Rachel Kempson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dartmouth, Devon, England, UK
Birthday: May 28, 1910
Deathday: May 24, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Out of Africa
Overview: Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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Tom Jones
Overview: Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
Genres: Comedy Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-24
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Breeze Anstey
Overview: Two woman pursue an idyllic herb-farming life in the country, forming a bond that for Breeze, the younger woman, is romantically and sexually imbued.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-24
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Georgy Girl
Overview: A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck-up roommate Meredith.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-04
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Curse of the Fly
Overview: The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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The Captive Heart
Overview: A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-29
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A Woman's Vengeance
Overview: A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-02
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Uncle Vanya
Overview: Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, who does not return his ardor.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-12
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Stealing Heaven
Overview: Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Lorna Doone
Overview: A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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The Jokers
Overview: Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-15
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
Overview: An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Overview: Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-05
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Déjà Vu
Overview: L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-22
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Camille
Overview: Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-11
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Michael Redgrave: My Father
Overview: Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses family photographs and letters and his father's diaries and autobiography, and produces a picture of a complicated and troubled man who was bisexual, a heavy drinker and emotionally distant and cold as a father. Includes contributions from Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, as well as Harold Pinter and Diana Menuhin. Also contains clips from several of Michael Redgrave's films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-13
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The Winter Ladies
Overview: When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-15
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The Grass Widows
Overview: Newlyweds Jackson and Daphne are on honeymoon when they find themselves in the same hotel as Jackson's old headmaster.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-24
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It’s Too Late Now
Overview: A downtrodden wife locks her writer husband in his windowless study.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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She's Been Away
Overview: A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-09
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The Boxwallah
Overview: Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of the Indian Raj.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-31
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Overview: Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Overview: During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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The Virgin Soldiers
Overview: The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Suspect
Overview: A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-17
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A Touch of Love
Overview: Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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The House on Highbury Hill
Overview: The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-27
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The Third Secret
Overview: A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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Grand Prix
Overview: The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Jane Eyre
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 TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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Kate: The Good Neighbour
Overview: Kate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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Jude
Overview: Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Overview: The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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Sweet Wine of Youth
Overview: A Life of Rupert Brooke from his letters and poems
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-12
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