Petra Markham
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cheshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 17, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Female
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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The Deadly Affair
Overview: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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Forever Flowers
Overview: When a young caregiver and her unsavoury boyfriend attempt to steal from an elderly couple, their plans unravel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Fragment of Fear
Overview: A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Taming The Beast
Overview: The world strongest man learns how to embrace his mental health challenges by confronting his inner demons and dealing with his biggest failure to date which ultimately changes his life.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
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Dorothy's Day Out
Overview: After getting the stinkeye for attempting to eat an egg & cress sandwich at a bus stop, shy 70-year-old Dorothy escapes to a nearby park. There, her attention is grabbed by two young gender-nonconforming queers, Mars and Mary. Dorothy's observation from afar suddenly goes wrong when Mary notices her staring and the queers confront her. But it doesn't take long for them to realise that Dorothy is deep in the closet. Determined to help, the vibrant duo take the reluctant Dororthy under their wing for the day. As a consequence, Dorothy is forced to face her fears as she finally expresses her authentic self to the world.
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Original Language: en
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Shotgun
Overview: The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-11
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The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Overview: Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. As a result Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-22
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic visit. And the lady herself and her attendants play merry havoc with their intentions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-05
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The Raging Moon
Overview: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-21
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Get Carter
Overview: Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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The Hireling
Overview: Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-10
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Doctor Who: The Crusade
Overview: In 12th century Palestine, the Doctor and his friends are drawn into the holy war between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin.
Genres: History Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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Disgraced Monuments
Overview: Filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis use rare archival footage and interviews with artists, art historians, and museum directors to examine the fate of Soviet-era monuments during successive political regimes, from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of communism. Mulvey and Lewis highlight both the social relevance of these relics and the cyclical nature of history. Broadcast on Channel Four as part of the 'Global Image' series (1992-1994).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-06
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Back to the Garden
Overview: It is a year since the death of an inspirational theatre director and teacher, and his widow is struggling to come to terms with her loss. A group of close friends, many of whom are or were actors, come to spend the weekend with her to offer their support and to celebrate his memory in an entertaining and moving performance before they scatter his ashes in the garden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Young Shoulders
Overview: John Wain adapts his own novel, about a young man who accompanies his feuding parents to Portugal for the memorial service of his sister, who died in a plane crash with her entire class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-14
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Lady Godiva
Overview: Quirky young art teacher Jemima takes up a £100,00 bet to ride through the town naked on horseback like Lady Godiva to keep her beloved Art Factory open.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-25
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A Killer in Every Corner
Overview: A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. Unbeknownst to the students, they are actually guinea pigs in a mind-control experiment he is conducting and the servants of the house are not what they appear to be.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-19
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A Different Hand
Overview: A musical comedy drama about a young woman (played by Tina Leslie) rebelling against society's attitudes (including her parents, her doctor, her priest and teacher) towards people like her who are without hands or in other ways different. Everyone is trying to force her to wear artificial hands, everyone except for her disabled friend (Nabil Shaban), who assists in her revolt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-23
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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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