David Calder
17 titles
Filmography
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The King Is Alive
(2000)Twelve tourists stranded in the desert re-enact King Lear in an effort to relieve tension. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bruce Davison star.

Drovers' Gold
When an English cattle drover tries to cheat a Welsh widow, her son recruits his own ragtag band of drovers to take the herd to market themselves.

Bramwell
In 1895, women were not expected to work, or even know about medicine. Women were expected to work as housewives, mothers, teachers and nurses. One woman was determined to change that.

Mr In-Between
(2001)Jon Bennet is a neat, efficient, and conscientious employee. No one could guess that this self-conscious introvert kills to earn his living.

The Last Front
(2024)Amidst World War I's chaos, a grieving father turns hero, leading villagers to safety while evading a relentless enemy driven by vengeance.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
(2009)Manchester detective Peter Hunter gets brought in by the Home Office to conduct a thorough secret review of the Ripper investigation.

Cold Blood
Matthew Kelly stars in this tense crime thriller as twisted serial killer Brian Wicklow, who is in prison playing mind games with his captors. Detectives have never found the body of his last victim, but suddenly he wants to talk. Jemma Redgrave co-stars.

The Trick
(2021)The Trick, starring Jason Watkins (Line of Duty, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies) and Victoria Hamilton (Doctor Foster, Life), tells the story of world-renowned, respected scientist Professor Philip Jones (Watkins), the Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, who found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyber terrorism in 2009. With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences for humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of ‘truth’ took a back seat causing us to lose a decade of action. The film charts the unjustified persecution of Phil Jones, his wife Ruth’s (Hamilton) fierce support of her husband and the fight for the ultimate exoneration of himself and the science.

The Hatton Garden Job
(2017)An ex-con partners with four aging thieves to rob the vaults beneath London’s diamond district over Easter weekend, 2015. Based on a true story.

A Doll's House
(1992)In this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, a woman tries to hide a secret from her husband that threatens to tear their lives apart.

Rush
(2013)In the mid-1970s, charismatic English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) share an intense rivalry in Formula 1 racing. Driving vehicles that are little more than gas-filled, rolling bombs, Hunt and Lauda burn up the track, all the while pushing themselves to the breaking point of physical and mental endurance. Meanwhile, the women (Olivia Wild

Moonlighting
(1982)A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
(2006)In18th-century France lived Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who was born with a great sense of smell. But as his gift becomes an obsession, he strives to create the most intoxicating perfume in the world by murdering young women to capture their essence.

United
(2011)The story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes" and the team's brave perseverance after a tragic 1958 plane crash claimed 8 of its players.

Defence of the Realm
(1986)An upstart reporter digs into the connection between a member of Parliament and the KGB when the death of a veteran colleague raises his suspicions.

The Black Stuff
(1980)This social commentary on Thatcher’s Britain follows a gang of tarmac layers who take on a job without their boss's knowledge.

Queen of the Desert
(2015)The true story of Gertrude Bell, the “female Lawrence of Arabia,” who defied all convention traveling around the world as a British diplomat.