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  • A Room With A View
  • A Room With A View review by from HORNCASTLE
    Rated - 4 stars 5 August 2004
    ...pporting ones also. Many familar names to the British movie goer... Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Maggie Smith and Denholm Elliot to name a few. Helena Bonham Carter is superb ...  
  • The Mystery Of Charles Dickens
  • The Mystery Of Charles Dickens review by A customer from Salisbury, Wiltshire
    Rated - 3 stars A Walk Back in Time 20 February 2005
    ...Simon Callow gives a magnificent, often moving performance - indeed many magnificent moving performances in this living literary biography of Dickens life and work. Whether...  
  • No Man's Land
  • No Man's Land review by A customer from Herefordshire
    Rated - 5 stars No Man,s Land 25 February 2007
    ...he particapants in the Bosnian conflict and the press vultures feeding off it. Simon Callow's character is finley drawn and the helpless position of the UNFOR troops leave...  

Simon Callow - filmography


  • Chemical Wedding on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Simon Callow,  Kal Weber,  Lucy Cudden
    Director: Julian Doyle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The year 2000, Cambridge University, Dr Joshua Mathers' state-of-the-art virtual reality suit is being linked to the world's biggest super computer, the Z93. Local programmer, and occult obsessive Victor Neumann has been secretly uploading all of late Edwardian magician Aleister Crowley's black ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 1,189 member
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  • Rag Tale on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Rupert Graves,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Bill Paterson
    Director: Mary McGuckian
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An editor who's sleeping with his deputy, who also happens to be the boss' wife. A pack of hacks whose weekly battle cry is "Who are we going to get this week?". A photographer whose camera does lie and who will stop at nothing to destroy his chairman's dream of a knighthood. Welcome to the world ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 1,363 member
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  • The Phantom Of The Opera on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Gerard Butler,  Emmy Rossum,  Patrick Wilson
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, these moody set devices--and countless others--make every ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 27,780 members
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  • Bright Young Things on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore,  Peter O'Toole,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Stephen,  Fry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,978 members
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  • Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
    Starring: Kevin McKidd,  Julie Graham,  Simon Callow
    Director: Rose Troche
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Leo and Darren are two gay roommates, each single and searching for romantic happiness. While Darren strikes up a relationship with real estate agent and sex-fiend Jeremy, Leo joins a new-age men's therapy group and promptly develops a crush on fellow member Brendan - who is recently separated from ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 136 members
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  • The Scarlet Tunic on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Simon Callow,  Jean-Marc Barr,  Emma Fielding
    Director: Stuart St. Paul
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A period drama and a adaption of a Thomas Hardy short story (THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR); THE SCARLET TUNIC is filmed against the backdrop of the stunning scenery of the Dorset countryside. A story of the forbidden love between a German hussar, Matthaus Singer, and the daughter of a well-to-do solicitor,..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 128 members
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  • The Woman in White (1997)
    Starring: Tara Fitzgerald,  Justine Waddell,  Andrew Lincoln
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 8 members
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  • Jefferson In Paris on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Greta Scacchi,  Thandie Newton
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 234 members
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  • Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (1992)
    Starring: Richard Wilson,  Simon Callow,  Phyllis Logan
    Director: Stefan Schwartz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With his father's birthday looming, Gavin sets out to drive to Glasgow from London. This simple task turns into the journey from hell courtesy of a troublesome car and the exasperating presence of hitchhiker Yvonne. Together and under pressure, the pair encounter a series of eccentric characters in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 17 members
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  • Mr And Mrs Bridge on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Joanne Woodward,  Kyra Sedgwick
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in Kansas City in the late 1930s, MR & MRS BRIDGE tells the story of an upper class couple from the mid-west whose marriage is strained when their three grown-up children leave home. The Bridges are an affluent, conservative family whose lily-white lives revolve around the local country club. ..read more »
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  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,369 members
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  • Amadeus on DVD (1984)
    Starring: F. Murray Abraham,  Tom Hulce,  Elizabeth Berridge
    Director: Milos Forman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 12,462 members
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  • Beckmann - Piano For Beginners on DVD
    Starring: Simon Callow
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Musical instruction, demonstrating the basics of the piano. Aspects covered include: The C Major Scale, Tones and Semi-Tones, The G Minor Scale, Sharps And Flats, and much more. Also features a performance piece by renowned musician Simon Callow.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 55 members
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Simon Callow - watch online


  • The Scarlet Tunic to Watch Now (1998)
    Starring: Jean-Marc Barr,  Emma Fielding,  Simon Callow
    Director: Stuart St. Paul
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 89 minutes
    The Scarlet Tunic is based on another story from Wessex Tales, 'The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion,' a 20-page tale of thwarted love, structured as a recollection by Phyllis as told to Hardy shortly before she died. A German cavalry regiment is encamped on Groves' land, and one day, Frances ..read more »
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Simon Callow facts

5 most recent films

Chemical Wedding - 2.5 stars
Surveillance - 2.0 stars
Roman Mysteries - Series 1 - Complete - 3.5 stars
Rag Tale - 2.0 stars
Doctor Who - The New Series - Vol. 1 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution Volumes 1-4 - 4.0 stars
Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution Volumes 5-8 - 4.0 stars
Doctor Who - The New Series - Vol. 1 - 4.0 stars
Amadeus - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Midsomer Murders - Dead Letters - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Woman in White - 3.0 stars
Soft Top, Hard Shoulder - 3.0 stars
Phantom Of The Opera, The - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Rag Tale - 2.0 stars
Surveillance - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Emmy Rossum - 3 times - show films
Minnie Driver - 3 times - show films
Rupert Graves - 3 times - show films
Gerard Butler - 3 times - show films
Patrick Wilson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Ivory - 4 times - show films
Joel Schumacher - 3 times - show films
Milos Forman - 2 times - show films
Aisling Walsh - 2 times - show films
Stuart St. Paul - 2 times - show films