Biography: Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), the Harry Potter series (2002–11), and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010). For her role in the BBC television film Marvellous (2014), she won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 04, 1942
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
2001-04-13
Overview: Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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2009-07-15
Overview: As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-15
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2001-11-30
Overview: Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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2005-10-14
Overview: Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to leave. Amy tries to protect them and convince the other staffers of the evil that lurks there.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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2003-02-06
Overview: When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-06
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1971-07-16
Overview: In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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2011-07-12
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-12
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2004-11-10
Overview: Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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1988-09-10
Overview: A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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2010-03-01
Overview: A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-01
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2010-09-22
Overview: Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-22
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1997-03-09
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-09
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2011-05-06
Overview: The film follows Will Fletcher, a musician, and Eve Fisher, who works in a pub where he is performing, during one night in London. After Will has saved Eve from a drunken customer at closing time, they stay up all night together, meandering through the streets of London and forging a relationship. Next morning, Eve takes him to see her Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother. The film is often compared to Richard Linklater's films "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset", as the style is very similar.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-06
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1999-12-17
Overview: A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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2017-05-08
Overview: An elderly widow reasserts her own sense of independence with an unconventional yearly pilgrimage to her late husband's grave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-08
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2000-01-02
Overview: Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-02
Popularity:
2007-05-02
Overview: On a train journey, Saki meets Mrs De Ropp, an oppressive aunt and guardian to an unruly brood. Inspired by the meeting, he imagines a tale of repressed children who find solace in their childish wonder, and are saved by their imagination.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-02
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1999-05-28
Overview: Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century. Assembling a crew of oddballs and misfits, the cantankerous captain weighs anchor and voyages into the unknown. His ship has been certified unseaworthy, and he's pursued by the Royal Navy, NATO and journalists, but nothing is going to stop Captain Jack fulfilling his wildest dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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2011-06-06
Overview: Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-06
Popularity:
1999-01-22
Overview: A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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1971-12-19
Overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-19
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2013-03-17
Overview: Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-17
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2007-07-10
Overview: Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-10
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1974-10-12
Overview: Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a result she has become highly sensitive to noise, a condition that is only exacerbated by living in a crowded boarding house.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-12
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1981-01-02
Overview: Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to bits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-02
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1995-10-12
Overview: After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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2008-08-26
Overview: An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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2014-09-25
Overview: Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any situation overcame any stigma society tried to label him with.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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2010-12-24
Overview: After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. But at night he seemingly becomes the victim of a ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-24
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1995-12-13
Overview: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-13
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2014-10-15
Overview: A moving, blackly comic drama about the strains in coping with ageing parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-15
Popularity:
2024-02-23
Overview: When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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1970-10-29
Overview: Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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1998-04-19
Overview: A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in ripping off his customers. Soon, she has two eager young men, her lizard-loving neighbour and his friend, on her side to help her exact revenge on the sleazy mechanic, who is the leader of a stolen car ring.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-19
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1975-03-05
Overview: In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she is a very bitter lady, who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-05
Popularity:
2024-03-12
Overview: After her daughter has passed away, a mother senses an ethereal poltergeist-like energy around her and wants to know if her child has come home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-12
Popularity:
2016-09-14
Overview: After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn - while a weekend away at a music festival, she meets a dashing American named Jack, who is everything Mark is not, and spends a night with him. A week later, she runs into newly-separated Mark, and has a one-night dalliance. In an unlikely twist, she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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1993-10-03
Overview: Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her patients. However, rather too many of them are dying.Inspired by the real-life case of four nurses in Austria who were tried for the murder of 42 patients in their care, this chilling drama stars comedian Dawn French in her first serious role, as an apparently irreproachable carer.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-03
Popularity:
2025-02-12
Overview: Now a widowed mother of two in her fifties, Bridget Jones feels lost in the world of app-based dating. However, romance unexpectedly sparks with her son’s science teacher… and a much younger man.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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1974-02-17
Overview: Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-17
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1999-03-18
Overview: Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-18
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1992-12-05
Overview: David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that she's in love with David and wants to change his life for ever. Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-05
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2017-08-31
Overview: A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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2017-03-19
Overview: It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-19
Popularity:
1997-09-01
Overview: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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2002-11-13
Overview: Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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2003-12-12
Overview: Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months. Helen is desperately anxious that he should come home. Taking the kids to school one morning, she is killed in a car accident. She remains caught in limbo, trapped between life and death. Many miles away, in war-torn Eastern Europe, John is unaware that his wife has died. As Helen herself is unaware that she is dead. Thus begins, a four-day Odyssey: Grandpa and the kids must come to terms with Helen's death; John must travel across a war-torn land as he tries to reach home; and Helen must stand helplessly observing her own existence as it comes back to haunt her - until at last she is reconciled with John, and thus released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
Popularity:
2017-09-04
Overview: In the week that follows Princess Diana's tragic death on 31 August 1997, four separate stories unfold as four ordinary lives are all affected in different ways in this commemorative drama from writer Jeremy Brock and director Peter Cattaneo.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-04
Popularity:
2018-02-01
Overview: Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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2008-12-31
Overview: When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future and the devastating effects they will have on people close to him, John must decide whether or not to take a stand and risk losing everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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2018-06-29
Overview: A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-29
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1964-11-17
Overview:
Genres: Family TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-17
Popularity:
2013-12-11
Overview: Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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1965-01-10
Overview: Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-10
Popularity:
2019-05-17
Overview: The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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1971-05-27
Overview: Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, and how her own domestic situation is paralleled in her latest book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-27
Popularity:
1980-12-17
Overview: A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-17
Popularity:
1988-05-29
Overview: Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary brother, Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull home in the country and frolic in town. Algernon uses a similar technique, only in reverse: His imaginary friend, Bunbury, provides a convenient and frequent method of taking adventures in the country. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of crises that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits; Jack of his love Gwendolen Fairfax, and Algernon of his belle Cecily Cardew.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-29
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2020-11-13
Overview: In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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2012-08-13
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-08-13
Popularity:
1988-09-12
Overview: The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-12
Popularity:
2021-12-23
Overview: Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-23
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1996-11-09
Overview: Two Welsh women win a trip to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-09
Popularity:
1996-01-01
Overview: In the light of the moon, seduction and pleasure are never what they seem. And neither is Alice White (Amanda Ooms), a beautiful and obsessed woman with a painfully sinister secret: once a month when the moon is full, she locks herself away and transforms into a she-wolf. When a passionate triangle ensues between a psychiatrist who can hardly believe her erotically charged tales and a man who may be her one shot at love, Alice flees to the wilderness where she is free to satiate her most personal and sometimes shocking desires. Originally a three part British TV Mini-series, later released as a single episode on DVD.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
Popularity:
2022-10-14
Overview: The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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1975-11-18
Overview: A young woman tormented by murderous dreams decides to call a psychiatrist for help but accidentally dials a desperate out -of-work actor.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-18
Popularity:
2024-09-26
Overview: Gemma is delighted to be recruited by the Serious Crimes Agency, but sadly they don't want Terry because of his criminal past.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-26
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