Simon Callow’s Typical Vibe
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Simon Callow has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Amadeus.
Recurring themes

Dil To Pagal Hai
1997
Drama · Romance

The Artist
2011
Drama · Comedy

A Royal Night Out
2015
Comedy · Drama

Great Expectations
1998
Comedy · Drama

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
1999
Comedy · Drama

The Girl on the Bridge
1999
Drama · Comedy

Jab Harry Met Sejal
2017
Comedy · Drama

EverAfter
1998
Drama · Romance

No Man's Land
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%MGM+ · Included

Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Netflix · Included

Shakespeare in Love
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Paramount+ · Included

A Room with a View
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Max · Included

Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Hulu · Included

The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Max · Included

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson

Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Dir. Danis Tanović · With Branko Đurić, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Šovagović

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Dir. James Ivory · With James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Dir. Mike Newell · With Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and Shakespeare's play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship intensifies, the comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
Dir. John Madden · With Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Dir. James Ivory · With Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Dir. Bharat Nalluri · With Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Dir. Henry Selick · With Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Dir. Peter Flinth · With Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård

In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Dir. Gurinder Chadha · With Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon

Five months following the murders, Christopher Robin struggles to maintain a regular life while dealing with PTSD. However, deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after their existence is revealed.
Dir. Rhys Frake-Waterfield · With Scott Chambers, Ryan Oliva, Tallulah Evans

Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
Dir. Joel Hopkins · With Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, James Norton
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
Dir. Hadi Hajaig · With Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz, Al Weaver

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Dir. Steve Oedekerk · With Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow
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