Gina McKee
Biography: Georgina "Gina" McKee (born 14 April 1964) is an English actress. She won the 1997 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Our Friends in the North (1996), and earned subsequent nominations for The Lost Prince (2003) and The Street (2007). She also starred on television in The Forsyte Saga (2002) and as Caterina Sforza in The Borgias (2011). Her film appearances include Notting Hill (1999), and Phantom Thread (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gina McKee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: April 14, 1964
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
2000-08-25
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Overview: Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
2021-09-08
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
Overview: GREAT NORTH: A RUN. A RIVER. A REGION is a documentary film about the Great North Run, a half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-08
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Fiona's Story
2008-08-31
Fiona's Story
Overview: Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-31
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Wonderland
1999-05-13
Wonderland
Overview: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-13
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The Reckoning
2004-02-26
The Reckoning
Overview: In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-26
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Croupier
1998-06-25
Croupier
Overview: Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-25
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Jimmy P.
2013-09-11
Jimmy P.
Overview: At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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The Old Curiosity Shop
2007-12-26
The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-26
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MirrorMask
2005-01-25
MirrorMask
Overview: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-25
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The Rachel Papers
1989-05-12
The Rachel Papers
Overview: Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999-04-29
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Overview: The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-29
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006-11-03
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Overview: Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Eight
1998-10-02
Eight
Overview: A day in the life of an eight-year-old soccer fan who has to come to terms with living in a strange new town and the loss of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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In the Loop
2009-01-22
In the Loop
Overview: The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-22
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The Blackwater Lightship
2004-02-04
The Blackwater Lightship
Overview: A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
2005-10-29
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Overview: This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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The Art of Barbara Hepworth
2003-01-01
The Art of Barbara Hepworth
Overview: Revealing and complex exploration of Barbara Hepworth's work features two parallel soundtracks. One is taken entirely from the artist's own words, drawn from interviews and letters, and newly recorded by Gina McKee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Women Talking Dirty
2001-12-07
Women Talking Dirty
Overview: A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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1983: The Brink of Apocalypse
2007-07-19
1983: The Brink of Apocalypse
Overview: This programme recalls the events that led up to one of the most dangerous moments in the entire history of the Cold War: a NATO command post exercise, code named Able Archer 83, which caused the USSR to believe that NATO was planning a genuine nuclear attack.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-19
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Smack and Thistle
1991-04-20
Smack and Thistle
Overview: With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-20
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The Zookeeper
2001-11-22
The Zookeeper
Overview: Jonah Ludovic is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian. Their purpose: to keep the animals alive until help arrives from an international zoological mission.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-22
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999-10-27
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Overview: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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The Lavender List
2006-03-01
The Lavender List
Overview: A political drama about the last days of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the 1970s and his curious relationship with his personal secretary Marcia Williams
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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National Theatre Live: Dear England
2024-01-25
National Theatre Live: Dear England
Overview: The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
2017-09-11
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Overview: Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-11
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The End We Start From
2023-12-08
The End We Start From
Overview: As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007-10-05
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Overview: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Notting Hill
1999-05-21
Notting Hill
Overview: William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Typist Artist Pirate King
2023-10-27
Typist Artist Pirate King
Overview: The growing friendship between two women as they hit the road in an electric car looking for endings and reconciliation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Mothertime
1997-12-28
Mothertime
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-28
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002-06-07
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Overview: A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Taj Mahal
2015-12-02
Taj Mahal
Overview: One evening, while her parents go out for dinner, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the corridor. Within minutes, she realises that a terrorist attack is underway. Her only connection to the outside world is her cell phone, which allows her to maintain contact with her father, who is desperately trying to reach her from the other side of a city that has been plunged into chaos. Louise must spend a long night alone in the face of danger. She will never be the same again.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-02
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Naked
1993-09-14
Naked
Overview: An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-14
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The Passion
1999-05-01
The Passion
Overview: During a rural representation of The Passion of Christ, a young actor and a married costume designer start a romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-01
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He's Asking For Me
1990-02-18
He's Asking For Me
Overview: After a sheltered upbringing in St. Helena, Norah arrives in England and goes to live in London, taken under the wing of her Uncle and his business associate Andy. She works for the latter and falls in love with him, but he refuses to reciprocate her feelings. When she starts receiving a series of obscene phone calls and letters at home and work, she is determined to identify the caller, and strongly suspects Andy
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-18
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Hector
2015-12-11
Hector
Overview: Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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Atonement
2007-02-27
Atonement
Overview: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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Mickybo and Me
2005-03-25
Mickybo and Me
Overview: The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-25
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Wilt
1989-05-12
Wilt
Overview: Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Royal Wives at War
2016-01-08
Royal Wives at War
Overview: The Queen Mother and Wallis Simpson look back at the dramatic events of 1936, which led to King Edward Vlll giving up the throne for the woman he loved.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-08
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010-01-24
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Overview: In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-24
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The Life of Stuff
1997-10-14
The Life of Stuff
Overview: Brutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his criminal empire. Believing he has eliminated his arch-rival, he decides to hold the party of a lifetime to celebrate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-14
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Burning The Bed
2003-10-31
Burning The Bed
Overview: A man and woman spend a last night on the beach together after deciding to split up
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Lies We Tell
2018-02-02
Lies We Tell
Overview: A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband.
Genres: Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-02
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Phantom Thread
2017-12-25
Phantom Thread
Overview: In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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The Chest
1997-04-12
The Chest
Overview: Comedy drama about John Croft (Neil Morrissey), a failed businessman who is heavily in debt when he finds a wallet which contains a map which he later finds could lead him to hidden treasure. He decides to search for the treasure alone, but Roland Blood (Jim Carter), a dealer in naval antiquities, is not far behind. Croft follows the clues on the map from a castle to a church to a seaside promotory and finds the spot where the treasure was buried is the site of a new beachside housing development. He tries to buy the house, but his bank manager does not look kindly on his proposal and his wife is about to discover that he re-mortgaged her home. He decides to take drastic action…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-12
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The Lair of the White Worm
1988-09-21
The Lair of the White Worm
Overview: On a farm owned by Eve Trent and her sister Mary, young archaeologist Angus Flint discovers a large and inexplicable skull, which he soon deduces belonged to the D'Ampton Worm, a mythical beast supposedly slain generations ago by the ancestor of the current Lord D'Ampton. The predatory Lady Sylvia Marsh soon takes an interest in both Flint and the virginal Eve, hinting that the vicious D'Ampton Worm may still live.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-21
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Premier Passions
1998-02-24
Premier Passions
Overview: This 6 part fly-on-the-wall documentary charts English football club Sunderland AFC throughout the 1996/97 Premier League season, as the newly promoted club tries to avoid relegation. It also follows the building of the club's new multi-million pound stadium: "The Stadium of Light". The documentary team had access to the players, fans and backroom staff at the club, giving Sunderland fans and general sport fans a fascinating insight as to how a club is ran. Narrated by Sunderland-born actress "Gina McKee", the show was made famous in the UK due to manager Peter Reid's half-time swearing tirades.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-24
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Beyond Fear
1997-03-30
Beyond Fear
Overview: The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a coffin-like box for eight days.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-30
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Element of Doubt
1996-12-30
Element of Doubt
Overview: A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-30
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The Golden Age of Canals
2011-05-16
The Golden Age of Canals
Overview: Documentary featuring home movies of the diehard enthusiasts and boat owners who helped to save the inland waterways for the nation and create a second golden age of the canals. Some of these enthusiasts filmed their campaigns and their home movies tell the story of how, in the teeth of much political opposition, they saved the inland waterways for the nation and, more than 200 years after they were first built, created a second golden age of the canals. There is astonishing film of the last days of working boats, some shot by John Pyper when he spent time with the Beecheys in the 60s, film taken by Keith Christie of the last days of the cut around the BCN, and the films made by Keith and his mate Tony Gregory of their attempts to keep working the canals through their carrying company, Midland Canal Transport.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-16
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011-02-03
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Overview: An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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The Treasure Seekers
1996-12-25
The Treasure Seekers
Overview: Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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LX 2048
2020-09-25
LX 2048
Overview: In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine
2020-08-22
Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine
Overview: Ready to leave her UK boarding school and enter the working world, a young Black woman faces pressure to change her name and natural hairstyle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-22
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Home Cooking
1986-11-08
Home Cooking
Overview: The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rapist that has been terrorizing the area.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-08
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A Grand Romantic Gesture
2022-02-07
A Grand Romantic Gesture
Overview: Ava loses her job due to cutbacks. Her husband and pregnant daughter encourage her to take up gourmet cooking and prepare for life as a grandmother. Instead she signs up for a drama class where she is cast as Juliet – and finds herself falling in love with her Romeo.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-07
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My Policeman
2022-10-20
My Policeman
Overview: In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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