Stephen Frears

biography:
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director.

Frears is also known for his work on various television programs, including Fail Safe (2000), The Deal (2003), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), A Very English Scandal (2018), State of the Union (2019), and Quiz (2020). He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with one win.

In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named Frears among the 100 most influential people in British culture.

Reel Britannia

overview: Comedian Nick Helm narrates this bold new documentary series exploring the dramatic history of British cinema. Discover how cinema held a mirror up to society from 1960 through to the 00s.

character: Self

original_name: Reel Britannia

name: Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

overview: Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.

original_name: Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Back to Barrytown

overview: Colm Meaney presents a celebration of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Dublin family the Rabbittes and the film adaptations of the books, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van.

original_name: Back to Barrytown

Kulturplatz

original_name: Kulturplatz

Great British Menu

overview: Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.

character: Self - Guest Judge

original_name: Great British Menu

Omnibus

overview: Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'.  It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.  Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott.  For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.  The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

original_name: Omnibus

Play for Today

job: Director

overview: Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

department: Directing

original_name: Play for Today

Follyfoot

overview:
Follyfoot is a children's television series co-produced by the majority-partner British television company Yorkshire Television and the independent West German company TV Munich. It aired in the United Kingdom between 1971 and 1973, repeated for two years after that and again in the late 1980s. The series starred Gillian Blake in the lead role. Notable people connected with the series were actors Desmond Llewelyn and Arthur English and directors Jack Cardiff, Stephen Frears, Michael Apted and David Hemmings.

It was originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream; she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.

original_name: Follyfoot

The Comic Strip Presents...

overview: The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.

original_name: The Comic Strip Presents...

Playhouse

overview: A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

original_name: Playhouse

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.

original_name: A Very English Scandal

job: Executive Producer

department: Production

State of the Union

overview: Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each successive episode we piece together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.

original_name: State of the Union

origin_country: US GB

The Loudest Voice

overview: The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader, while flashing back to defining events in his life.

original_name: The Loudest Voice

Quiz

overview: The story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.

original_name: Quiz

The Regime

overview: The story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel.

original_name: The Regime

Brian and Maggie

overview: A dramatization of the story behind and occasion of Thatcher’s last TV interview, the hugely damaging ITV grilling by her old friend Brian Walden, which some view as the final nail in her prime ministerial coffin.

original_name: Brian and Maggie

BBC2 Play of the Week

overview: An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

original_name: BBC2 Play of the Week

ITV Playhouse

overview: ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

original_name: ITV Playhouse

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

original_name: Screen Two

Second City Firsts

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

original_name: Second City Firsts

Parkin's Patch

overview: Parkin's Patch is a Yorkshire Television production that aired on ITV from 1969 to 1970. PC Moss Parkin played the lead role of a police constable in the North York Moors. The series was filmed in the North York Moors as well as certain scenes being shot in Leeds, including parts around the Farm Hill estate in Meanwood.

Tom Grattan's War

overview: The adventures of a teenage boy sent to his country relatives during World War I.

Full House

overview: Full House was a live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, plays, poetry, prose, comedy, films, the visual arts - and a few surprises.

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Stephen Frears

biography:
Stephen Arthur Frears ist ein britischer Regisseur und Produzent von Film und Fernsehen. Er porträtiert häufig Begebenheiten aus dem wahren Leben sowie Projekte, die soziale Klassen anhand scharf gezeichneter Charaktere thematisieren.

Ausgebildet an der Gresham's School und dem Trinity College in Cambridge, begann Frears seine Karriere als Regieassistent in Theater und Film und inszenierte gleichzeitig zahlreiche Fernsehstücke. Frears inszenierte 1971 seinen ersten Spielfilm „Auf leisen Sohlen“ und erhielt in den 1980er-Jahren viel Kritikerlob für seine Filme wie „Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon“ (1985), „Prick Up Your Ears“ (1987) und „Gefährliche Liebschaften“ (1988). Für seine Regiearbeiten zu „Grifters“ (1990) und „Die Queen“ (2006) erhielt er zwei Oscar-Nominierungen.

Frears ist außerdem bekannt für seine Arbeit an verschiedenen Fernsehfilmen, darunter „Fail Safe“ (2000), „Doppelspitze“ (2003) und „Muhammad Alis größter Kampf“ (2013). Er inszenierte die biografische Miniserie „A Very English Scandal“ (2018) mit Jeremy Thorpe auf BBC One, für die er eine Nominierung für den Primetime Emmy Award erhielt.

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斯蒂芬·弗雷尔斯

biography:
斯蒂芬·亚瑟·弗雷尔斯（Stephen Arthur Frears，1941年6月20日-），英国导演、制片人。自 1980 年代初以来，他执导了多部广受好评的电影，包括《我的美丽洗衣店》（1985 年）、《危险的联络人》（1988 年）、《格里夫特一家》（1990 年）、《高保真》（2000 年）、《女王》（2006 年）、《菲洛梅娜》（2013 年）、弗洛伦斯·福斯特·詹金斯（2016 年）和《维多利亚与阿卜杜勒》（2017 年）。他曾两次获得奥斯卡最佳导演奖提名。

弗雷尔斯还因在各种电视节目中的工作而闻名，包括 Fail Safe （2000）、The Deal （2003）、Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight （2013）、A Very English Scandal （2018）、State of the Union （2019） 和 Quiz （2020）。他获得了四项黄金时段艾美奖提名，其中一项获奖。

2008 年，《每日电讯报》将弗雷尔斯评为英国文化中最具影响力的 100 人之一。

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史提芬·費雅斯

biography:
史提芬·亞瑟·費雅斯（Stephen Arthur Frears，1941 年 6 月 20 日-），英國導演、製片人。自 1980 年代初以來，他執導了多部廣受好評的電影，包括《我的美麗洗衣店》（1985 年）、《危險的聯絡人》（1988 年）、《格裏夫特一家》（1990 年）、《高保真》（2000 年）、《英女皇》（2006 年）、《千裏伴我尋》（2013 年）、弗洛倫斯·福斯特·詹金斯（2016 年）和《維多利亞與阿卜杜勒》（2017 年）。他曾兩次獲得奧斯卡最佳導演獎提名。

費雅斯還因在各種電視節目中的工作而聞名，包括 Fail Safe （2000）、The Deal （2003）、Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight （2013）、A Very English Scandal （2018）、State of the Union （2019） 和 Quiz （2020）。他獲得了四項黃金時段艾美獎提名，其中一項獲獎。

2008 年，《每日電訊報》將費雅斯評為英國文化中最具影響力的 100 人之一。

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スティーヴン・フリアーズ

biography: 英ケンブリッジ大学で法律の勉強をするが、ショウビズの世界を選び、ロンドンのロイヤル・コート・シアターでリンゼイ・アンダーソン監督や俳優のアルバート・フィニーのアシスタントとしてキャリアをスタート。66～72年までカレル・ライス監督の映画で助監督を務め、71年の「Gumshoe（原題）」で監督デビューする。「マイ・ビューティフル・ランドレッド」（85）で脚光を浴び、「プリック・アップ」（87）を経て、「危険な関係」（88）でハリウッドに進出した。90年の「グリフターズ　詐欺師たち」でアカデミー監督賞に初ノミネートされ、「ハイロー・カントリー」（98）ではベルリン国際映画祭の銀熊賞（監督賞）を受賞。06年の「クィーン」で2度目のアカデミー監督賞候補になった。その他の代表作に「ハイ・フィデリティ」（00）、「あなたを抱きしめる日まで」（13）など。

title: All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar

overview: A rare look at the the career of film director Pedro Almodóvar, especially his early works, with interviews with the director himself and his stars and admirers.

original_title: All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar

title: Chéri

overview: The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

title: Forever Ealing

overview: This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions

title: Robert Altman in England

overview: Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes footage and information about his career leading up to this feature.

title: Here’s Looking at You, Boy

overview: Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

title: Heavy Rain

overview:
A powerful short documentary inspired by the launch of the genre breaking PlayStation 3 title HEAVY RAIN.

Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Neil LaBute, the seven minute short was filmed in London, LA & Paris and asks leading luminaries, 'How far would you go to save someone you love?'

title: 30 Years of Comic Strip

overview: The cast and crew of The Comic Strip share anecdotes about the making of the show, recounting experiences marked by a playful disregard for health and safety.

title: Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel

overview: An in-depth look of the 40 year journey, from post-war Germany to Hollywood royalty, of Hans Zimmer, the man who’s become the dominant force in the world of movie soundtracks. His film credits include The Lion King, Rain Man, Pirates of The Caribbean, Gladiator, The Dark Knight Trilogy, 12 Year A Slave, The Thin Red Line, The Da Vinci Code and Dune.

title: A Look Through His Lens

overview: Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making, with insightful examples from his work on Diva, Hope and Glory, A River Runs Through It, Dangerous Liaisons, Interview with the Vampire and many more in this cineaste's delight.

title: She's French

overview: She's chic, slim and sexy like Brigitte Bardot. She's French. But she's not all French women, right?

title: Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

title: Incident

overview: An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each crash.

title: French Cinema Mon Amour

overview: French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their language to produce a portrait of French cinema.

title: Il était une fois... « The Queen »

overview: Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears' "The Queen" dramatizes the brief but intense conflict between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Elizabeth II in 1997, following the death of Princess Diana. The documentary underlines the film's boldness. By taking the living royal family as its subject, it breaks a taboo in British cinema and reveals a deeply human queen. Blending freedom of tone with documentary rigor, it offers a lesson in how fiction can serve historical truth.

title: Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

overview: Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.

original_title: Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

title: Great Directors

overview: Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera.

title: My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment

overview: Sam was born with an extremely rare genetic disorder called Familial Dysautonomia. When born, he had 50 per cent chance of making it to his fifth birthday. Now, at the age of 39 we follow this exceptional person as he pursues his joint goals of getting his acting career back on track and finding love.

title: Alan Clarke: His Own Man

overview: British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an exceptional director - Alan Clarke.

title: Cast & Crew: If....

overview: Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", featuring interviews with star Malcolm McDowell, cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček, assistant editor Ian Rakoff, director’s assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin

title: Director: Alan Clarke

overview: Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" and "Elephant" inspired a generation of British actors, writers and directors that changed cinema forever. This documentary features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with friends and colleagues of Clarke, including Tim Roth, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels.

title: Long Shot

overview: Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers  attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.

title: Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters

overview: A brand new feature-length documentary on the film’s production, including new interviews with director Stephen Frears, director of photography Oliver Stapleton, editor Michael Audsley, executive producer Barbara Defina and co-producer Peggy Rajaki.

original_title: Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters

title: In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat

overview: Alexandre Desplat is one of the most famous film music composer of today. Innovative artist with a singular expression, he is the successor of french masters of film music: Georges Delerue, Antoine Duhamel, Maurice Jarre.  Writing music for films gather his two passions: music and cinema.  Between working sessions, confidences, films and personnal archives, Alexandre Desplat offers, through this documentary, a great record on the creative process and today’s cinema.

title: Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

overview: Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

title: Hooray For Holyrood

overview: Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Samuel Fuller and Barry Norman, among many others.

title: Who Killed British Cinema?

overview: A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present and currently for the future. This film exposes the shocking truths about the UK Governments' will to grow an indigenous British film industry, the legacy and testament of the now closed UK Film Council (UKFC), the current British Film Institute and the new Creative England.

title: Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman

overview: A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in television and film. Featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Bill Paterson, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, and Jeremy Isaacs.

original_title: Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman

title: Memories of Lindsay Anderson

overview: Chris Wade's documentary film is a personal, intimate and affectionate look at the life and work of Lindsay Anderson, the legendary film and theatre director behind if. - and O Lucky Man. With new recollections from director Stephen Frears, if - star David Wood, plus actor and friend Brian Pettifer, Memories of Lindsay Anderson paints a portrait of a stubborn, self assured artist, an anti establishment non conformist who refused to play the game, and a private man who, though on the surface seemed confident, held his emotional cards close to his chest. This is an in depth study of one of our most brilliant yet undervalued filmmakers.

title: Henri Langlois vu par...

overview: Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque Française—recounting his influence on their lives, his role in preserving film history, and his enduring impact on world cinema.

title: Howard Hawks: American Artist

overview: A tribute of Howard Hawks by the British Film Institute.

title: Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe

overview: Stephen Frears in a interview with film scholar and producer Colin MacCabe. The topics which he touches upon include his career in theater and TV prior to making the film, his impressions of Hanif Kureishi, his relative ignorance of immigrant life and the world he was unwittingly stepping into, the impact of the release of the film, and plenty more.

original_title: Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe

title: Revisiting The Man in the White Suit

overview: Director Stephen Frears, film historian Ian Christie, and author and British film historian Richard Dacre discuss the unique qualities of The Man in the White Suit as well as the legacy of its director, Alexander Mackendrick.

title: Michael Powell

overview: The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews many people who knew or worked with him or were influenced by his work.

title: Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

overview: A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

title: The Rise of the Comic Strip

overview: Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip.

title: Alec Guinness: A Class Act

overview: The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.

title: 100 Greatest Sexy Moments

overview: Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and authors/critics.

title: The Making of 'The Queen'

overview: Documentary on the making of the 2006 film 'The Queen'.

title: Innes Lloyd: The Producer

overview: A look at the life and work of television producer Innes Lloyd

title: Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?

overview: Biographical documentary on director Lindsay Anderson, featuring interviews with friends, family, and colleages.

title: Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything

overview: What do such classic films as The Third Man, The African Queen, The Misfits and Labyrinth have in common? Present during the filming of all of them was Angela Allen, acting as “continuity” – noting every shot and memorising all the details before her, working closely with the director, crew and actors to achieve a consistent and convincing world in front of the camera. She is one of the last witnesses to a truly golden age of cinema. Angela – who celebrated her 97th birthday in February 2026 – began her career as a 19-year-old on several British films, and then in 1948 was assigned to the second unit in Vienna for Carol Reed’s The Third Man. She subsequently became a regular aide to three great directors in particular, John Huston (with whom she made 14 films), John Frankenheimer and Franco Zeffirelli, as well as working with such diverse filmmakers as Tony Richardson, Ken Russell, Roman Polanski and Sidney Lumet.

original_title: Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything

title: High Fidelity

overview: After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".

title: The Queen

overview: The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

title: The Hi-Lo Country

overview: An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.

title: Dangerous Liaisons

overview: In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

title: Mrs. Henderson Presents

overview: Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add risqué burlesque acts similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

title: Dirty Pretty Things

overview: An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

title: My Beautiful Laundrette

overview: A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

title: Hero

overview: Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.

title: Chéri

title: Fail Safe

overview: Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

title: The Van

overview: In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.

title: The Burning

overview: Stephen Frears’ first film, "The Burning" is a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summer’ day, a wealthy white matriarch insists on taking her household on a planned trip to the country, in spite of their urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.

title: Mary Reilly

overview: A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

title: The Snapper

overview: Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.

title: Gumshoe

overview: A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

title: Prick Up Your Ears

overview: When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.

title: Jean Charles

overview: The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts.

title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

overview: Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.

title: The Deal

overview: It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.

title: Tamara Drewe

overview: A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.

title: The Grifters

overview: A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

title: Last Summer

overview: A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.

title: Last Summer

title: Liam

overview: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.

title: Bloody Kids

overview: Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.

title: The Hit

overview: Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.

title: Lay the Favorite

overview: A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

title: Walter

overview: A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.  A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".

title: Three Men in a Boat

overview: One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.

title: Sunset Across the Bay

overview: A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.

title: A Visit from Miss Prothero

overview: Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit. A brash, charmless woman who seems to take no pleasure in anything but putting people down, Miss Prothero wants to fill her old boss in on all the changes that have taken place at work since he left. Dodsworth isn't very curious, and as the visit wears on it puts a little strain on his politeness and patience. Miss Prothero doesn't enjoy it much either, but lingers on as there's a bombshell she wants to drop. The docketing system Dodsworth introduced thirty years earlier, which revolutionised the firm, has been scrapped by her adored new boss Mr Skinner. The crowning achievement of Dodsworth's career has just become obsolete, and she wants to tell him all about it.

title: A Day Out

overview: Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .

title: Philomena

overview: A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

title: Walter and June

overview: Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".

title: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

overview: Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.

title: The Route V50

overview: As a traveler searches for a place called Confidence, he keeps running into other versions of himself.

title: Wilder & Me

overview: Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young woman begins working for the famed director and his screenwriter Iz Diamond on a Greek island during the filming of Fedora.

title: One Fine Day

overview: Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

title: The Program

overview: An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.

title: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

overview: Two alcoholic escorts suddenly find themselves involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer.

title: Night Will Fall

overview: When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".

title: Night Will Fall

title: Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons

overview: Stephen Frears' "Dangerous Liaisons," fiercely adapted from Choderlos de Laclos, and revisited here in a one-minute animated version by Leon Moh-Cah.

original_title: Short cuts : "Les Liaisons dangereuses " de Stephen Frears

title: Match of the Day

overview: Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it

title: Florence Foster Jenkins

overview: The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

title: Florence Foster Jenkins

title: Le court des grands

overview: A program of debut shorts from some of cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears, featured auteurs include George Lucas' "1.42.08 to Qualify" (1966), Ridley Scott's "A Boy and a Bicycle" (1965), Robert Zemeckis' "The Lift" (1972), Tony Scott's "One of the Missing" (1969), Kusturica's "Guernica" (1978), Luc Besson's "L'avant dernier" (1981), Lars von Trier's "Nocturne" (1980), Terry Gilliam's "Storytime" (1968), Paul Verhoeven's "A Lizzard Too Much" (1960), Roman Polanski's "Le gros et le maigre" (1960), Jane Campion's "Peel" (1982), and Frears' "The Burning" (1967).

title: Doris and Doreen

overview: A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.

title: The Lost King

overview: An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

title: The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel

overview: Janie, daughter of Commander Jackson, the head of D15, has been kidnapped and there are only two men who can save her - former agents Bonehead and Foyle.

original_title: The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel

title: Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

overview: Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.

title: Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

overview: A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.

title: Doris and Doreen

title: Afternoon Off

overview: Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.

title: Going Gently

overview: Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

title: Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

title: Saigon: Year of the Cat

overview: The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.

title: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

overview: Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.

title: Victoria & Abdul

overview: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

title: Cold Harbour

overview: A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.

title: Long Distance Information

overview: Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.

title: Song of Experience

overview: As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see more than just trains, though, on a day when innocence and illusion are lost.

title: One Fine Day

title: December Flower

overview: Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings renewed meaning to the lives of both women, but also reveals family secrets and forces confrontations with her aunt's indifferent son and hostile daughter-in-law.

title: Black Christmas

overview: A bittersweet drama on a familiar theme - the frictions forced to the surface during a Christmas family get-together - Michael Abbensetts' Black Christmas is an understated and affecting study of relationships, unexpressed pain and a tormented nostalgia for a distant home.

title: Beyond Fear

overview: The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a coffin-like box for eight days.

title: Afternoon Off

title: Henri Langlois vu par...

title: Early Struggles

overview: Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?

title: Play Things

overview: A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.

title: Able's Will

overview: Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.

title: Eletrodoméstica

overview: A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.

title: Brian and Maggie

title: The Tractor Factor

title: Chéri

title: Forever Ealing

title: Robert Altman in England

title: Here’s Looking at You, Boy

title: Heavy Rain

title: 30 Years of Comic Strip

title: Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel

title: A Look Through His Lens

title: She's French

title: Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

title: Incident

title: French Cinema Mon Amour

title: Il était une fois... « The Queen »

title: Great Directors

title: My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment

title: Alan Clarke: His Own Man

title: Cast & Crew: If....

title: Director: Alan Clarke

title: Long Shot

title: In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat

title: Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

title: Hooray For Holyrood

title: Who Killed British Cinema?

title: Memories of Lindsay Anderson

title: Henri Langlois vu par...

title: Howard Hawks: American Artist

title: Revisiting The Man in the White Suit

title: Michael Powell

title: Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

title: The Rise of the Comic Strip

title: Alec Guinness: A Class Act

title: 100 Greatest Sexy Moments

title: The Making of 'The Queen'

title: Innes Lloyd: The Producer

title: Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?

title: High Fidelity

title: The Queen

title: The Hi-Lo Country

title: Dangerous Liaisons

title: Mrs. Henderson Presents

title: Dirty Pretty Things

title: My Beautiful Laundrette

title: Hero

title: Chéri

title: Fail Safe

title: The Van

title: The Burning

title: Mary Reilly

title: The Snapper

title: Gumshoe

title: Prick Up Your Ears

title: Jean Charles

title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

title: The Deal

title: Tamara Drewe

title: The Grifters

title: Last Summer

title: Last Summer

title: Liam

title: Bloody Kids

title: The Hit

title: Lay the Favorite

title: Walter

title: Three Men in a Boat

title: A Day Out

title: Sunset Across the Bay

title: A Visit from Miss Prothero

title: Philomena

title: Walter and June

title: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

title: The Route V50

title: Wilder & Me

title: One Fine Day

title: The Program

title: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

title: Night Will Fall

title: Night Will Fall

title: Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons

title: Match of the Day

title: Florence Foster Jenkins

title: Florence Foster Jenkins

title: Le court des grands

title: Doris and Doreen

title: The Lost King

title: Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

title: Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

title: Doris and Doreen

title: Afternoon Off

title: Going Gently

title: Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

title: Saigon: Year of the Cat

title: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

title: Victoria & Abdul

title: Cold Harbour

title: Long Distance Information

title: Song of Experience

title: One Fine Day

title: December Flower

title: Black Christmas

title: Beyond Fear

title: Afternoon Off

title: Henri Langlois vu par...

title: Early Struggles

title: Play Things

title: Able's Will

title: Eletrodoméstica

title: Brian and Maggie

title: The Tractor Factor


Arliss Howard

biography:
Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard; October 18, 1954) is an American actor, writer and film director.

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Medium

overview: Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.

character: Captain Kenneth Push

original_name: Medium

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The Twilight Zone

overview: This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

character: (segment "Kentucky Rye")

original_name: The Twilight Zone

Hill Street Blues

overview: A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

original_name: Hill Street Blues

Hallmark Hall of Fame

overview: Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

character: J.J. Taylor

original_name: Hallmark Hall of Fame

I Know My First Name Is Steven

overview: In 1973, 7-year-old Steven Stayner is kidnapped by pedophile Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the entire time. Finally, in 1980, when Parnell kidnaps another young boy, Steven finds a way for them both to escape and return home.

character: Kenneth Parnell

original_name: I Know My First Name Is Steven

Rubicon

overview: An intelligence analyst at a national think tank in New York City called the American Policy Institute discovers that he may be working with members of a secret society that manipulates world events on a grand scale.

character: Kale Ingram

original_name: Rubicon

True Blood

overview: Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides.  But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.

character: Truman Burrell

original_name: True Blood

Mr. Corman

overview: With better luck, better choices, better posture... Josh Corman could’ve been a rock star. Now he teaches fifth grade, and though he loves his students, he still struggles to find happiness and meaning in a world that sometimes feels short on both.

character: Larry

original_name: Mr. Corman

Iran: Days of Crisis

overview: Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.

character: John Limbert

original_name: Iran: Days of Crisis

Manhunt

overview: Inspired by actual events, this true crime anthology series takes a deep dive into the dark, twisted minds of terrorists and follows the brave souls who hunt them down.

character: Earl Embry

original_name: Manhunt

English

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english_name: English

Deutsch

biography:
Arliss Howard (* 18. Oktober 1954 in Independence, Missouri) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmschauspieler, Regisseur und Produzent.  Howard festigte seine filmische Karriere mit Rollen in Stanley Kubricks Kriegsdrama Full Metal Jacket und in John Mackenzies Thriller Ruby. Eine Gastrolle für vier Folgen übernahm Howard in der Fernsehserie Medium – Nichts bleibt verborgen. 2004 spielte er in dem Independentfilm Dandelion – Eine Liebe in Idaho den Vater der Hauptfigur.

Er führte bei zwei seiner Projekte Regie, in diesen spielte er zudem eine Haupt- bzw. Nebenrolle. In jedem dieser Projekte spielte seine jetzige Frau Debra Winger die weibliche Hauptrolle.

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普通话

阿利斯·霍华德

biography: 艾利斯-霍华德于1954年10月18日出生在美国的密苏里，身高1米75。他是一个演员、导演和制片人，代表作是全金属外壳（1987），侏罗纪公园（1997）和时间旅行者的妻子（2009）。

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普通话

阿利斯·霍華德

biography: 艾利斯 - 霍華德於 1954 年 10 月 18 日出生在美國的密蘇裏，身高 1 米 75。他是一個演員、導演和製片人，代表作是全金屬外殼（1987），侏羅紀公園（1997）和時間旅行者的妻子（2009）。

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日本語

アーリス・ハワード

biography: 米ミズーリ州出身。1976年にコロンビアカレッジを卒業する。79年TVドラマに初出演し、「プロディガル」（83）で映画デビュー。スタンリー・キューブリック監督作「フルメタル・ジャケット」（87）のカウボーイ役で注目を集め、スティーブン・スピルバーグ監督の「ロスト・ワールド　ジュラシック・パーク」（97）でも助演を務める。初めて監督・脚本・製作を手がけた「Big Bad Love」（01）ではカンヌ国際映画祭カメラドール（新人監督賞）の候補に挙げられた。その後は「きみがぼくを見つけた日」（09）、「マネーボール」（11）、「コンカッション」（15）などで名バイプレイヤーとして活躍。近年の出演作にデビッド・フィンチャー監督作「Mank マンク」（20）などがある。「ワイルダー・ナパーム」（93）で共演した女優のデブラ・ウィンガーと96年に結婚、おしどり夫婦として知られる。

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Український

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english_name: Ukrainian

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english_name: Latvian

also_known_as:
Leslie Richard Howard
Less R. Howard

title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

overview: Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

character: Peter Ludlow

original_title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

title: Full Metal Jacket

overview: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

character: Pvt. Cowboy

original_title: Full Metal Jacket

title: Tequila Sunrise

overview: In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann  -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.

character: Gregg Lindroff

original_title: Tequila Sunrise

title: Amistad

overview: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

character: John C. Calhoun

original_title: Amistad

title: The Time Traveler's Wife

overview: Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.

character: Richard DeTamble

original_title: The Time Traveler's Wife

title: The Thicket

overview: An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones, a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.

character: Rev. Ephron Karlsson

original_title: The Thicket

title: Moneyball

overview: The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

character: John Henry

original_title: Moneyball

title: Dandelion

overview: In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do.

character: Luke Mullich

original_title: Dandelion

title: The Lightship

overview: A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

character: Eddie

original_title: The Lightship

title: CrissCross

overview: A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, when he begins to sell cocaine so his mother can stop stripping.

character: Joe

original_title: CrissCross

title: Ruby

overview: Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.

character: Maxwell

original_title: Ruby

title: The Lesser Evil

overview: Four best friends reunite in a remote cabin for the first time in two decades. They are not there to reminisce about the good old days, but rather, to sort out the deadly details of one fateful afternoon in their past, when they all skipped school - and their lives were altered forever. Now the haunting truth has caught up with them, along with the reality that they are probably heading for jail. But in the soul-searching angst of deciding right from wrong, the though of going down after all this time seems incomprehensible. And with the authorities hot on their trail, the old friends quickly realize that someone has to pay and their only option to remain free is to sacrifice the only thing they've held on to for years... each other!

character: Ivan

original_title: The Lesser Evil

title: Sylvester

overview: Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.

character: Peter

original_title: Sylvester

title: Wilder Napalm

overview: Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac.

title: Men Don't Leave

overview: A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.

title: You Know My Name

overview: In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of criminal. You Know My Name is the fact-based story of Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are likely to tote a tommy gun as carry a six-gun. An ideally cast Sam Elliott plays Tilghman, whose life takes on a newfangled wrinkle of its own. Tilghman makes a moving picture of his Old West exploits; and the success of that silent film, The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, spreads his reputation like a brushfire. But that reputation may mean nothing to a thug (Arliss Howard) who hides behind a badge.

title: The Infiltrator

overview: In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.

title: The Killer

overview: After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

title: A Killer in the Family

overview: Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.

title: The Man Who Captured Eichmann

overview: Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.

title: Till Death Us Do Part

overview: This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.

title: Old Man

overview: A prisoner set on serving his time gets recruited to save a pregnant woman trapped in a tree during the Great Flood of 1927. A massive storm drives them farther from their destination and they soon must decide to go off on their own or find their way home.

title: Plain Clothes

overview: To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.

title: Those Secrets

overview: A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.

title: Big Bad Love

overview: Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.

title: The Day After

overview: In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

title: The Prodigal

overview: They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.

title: The Sandlot

overview: During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.

title: Beyond the Call

overview: Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.

title: A Map of the World

overview: School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.

title: Awake

overview: While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

title: The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank

overview: Join acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and crew of MANK, for a peek behind the curtain of Netflix's black-and-white ode to Hollywood's Golden Age.

original_title: The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank

title: Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

overview: Raymond Eames, a small-time drug dealer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting death of a policeman. After seven years of appeals are exhausted, the date of his execution arrives. His last request is that his execution be photographed. Eames selects Paul Marish, a jaded Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, who is convinced by his agent to visit the small town in Georgia. Sensing a big story, Marish's agent sends in a reporter from Time magazine, and together they begin to investigate the events surrounding the murder, in a small town where emotions are high and opinions are fixed.

title: Birth

overview: It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

title: Over/Under

overview: A man becomes a bookie after losing his job as a day trader.

title: Word of Honor

overview: Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government, and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case.

title: Hands of a Stranger

overview: A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.

title: Concussion

overview: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

title: The Boy Downstairs

overview: A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.

title: Butterfly in the Typewriter

overview: Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.

title: Door to Door

overview: A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning everyone from car dealers to widows.

title: The Ladies Club

overview: A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of women and gotten away with it through legal technicalities.

title: Wet

overview: The attractive Davida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he is willing to stay longer. Davida wants to try the bathtubs. Although this is not allowed in the shop the manager agrees. As if that is not enough, Davida says she wants the bathtub for two and needs to be sure it fits her needs. She wants the manager to take place in the bathtub too.

title: Natural Born Killers

overview: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

title: Johns

overview: It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.

title: Mank

overview: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

title: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

overview: Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.

original_title: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

title: Lapsis

overview: In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.

title: Mosaic

overview: A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.

title: Weapons

overview: Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.

title: With/In Volume 2

overview: Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.

title: For the Boys

overview: Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.

title: Tales of Erotica

overview: Four erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings: 'The Dutch Master': a woman who enters a living painting; 'The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch': a woman is lured by noises from a chamber; 'Vroom Vroom Vroooom': a motorcycle transforms into a woman; and 'Wet':  a hot tub salesman seduced by a woman.

title: A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket

overview: An in-depth documentary on the 1987 classic Full Metal Jacket, shaped around over thirty new interviews with Kubrick collaborators, including Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Arliss Howard, as well as previously unheard audio interviews with Kubrick and never-before-released audio of the director rehearsing with the film’s actors at Pinewood Studios in 1986.

original_title: A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket

title: Last Flight Out

overview: Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and immediately before Communist forces overrun the city. American citizens try to help South Vietnamese refugees escape on the last commercial flight that will be permitted to leave the city.

title: Dawn Anna

overview: The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.

title: With/In Volume 2

title: With/In Volume 2

title: Big Bad Love

title: Big Bad Love

title: Dawn Anna

title: Dawn Anna

title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

title: Full Metal Jacket

title: Tequila Sunrise

title: Amistad

title: The Time Traveler's Wife

title: The Thicket

title: Moneyball

title: Dandelion

title: The Lightship

title: CrissCross

title: Ruby

title: The Lesser Evil

title: Sylvester

title: Wilder Napalm

title: Men Don't Leave

title: You Know My Name

title: The Infiltrator

title: The Killer

title: A Killer in the Family

title: The Man Who Captured Eichmann

title: Till Death Us Do Part

title: Old Man

title: Plain Clothes

title: Those Secrets

title: Big Bad Love

title: The Day After

title: The Prodigal

title: The Sandlot

title: Beyond the Call

title: A Map of the World

title: Awake

title: Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

title: Birth

title: Over/Under

title: Word of Honor

title: Hands of a Stranger

title: Concussion

title: The Boy Downstairs

title: Butterfly in the Typewriter

title: Door to Door

title: The Ladies Club

title: Wet

title: Natural Born Killers

title: Johns

title: Mank

title: Lapsis

title: Mosaic

title: Weapons

title: With/In Volume 2

title: For the Boys

title: Tales of Erotica

title: Last Flight Out

title: Dawn Anna

title: With/In Volume 2

title: With/In Volume 2

title: Big Bad Love

title: Big Bad Love

title: Dawn Anna

title: Dawn Anna