Olivia Williams
Biography: Olivia Haigh Williams (born July 26, 1968) is a British actress who has appeared in British and American films and television. Williams studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television film Emma (1996), based on Jane Austen's novel. She made her film debut in 1997's The Postman, followed by Rushmore (1998) and The Sixth Sense (1999). Williams also acted in the British films Lucky Break (2001), The Heart of Me (2002) and An Education (2009). She continued acting in films such as The Ghost Writer (2010), Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Maps to the Stars (2014), Victoria & Abdul (2017), and The Father (2020). From 2017 to 2019, she played Emily Silk in the science fiction television series Counterpart. In 2022, Williams portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in the Netflix historical drama The Crown in its fifth season, a role she is set to reprise in its sixth and final season.
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Birthday: July 26, 1968
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Known For
The Sixth Sense
1999-08-06
The Sixth Sense
Overview: Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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Tara Road
2005-05-11
Tara Road
Overview: A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000-06-06
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Overview: With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the amateurs botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining four to "find" $1 million within a week's time or face certain death.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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Rushmore
1998-12-11
Rushmore
Overview: When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-11
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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004-09-22
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Overview: A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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The Ghost Writer
2010-02-12
The Ghost Writer
Overview: A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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An Education
2009-10-29
An Education
Overview: Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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The Heart of Me
2004-02-10
The Heart of Me
Overview: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Below
2002-08-11
Below
Overview: In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fears that lurk just below the surface of the ocean.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-11
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The Postman
1997-12-25
The Postman
Overview: In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare, and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Flashbacks of a Fool
2008-06-05
Flashbacks of a Fool
Overview: An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-05
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The Body
2001-04-13
The Body
Overview: An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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Born Romantic
2000-09-14
Born Romantic
Overview: In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Lucky Break
2001-08-24
Lucky Break
Overview: Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Valiant
2005-03-25
Valiant
Overview: Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-25
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Dead Babies
2000-09-07
Dead Babies
Overview: When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of hard-core debauchery, the English students and their visiting American friends do not notice when a series of mindless murders and acts of terrorism are carried out around them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-07
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010-01-08
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Overview: A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-08
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The Man from Elysian Fields
2001-09-13
The Man from Elysian Fields
Overview: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-13
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Miss Austen Regrets
2008-02-03
Miss Austen Regrets
Overview: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-03
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To Kill a King
2003-05-16
To Kill a King
Overview: A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Hanna
2011-04-07
Hanna
Overview: Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-07
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Now Is Good
2012-09-19
Now Is Good
Overview: A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-19
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Wild Bill
2011-10-21
Wild Bill
Overview: Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Anna Karenina
2012-09-06
Anna Karenina
Overview: In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Hyde Park on Hudson
2012-12-07
Hyde Park on Hudson
Overview: The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006-06-11
Krakatoa: The Last Days
Overview: A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its eruption resulted in tsunami, rains of coals and ash, and ended with a very hot tsunami. The eruption killed more than 36,000 people and those survived were left with burns.
Genres: Drama Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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Collaborator
2011-10-08
Collaborator
Overview: A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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Sabotage
2014-03-28
Sabotage
Overview: John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-28
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Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013-08-09
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Overview: A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-09
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Broken Lines
2008-09-02
Broken Lines
Overview: After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-02
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Maps to the Stars
2014-05-21
Maps to the Stars
Overview: Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-21
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The Last Days on Mars
2013-08-11
The Last Days on Mars
Overview: On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-11
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The Impact
2022-05-31
The Impact
Overview: The Impact is a fascinating tapestry of interwoven stories from diverse voices around the world; at times moving and profound, at others hilarious and irreverent, but always asking ‘what would we do in our final moments?’ A multi-cultural and global reflection of pop culture’s vision of the apocalypse…
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-31
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My Name Is Leon
2022-06-10
My Name Is Leon
Overview: Leon, a mixed-race boy, and Jake, his white baby brother, are separated after their mother has a breakdown. Leon is determined to find him and gets unexpected support along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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Salting the Battlefield
2014-03-27
Salting the Battlefield
Overview: David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-27
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Peter Pan
2003-12-18
Peter Pan
Overview: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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Seventh Son
2014-12-12
Seventh Son
Overview: John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Altar
2014-12-27
Altar
Overview: A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-27
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Emma
1996-10-02
Emma
Overview: Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not unlike herself, Emma's attitudes begin to soften.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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Man Up
2015-05-29
Man Up
Overview: A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-29
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Another End
2024-03-21
Another End
Overview: Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body, in an attempt to ease the grief of separation, providing a little extra time to say goodbye.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-21
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The Trouble with Jessica
2024-04-05
The Trouble with Jessica
Overview: Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along. After a seemingly trivial argument, Jessica hangs herself in the garden. Tom goes to call the police when Sarah realizes if the buyer finds out, the sale will collapse, meaning definite financial ruin. The only solution - to convince Richard and Beth to take Jessica’s body to her flat and make it look like she killed herself there. If they’re clever enough about it, what could possibly go wrong?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Magpie
2014-06-09
Magpie
Overview: A man lives in a forest, surviving through murder and deceit. When he finds himself drawn to two strangers, his strict code of self-preservation is put to the test.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-09
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The Hotel In Amsterdam
2004-03-09
The Hotel In Amsterdam
Overview: Six London friends, whose lives and work are overshadowed by a demanding film producer, flee the country for a weekend to escape his clutches. Having managed to escape for a rare weekend away from the nameless director's demands, the friends subsequently discover that it is hard to shake off his influence, even whilst safely ensconced in a hotel in Amsterdam. A revival of the John Osborne play filmed at The Donmar and broadcast on BBC4 in 2004
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-09
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The Guest
2013-05-28
The Guest
Overview: The Guest is a modern dark fable starring Olivia Williams (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, An Education) and with an original score by Tom Hobden of Noah and the Whale. A graduate, Matthieu, turns up to his old professor's dinner party to discover he is the only guest. Marguerite, the professor's wife, ignores her husband in favour of devoting her full attention to Matthieu. As the evening progresses it becomes clear the couple are concealing a dark secret. Matthieu's curiosity gets the better of him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-28
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The White King
2016-06-18
The White King
Overview: Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-18
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X-Men: The Last Stand
2006-05-24
X-Men: The Last Stand
Overview: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-24
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Victoria & Abdul
2017-09-13
Victoria & Abdul
Overview: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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Nyet!
2019-03-17
Nyet!
Overview: When Boris and Olga arrive at the port of Dover with precious cargo, the border authorities, headed by the formidable Mrs. Pyke, uncover truths hidden – quite literally – within our protagonists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-17
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The Father
2020-12-23
The Father
Overview: A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-23
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Damage
2007-06-24
Damage
Overview: Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his wife Michelle, a successful estate agent and their fashion model daughter, Emma's 21st birthday party at the family home should be a night to remember. That night however, a rape at the party shatters their seemingly perfect lives. With the key suspect released on bail, and dark family secrets coming to the fore, Emma's life begins to free-fall. Slowly, having made radical changes to her life, Emma builds towards recovery - until a chance meeting with her rapist bolsters her conviction that she'll need to confront him in court before she can get on with her life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-24
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National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017-09-26
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Overview: In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos. Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this drama from writer Lucy Kirkwood.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-26
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The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000-01-25
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Overview: An exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-25
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National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
Overview: Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is on the brink of the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs Boson. Jenny is her sister. She lives in Luton. She spends a lot of time Googling. When tragedy throws them together, the collision threatens them all with chaos. Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this new drama from Chimerica writer Lucy Kirkwood, directed by Rufus Norris.
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Original Language: en
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The Escape
2017-04-15
The Escape
Overview: A man is offered the chance to escape to his perfect dream world - all he has to do is hand over everything he owns. Will he really abandon his family? The answer to this question asks us to consider what really matters in our lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-15
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