Gillian Anderson
Also Known As: Gillian Leigh Anderson, Джілліан Андерсон, Τζίλιαν Άντερσον, 질리언 앤더슨, ジリアン・アンダーソン, 吉蓮·安德森, جیلیان اندرسون
Biography: Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE (/ˈdʒɪliən/ JIL-ee-ən; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, writer, and activist. She is best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the sci-fi series The X-Files (1993–2002; 2016–2018), Lily Bart in the drama film The House of Mirth (2000), DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama series The Fall (2013–2016), Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023), and Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of the Netflix drama series The Crown (2020). She has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Born in Chicago, Anderson was raised first in London and then in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She later started her career onstage in New York City before achieving international recognition for her work on The X-Files. Her film work includes the dramas The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Shadow Dancer (2012), and Viceroy's House (2017), as well as the X-Filesfilms Fight the Future (1998) and I Want to Believe (2008). Her television credits include Lady Dedlock in Bleak House (2005), Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart (2010), Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2011), Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier on Hannibal (2013–2015), Media in the first season of American Gods (2017), and Eleanor Roosevelt on The First Lady (2022). Anderson has also received awards and acclaim for her stage work, which includes Absent Friends (1991), for which she won a Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer; A Doll's House (2009), for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress; Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014 and 2016), for which she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and received a second Laurence Olivier Award nomination; and All About Eve (2019), for which she received a third Laurence Olivier Award nomination. Anderson has supported numerous charities and humanitarian organizations, being an honorary spokesperson for the Neurofibromatosis Network and a co-founder of South African Youth Education for Sustainability (SAYes). She has lived in London since 2002 and was appointed an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2016 for her services to drama. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillian Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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The Last King of Scotland
Overview: Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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Playing by Heart
Overview: In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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The X-Files
Overview: Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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The Mighty Celt
Overview: Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownership of Donal's favorite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if the animal wins three races in a row. Meanwhile, Donal's mother, Kate, must adjust her life when O, a man from her past, returns. The political climate of Ireland serves as the backdrop of this story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Scoop
Overview: Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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The Turning
Overview: Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Now he's returned to put things right, fired by a psychopathic determination he is intent on destroying his father's new relationship...whatever it takes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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A Cock and Bull Story
Overview: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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The X Files: I Want to Believe
Overview: Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-24
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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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The Mighty
Overview: Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not authorized to go out. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Overview: Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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Straightheads
Overview: There is instant chemistry between Alice (Gillian Anderson), a businesswoman, and Adam (Danny Dyer), a younger working-class man who installs a security system in her London apartment. She takes him to a party in the country, and they end up making love. But the night turns horrific when they encounter three thugs who maim Adam and rape Alice. The incident turns them into fearful recluses until Alice spots the leader of their attackers (Anthony Calf) -- and the two victims plot a brutal revenge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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The Pale Blue Eye
Overview: West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Boogie Woogie
Overview: In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his assistants, Beth, is sleeping with Art's most acquisitive client, Bob Macclestone. Beth wants Bob to set her up in her own gallery, so she helps him go behind Art's back for the Mondrian. Bob's wife, Jean, sets her eye on a young conceptual artist, Jo, who lusts after Art's newest assistant, Paige. Meanwhile, self-absorbed videographer Elaine is chewing her way through friends and lovers looking to make it: if she'll throw Dewey, her agent, under the bus, Beth may give her a show. And the Mondrian? No honor among thieves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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FOX 25th Anniversary Special
Overview: A special celebrating FOX's 25 years on the air. Highlights from iconic series and tributes to memorable moments, as well as celebrities honoring the network include.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-22
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The Salt Path
Overview: A couple lose their home and later discover the husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness as they embark on a year long coastal trek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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Shadow Dancer
Overview: In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Johnny English Reborn
Overview: The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on Johnny English to save the day. Armed with the latest high-tech weaponry and gadgets that would make even James Bond jealous, the once-disgraced agent uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy involving some of the world's most powerful organisations, and vows to redeem his tarnished reputation by stopping the killers before they can strike.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Overview: This star-studded gala celebrates the centenary of the birth of legendary Broadway composer Richard Rodgers. Rodgers' contribution to musical theatre was extraordinary, including 900 published songs, 40 Broadway musicals and several film scores. Rodgers, together with lyricists Lorenz Hart and later Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote many of the best known musicals of the 20th Century, including Babes In Arms, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. This performance at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, directed for the stage by Simon Callow, includes songs, dance, staged numbers and anecdotes featuring leading stars from both Broadway and London's West End. The cast comprises luminaries drawn from Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate, Chicago, The King and I and other recent productions as well as from television. This musical extravaganza features many of Rodgers' best-loved classics.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Sister
Overview: A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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Heroes Manufactured
Overview: A documentary following Canadian artists and their ability to break into the comic book industry while dealing with fandom and the craze of comic book conventions in Canada.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Room on the Broom
Overview: Animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The story of a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her cat. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone. A magical tale about friendship and family from Magic Light Pictures, the producers of the hugely successful The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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Chicago Cab
Overview: A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of his passengers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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White Bird
Overview: After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Overview: A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-22
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Robot Overlords
Overview: Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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Sold
Overview: Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's father says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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I'll Follow You Down
Overview: After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-28
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Three at Once
Overview: This black and white student short is a whimsical absurdist comedy about a happy-go-lucky girl, a sardonic feminist and a vain philosopher who meet at a party and enter a surreal world to see if they click together.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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A Matter of Choice
Overview: A short, silent, black-and-white film dealing with a young woman's moment of choice before entering a back-alley abortion clinic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Overview: As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-16
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No Pressure
Overview: No Pressure is a controversial 2010 short film produced by the global warming mitigation campaign 10:10. Intended for cinema and television advertisements, No Pressure is composed of scenes in which a variety of people in every-day situations are graphically blown to pieces for failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic about the 10:10 campaign to reduce CO2 emissions. The film's makers said that they viewed No Pressure as "a funny and satirical tongue-in-cheek little film in the over-the-top style of Monty Python or South Park".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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The Departure
Overview: Inspired by the Young Vic theatre's acclaimed production in 2014, the film takes place in the days before Blanche arrives at her sister Stella's home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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TRON: Ares
Overview: A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-10-08
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The Widowmaker
Overview: Every minute of every year an American drops dead of a heart attack, hundreds of thousands without any warning or prior symptom. But these people could have been saved. The Widowmaker uncovers a chilling tale of greed, ego, and a conspiracy of silence around that most vulnerable of human organs - the heart.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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Inside The X-Files
Overview: Inside the X-Files for a behind-the-scenes look at the show. Also included are interviews with the cast and creator Chris Carter, never before seen segments from the show, outtakes and a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Overview: An in depth feature length piece on the creative efforts to approach the Hannibal television series' third season "reboot" of the Red Dragon arc.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-08
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Woolf Works
Overview: Wayne McGregor’s award-winning ballet triptych Woolf Works re-creates the emotions, themes, and fluid style of three of Virginia Woolf’s novels: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves. With inspiration also enmeshed with elements from her letters, essays, and diaries, Woolf Works expresses the heart of an artistic life driven to discover a freer, uniquely modern realism. It brings to life Woolf’s world of “granite and rainbow”, where human beings are at once both physical body and uncontained essence. Created for The Royal Ballet in 2015, Woolf Works is an ambitious, brave, and thoughtful ballet set to challenge our expectations and take us to exhilarating new places.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-25
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Crooked House
Overview: A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-06
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UFO
Overview: A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-04
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Viceroy's House
Overview: In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Overview: Robbie and Donner's wedding is interrupted when Donner is kidnapped by aliens. Robbie saves the day again though with the help of his friends and an alien crystal.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Woolf Works
Overview: The first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music by Max Richter, inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-08
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The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
Overview: Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes. The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-26
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
Overview: A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-02
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This Changes Everything
Overview: An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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The Sunlit Night
Overview: An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-06
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National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Overview: The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-11
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Robin Robin
Overview: A bird raised by mice begins to question where she belongs and sets off on a daring journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-09
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Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Overview: Celebrate International Women’s Day with this brand new inspiring film from LETTERS LIVE. In “LETTERS LIVE from the Archive: International Women’s Day”, remarkable letters are read by a diverse array of outstanding luminaries, including stunning performances from Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson, Daisy Ridley, Caitlin Moran, Rose McGowan, Adwoa Aboah, Louise Brealey and more. Plus music from Roxanne Tataei.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-08
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The Inspiration of Alfie Swincross
Overview: Alfie Sincross, a chimney sweep living in London, undergoes a series of life changing decisions and situations that pushes him to the edge of a quest that has no bounds and to the end of the world.
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Original Language: en
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Animals
Overview: When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Hannibal: Reimagining Red Dragon
Overview: Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers. A behind-the-scenes documentary from the Hannibal TV series about transforming Thomas Harris' Red Dragon into a TV show.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-30
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Overview: A queer filmmaker is hired to direct a new installment of a long-running slasher franchise. The director fixates on the prospect of casting the ‘final girl’ from the original movie, and the two women descend into a frenzy of psychosexual mania.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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