Charles Dance
1) Lancaster
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LANCASTER tells the story of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the last surviving veterans of the bombing campaign.
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Patrick is a comatose patient at an isolated psychiatric hospital. Assumed brain dead and medically a "vegetable," his doctor and nurses use his body for painful and barbaric experiments. When a new nurse, Kathy joins his medical team, Patrick finds his opportunity for bloody revenge. Using telekinetic powers he has hidden from everyone else, Patrick manipulates Kathy, using her as his pawn as he goes on a rage filled murder spree killing everyone...
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Masterpiece volume 1
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Daphne du Maurier's tale of romance and suspense stars Charles Dance as Maxim de Winter and Emilia Fox as his new bride, who finds that the head housekeeper of Manderley, Mrs. Danvers (Diana Rigg), is devoted to her dead mistress, Rebecca.
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Masterpiece volume 2
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Mrs. de Winter revives Manderley's famous ball, but, encouraged by Mrs. Danvers to copy her dress from a painting, she incurs Maxim's wrath. Mrs. Danvers' taunting reaches a climax as she declares Rebecca is still ruler at the house.
7) Lancaster
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Gravitas Ventures
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Winning a war is not easy. LANCASTER tells the story of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the last surviving veterans. Starting with 'The Blitz', we follow our 38 contributors as they join-up, learn to fly and go to war. With the enemy strong and RAF Bomber Command badly equipped, losses were high. But eventually, the tide turned with the introduction of the 'Lanc'. Designed to take the war to the enemy - and to win it - the Lancaster was...
8) Rebecca
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PBS
Pub. Date
1997.
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When Maxim de Winter and his young bride return from Monte Carlo to Manderley, his home in Cornwall, the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, and sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, threaten the newcomer, who must unravel dark secrets of the past. Based on Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of romance, suspense and jealousy.
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PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
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This bold five-part adaptation brings a distinctly modern take to Wilkie Collins’ beloved mystery novel, combining romance, intrigue, and danger in a thrilling ride from the corridors of English country houses to the dankest, deepest corners of the Victorian madhouse. Starring Jessie Buckley, Ben Hardy, and Olivia Vinall, with Dougray Scott as Sir Pervical Glyde and Charles Dance as Mr. Fairlie.
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[2015]
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During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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At the end of the 70s, Charles is still unmarried and England's first female Prime Minister locks horns with the Queen, causing some unrest among the entire country. As Margaret Thatcher leads England into the Falklands war and a prince courts a "commoner", the Lady Diana Spencer, the country may unite under a fairytale ending but the royal family's division grows wider.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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In the 1930s, the peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
14) The king's man
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
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The world on the brink of World War I is being manipulated by a cabal of political villains strategically placed to create conflict. One British lord and his son create a network of domestic worker spies in hopes of undermining the efforts, taking on the likes of Rasputin and Mata Hari with the crown's silent support. When the war happens anyway and takes the life of one of these men, the other must rise above his grief to bring an end to years of...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
16) Ghostbusters
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
17) Woman in gold
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Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
18) Alien 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When Ripley survives a crash landing on Fiorina 161, a bleak prison planet, the convicts soon begin turning up dead and she realizes she wasn't the only survivor.
19) BLEAK HOUSE
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man.
20) Dracula untold
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Vlad III, the prince of Wallachia, must make a difficult choice when, in 1462, Sultan Mehmed II demands that 1,000 of Wallachia's boys become child soldiers in his army.