Joanna David
Also Known As: Joanne E. Hacking, Joanna Ward
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 17, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Female
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The Debutante
Overview: A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honour. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-13
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Unexplained Laughter
Overview: Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-25
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Overview: Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-19
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Dear Brutus
Overview: "They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-27
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One of Those Days
Overview: We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgment Day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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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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Comrades
Overview: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-23
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Cotton Mary
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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The Soul Keeper
Overview: Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Sleepwalker
Overview: Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-05
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Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer
Overview: Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page).
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-07
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Paying Guests (Part 1)
Overview: Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Paying Guests (Part 2)
Overview: Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-02
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Arthur's Whisky
Overview: When Joan’s husband dies, she is shocked to discover he had invented an elixir which makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two friends, the three women paint the town red but soon discover that they are no longer equipped to be young in the modern world.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Overview: Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-25
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These Foolish Things
Overview: The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest between a playwright and a director.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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The Lady's Maid's Bell
Overview: Based on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate because of delicate health. Almost immediately Ms. Hartley realizes something ominous is occurring in the old house.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-27
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Affront
Overview: A car mechanic faces prejudice at work because of his ethnicity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-17
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The Dark Room
Overview: In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same manner as Jinx's first husband - makes Jinx the prime suspect. Then, with the help of eminent neuroscientist Dr.Alan Protheroe, some memories begin to surface. Memories of desperation and paralysing terror.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-02
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The Brides in the Bath
Overview: Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-31
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Belonging
Overview: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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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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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
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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The Mill on the Floss
Overview: Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, her brother Tom (true to the memory of their father) forbids her to meet him again. When she visits her cousin Lucy Deane, Lucy's fiance, Stephen Guest, falls in love with Maggie at first sight, further complicating matters.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Letters from Baghdad
Overview: Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-21
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Another Mother's Son
Overview: The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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The Boy with the Topknot
Overview: Born to traditional Punjabi parents and growing up in Wolverhampton, Sathnam Sanghera moves to London after graduating from Cambridge University. Now in his late 20s he is planning to reveal to his family that he will defy expectations of an arranged marriage - but instead learns a painful family secret.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-13
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Sympathy for the Devil
Overview: While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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The Cleansing Hour
Overview: Two millennial entrepreneurs stage elaborate fake exorcisms on social media until one of their girlfriends becomes possessed by a demon.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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Kat and the Band
Overview: Seventeen year old, music obsessed school girl Kat Malone tricks her way into managing struggling band Dollar Days, pretending to be a band manager in her twenties.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-13
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Children of the North
Overview: The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-30
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Overview: A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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Secret Friends
Overview: During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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