Linus Roache

Linus Roache

Born: February 1, 1964
in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Linus William Roache (born 1 February 1964) is an English actor.

Movies for Linus Roache...

The Dresden Sun
Title: The Dresden Sun
Character: Malik
Released: December 15, 2023
Type: Movie
A brilliant, principled mercenary with a traumatic past works with an insider to steal a valued asset from Peredor Corporation called “the sphere”. The C & Earth corporation, vying for global dominance, seeks to find a solution to an otherworldly technology via a scientist’s project. Meanwhile, a financial analyst, who despises his job at the powerful investment firm Mutual One, finds himself caught between deadly corporate rivals, financial fraud, and technological espionage, and is ultimately forced to run from a psychopathic military contractor.
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Title: Fellow Travelers
Character: Senator Wesley Smith
Released: October 29, 2023
Type: TV
Decades-long chronicle of the risky, volatile and steamy relationship between the charismatic and ambitious Hawk and the pious and idealistic Tim, two political staffers who fall in love at the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare. Through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco culture of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the two men’s fiery affair only intensifies despite the constant threat of being exposed and losing everything.
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The Apology
Title: The Apology
Character: Jack Kingsley
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.
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Title: The Recruit
Character: Senator Sebastian Smoot
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: TV
A fledgling lawyer at the CIA that becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime.
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My Policeman
Title: My Policeman
Character: Older Tom
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: Movie
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
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Being Dead
Title: Being Dead
Character: Joseph Adkins
Released: February 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Being Dead The film adaptation of Jim Crace's award-winning novel that follows a mid-life couple's effort to rekindle their marriage by traveling back to the place where they fell in love -- only to arrive at the point of their sudden deaths.
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A Call to Spy
Title: A Call to Spy
Character: Maurice Buckmaster
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
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The Last Full Measure
Title: The Last Full Measure
Character: Whit Peters
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: Movie
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
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Title: Summer of Rockets
Character: Richard Shaw
Released: May 22, 2019
Type: TV
Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race and the first hydrogen bomb test, Samuel's efforts factor in to the emergence of the modern world.
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Mandy
Title: Mandy
Character: Jeremiah Sand
Released: September 13, 2018
Type: Movie
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
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Title: Bancroft
Character: Tim Fraser
Released: December 11, 2017
Type: TV
A dark and compelling thriller centering on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, a female detective with an explosive secret.
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Title: Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Character: Col. Philip Thomas
Released: September 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
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Division 19
Title: Division 19
Character: Charles Lynden
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
In 2039, jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled out to a whole town, providing subscribers even more choice.
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ID2: Shadwell Army
Title: ID2: Shadwell Army
Character: Vinnie
Released: October 3, 2016
Type: Movie
Long-awaited sequel to the 1995 film. A young British Asian, Mo is a fast-rising police officer who goes under cover infiltrating Shadwell's resurgent hooligan element, who are fired up by Shadwells's takeover by a Russian oligarch and their unlikely adventure into European competition. Mo quickly becomes embroiled in the local schism between the BNP and EDL and plans to build a new mosque in the shadow of the Shadwell ground creates an explosive environment in which football and political violence form a perfect storm of social unrest. In the midst of this, Mo is faced with the essential existential question of of who he really is and where he really belongs. It's 20 years on and clever Trevor is now chief super, but what happens to the rest of the gang?
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Barry
Title: Barry
Character: Bill Baughman
Released: September 10, 2016
Type: Movie
A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
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Title: Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
Character: King Ecbert
Released: January 30, 2015
Type: TV
Viking culture is seen from a first-hand experience through Athelstan's perspective. Athelstan reflects his inner thoughts on the ways of the Northmen including all their customs, values, and morals. Watch the young priest struggle with an emotional and psychological turmoil as he balances his faith in both God and Odin, revels in bloodshed then is haunted by memories of combat, and then recognizes the personalities of his barbarian family and understands that they, though pagan, are human beings.
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Title: Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
Character: King Ecbert (archive footage)
Released: January 30, 2015
Type: TV
Viking culture is seen from a first-hand experience through Athelstan's perspective. Athelstan reflects his inner thoughts on the ways of the Northmen including all their customs, values, and morals. Watch the young priest struggle with an emotional and psychological turmoil as he balances his faith in both God and Odin, revels in bloodshed then is haunted by memories of combat, and then recognizes the personalities of his barbarian family and understands that they, though pagan, are human beings.
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Non-Stop
Title: Non-Stop
Character: David McMillan
Released: February 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: The Kingmaker
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Innocence
Title: Innocence
Character: Miles Warner
Released: September 5, 2013
Type: Movie
After losing her mother in a tragic accident, Beckett Warner realizes that her troubles may be far worse—her school is run by a coven of beautiful women who perpetuate their youth by drinking the blood of virgins.
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Title: Vikings
Character: King Ecbert
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: TV
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
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The Making of a Lady
Title: The Making of a Lady
Character: Lord James Walderhurst
Released: December 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst, a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria.
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Supercapitalist
Title: Supercapitalist
Character: Mark Patterson
Released: August 10, 2012
Type: Movie
A maverick New York hedge fund trader with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control.
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Title: Titanic
Character: Hugh, Earl of Manton
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: TV
A heart-wrenching journey through Titanic's last moments, featuring both fictional and historical characters, ranging from steerage passengers and crew to upper class guests and staff.
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Title: Homeland
Character: David Wellington
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
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The Miraculous Year
Title: The Miraculous Year
Character: Scott Vance
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer.
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Yonkers Joe
Title: Yonkers Joe
Character: Teddy
Released: April 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into his life.
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Before the Rains
Title: Before the Rains
Character: Henry Moores
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.
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Broken Thread
Title: Broken Thread
Character: Ram
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Ram, a London-based businessman of Indian and English descent, has been experiencing mind-shattering nightmares of a mysterious masked woman who torments him. As Ram mourns the loss of his father, he is assaulted with images, seemingly lost memories for which he has no explanation.
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Title: Kidnapped
Character: Andy Archer
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: TV
Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007. The series returned on Universal HD in 2008.
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The Namesake
Title: The Namesake
Character: Mr. Lawson
Released: September 2, 2006
Type: Movie
After moving from Calcutta to New York, members of the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their native India and blending into American culture. Although parents Ashoke and Ashima are proud of the sacrifices they make to give their children opportunities, their son Gogol strives to forge his own identity without forgetting his heritage.
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Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: Aaron
Released: April 10, 2006
Type: TV
One biblical figure is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. His name is Moses, the man who rose in power to defend a people, to free them, and to live in history like no other... The Ten Commandments dramatizes the biblical story of Moses.
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12 and Holding
Title: 12 and Holding
Character: Jim Carges
Released: March 31, 2006
Type: Movie
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
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Find Me Guilty
Title: Find Me Guilty
Character: Sean Kierney
Released: March 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
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Batman Begins
Title: Batman Begins
Character: Thomas Wayne
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
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The Forgotten
Title: The Forgotten
Character: A Friendly Man
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
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The Chronicles of Riddick
Title: The Chronicles of Riddick
Character: Purifier
Released: June 11, 2004
Type: Movie
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.
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Blind Flight
Title: Blind Flight
Character: John McCarthy
Released: April 9, 2004
Type: Movie
The true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.
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Beyond Borders
Title: Beyond Borders
Character: Henry Bauford
Released: October 23, 2003
Type: Movie
Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
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Hemingway vs. Callaghan
Title: Hemingway vs. Callaghan
Character: James Joyce
Released: March 31, 2003
Type: Movie
'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between 1923 and 1929.
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RFK
Title: RFK
Character: Robert F. Kennedy
Released: August 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.
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The Gathering Storm
Title: The Gathering Storm
Character: Ralph Wigram
Released: April 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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Hart's War
Title: Hart's War
Character: Capt. Peter A. Ross
Released: February 15, 2002
Type: Movie
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.
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Pandaemonium
Title: Pandaemonium
Character: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Released: June 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.
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Best
Title: Best
Character: Dennis Law
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Michael Cutter
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Siam Sunset
Title: Siam Sunset
Character: Perry Roberts
Released: September 9, 1999
Type: Movie
A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife...
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The Venice Project
Title: The Venice Project
Character: Count Jacko / Count Giaccomo
Released: September 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and announces that his home and priceless collection of art have been bequeathed to the Italian government.
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Shot Through the Heart
Title: Shot Through the Heart
Character: Vlado
Released: October 4, 1998
Type: Movie
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.
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Title: Animated World Faiths
Character: Jesus (voice)
Released: January 13, 1998
Type: TV
Animated World Faiths tells the stories of the world's major faiths and their founders. Gloriously animated in studios in India, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the UK, these programmes have been produced by a team of the worlds best childrens television producers.
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The Wings of the Dove
Title: The Wings of the Dove
Character: Merton Densher
Released: September 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
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Priest
Title: Priest
Character: Father Greg Pilkington
Released: March 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.
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Title: Seaforth
Character: Bob Longman
Released: October 9, 1994
Type: TV
An epic love story in nine parts, following the progress of handsome rogue Bob Longman , an ambitious working-class Yorkshire lad. The series begins with a feature-length episode by award-winning writer Peter Ransley. A Modest Hero. December 1943, Seaforth, Yorkshire: Bob, a young criminal on the run, rescues Paula while posing as an air-raid warden. From this moment on they develop a passionate obsession for each other.
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Romeo (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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Black and Blue
Title: Black and Blue
Character: DS Brian Tait
Released: September 27, 1992
Type: Movie
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Michael Cutter
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Keeping Tom Nice
Title: Keeping Tom Nice
Character: Tom
Released: August 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Doug and Winnie have tried hard to keep their disabled son Tom 'nice', but when Stephen, a young social worker, takes a professional interest it has tragic consequences.
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Van Gogh
Title: Van Gogh
Character: Vincent Van Gogh
Released: July 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Golden Globe nominee Linus Roache stars as troubled painter Vincent van Gogh in this drama from the BBC's "Omnibus" series. Struggling to make ends meet first as an art dealer, then as a missionary in a coal mine, van Gogh was tormented by elusive love and madness. After notoriously cutting off his ear and spending a year in an asylum, we see the artists struggles and passions throughout his life.
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Link
Title: Link
Released: February 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
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No Surrender
Title: No Surrender
Character: Ulster Boy
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.