Penny Downie
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Biography: Penny Downie is an Australian actress known for her stage and television appearances in the United Kingdom. From 2017 until 2021 she played Ellen in the British TV sitcom Back. She plays the US ambassador’s house manager Frances Munning in the 2023 Netflix political thriller series The Diplomat.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Queensland, Australia
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The Girl in the Café
Overview: Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-25
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Hamlet
Overview: David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-26
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Ex
Overview: Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break his ties with his ex-wife and their children.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-29
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Falling
Overview: Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures of her busy London life, but doesn't expect her new home to come complete with a would-be suitor. The day she moves in, local gardener Henry Kent is immediately on hand to help and offer his friendship, but are his intentions sinister?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-06
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A Certain Justice
Overview: The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily prove that her clients are innocent, she simply disproves the prosecution's case against them. In the course of her career ,she has made enemies and one of them kills her and she is found in a very ritualistic setting.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Lost for Words
Overview: Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-03
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: This is the story of Rodya Raskalnikov (Patrick Dempsey), an intellectual who is suspended from University and is living in poverty in 19th century Russia. Raskalnikov believes that in order for great men like Napoleon to accomplish great things, they must be above the law.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-11
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Paradise
Overview: A father can't afford to take his family on holiday so he forces them to spend a week in their basement. He sets up lounge chairs and paints palm trees on the walls. At one point the family hears a burglar upstairs but the father refuses to allow them to investigate as they are supposed to be away at a resort.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-17
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Murder in Rome
Overview: Cicero, the future Consul of Rome, is just starting out as a trial lawyer in crime-ridden Rome where assassinations for political advantage and for estate grabbing had become de rigueur. The matriarch of a prominent family hires him to defend a relative on a charge of patricide. He faces one of the shrewdest criminal trial prosecutors in the Republic who is backed by powerful political forces with motives to see that his client is convicted and executed in one of the most horrible manners possible.
Genres: History Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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Byron
Overview: Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
Genres: Drama Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-27
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Crosstalk
Overview: A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-08
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The House of Mirth
Overview: In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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London Has Fallen
Overview: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Overview: Documentary about the life of the Bonzo Dog Band singer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Invictus
Overview: Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Wetherby
Overview: The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-19
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Overview: The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-26
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Jackie
Overview: An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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Lionheart
Overview: A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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Food of Love
Overview: A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-19
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W.E.
Overview: In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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Breathe
Overview: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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The Jester from Transylvania
Overview: What happens when you pick up a hitchhiker? Michael, an American scriptwriter, soon finds out when he picks up an Englishman in the middle of a Transylvanian forest. Touchstone - in fact the ghost of a former court jester - places him in some unimaginable situations of life and death. Despite being a firm believer in non-violence, Michael is forced to become a cold-blooded serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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