Pam Ferris
Also Known As: پم فریس
Biography: Pamela Ann 'Pam' Ferris is a German-born Welsh actress. She is best known for her starring roles on television as Ma Larkin in "The Darling Buds of May", as Laura Thyme in "Rosemary & Thyme", and for playing Miss Trunchbull in the movie "Matilda". She also played the part of Aunt Marge in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hanover, Germany
Birthday: May 11, 1948
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Gender: Female
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Overview: Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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Matilda
Overview: Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia misunderstand her because they think she is so different. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a sadistic headmistress. As she gets fed up with the constant cruelty, she begins to realize that she has a gift of telekinetic powers. After some days of practice, she suddenly turns the tables to stand up to Harry and Zinnia and outwit the headmistress.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Gladiatress
Overview: Three unlikely heroines set out to thwart a Roman invasion and save Celtic Britain in their own unique and outrageous style.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-19
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Death to Smoochy
Overview: Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Overview: Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-19
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: Willy Loman clings to the belief that he is a success as a salesman, that he is a beloved family man, that he is well-liked; but, as he grows older, he is forced to contemplate the unpleasant reality of his existence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
Overview: Doctor Bamford has had enough of village life and is desperate for some distance from inquisitive Cornish neighbours. When the local estate agent shows him Tregunnt Farm # derelict and miles from anywhere # it's love at first sight. But the Bowden family from London also have their eye on the property with a view to developing the surrounding land into ugly holiday cottages. After being gazumped, the Doc decides to try and spook the family into leaving by pretending to be the Beast of Bodmin.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-30
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Family
Overview: Marion loses her job as a psychiatric nurse, but cannot let go of her responsibility for former patient, Thomas. When he goes on the run, Marion sets out to find him and learns a painful truth about her marriage and her life as a carer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Overview: The world’s funniest and most star-studded pantomime is back! Lily James heads the cast as famous names from theatre, film, comedy and music gather together online to bring you a unique and hilarious adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, all to raise money for some very good causes. Joining Lily are Guz Khan, Sian Gibson, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Miranda Hart and many others. A follow-up to last year’s hugely successful stay-at-home retelling of Cinderella, which raised nearly £900,000 for Comic Relief, some of the original stars return alongside an exciting new stellar cast for a production that promises to be bigger, brighter and funnier than ever.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-19
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Roots
Overview: Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political matters by her boyfriend Ronnie. Through trying to pass on what she has learned, she discovers her own voice and views.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-28
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The Turn of the Screw
Overview: A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-26
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Nativity!
Overview: Paul, charged with directing his school's Nativity play, falsely boasts that his ex-girlfriend plans to turn the production into a film.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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The Raven
Overview: A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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Meantime
Overview: A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-16
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Within the Whirlwind
Overview: During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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Christmas at the Riviera
Overview: The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-23
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Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
Overview: This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-23
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Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
Overview: A look behind the scenes of the filming and special effects of the 1996 film 'Matilda'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-07
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Saving Santa
Overview: A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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Anna Spud
Overview: Anna Spud is the grumpiest little girl in the world. The prospect of long car journey trapped with her parents sounds 'rubbish'. But along the way, she finds an unlikely ally in her equally grumpy Gran.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Pollyanna
Overview: Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest cloud, and her sunny nature, good humor and determination to look on the bright side of life prove to have an astonishing effect on those around her. With the help of her orphaned friend, Jimmy Bean, she casts her spell on the grumpiest townsfolk of Beldingsville -- including the cynical shut-in Mrs. Snow, the morose millionaire Mr. Pendleton and the enigmatic Dr. Chilton. And Pollyanna masterminds the romance between her Aunt's maid, Nancy, and the handyman, Tim. It is only Aunt Polly, who cannot bring herself to embrace Pollyanna's innocence and joy. But all is not straightforward in Pollyanna's war against pessimism, since she must overcome a personal tragedy that threatens to banish "glad" from her vocabulary forever.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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West Coast Otters
Overview: Two otters, a mother and daughter, are inseparable as the cub faces the dangers of her first Scottish winter, and Mum works hard to ensure both survive. Never more than a few feet apart, cub and mum exhibit a very special relationship as the cub grows up, learning how to fish and fend for herself on the idyllic west coast of Scotland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-19
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Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
Overview: Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour as an oddball in a suit. And his crusade is more of a "who ami" than a "whodunit".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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Children of Men
Overview: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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Ethel & Ernest
Overview: This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Overview: We're Going on a Bear Hunt follows the intrepid adventures of siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the baby and Rufus the dog, who decide one day to go on an adventure in search of bears. Coming up against a host of obstacles the family ventures through whirling snowstorms, thick oozing mud and dark forests on their ambitious quest. But when Rosie and Rufus become detached from the rest of the party it looks like bear-hunting might not be such fun after all...
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-24
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Bessie and the Bell
Overview: Bessie Foley, kindly ladies' lavatory attendant, tells her tragic story.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Star Quality
Overview: Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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Jackboots on Whitehall
Overview: A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
Genres: War Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre
Overview: When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Growth Centre with a difference - offering sex, drugs and personalised water births.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-21
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Bill's New Frock
Overview: Bill wakes up one morning to discover - he's a girl!
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-28
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Malice in Wonderland
Overview: A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in South East England.An American law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that's a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she's dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-05
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Piccadilly Jim
Overview: Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Tolkien
Overview: England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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Holmes & Watson
Overview: Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary wits and ingenious methods to catch the killer as they only have four days before the queen becomes the next victim.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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The Other Man
Overview: The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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The House
Overview: Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-27
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The Tale of Pigling Bland
Overview: Pigling Bland is a young pig who is forced to leave home, along with his brother Alexander, when his mother realizes that she is unable to feed all eight of her piglets. Pigling Bland becomes separated from Alexander and gets hopelessly lost.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-27
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Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
Overview: It’s five years since Nessa declared her love for Smithy – and a lot has happened since. Journey to Barry and Billericay to catch up with the gang for the very last time.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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