Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Drama > Born Equal
Born Equal is a British film of genre Drama directed by Dominic Savage with Robert Carlyle

Born Equal (2006)

Born Equal
If you like this film, let us know!
Length 1h23
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating65% 3.286643.286643.286643.286643.28664

Born Equal is a television film produced for the BBC. Written and directed by BAFTA award-winning Dominic Savage, it stars Colin Firth, Robert Carlyle, David Oyelowo, Anne-Marie Duff and Emilia Fox, and explores aspects of poverty, race, inequality, homelessness, immigration and class in modern Britain by following the stories – at times intertwining – of several people living in London.

Synopsis

City banker Mark (Colin Firth) lives with his pregnant wife Laura (Emilia Fox) in a large house in an upper middle-class neighbourhood. Although he has just made a fortune in a financial deal, Mark refuses to give money to a beggar in an underground station, but later regrets this behaviour and begins to feel guilty about his success and opulent lifestyle. Another day, he returns to find the homeless man and gives him 100 pounds. Mark then resolves to use his wealth to help the indigent and volunteer as an outreach worker. As the film develops, it becomes clear that his newfound concern for the poor is also a form of escapism from his materialistic wife, and that he feels trapped and frightened by his life.

Actors

Robert Carlyle

(Robert)Colin Firth

(Mark)Nicholas Burns

(Michael)Anne-Marie Duff

(Michelle)Emilia Fox

(Laura)
And :
Charlie Creed-Miles
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
David Oyelowo
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Trailer of Born Equal

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Born Equal

There are 135 films with the same actors, 3 films with the same director, 60535 with the same cinematographic genres, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Born Equal, you will probably like those similar films :
The Escape
The Escape (2018)
, 1h45
Directed by Dominic Savage
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Frances Barber, Marthe Keller, Jalil Lespert, Montserrat Lombard
Rating58% 2.946092.946092.946092.946092.94609
Tara est une jeune mère de famille qui vit avec ses enfants et son mari dans une banlieue londonienne. Femme au foyer, elle s'ennuie en passant ses journées à s'occuper de ses enfants tout en attendant le retour de son époux qui travaille. Cette vie calme et ennuyeuse l'asphyxie de plus en plus jusqu'au jour où elle ne peut plus supporter cette situation. Soudainement, elle abandonne ses proches pour commencer une nouvelle vie à Paris, où elle suit des cours d'art et tombe amoureuse d'un Français, Philippe...
Love + Hate
Love + Hate (2006)
, 1h26
Directed by Dominic Savage
Genres Drama
Actors Samina Awan, Dean Andrews, Nichola Burley, Matthew McNulty, Liam Boyle, Tom Hudson
Rating66% 3.337483.337483.337483.337483.33748
Love + Hate is a modern love story set across the racial divide in a Northern town. Adam has been brought up in a home and community that fosters racism. Naseema is a girl from the same town. But what Adam and Naseema really share is a secret desire to break free of their small town and its inhibitions, something they discover while working together in a DIY store. At first resistant, they cannot avoid their mutual attraction, and embark on a relationship which threatens to bring down their families as well as themselves.
Before I Go to Sleep
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
, 1h32
Directed by Rowan Joffé
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Nicole Kidman, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Anne-Marie Duff, Jing Lusi, Dean-Charles Chapman
Rating63% 3.152053.152053.152053.152053.15205
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twenties onwards.
Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray (2009)
, 1h46
Directed by Oliver Parker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Rating61% 3.0971453.0971453.0971453.0971453.097145
When a naïve young Dorian Gray arrives in late Victorian London, by train, to inherit an estate left to him by his abusive grandfather, he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton, who introduces Gray to the hedonistic pleasures of the city. Lord Henry's friend, society artist Basil Hallward, paints a portrait of Gray to capture the full power of his youthful beauty. When the portrait is unveiled, Gray makes a flippant pledge: he would give anything to stay as he is in the picture—even his soul.
The Last Station
The Last Station (2009)
, 1h52
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, Kerry Condon
Rating68% 3.4468853.4468853.4468853.4468853.446885
In 1910, the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, his disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov, manoeuvre against his wife, Sofya, for control over Tolstoy's works after his death. The main setting is the Tolstoy country estate of Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy and Sofya have had a long, passionate marriage, but his spiritual ideals and asceticism (he is opposed, for example, to private property) are at odds with her more aristocratic and conventionally religious views.
Steve
Steve (2010)

Directed by Rupert Friend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Tom Mison
Rating69% 3.4902353.4902353.4902353.4902353.490235
A young couple receive visits from their downstairs neighbour that become increasingly frequent and unpredictable.