current king, the unscrupulous monarch seeks out this luck child and attempts to do away with him. But those blessed with luck cannot be undone.

title: Madfabulous

overview: When the flamboyant Henry Paget arrives in 1890s North Wales to claim his aristocratic inheritance, his theatrical flair and defiant eccentricities send shockwaves through the upper-class elite, much to the amusement of the local townspeople. Alongside his spirited cousin, Lily, and loyal butler, Gelert, Henry tries to carve out his own identity as the Fifth Marquess, navigating suffocating traditions, scheming relatives, and the long shadow cast by his estranged father.

title: Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

title: Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

title: National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

title: Death Defying Acts

title: The Baker

title: Love's Labour's Lost

title: Litter Pickers

title: Match Point

title: A Ferry Ride Away

title: Skyfall

title: Scoop

title: The Xango from Baker Street

title: Two Men Went To War

title: Nuts in May

title: Black Plague

title: Santa Claus: The Movie

title: Beyond the Pale

title: Vera Drake

title: The Edge of Love

title: Sweeney Todd

title: Hawks

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

title: Secrets & Lies

title: Car Trouble

title: Robin Hood

title: Caught in the Act

title: Billionaire Boy

title: Dream Horse

title: Ready

title: Up the Catalogue

title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

title: The Storyteller: The Luck Child

title: Madfabulous


Sonya Walger

biography: Sonya Walger (born 6 June 1974) is an English actress known for her roles in the ABC series Lost as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, and as Olivia Benford on ABC's FlashForward.

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Becky Smith

original_name: Midsomer Murders

overview: Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

character: Susan Berry

CSI: NY

overview: Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".

character: Jane Parsons

original_name: CSI: NY

Lost

overview: Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

character: Penelope Hume

original_name: Lost

In Treatment

overview: The intimate confines of psychotherapy sessions are seen from the perspective of a therapist and individual patients.

character: Julia

original_name: In Treatment

The Mind of the Married Man

overview:
The Mind of the Married Man is a television series that ran on the HBO network for two seasons consisting of twenty episodes between September 2001 and November 2002. The story attempts to focus on the challenges of modern-day married life from a male perspective.

The show drew mixed reviews from critics, but was popular with a loyal audience. After creator/star Mike Binder went on to find success with the 2005 theatrical film The Upside of Anger there was talk of bringing back a third season which Binder had already written. The third season never materialized and as yet only the first season has been released on DVD.

The theme song was the title song of the musical I Love My Wife, written by Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart.

character: Donna Barnes

original_name: The Mind of the Married Man

Coupling

overview: The mating ritual can get messy. Let's see if we have this straight... Steve's with Jane but he's suddenly hot for Susan who met Steve through Jeff whom Susan used to go out with though she's just dumped Patrick despite the great sex so Patrick's asked Sally out which bugs Susan since Sally is her best friend... Based on the outrageous British hit series of the same name, Coupling concerns love and lust among six thirty- somethings who are either involved, formerly involved or looking to become intimately involved -- often with each other. The result, not surprisingly, is a very involving comedy filled with eye-popping situations and equally jaw-dropping one-liners.

character: Sally Harper

original_name: Coupling

Tell Me You Love Me

overview: This riveting and provocative drama series explores issues of intimacy within the lives of three couples and the therapist they share.

character: Carolyn

original_name: Tell Me You Love Me

FlashForward

overview: When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.

character: Olivia Benford

original_name: FlashForward

Common Law

overview: Travis Marks and Wes Mitchell are two partners who – apart from their polarity and odd couple behavior – have a seven-year track record as the Los Angeles Police Department's best detectives in the Robbery-Homicide Division. Since their constant bickering is interfering with work, their new-age captain – who found counseling changed his life – sends them to couples' therapy.

character: Dr. Elise Ryan

original_name: Common Law

Elementary

overview: A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

character: Angela White

original_name: Elementary

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

overview:
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios.

Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.

character: Self

original_name: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Catch

overview: Strong and successful Alice Martin is a fraud investigator who's about to be the victim of fraud by her fiancé. Between her cases, she is determined to find him before it ruins her career.

character: Margot Bishop

original_name: The Catch

The Leftovers

overview: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

character: Dr. Allison Herbert (voice)

original_name: The Leftovers

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

overview: In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

character: Anne Barnes

original_name: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Scorpion

overview: Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

character: Olivia Cromwell

original_name: Scorpion

Scandal

overview: Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

character: Katherine Winslow

original_name: Scandal

Ghosted

overview: A skeptic is forced to work with a firm believer of the paranormal on unexplained occurrences in Los Angeles.

character: Eckhart

original_name: Ghosted

Noah's Ark

overview: In the Biblical story from Genesis, God floods the world as Noah rescues his family and the animals in a gigantic ark.

character: Miriam

original_name: Noah's Ark

Parenthood

overview: The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.

character: Meredith Peet

original_name: Parenthood

Night Sky

overview: Irene and Franklin York, a retired couple, have a secret: a Chamber buried in their backyard that miraculously leads to a strange, deserted planet. When an enigmatic young man arrives, the Yorks' quiet existence is upended and the mysterious Chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could have ever imagined.

character: Hannah

original_name: Night Sky

Get Shorty

overview: Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather.  Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.

character: Lila

original_name: Get Shorty

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

overview: The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

character: Michelle Dixon

original_name: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

For All Mankind

overview: Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.

character: Molly Cobb

original_name: For All Mankind

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

overview: Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.

character: Marion Codwell

original_name: Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Power

overview: A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.

character: Madeline Stern

original_name: Power

The Vice

overview:
The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. Spanning five short series from 1999 and 2003, it follows the London Metropolitan police force's vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and such organised crime are regular occurrences. Most episodes end where the main villain is caught but often not in a 'naturally' concluded way expected from other TV dramas, and often ending with more unanswered questions than answered.

Leader DI Pat Chappel struggles to manage the balance between his private and professional lives — as do the rest of the team. Working in the seedy underworld leads to a continual dilemma — the tension between the Vice Squad and vice-related crimes runs throughout the series and gives the show a rich viewing experience. The line of the team staying on the right side of the law is often blurred, as almost every member at different points submits briefly or permanently to the dubious temptations, sometimes with drastic consequences.

character: Emma

original_name: The Vice

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Polski

biography:
Sonya Walger urodziła się 6 czerwca 1974 roku w Londyńskiej dzielnicy Hampstead. Ta angielska aktorka znana jest między innymi z ról w serialach "Zagubieni" oraz "Przebłysk Jutra".

Walger kształciła się w niezależnym Wycombe Abbey School oraz w Christ Church w Oxfordzie, gdzie ukończyła literaturę angielską. Walger jest w stanie się porozumieć w języku francuskim i płynnie mówi w języku hiszpańskim, gdyż jej ojciec jest Argentyńczykiem.

W lipcu 2009 wyszła za mąż za scenarzystę i producenta Daveya Holmesa.

Od tamtej pory mieszkają razem w Los Angeles.

Oprócz produkcji telewizyjnych dla ABC i HBO oraz występów w filmach, Sonya grała także w teatrze np. w Broadwayowskim przedstawieniu "Nixon/Frost".

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iso_3166_1: PL

english_name: Polish

普通话

索尼娅·沃尔格

biography: 索尼娅·沃尔格（Sonya Walger，1974 年 6 月 6 日出生）是一位英国女演员，因在 ABC 连续剧《迷失》中饰演佩内洛普“佩妮”威德莫尔和在 ABC 的 FlashForward 中饰演奥利维亚·本福德而闻名。

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

עִבְרִית

iso_639_1: he

iso_3166_1: IL

english_name: Hebrew

普通话

索尼婭·沃爾格

biography: 索尼婭·沃爾格（Sonya Walger，1974 年 6 月 6 日出生）是一位英國女演員，因在 ABC 聯續劇《迷失》中飾演佩內洛普“佩妮”威德莫爾和在 ABC 的 FlashForward 中飾演奧利維亞·本福德而聞名。

title: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

overview: When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.

title: Caffeine

overview: A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures. The food is not that good, but you can be yourselves and show yourselves for what you are: maniacs, perverts, gays, cheaters, violent old women, cross-dressers, whining singers, broken hearts... Come in, there is room!

title: Baby, Baby, Baby

overview: The relationship between two mismatched people who try to move past their baggage to make their love work.

title: New Life

overview: A mysterious woman on the run, and the resourceful fixer assigned to bring her in. Their two unique stories inextricably link, as the stakes of the pursuit rise to apocalyptic proportions.

title: Admission

overview: Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.

title: The Factory

overview: An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.

title: Cold Turkey

overview: Thanksgiving get-together for the eccentric Turner clan goes from bad to worse when estranged daughter Nina makes a surprise visit home for the first time in 15 years. Nina clashes with her stepmother Deborah, and sister, Lindsay, while half-brother Jacob tries to keep a massive gambling debt a secret. Meanwhile, family patriarch Poppy has his own dramatic news to share. “Cold Turkey” is a black comedy about how – despite our best efforts – we all eventually turn into our parents.

title: The Good Sister

overview: The Good Sister follows a couple who is working to put their crumbling marriage back together, when the wife receives a letter informing her that she has a long-lost twin sister. First thinking that the new family member will bring the couple closer together, the husband then begins an affair with the sister and discovers that she is treacherous and dangerous.

title: Getting LOST

overview: A documentary revisiting the global television phenomenon LOST. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, as well as members of the loyal fan base who still celebrate the show twenty years after it originally aired.

title: All the King's Men

overview: Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist and never seen again.

title: The Escort

overview: Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.

title: The Search for John Gissing

overview: Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger.

title: Visible

overview: The year is 2086. Seventy years ago the entire human race went invisible. Ten years ago, a small number of people began to mysteriously reappear. While theories exist, no one knows what's truly going on. When Guy, a conflicted artist, is presented with the knowledge that he has the power to transform back to his visible state, he's faced with a tough dilemma: does he become visible and accept a life of vulnerability and possible judgment, or does he stay invisible and risk losing an existence of passion, honesty, and love?

title: Summer of 8

overview: Eight close friends soak up their last day of summer together on the beach before parting ways for college.

title: Sweet Nothing in My Ear

overview: Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

title: Anon

overview: Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.

title: Then Came You

overview: An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.

title: Mosley

overview: Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. The mini series charts Mosley's rise to political notoriety through his personal life – from youthful rising star of the Conservative Party to potential leader of the Labour Party, and later abandonment of conventional party politics to become a figurehead of burgeoning fascism.

title: Eisenstein

overview: A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

title: Darkness Falls

overview: After his wife's suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.

title: Clementine

overview: Reeling from a one-sided breakup, heartbroken Karen breaks into her ex’s lakehouse. There, she strikes up a complicated relationship with provocative younger woman Lana.

title: Bad Impulse

overview: In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a suburban husband and father buys a cutting edge home security system, only to find that it slowly destroys that which he most wants to protect.

title: Forge

overview: In Miami, siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang’s art forgery ring flourishes when they encounter a disgraced millionaire in need of their expertise. Meanwhile, FBI Art Crimes agent Emily Lee moves to Miami to investigate a series of mysterious paintings.

title: Be My Baby

overview: A well-observed, plausibly troubled love story

title: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

title: Caffeine

title: Baby, Baby, Baby

title: New Life

title: Admission

title: The Factory

title: Cold Turkey

title: The Good Sister

title: Getting LOST

title: All the King's Men

title: The Escort

title: The Search for John Gissing

title: Visible

title: Summer of 8

title: Sweet Nothing in My Ear

title: Anon

title: Then Came You

title: Mosley

title: Eisenstein

title: Darkness Falls

title: Clementine

title: Bad Impulse

title: Forge

title: Be My Baby