Samantha Spiro
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mill Hill, London, England, UK
Birthday: June 20, 1968
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Gender: Female
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Pops
Overview: How would you react if your father's last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop's final journey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-09
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Cor, Blimey!
Overview: Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-24
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A Running Jump
Overview: Gary attempts to buy a second-hand car. What should be a straightforward task is turned into something of a quest by various people, including dodgy East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie and couple of twins.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-24
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One Life
Overview: British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-21
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Hoard
Overview: The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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Where Is Anne Frank
Overview: The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.
Genres: Animation Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-08
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Something Else
Overview: Faced with the sudden disappearance of her beloved Shadow, Judith calls upon her estranged daughter Lily to return home and help her with the search. But when Judith gets a devastating call from a local farmer, Lily is forced to face up to her mother’s grief and come to terms with her own.
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Original Language: en
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Panto!
Overview: Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittington' opposite glamorous soap star Tamsin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-25
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Tomorrow La Scala!
Overview: Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-10
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From Hell
Overview: Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-08
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Beyond Bedlam
Overview: An experiment gone awry places a neurologist and a homicide detective in a psychopath's nightmarish world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-22
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Me Before You
Overview: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Overview: It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-19
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Babs
Overview: This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-07
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Grandpa's Great Escape
Overview: Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight Towers, an old people's home. It soon becomes clear that Miss Dandy is running Twilight Towers for her own ulterior motives, and it is up to Grandpa and grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Failure could have the direst of consequences, but success will give Grandpa a final chance to relive his past and take to the sky once again in his beloved Spitfire.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Overview: The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde’s most popular and witty plays.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-20
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
Overview: Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet Britain" where "the natives are revolting - quite literally". Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the play’s equivocal and controversial conclusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-14
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder
Overview: England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-23
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A Battle In Waterloo
Overview: During the Battle of Waterloo, a soldier's wife searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and must resort to extraordinary measures to survive.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-12
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Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
Overview: This streaming charity concert with performances from Liz Callaway, Janie Dee, Fra Fee, Ramin Karimloo, L. Morgan Lee, Jamie Parker, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Clive Rowe, Jenna Russell, Michael Xavier, and more raises money for Acting For Others, NHS Charities Together, and Black Lives Matter Global Charities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-31
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Guru in Seven
Overview: Sanjay, following a blazing argument with his girlfriend, Jill, is persuaded by his friends to become 'The Guru' by sleeping with seven women in the next seven days before Jill returns from her trip to America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-10
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Hard Truths
Overview: Pansy, angry and depressed, lashes out at family and strangers. Her constant criticism isolates her, except from her cheerful sister Chantal, who remains sympathetic despite their differences.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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