Rufus Sewell

Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he starred in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. Earlier he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion. He starred in the CBS drama Eleventh Hour which was cancelled in April 2009. On stage, he originated the role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the role of Jan in Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, which earned him an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination for the latter performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rufus Sewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Popularity : 27.022
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1967-10-29
  • Place of Birth : Twickenham, England, UK
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Rufus Sewell Movies

  • 2006
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    The Illusionist

    The Illusionist

    7.295 2006 HD

    With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But...

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  • 2006
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    The Holiday

    The Holiday

    7.092 2006 HD

    Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmas time after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each...

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  • 2005
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    The Legend of Zorro

    The Legend of Zorro

    6.129 2005 HD

    Having spent the last 10 years fighting injustice and cruelty, Alejandro de la Vega is now facing his greatest challenge: his loving wife Elena has...

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  • 2006
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    Paris Je T'aime

    Paris Je T'aime

    6.762 2006 HD

    Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18...

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  • 1998
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    Dark City

    Dark City

    7.3 1998 HD

    A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic...

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  • 2000
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    Bless the Child

    Bless the Child

    5.329 2000 HD

    When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed...

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  • 2024
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    Scoop

    Scoop

    6.4 2024 HD

    Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous...

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  • 2001
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    Higher Love

    Higher Love

    6.091 2001 HD

    Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to sell the family wine...

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  • 1998
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    The Very Thought of You

    The Very Thought of You

    5.7 1998 HD

    Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each...

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  • 1998
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    Dangerous Beauty

    Dangerous Beauty

    7.081 1998 HD

    Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of...

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  • 1995
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    Cold Comfort Farm

    Cold Comfort Farm

    6.659 1995 HD

    In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough...

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  • 2006
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    Tristan & Isolde

    Tristan & Isolde

    6.677 2006 HD

    An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.

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  • 2001
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    A Knight's Tale

    A Knight's Tale

    6.861 2001 HD

    William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself,...

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  • 2001
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    Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature

    Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature

    5.755 2001 HD

    Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and...

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  • 2006
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    Amazing Grace

    Amazing Grace

    6.894 2006 HD

    The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition,...

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  • 2002
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    Extreme Ops

    Extreme Ops

    4.798 2002 HD

    While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.

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  • 2010
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    The Tourist

    The Tourist

    6.184 2010 HD

    American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

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  • 2008
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    Vinyan

    Vinyan

    5.1 2008 HD

    Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.

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  • 1996
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    Victory

    Victory

    5.1 1996 HD

    Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there,...

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  • 2024
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    The Uninvited

    The Uninvited

    1 2024 HD

    Rose and Sammy enjoy an idyllic life with love, a Hollywood Hills home, and a curious son. During a party, Sammy assigns unusual significance to it,...

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  • 2008
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    Downloading Nancy

    Downloading Nancy

    5.412 2008 HD

    When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After...

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  • 1994
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    A Man of No Importance

    A Man of No Importance

    6.3 1994 HD

    Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and...

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  • 1993
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    Dirty Weekend

    Dirty Weekend

    5.4 1993 HD

    Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her....

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  • 2012
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    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    5.7 2012 HD

    President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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  • 1970
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    All That I Am

    All That I Am

    1 1970 HD

    A heroic true story about four German-Jewish literati-turned-anti-Nazi activists who are forced to flee to London following the rise of Adolf...

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  • 1998
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    Illuminata

    Illuminata

    5.5 1998 HD

    It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play,...

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  • 1998
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    The Woodlanders

    The Woodlanders

    5.1 1998 HD

    The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after...

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  • 2012
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    Hotel Noir

    Hotel Noir

    5.947 2012 HD

    Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various...

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  • 1991
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    Twenty-one

    Twenty-one

    4.6 1991 HD

    Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her...

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  • 2013
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    All Things To All Men

    All Things To All Men

    4.457 2013 HD

    A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.

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  • 2014
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    Hercules

    Hercules

    5.8 2014 HD

    When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.

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  • 1999
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    In a Savage Land

    In a Savage Land

    5.1 1999 HD

    Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks...

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  • 2013
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    The Sea

    The Sea

    6.1 2013 HD

    A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.

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  • 2014
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    The Devil's Hand

    The Devil's Hand

    5.189 2014 HD

    Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed"...

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  • 1992
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    The Last Romantics

    The Last Romantics

    1 1992 HD

    A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

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  • 2003
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    Victoria Station

    Victoria Station

    1 2003 HD

    A controller in a London cab office looks for a driver to pick up a fare from Victoria Station. The driver who answers has never heard of Victoria...

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  • 1995
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    Henry IV

    Henry IV

    8 1995 HD

    An adaptation of the two parts of Henry IV.

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  • 1996
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    7.335 1996 HD

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

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  • 2013
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    I'll Follow You Down

    I'll Follow You Down

    6 2013 HD

    After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later -...

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  • 2006
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    Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue

    1 2006 HD

    Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was commissioned...

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  • 1994
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    Dirtysomething

    Dirtysomething

    5 1994 HD

    Dirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry, and is about the pitfalls of giving up the...

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  • 2015
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    Killing Jesus

    Killing Jesus

    6.3 2015 HD

    Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry were subject to seismic social and political events that led to his execution and changed the world...

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  • 2016
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    Gods of Egypt

    Gods of Egypt

    5.66 2016 HD

    A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

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  • 2024
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    The Trouble with Jessica

    The Trouble with Jessica

    5.9 2024 HD

    Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London...

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  • 1994
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    Citizen Locke

    Citizen Locke

    1 1994 HD

    Story of John Locke...

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  • 2015
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    Blinky Bill the Movie

    Blinky Bill the Movie

    5.4 2015 HD

    Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in...

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  • 2016
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    Rise

    Rise

    5.8 2016 HD

    In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their...

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  • 2014
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    The Brunchers

    The Brunchers

    6.8 2014 HD

    A thirty something couple, concerned that they're out of touch and no longer fashionable, decide to rectify the situation by dragging themselves to...

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  • 1995
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    Carrington

    Carrington

    6.2 1995 HD

    Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted...

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  • 2019
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    Judy

    Judy

    6.7 2019 HD

    Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of...

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  • 2005
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    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew

    8 2005 HD

    A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.

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  • 2020
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    The Father

    The Father

    8.1 2020 HD

    A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved...

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  • 2021
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    Old

    Old

    6.337 2021 HD

    A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly –...

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  • 2002
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    A Knight's Tale: Making Of

    A Knight's Tale: Making Of

    1 2002 HD

    A closer look into the filmmaking of Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale".

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  • 2019
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    Modern/Love in 7 Short Films

    Modern/Love in 7 Short Films

    7.3 2019 HD

    Seven romantic comedies from the UK, Australia, and the US explore our modern romantic entanglements in all their hilarious, mundane, sexy and...

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  • 2003
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    Helen of Troy

    Helen of Troy

    6.382 2003 HD

    Paris of Troy goes to Sparta on a diplomatic mission and falls in love with Helen, the wife of King Menelaus. When lovers flee to Troy, the bloody...

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  • 2008
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    Eleventh Hour

    Eleventh Hour

    6.6 2008 HD

    Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade...

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  • 2005
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    ShakespeaRe-Told

    ShakespeaRe-Told

    7.7 2005 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Middlemarch

    Middlemarch

    7.846 1994 HD

    19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the...

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  • 2016
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    Victoria

    Victoria

    7.3 2016 HD

    The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years...

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  • 2008
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    John Adams

    John Adams

    7.663 2008 HD

    Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John...

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  • 2003
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    Charles II: The Power and The Passion

    Charles II: The Power and The Passion

    6.4 2003 HD

    Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in...

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  • 2011
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    Zen

    Zen

    7.236 2011 HD

    Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology...

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  • 2010
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    The Pillars of the Earth

    The Pillars of the Earth

    7.6 2010 HD

    A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious...

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  • 2015
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    The Man in the High Castle

    The Man in the High Castle

    7.529 2015 HD

    Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's...

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 2023
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    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    6.9 2023 HD

    A master thief and his crew attempt an epic and elaborate heist worth $7 billion dollars — but betrayal, greed and other threats undermine...

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  • 2012
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    Restless

    Restless

    7.1 2012 HD

    A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.

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  • 2000
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    Arabian Nights

    Arabian Nights

    6.7 2000 HD

    Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full moon or he will lose his kingdom. His...

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  • 2023
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    The Diplomat

    The Diplomat

    7.5 2023 HD

    In the midst of an international crisis, a career diplomat lands in a high-profile job she’s unsuited for, with tectonic implications for her...

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  • 1992
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    Gone to Seed

    Gone to Seed

    3.7 1992 HD

    The Plant family has run a garden centre in Rotherhithe since Dickens’ time, surviving both war and redevelopment. But now, family rivalry...

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  • 2020
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    The Pale Horse

    The Pale Horse

    5.9 2020 HD

    After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home...

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  • 1985
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    Screen Two

    Screen Two

    6.8 1985 HD

    Series of single made-for-television dramas.

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