Acting
Scott Handy
Born July 21, 1968 · London, England (age 57)
Born to an Irish father and English mother, Scott Handy graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in English. He was also a choral scholar and, in addition to singing, he plays saxophone and was a member of the boy pop group Ice Cold in Alice in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Known For
Napoleon · 2023Napoleon
★ 6.32023
MovieHistoryWar
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children · 2016Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
★ 6.82016
MovieAdventureFantasy
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
A Knight's Tale · 2001A Knight's Tale
★ 6.92001
MovieAdventureDrama
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
Match Point · 2005Match Point
★ 7.42005
MovieDramaRomance
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.
The Testament of Ann Lee · 2025The Testament of Ann Lee
★ 6.32025
MovieHistoryDrama
The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
Sweet Dreams · 2003Sweet Dreams
★ 6.42003
MovieDramaRomance
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
The Gospel of John · 2003The Gospel of John
★ 7.62003
MovieDrama
A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.
Shadowlands · 1993Shadowlands
★ 6.91993
MovieDramaRomance
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
Movies
Napoleon · 2023Napoleon
★ 6.32023
MovieHistoryWar
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children · 2016Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
★ 6.82016
MovieAdventureFantasy
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
A Knight's Tale · 2001A Knight's Tale
★ 6.92001
MovieAdventureDrama
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
Match Point · 2005Match Point
★ 7.42005
MovieDramaRomance
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.
The Testament of Ann Lee · 2025The Testament of Ann Lee
★ 6.32025
MovieHistoryDrama
The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
Sweet Dreams · 2003Sweet Dreams
★ 6.42003
MovieDramaRomance
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
The Gospel of John · 2003The Gospel of John
★ 7.62003
MovieDrama
A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.
Shadowlands · 1993Shadowlands
★ 6.91993
MovieDramaRomance
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea · 2004The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
★ 4.92004
MovieDramaAdventure
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the second of three parts, we follow Luper as he works in a cinema, giving him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man.
The NightingaleThe Nightingale
Movie
A story about two friends slowly separating
The Haunted Airman · 2006The Haunted Airman
★ 4.92006
MovieDramaThriller
An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler · 2009The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
★ 7.32009
MovieDramaWar
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
The Yellow House · 2007The Yellow House
★ 7.42007
Movie
John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.
The Moonstone · 1996The Moonstone
★ 7.61996
MovieTV MovieCrime
Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.
Macbeth · 2010Macbeth
★ 6.82010
MovieDrama
Renowned Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart features as the eponymous anti-hero in this Soviet-era adaptation of one of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedies.
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III · 2016Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
★ 7.72016
MovieDrama
The Almeida Theatre makes its live screening debut with an explosive new adaptation of Richard III, directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold with Ralph Fiennes as Shakespeare’s most notorious villain and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret. War-torn England is reeling after years of bitter conflict. King Edward is ailing, and as political unrest begins to stir once more, Edward’s brother Richard – vicious in war, despised in peacetime – awaits the opportunity to seize his brother’s crown. Through the malevolent Richard, Shakespeare examines the all-consuming nature of the desire for power amid a society riddled by conflict. Olivier-winning director Rupert Goold’s (Macbeth, King Charles III) searing new production hones a microscopic focus on the mythology surrounding a monarch whose machinations are inextricably woven into the fabric of British history.
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish · 2005The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
★ 5.02005
MovieWarDrama
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the final installment, Luper continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and the Cold War.
The Tragedy of Hamlet · 2002The Tragedy of Hamlet
★ 8.52002
MovieDramaTV Movie
Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast .
Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle · 2007Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle
★ 4.82007
MovieDrama
A young man cannot stop his boyhood quest for the truth - the truth behind the death of his parents and the truth behind his Grandfather's ancient, incredible, fearful stories. A quest that leads him to one of Scotland's most treacherous mountains, The Inaccessible Pinnacle.
In the Shadow · 2025In the Shadow
2025
MovieMusicDrama
“It is very difficult to speak about Marguerite Monnot, since all the world knows she was my best friend. Her talent—I won’t talk of, as it was her talent that helped me to be Édith Piaf.” - Édith Piaf, 12th October 1961
TV Shows
Midsomer Murders · 1997Midsomer Murders
★ 7.51997
SeriesCrimeDrama
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
NOVA · 1974NOVA
★ 7.01974
SeriesDocumentary
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
Agatha Christie's Poirot · 1989Agatha Christie's Poirot
★ 8.21989
SeriesCrimeDrama
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Casualty · 1986Casualty
★ 6.21986
SeriesDrama
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Father Brown · 2013Father Brown
★ 7.62013
SeriesDramaCrime
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Grace · 2021Grace
★ 6.72021
SeriesCrimeDrama
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
Ripper Street · 2012Ripper Street
★ 7.42012
SeriesDramaMystery
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
The Village · 2013The Village
★ 7.22013
SeriesDrama
The Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second continued the story into the 1920s. However, it was not commissioned for a third series. An epic drama charting the turbulent times experienced by one English village throughout the 20th century; births, deaths, political events and rebellions are among the events that occur during the time.
Bert Middleton lives across the entire 100-year period, and his story from boyhood to old age forms the crux of the story, seen via flashbacks as Bert is interviewed in the present day by a documentarian working on a project about the second eldest man in the United Kingdom and his village.
Will · 2017Will
★ 5.92017
SeriesDrama
The wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London -- the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side-shows. It's a contemporary version of Shakespeare's life, played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all his recklessness, lustful temptations and brilliance.
Liaison · 2023Liaison
★ 6.42023
SeriesDrama
Two agents—and former lovers—must work together to combat international cyberattacks threatening the UK while also confronting the buried secrets of their destructive relationship.
The Game · 2014The Game
★ 7.32014
SeriesDrama
"The Game" is a 1970s Cold War spy thriller set in the world of espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 as it battles to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War.
Henry VIII · 2003Henry VIII
★ 7.02003
SeriesDrama
The life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death following a stroke in 1547, by which time he had married for the sixth time.
Colditz · 2005Colditz
★ 6.12005
SeriesDrama
During World War II, the Germans convert the castle of Colditz into an escape-proof prison where recidivist escapees are imprisoned under one roof. The most accomplished escape artists are gathered there, brave soldiers who view escape not only as a challenge but as a duty, in order to harass and irritate German forces as much as they can.
Quiz · 2020Quiz
★ 6.92020
SeriesDrama
The story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.