Biography: Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). For her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult and was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 14, 1967
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1996-07-05
Overview: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-07-05
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2006-11-15
Overview: Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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2004-10-01
Overview: The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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1999-12-25
Overview: An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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2005-09-12
Overview: In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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2001-11-07
Overview: In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-07
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2008-10-24
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
Popularity:
2009-08-07
Overview: Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-07
Popularity:
2002-12-06
Overview: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-06
Popularity:
2008-08-07
Overview: The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-07
Popularity:
2002-10-11
Overview: A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
Popularity:
2000-06-28
Overview: Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino, working undercover keeping an eye out for pickpockets. Trixie meets an assortment of colorful regulars: Kirk Stans, the casino's lounge act who drinks too much and is a dead-on mimic; Ruby Pearli , a glamorous, young and knowledgeable barfly; and Dex Lang, a raffish ladies' man who pays attention to Trixie in a way that's hard for her to ignore.
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-28
Popularity:
1997-08-30
Overview: In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited friend Toni, a reunion that reminds him of a more carefree time in 1960s Paris. Now, with lingering doubts about his marriage bubbling up, Chris must make the choice between revisiting his youthful abandon with Toni or facing the here and now with Marion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-30
Popularity:
1999-12-10
Overview: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-10
Popularity:
2002-10-02
Overview: Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-02
Popularity:
2025-04-25
Overview: In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-25
Popularity:
2021-10-15
Overview: To free Baba Yaga and Renfield from the clutches of Monster Hunter Mila Starr, the Wishbone Family once more transforms into a Vampire, Frankenstein's Monster, a Mummy and a Werewolf but when aided by their three pet bats, the Monster Family zooms around the world again to save their friends, make new monstrous acquaintances.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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2006-12-03
Overview: Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
Popularity:
2024-11-01
Overview: In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
Popularity:
2010-04-14
Overview: In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-14
Popularity:
2008-04-12
Overview: During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's knowledge. Henry's fateful decision yields grave consequences for his family over the next 20 years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-12
Popularity:
2005-08-17
Overview: Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-17
Popularity:
2024-08-23
Overview: When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold. Sharply dressed and well-spoken, Brian was hardly the most obvious radical – but being Jewish, closeted and having grown up as an outsider who had failed at pretty much everything, he was a 26-year old with something to prove and who wanted to tear up the rulebook.
Genres: Music History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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2005-09-16
Overview: Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
Popularity:
2005-10-06
Overview: In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-06
Popularity:
1997-12-31
Overview: Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
Popularity:
1998-12-30
Overview: The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
Popularity:
1997-12-12
Overview: A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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1994-11-26
Overview: Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in the country finds his peace threatened by a visit from three World Government figures.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-26
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2000-08-21
Overview: Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-21
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2010-10-08
Overview: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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2007-12-25
Overview: A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-25
Popularity:
2011-10-02
Overview: Narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Emily Watson, MEERKATS 3D takes audiences on a journey with a family of meerkats as they cope with the twists and turns of life in the Kalahari Desert. The film begins as matriarch Klinky’s most recent litter emerges from the burrow for the first time. Klinky and her family, including elder children and regular babysitters Ms. Bean and Harry, must endure turf wars from rival families, attacks from vicious predators big and small and internal family turmoil. The survival of this clan hinges on the meerkat golden rule: Stick together, and keep calling.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-02
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2011-12-25
Overview: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Genres: War History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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2009-09-18
Overview: During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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2012-09-06
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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1997-10-12
Overview: Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, her brother Tom (true to the memory of their father) forbids her to meet him again. When she visits her cousin Lucy Deane, Lucy's fiance, Stephen Guest, falls in love with Maggie at first sight, further complicating matters.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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2013-05-01
Overview: Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-01
Popularity:
2013-11-08
Overview: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
Popularity:
2013-06-28
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels around the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for his wrongdoings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-28
Popularity:
2015-04-23
Overview: An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-23
Popularity:
2014-11-26
Overview: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-26
Popularity:
2003-04-03
Overview: This documentary follows director Brett Ratner through nearly every stage of production for the film Red Dragon (2002).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
Popularity:
2014-10-14
Overview: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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2015-05-14
Overview: The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-14
Popularity:
2015-09-10
Overview: Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Overview: Couple Dan and Sarah, living out their dream in paradisal Spain, come to grief when their visiting son is accidentally killed. A stranger offers to avenge his death and a cycle of innocent murders unfolds.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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2015-07-05
Overview: A Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station. Starring Emily Watson as Julie, A Song For Jenny details the dramatic and profound impact of violence on one woman and a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-05
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2015-04-11
Overview: An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-11
Popularity:
2015-10-31
Overview: One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-31
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2018-01-19
Overview: In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Overview: Agnes Shakespeare – the wife of the world's most famous writer – struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
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2017-08-24
Overview: The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are cursed and all turned into Monsters.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-24
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2018-04-12
Overview: In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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2018-05-28
Overview: An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-28
Popularity:
2018-03-01
Overview: Harvey Weinstein was once one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history, but beneath the glitz and glamour, there was a dark story of threats, bullying and allegations of sexual assault. As Hollywood prepares to celebrate the 90th Academy Awards, Panorama investigates Weinstein's spectacular fall from grace and the extraordinary efforts he made to silence his accusers. This one-hour special, co-produced with PBS Frontline, examines the complex web of lawyers, journalists and private detectives deployed to keep Weinstein's secrets hidden.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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2002-11-01
Overview: A short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Part of Adam Sandler's 'Meatball Series'. Shot during the filming of 'Punch-Drunk Love'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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2017-09-20
Overview: When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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2002-06-18
Overview: A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-18
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Overview: A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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2022-09-30
Overview: In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Overview: Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to first love in middle life and an impossible choice.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: en
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Overview: The film follows Linda (Watson), a crossword enthusiast, choral society member, wife and mother of two, and her music lecturer husband, Jim (Grant), who are about to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary with a romantic trip to Lisbon. But the night before they travel, Linda discovers a monumental secret that will shake the very foundations of their marriage. Determined not to let this discovery define her life and needing space to process, Linda takes the plane tickets and flies to Lisbon without Jim. Alone in this beautiful city, Linda falls madly in love… with the profoundly moving Portuguese folk music, fado — a sensuous new relationship that will allow her to rediscover the joy and passion within herself.
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Original Language: en
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