Asheq Akhtar films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 6 films on Boxlist

Known for Scrapper, Blinded by the Light and Dream Horse.

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Starring Asheq Akhtar

Scrapper
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But...
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Blinded by the Light
2019 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
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Dream Horse
2021 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and...
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The Buckingham Murders
2024 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Fresh wounds are reopened when Jasmeet Bhamra, a cop and a single mother who recently lost her child in a shooting spree, transfers to High Wycombe and is assigned a case of a missing child.
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How to Build a Girl
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton...
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Ladies First
2026 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
An arrogant but charismatic ladies' man finds his life of money, power and casual flings upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women.