Freda Dowie
Also Known As: 프리다 다우이
Biography: Freda Dowie was an English film and television actress best known for Distant Voices, Still Lives and Our Friends in the North.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Carlisle, Cumberland, England, UK
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Birthday: July 22, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 10, 2019
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Overview: Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-16
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Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Overview: A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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Black Eyes
Overview: Josh and Jim want to know how Jack got his black eye. So the17 year old Jack explains over a couple of beers how their friend Lennie got him into this swanky party, on account of Jack's 'famous' brother, and how they ended up sitting round a swimming pool with a few lads passing around an enormous bag of cocaine......
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Whistle and I'll Come to You
Overview: A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-07
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Butterfly Kiss
Overview: Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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The Omen
Overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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Thacker
Overview: A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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The Monk
Overview: In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-17
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Jude
Overview: In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-06
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Cider with Rosie
Overview: This adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie comes of age under the protective eye of his mother, he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie discovers women.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-26
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Cider with Rosie
Overview: An enchanting tale of childhood in a sleepy Cotswold village during and immediately after the First World War.
Genres: TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-25
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Goldeneye
Overview: British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-26
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Fragile
Overview: Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to leave. Amy tries to protect them and convince the other staffers of the evil that lurks there.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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