Mathew Zajac

Mathew Zajac

Movies for Mathew Zajac...

Title: The English
Character: Piano Tuner
Released: November 10, 2022
Type: TV
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
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The Mad Shagger
Title: The Mad Shagger
Character: Rat
Released: September 30, 2020
Type: Movie
A woman searches for a missing loved one who, unknown to her, has turned into a monster.
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The Crucifixion
Title: The Crucifixion
Character: Bishop Gornik
Released: April 27, 2017
Type: Movie
When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.
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Iona
Title: Iona
Character: Detective
Released: June 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Iona returns to the island where she was born with her teenage son to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes her tormented son, Bull, to a way of life she rejected when she left the island and sends a shockwave through the family she left behind.
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Title: Shetland
Character: Alex Henry
Released: March 10, 2013
Type: TV
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
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A Lonely Place to Die
Title: A Lonely Place to Die
Character: Mr. Rakovic
Released: April 9, 2011
Type: Movie
A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.
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Title: Garrow's Law
Character: Dowling
Released: November 1, 2009
Type: TV
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
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Valhalla Rising
Title: Valhalla Rising
Character: Malkolm
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
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Low Winter Sun
Title: Low Winter Sun
Character: Father Brannigan
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
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Man to Man
Title: Man to Man
Character: Hector Duncan
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
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The Planman
Title: The Planman
Character: John Baresci (as Matthew Zajac)
Released: March 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.
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Einstein's Biggest Blunder
Title: Einstein's Biggest Blunder
Character: Narrator (as Matthew Zajac)
Released: October 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Science Documentary hosted by Mathew Zajac and published by Channel 4 broadcasted as part of CH4 Equinox series in 2000 - English narration At the dawn of a new century, a new theory is being born. It threatens to demolish the foundations of 20th century physics. Its authors are two of the world's leading cosmologists. If they're right, Einstein was wrong. It all began when Andy Albrecht and Joao Magueijo met at a conference in America in 1996. This program began from Newtonian view of the universe then takes you through the General Relativity and the Flatness problem. This leads to the Horizon problem and its solution, the Inflation theory. However modern astronomy doesn't stop here, the Inflation theory has its flaw too, and what happened before the big bang? This can all be answered by changing one thing, the one thing no body dare to question until now.
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Chasing the Deer
Title: Chasing the Deer
Character: Alistair Campbell
Released: December 16, 1994
Type: Movie
The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.
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Doombeach
Title: Doombeach
Character: Photographer
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investigate and are led to suspect that contamination from a nearby nuclear plant is to blame. Their teacher is sympathetic, but has broken into her house, perhaps as a warning. Gavin is nearly killed after talking about the problem on TV, but gradually all is uncovered - with terrible consequences for Gavin.
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The Chalk Mark
Title: The Chalk Mark
Character: ‘The Bad Man’
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends and the local ‘bad man’.
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Title: Zastrozzi: A Romance
Character: Ugo
Released: April 13, 1986
Type: TV
In a heady tale of revenge and obsession, the outlaw Zastrozzi, assisted by courtesan, Matilda, abducts his half-brother, Verezzi, and torments him into believing his lover, Julia, has been murdered. His campaign of vicious psychological abuse signals a grisly bloodbath of greed, envy, betrayal, retribution, and eternal damnation.
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Underworld
Title: Underworld
Character: Underworlder #2
Released: November 29, 1985
Type: Movie
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.
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Circling a Fox
Title: Circling a Fox
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Circling a Fox takes Matthew Zajac’s multi-award-winning play about his father’s life and turns it into a genre-bending documentary film that challenges received notions of personal and national identity. It is a deeply personal story, taking us on a journey from war-torn Poland and Ukraine to the Highlands of Scotland and then back again. Blending documentary, theatre and poetic drama-reconstruction, Circling a Fox tells the story of Matthew's quest to seek the truth about his father’s past and his efforts to use theatre to reach out to a family he never knew he had.