Donald Sumpter
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Filmography
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The Black Panther
(1977)Ex-military man Donald Neilson's violent crime spree escalates to a botched kidnapping, unraveling his life and terrorizing a community.

Entitled
An American widower who must get to know his British wife's estranged family. In their crumbling gothic mansion, they compete for his affections and newly inherited fortune.

Coalition
(2015)Power and partisanship are at the centre of this tense drama following Nick Clegg, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron in the tumultuous days after the 2010 UK general election.

Night After Night After Night
(1969)Suspicion falls on a cross-dressing judge when a serial killer with a Jack-the-Ripper modus operandi begins stalking the women of late-1960’s London.

The Point Men
(2001)Foreign Legion operatives are being systematically assassinated by an Arab terrorist who holds themresponsible for the deaths of his wife and brothers. One of the operatives unravels the identity ofthe assassin and becomes the hunter instead of the hunted in an intricate and violent game of cat and mouse between super spies.

Eastern Promises
(2007)After a teenage mother dies during childbirth, midwife Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's relatives. Guided by the girl's personal diary she meets Semyon, the charming proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant who impeccably masks his cold and brutal acts as the head of one of London's most notorious Eastern European Crime families.

The Man Who Invented Christmas
(2017)Charles Dickens’ magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from “A Christmas Carol.”

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
(1991)The filmization of Tom Stoppard's immensely witty Shakespearean spin-off, which changes the tone of "Hamlet" from a tragedy to a comedy. Adventures of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two lesser characters from Hamlet, as they romp around the castle.

K-19: The Widowmaker
(2002)As a Russian submarine heads toward America, the crew discovers the vessel's nuclear reactor system leaks, and time is quickly running out.

Enigma
(2001)March 1943 and the heroic code breakers at Bletchley Park face their worst nightmare when Nazi U Boats unexpectedly change their communication codes, placing an allied ship with 10,000 passengers in lethal danger. A classic espionage thriller from acclaimed Oscar Winning playwright Tom Stoppard, starring Oscar Winner Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Tom Hollander.

Bleak Moments
(1971)Mike Leigh announced himself as a unique, powerful new voice in British cinema with BLEAK MOMENTS, a stunning debut of understated melancholy. Adapting his own theatrical play for the screen, Leigh follows Sylvia (Anne Raitt) through a life of quiet desperation in suburban South London as she attends to her developmentally challenged sister (Sarah Stephenson) and attempts to forge romances with her awkward professorial boyfriend (Eric Allan) as well as a shy, guitar-strumming newsletter duplicator (Mike Bradwell). Uncomfortable silences, botched flirtations, and fleeting hints of warmth and humor punctuate Sylvia’s aching descent into solitude, compassionately portrayed by Leigh as symptomatic of humanity’s struggle to communicate and connect.