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Charles Dance - what members say
review by from East Sussex
A Film About Genius 19 November 2003
review by A customer from Manchester,UK
SUPERB - The Best Yet 12 May 2005
review by A customer from London, UK
TV at its best 21 April 2007
Charles Dance - filmography
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Ironclad
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Kate Mara
Director: Jonathan English
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
England, the Thirteenth Century. Set against the backdrop of the signing of the magna Carta, IRONCLAD is an action-packed epic that focuses on a band of land barons who make a stand against their turncoat king. James Purefoy (SOLOMON KANE), Paul Giamati (SIDEWAYS), Brian Cox (MANHUNTER), Derek ..read more »
 
63%
from 9,877 members
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Your Highness
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Charles Dance, Noah Huntley, Rasmus Hardiker
Director: David Gordon Green
Certificate:
Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way of those dragons, evil and trouble in general.
Danny ..read more »
52%
from 9,180 members
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Ironclad - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Kate Mara
Director: Jonathan English
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
England, the Thirteenth Century. Set against the backdrop of the signing of the magna Carta, IRONCLAD is an action-packed epic that focuses on a band of land barons who make a stand against their turncoat king. James Purefoy (SOLOMON KANE), Paul Giamati (SIDEWAYS), Brian Cox (MANHUNTER), Derek ..read more »
61%
from 5,519 members
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Neverland - The Complete Series - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance
Director: Nick Willing
Certificate: 
Neverland reveals the never-before-told story of how Peter Pan became the Boy Who Never Grew Up. It's an enthralling fantasy adventure for all of the family, starring Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Bob Hoskins, with Charlie Rowe as Peter and Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell.
55%
from 6 members
Not available for rental
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Neverland - The Complete Series
(2011)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance
Director: Nick Willing
Certificate: 
Neverland reveals the never-before-told story of how Peter Pan became the Boy Who Never Grew Up. It's an enthralling fantasy adventure for all of the family, starring Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Bob Hoskins, with Charlie Rowe as Peter and Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell.
70%
from 14 members
Due for release on 25th June 2012
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Going Postal - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: David Suchet, Tamsin Greig, Charles Dance
Director: Jon Jones
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Based on Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel involves a skilful con artist Moist Von Lipwig who finds the tables turned and it's he himself who conned into becoming the Ankh-Morpork Postmaster General. A position that has not been filled in years.
85%
from 17 members
Not available for rental
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Going Postal
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: David Suchet, Tamsin Greig, Charles Dance
Director: Jon Jones
Certificate:
Based on Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel involves a skilful con artist Moist Von Lipwig who finds the tables turned and it's he himself who conned into becoming the Ankh-Morpork Postmaster General. A position that has not been filled in years.
80%
from 1,409 member
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Trinity
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Charles Dance, Christian Cooke, Reggie Yates
Director: Colin Teague
Certificate:
With a cast including Charles Dance (Starter for Ten), Christian Cooke (Demons) Reggie Yates (Dr Who, Radio 1 DJ) and Claire Skinner (Outnumbered) , Trinity is a mystery drama where going to college has never looked so good. Or been so dangerous...
For over 900 years, Trinity College has been an ..read more »
59%
from 343 members
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Dickens' Secret Lover
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Charles Dance, David Haig, Amy Shiels
Director: Sarah Aspinall
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This compelling drama-documentary uncovers the secret life of one of England's favourite authors and his affair with a young actress, Nelly Ternan.
In 1857, Charles Dickens was probably the most famous and beloved Englishman alive - a cross between J.K. Rowling and Princess Diana. Not only was he ..read more »
54%
from 108 members
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The Contractor
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Lena Headey, Eliza Bennett
Director: Josef Rusnak
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A marksman (Snipes) living on his ranch in Montana is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist whom he missed killing while on duty. He is ultimately double-crossed and framed for killing a high ranking policeman, and is forced into hiding where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
57%
from 11,460 members
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Scoop
(2006)
Starring: Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Charles Dance
Director: Woody Allen
Certificate:
An American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) visiting London gets a hot tip on a notorious serial murder case after a ghostly encounter inside the disappearing cabinet of a neurotic vaudevillian (writer/director/co-star Woody Allen). But when she falls for the dashing aristocrat (Hugh ..read more »
61%
from 408 members
Currently unavailable
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Bleak House
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Charlie Brooks
Director: Justin Chadwick, Susanna White
Certificate:
Acclaimed writer Andrew Davies turns his talents to one of Charles Dickens' most brilliant novels - arguably the greatest ever depiction of Victorian London. Fresh and imaginative, yet faithful to the original, this thrilling fast-paced adaptation is shot with a contemporary edge. At its heart is ..read more »
78%
from 8,810 members
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Fingersmith
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Rupert Evans
Director: Aisling Walsh
Certificate:
A BBC adaptation of Sarah Water's best selling novel about love, treachery in old England. It tells the story of two young women, one passion, mutual betrayal and final retribution. Petty thief Sue Tinder (Sally Hawkins) is enlisted by conman Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans) in an elaborate scam to ..read more »
67%
from 5,433 members
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To The Ends Of The Earth
(2 discs)
(2005)
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Neill, Jared Harris
Director: David Attwood
Certificate:
Dramatic adaptation of William Golding's trilogy 'Rites Of Passage', 'Close Quarters' and 'Fire Down Below'. A young aristocrat boards a war ship heading for Australia, where he will take up a government post. It is not long, however, before the aristocrat's social status begins to cause tension ..read more »
70%
from 167 members
Not currently released
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Bleak House - HD
(3 discs)
(2005)
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Charlie Brooks
Director: Justin Chadwick, Susanna White
Certificate:
From the fog and squalor of Victorian London to the idyllic tranquillity of rural England, Dickens' tale of tragedy, intrigue and love, and stinging satire on the English legal system, is faithfully recreated in this BBC drama series. The story closely follows the characters involved in the ..read more »
75%
from 94 members
Not currently released
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Ladies In Lavender
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Brühl
Director: Charles Dance
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Set in 1936, Ladies in Lavender is the charming and sweetly melancholic story about two ageing spinster sisters whose peaceable Cornwall existence is disrupted when the take a young man into their care... and their hearts.
62%
from 29,716 members
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Swimming Pool
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance
Director: Francois Ozon
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In Francois Ozon's SWIMMING POOL, Charlotte Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a prim and proper British author who has written a successful series of mystery-crime novels. However, when she visits her London publisher (Charles Dance) in a dour mood, wearing a depressive pout, and complains that she's no ..read more »
59%
from 10,078 members
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Black And White
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox
Director: Craig Lahiff
Certificate:
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In 1950s Australia, Max Stuart, an illiterate Aborigine, is suddenly arrested by police for murdering a nine year old white girl. He crumbles under interrogation and signs a confession to the killing, signing away his right to life. Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox play young, naive defence lawyers ..read more »
60%
from 2,128 members
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Ali G - Indahouse - The Movie
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Gambon, Kellie Bright
Director: Mark Mylod
Certificate:
By the marginal-or-miss standards of British TV spin-offs, Ali G in da House is well above adequate, even though it drags out every smart line or decent routine until they lie dead on the screen just begging for a laugh track. The film pulls back a bit from the absolute obnoxiousness of the Ali G ..read more »
54%
from 6,207 members
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Dark Blue World
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance, Ondrej Vetchy
Director: Jan Sverak
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In 1939, as Hitler and Germany ran roughshod over Eastern Europe, many people escaped, including Czech pilots who joined up with the British Royal Air Force to fight the Nazis. Jan Sverak's moving war drama, DARK BLUE WORLD, details the story of one such group of Czech pilots who are at first ..read more »
68%
from 1,269 member
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Hilary And Jackie
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain
Director: Anand Tucker
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The touching and incredible true story of Jacqueline and Hilary du Pre, the gifted musical sisters who grew up in England in the 1950's. Written and produced as a tribute to Jackie, the story traces her rapid rise to international fame and the devastating consequences it had on her and those she ..read more »
68%
from 1,584 member
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Rebecca
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Faye Dunaway
Director: Jim O'Brien
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This Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Rebecca is based on Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of the same name. Emilia Fox stars as Mrs. De Winter, a young middle class girl who meets her rich but aging husband, Mr. De Winter (Charles Dance), while he is travelling. The two fall in love almost ..read more »
66%
from 1,397 member
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Space Truckers
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar
Director: Stuart Gordon
Certificate:
John Canyon initially refuses to join 'The Company', an outfit controlling intergalactic trucking, but he finds himself unable to resist when the pay is five times the going rate. Perils lie in store as there is a deadly cargo in the hold.
53%
from 683 members
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China Moon
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Ed Harris, Madeline Stowe, Charles Dance
Director: John Bailey
Certificate: 
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In this sumptuous erotic thriller, a small town detective has a passionate affair with a stunning local woman. When her wealthy husband is brutally murdered, her lover is immediately suspected and he must stumble through a maze of deceit to find out the truth and clear his name.
53%
from 370 members
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Last Action Hero
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney
Director: John McTiernan
Certificate:
A Schwarzenegger double-bill.THE 6TH DAY: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour pilot. On his birthday he comes home to discover an identical ..read more »
56%
from 11,054 members
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Alien 3 - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Director: David Fincher
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Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
71%
from 73 members
Not available for rental
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Alien 3
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Director: David Fincher
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Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
64%
from 23,745 members
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First Born
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Charles Dance, Philip Madoc, Gabrielle Anwar
Director: Philip Saville
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Genetic scientist Edward Forester (Charles Dance) successfully breeds a human-gorilla hybrid baby called Gor. But he becomes emotionally attached to the child and is unable to destroy it. So he hides Gor, passing him off as his adopted son, whilst going to painstaking lengths to teach him to walk ..read more »
63%
from 180 members
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White Mischief
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Radford
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If there was a paradise untouched by the war in the winter of 1940, it was Kenya's Happy Valley. There the tall, blond and impeccably groomed Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Errol, enjoyed a decadent life of pleasure with his fellow aristocrats. Their's was a society in which adultery was routine and ..read more »
64%
from 311 members
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The Golden Child
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Charlotte Lewis, Charles Dance
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Eddie Murphy follows up his hot streak of BEVERLY HILLS COP and TRADING PLACES with this mystical action-comedy directed by Michael Ritchie. Murphy plays Chandler "Chan" Jarrell, a man who tracks down lost children for a living. When the beautiful Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis), a Tibetan priestess, ..read more »
63%
from 6,132 members
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Nancy Astor
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Lisa Harrow, Pierce Brosnan, Charles Dance
Director: Richard Stroud
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A lavish nine-part series about the life and times of the child born Nancy Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, on 19th May 1879 who would become the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, introduce a Private Member's Bill that raised to 18 the age qualification for buying alcohol and ..read more »
59%
from 48 members
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Fallen Angel
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Charles Dance, Emilia Fox
Director: David Drury
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FALLEN ANGEL takes a look at the past of a murderer, looking at the factors that turned a woman into a sociopath. Based on the novel by Andrew Taylor.
66%
from 180 members
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... incredible performance as Jackie. Rachel Griffiths is also good as Hilary, and Charles Dance puts in some brilliant scenes as the sister's slightly confused father, but thi...
