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Hugh Dancy
Actor 51 years old

Hugh Dancy

Staffordshire, England, UK

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy (born 19 June 1975) is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the title character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince... Read full bio →

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Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Simon Curtis 2022 2h 4m 6.0

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.

Late Night

Late Night

Nisha Ganatra 2019 1h 42m 6.0

A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Will Finn, Dan St. Pierre 2013 1h 28m

Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, from a devious new villain, the Jester.

Hannibal

Hannibal

2013 45m 7.9

Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

Our Idiot Brother

Our Idiot Brother

Jesse Peretz 2011 1h 30m 6.0

Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Sean Durkin 2011 1h 41m 7.0

A drama which follows a young woman who is living with her older sister after escaping a cult.

Hysteria

Hysteria

Tanya Wexler 2011 1h 40m 6.8

A romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Confessions of a Shopaholic

P.J. Hogan 2009 1h 44m 5.7

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping-a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door-until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company.

Adam

Adam

Max Mayer 2009 1h 39m 7.0

A story about two strangers. One a little stranger than the other.

The Jane Austen Book Club

The Jane Austen Book Club

Robin Swicord 2007 1h 46m 7.3

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.

Savage Grace

Savage Grace

Tom Kalin 2007 1h 37m 4.0

A dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...

Evening

Evening

Lajos Koltai 2007 1h 57m 6.2

As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago.

Blood and Chocolate

Blood and Chocolate

Katja von Garnier 2007 1h 38m 4.4

A young teenage werewolf (Bruckner) is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man (Dancy).

Basic Instinct 2

Basic Instinct 2

Michael Caton-Jones 2006 1h 56m 4.8

Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.

Shooting Dogs

Shooting Dogs

Michael Caton-Jones 2005 1h 55m 7.8

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

2005 1h 51m 6.0

HBO miniseries about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.

King Arthur

King Arthur

Antoine Fuqua 2004 2h 6m 6.7

Historians have thought for centuries that King Arthur was only a myth, but the legend was based on a real hero, torn between his private ambitions and his public sense of duty. A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome.

Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted

Tommy O'Haver 2004 1h 36m 7.3

Ella of Frell is given the "gift of obedience" by a fairy, only to realize that it's more of a curse because it could separate her from her true love, Prince Charmont. Will Ella manage to conjure a "cure" that enables her to live happily ever after?

The Sleeping Dictionary

The Sleeping Dictionary

Guy Jenkin 2003 1h 49m

An eager young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful young Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.

Tempo

Tempo

Eric Styles 2003 1h 23m 5.0

Jenny, a young American woman, moves to Paris and gets involved with Jack, who is seemingly the man of her dreams. However, he has a lot to hide and Jenny quickly gets entangled his dangerous lifestyle.

Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down

Ridley Scott 2001 2h 25m 8.0

Black Hawk Down is an American war film that chronicles actual events during the battle in Somalia’s Mogadishu in 1993 where an army helicopter crashes down in the middle of a hostile city.

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

2000 1h 18m 5.0

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover.

Law & Order

Law & Order

1990 45m 8.2

Two Part drama which focuses on the New York criminal Justice System by showing a violent crime investigated by police detectives in the first half and then the trial of the accused in court by the prosecutors in the second half.

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