Pauline Melville
Biography: Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1948
Deathday: N/A
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Far from the Madding Crowd
1967-06-18
Far from the Madding Crowd
Overview: Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-18
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Home Away from Home
1993-01-02
Home Away from Home
Overview: To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting cultural appropriation, hostility towards migrants and the rift between Miriam and her Nigerian-British children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014-12-20
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Overview: Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four decades. Mayall's characters include the Black Country's investigative nerd Kevin Turvey, Felicity Kendal-adoring student and 'People's Poet' Rik in The Young Ones, ruthless MP Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman, seedy loser Richie in Bottom and larger-than-life characters Robin Hood and flying ace Lord Flashheart from Blackadder. Narrated by Simon Callow, this programme salutes Rik Mayall and celebrates his part in the UK's comedy history using rare and unseen archive footage. It also features contributions from people who knew or admired him, including Michael Palin, Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, Christopher Ryan, Tim McInnerny, Jools Holland, Ruby Wax and Greg Davies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-20
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988-12-23
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Overview: After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-23
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2002-02-24
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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Mona Lisa
1986-06-13
Mona Lisa
Overview: George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989-05-05
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Overview: Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Brighton Rock
2010-09-13
Brighton Rock
Overview: Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-13
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Scrubbers
1982-09-24
Scrubbers
Overview: Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-24
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The House of Bernarda Alba
1991-12-18
The House of Bernarda Alba
Overview: A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-18
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The Long Good Friday
1980-11-01
The Long Good Friday
Overview: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Britannia Hospital
1982-05-27
Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Shadowlands
1993-12-25
Shadowlands
Overview: C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Ulysses
1967-03-14
Ulysses
Overview: Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-14
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Utz
1992-03-15
Utz
Overview: Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-15
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Rat in the Skull
1987-01-01
Rat in the Skull
Overview: In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the London coppers have summoned Nelson, a detective from Northern Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988-03-19
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Overview: Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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