Movies: David Calder

  • 2015
    The Scandalous Lady W

    The Scandalous Lady W (2015)

    The Scandalous Lady W

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    A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the ce...

    The Scandalous Lady W
  • 1991
    American Friends

    American Friends (1991)

    American Friends

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    Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of ...

    American Friends
  • 2024
    The Last Front

    The Last Front (2024)

    The Last Front

    5.22024HD

    In a Belgian village during the start of World War I, the Lambert family finds themselves thrust into the heart of the conflict in The Last Front. Leonard Lambert, a devoted husband and father, grapples with protecting his family as German forces adv...

    The Last Front
  • 1992
    The Count of Solar

    The Count of Solar (1992)

    The Count of Solar

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    The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution....

    The Count of Solar
  • 2000
    The King Is Alive

    The King Is Alive (2000)

    The King Is Alive

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    Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear on...

    The King Is Alive
  • 1991
    Sleepers

    Sleepers (1991)

    Sleepers

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    Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, K...

    Sleepers
  • 2010
    On Expenses

    On Expenses (2010)

    On Expenses

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    Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses....

    On Expenses
  • 1980
    The Black Stuff

    The Black Stuff (1980)

    The Black Stuff

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    A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job....

    The Black Stuff
  • 1987
    The Trial of Klaus Barbie

    The Trial of Klaus Barbie (1987)

    The Trial of Klaus Barbie

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    Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice....

    The Trial of Klaus Barbie
  • 1991
    A Question of Attribution

    A Question of Attribution (1991)

    A Question of Attribution

    6.61991HD

    Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian pain...

    A Question of Attribution
  • 2001
    Anybody's Nightmare

    Anybody's Nightmare (2001)

    Anybody's Nightmare

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    Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt....

    Anybody's Nightmare
  • 1995
    Henry IV

    Henry IV (1995)

    Henry IV

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    Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy dr...

    Henry IV
  • 1991
    The War That Never Ends

    The War That Never Ends (1991)

    The War That Never Ends

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    The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others....

    The War That Never Ends
  • 1992
    A Doll's House

    A Doll's House (1992)

    A Doll's House

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    One of Ibsen's best known plays, A Dolls House caused a sensation when first published, as it provided a critique on the conventions of Victorian marriage. Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with ...

    A Doll's House
  • 1990
    Shoot to Kill

    Shoot to Kill (1990)

    Shoot to Kill

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    Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), a...

    Shoot to Kill
  • 1981
    Bread or Blood

    Bread or Blood (1981)

    Bread or Blood

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    Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globali...

    Bread or Blood
  • 1980
    Fox

    Fox (1980)

    Fox

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    The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections....

    Fox
  • 2005
    Wallis & Edward

    Wallis & Edward (2005)

    Wallis & Edward

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    In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and ...

    Wallis & Edward
  • 1979
    Casting the Runes

    Casting the Runes (1979)

    Casting the Runes

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    The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves...

    Casting the Runes
  • 1995
    Dangerous Lady

    Dangerous Lady (1995)

    Dangerous Lady

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    No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael ...

    Dangerous Lady