Sinéad Cusack
Also Known As: Sinead Cusack, 西妮德·库萨克, شینید کیوسک
Biography: Sinéad Moira Cusack (born February 18, 1948) is an Irish actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1969 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards for her performance in Sebastian Barry's Our Lady of Sligo. Cusack has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing (1985), and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll (2008). She has also received five Olivier Award nominations for As You Like (1981), The Maid's Tragedy (also 1981), The Taming of the Shrew (1983), Our Lady of Sligo (1998) and Rock 'n' Roll (2007). In 2020, she was listed at number 25 on The Irish Times' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sinéad Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
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V for Vendetta
Overview: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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Eastern Promises
Overview: A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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The Tiger's Tail
Overview: After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Hoffman
Overview: A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-16
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Cracks
Overview: Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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Stealing Beauty
Overview: Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-29
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The Cement Garden
Overview: After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-20
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Sparrow
Overview: Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent Maria to live the normal life of a teenager. In their minds Maria is the promised "bride of God" and a regular life for her is inappropriate. Nino, her handsome neighbor, falls in love for Maria who isn't indifferent to him. But when Maria comes back to her convent the way to become nun is compelled. Now Maria can understand Sister Agata, and realizes she became mad cause a lost and impossible love like the one between Maria and Nino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-02-04
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I Capture the Castle
Overview: A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Beast
Overview: A gothic fairytale following three generations of women struggling with the aftermath of a divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-10
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Uncovered
Overview: While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
Overview: The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. This film sets out to show, through family, friends, actors, directors, as well as via his own handwritten and typed letters, personal archive, and readings from some of his plays, how Brian Friel re-defined Irish theatre in the second half of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-06
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before the fair Roxanne. Derek Jacobi delivers an electrifying award-winning portrayal of Rostand's legendary log-nosed swordsman in this highly acclaimed production from the world's premier theatre troupe, The Royal Shakespeare Company. The bold Cyrano boasts he can defeat a hundred men in a swordfight, but because of his grotesque nose lacks the confidence to court the woman he loves. Yet so entranced with Roxanne is Cyrano that he uses the eloquence of his poetry to woo her for a rival.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-26
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Rocket Gibraltar
Overview: A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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The Nephew
Overview: Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad falls for Aislin, who has a bit of a crush on him too. But there is an old conflict going on between her father and Chad's uncle. This conflict resurfaces and begins to draw circles, wider and wider.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Revenge
Overview: A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-26
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Bad Behavior
Overview: The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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The Ballad of Tam Lin
Overview: Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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Winter Solstice
Overview: When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Waterland
Overview: The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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My Mother Frank
Overview: When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-16
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The Sea
Overview: A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-23
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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Mathilde
Overview: A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation into the circumstances of their first meeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Twelfth Night
Overview: Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-06
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Queen & Country
Overview: In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-14
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This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
Overview: A Mother and her gay adult Son, who has recently suffered a breakdown, explore their opposing views on parenting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-02
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Napoleon
Overview: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Genres: History War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Horowitz in Dublin
Overview: A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds himself called upon by the police to help solve a recent murder case. A character driven comedy-suspense feature entertainment, starring Harvey Lembeck, Sinead Cusack, Al Lettieri, Cesare Danova and Cyril Cusack.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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Stonehearst Asylum
Overview: An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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Dream
Overview: 16-year-old Emma has a dream - her boyfriend Tommy, has a completely different one. Emma is less at the slow small town life; Tommy wants to get married and buy houses like everyone else.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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David Copperfield
Overview: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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And Mrs.
Overview: When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of the land, and her loved one's objections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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A Sound from the Sea
Overview: While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-17
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The Hen House
Overview: Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-06
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The Kitchen
Overview: Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his most performed play. The Kitchen has been produced in sixty cities including Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris - where it was the first widely recognized production by Théâtre du Soleil in 1967, Moscow, Montreal and Zurich.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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The Dolly Scene
Overview: Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young man from the pop music scene.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-03
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A Room with a View
Overview: Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in particular — who both surprise and intrigue her. When piqued interest turns to potential romance, Lucy is whisked home to England, where her attention turns to Cecil Vyse. But now, with a well-developed appetite for adventure, will Lucy make the daring choice when it comes to love?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-04
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Dad
Overview: Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent 86-year-old who has been caring single-handedly for his beloved wife Jeannie James (Jean Heywood) who has Alzheimer's disease. When Larry falls and breaks an ankle his life with Jeannie abruptly changes forever. Jeannie is moved into residential care and Larry goes to stay with his son Oliver (Kevin Whately), his daughter-in-law Sandy (Sinead Cusack) and their teenage daughter Millie (Hannah Daniel). But love and consideration wear thin as father and son have to learn to live together all over again.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-24
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Passion of Mind
Overview: A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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Summer Solstice
Overview: Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-25
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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Overview: What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Genres: Mystery Drama Documentary Crime History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-08
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Venus Peter
Overview: Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-05
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Tales from Hollywood
Overview: A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-18
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National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
Overview: Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-03
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Food for Ravens
Overview: A biopic by the dramatist Trevor Griffiths of Aneurin "Nye" Bevan, the British Labour politician who founded the country's National Health Service in the 1940s.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-11
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Wrath of the Titans
Overview: Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion – the gods are losing control of the long-imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-28
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
Overview: Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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The Playboy of the Western World
Overview: A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Overview: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Overview: The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in depth in this film, surveying his meteoric rise to fame and troubled personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-09
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Overview: Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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The Eyes Have It
Overview: A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the assassination of a politician who will soon be passing the school on a parade route. Only one student, Sally, suspects that the men upstairs may be dangerous...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-09
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God on the Rocks
Overview: Growing up in a household incapable of showing love and affection, Margaret's life is transformed when Lydia, a worldly teenage maid, arrives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-29
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Dog & Bull
Overview: A fugitive criminal, who is hiding out as a pub landlord begins to question his identity when he gets discovered by a psychotic hitman, who is also his biggest fan.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Overview: The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-03
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