Biography: Charles Dance |
Tall, sandy-haired British actor Charles Dance trained for a career in graphic design at Plymouth College of Art and Leicester College of Art. Dance developed a taste for the theatre by listening to the reminiscences of two elderly actors who ran a... more
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Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 105min
Wesley Snipes plays an ex-assassin set up by his old bosses and pursued through London in this action thriller. Former sniper James Dial (Snipes) has carried around the ghosts of his last botched job ever since he failed to kill the leader of a...
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 207min
Charles Dance and Emilia Fox headline this made-for-television crime drama concerning an ethereal beauty whose attractive visage masks a malevolent motivation. Angel Wharton (Fox) is a true monster; a woman who abducts children and offers them up as...
Cast: Woody Allen Hugh Jackman Ian McShane Scarlett Johansson
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Comedy Mystery
Length: 96min
Both laughs and thrills are on the masthead in this comedy drama about a would-be reporter written and directed by Woody Allen. Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is an American journalism student who travels to England to visit friends. While in...
Cast: Charles Dance Kerry Fox Robert Carlyle
Tags: Social Problem Film Drama Tragedy
Length: 99min
Directed by Craig Lahiff, Black and White is a story about bigotry, social injustice, and a real-life murder trial that made Australian headlines in the late '50s. On a December afternoon in 1958, the body of a nine-year-old white girl is discovered...
Cast: François Ozon Charlotte Rampling Ludivine Sagnier
Tags: Erotic Thriller Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 102min
François Ozon's psychological thriller Swimming Pool stars Charlotte Rampling as a mystery writer. When Sarah (Rampling) is offered the use of her publisher's vacation home, she accepts the offer. The conservative, repressed Sarah clashes with the...
Cast: Jan Sverák
Tags: War Drama Buddy Film War Romance War Drama
Length: 115min
The friendship of two men is tested by war, political upheaval, and romantic rivalry in this drama from Czech filmmaker Jan Sverak, whose Kolya became an international success. Lt. Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy) is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who...
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 200min
This 2000 TV miniseries is based on an 1839 Charles Dickens novel, -The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The film begins with the burial of Mr. Nickleby beneath snow-covered earth. Attending are Nickleby's wife and teenage children, Nicholas...
Cast: Maggie Smith Judi Dench David Warner Miriam Margolyes Natascha McElhone
Tags: Period Film Comedy of Manners Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 104min
Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and Janet Widdington (Maggie Smith) and her sister, Ursula (Judi Dench), are a pair of elderly spinsters who share a home in...
Cast: Emily Watson
Tags: Drama Family Drama Biopic
Length: 124min
Perhaps inspired by the success of iopics like Shine and Amadeus, this film based on a true story -- and a book (entitled -A Genius in the Family) -- also focuses on the destructive forces of being a musical genius. Hilary and Jacqueline du Pré are...
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999)
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 93min
Several American stars add marquee value to this British comedy about a single mom who's back in the dating game, whether she likes it or not. Jenny Seagrove plays Suzanne, a recently widowed woman in her 30's with two children, teenage son Ben (Ben...
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