Rebecca Front
Also Known As: Rebecca Louise Front
Biography: Rebecca Front (born 16 May 1964) is a British stage, film and television actress, comedian and writer, best known for playing characters on the comedy show "The Thick of It" as well as the Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent in the television drama series "Lewis".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
Birthday: May 16, 1964
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Gender: Female
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Planet 51
Overview: When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it home safely, all with the help of an empathetic little green being.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Christmas in New York: Inside the Plaza
Overview: An access-all-areas look at how Christmas comes to life at one of the most famous hotels in the world, the iconic Plaza Hotel in New York, at their busiest time of the year.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-09
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Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
Overview: Sketch-show sensation Catherine Tate tells the story of the decade in which she became a household name. She meets with comedy glitterati Alan Carr, David Walliams, Noel Fielding, Rob Brydon and her Doctor Who co-star, David Tennant, all of whom reflect on the greatest comedy moments in recent history. As well as showcasing all the most entertaining, memorable comedy of the time, the documentary also features newsreel and pop culture archive that contextualises the gags. It reveals not just what was funny, but why it was funny. Catherine's journey provides new insight and revelations and features anecdotes from some of the biggest names in comedy.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-17
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Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Overview: A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-10
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You Can Choose Your Friends
Overview: Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-07
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Company
Overview: Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-10
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Overview: Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
Overview: Eric and Ernie devotee Miranda Hart celebrates the incomparable comedy duo as she takes a look back at their top twenty greatest TV moments, ranked by comedy actors and comedians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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The Eichmann Show
Overview: The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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Cat Wars
Overview: Cats are the most popular companion animals in the western world. In the UK their numbers have swollen to more than 10 million. This is great news for the cat lovers amongst us but for those who see Felis silvestris catus as nothing more than a garden pest, it can feel like an epidemic. Cat Wars meets those on both sides of the feline divide to find out what really gets people so worked up about the humble moggy. This BBC One documentary also meets some of the more fanatical cat owners out there, including Silvana and her 50 cats and Helen, who likes to take her prized pets for a stroll round the block in a baby buggy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-16
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Sex Actually
Overview: Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house, died mysteriously. Angie discovers that their neighbours, estate agent Roy and his wife Jane, high court judge Charles and his bickering wife Carol and Bilbo, a conceptual artist and his partner were all members of a wife-swapping circle who usually met at Ron and Helen's house. Luccio reveals himself to be a policeman and is curious as to how Ron and Helen died, lining up all the suspects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-28
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The True Story
Overview: This iconic American story was written in 1900 by L Frank Baum, a Chicago businessman, journalist, chicken breeder, actor, boutique owner, Hollywood movie director and lifelong fan of all things innovative and technological. His life spanned an era of remarkable invention and achievement in America and many of these developments helped to fuel this great storyteller's imagination. His ambition was to create the first genuine American fairytale and the story continues to fascinate, inspire and engage millions of fans of all ages from all over the world. This documentary explores how The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has come to symbolise the American Dream and includes previously unseen footage from the Baum family archives, still photographs and clips from the early Oz films, as well as interviews with family members, literary experts and American historians as it tells the story of one man's life in parallel to the development of modern America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-28
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Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me
Overview: Artist and illustrator Charlie Mackesy takes us on a journey through his life, revealing the events that inspired his bestselling book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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The Missing Postman
Overview: When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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Billionaire Boy
Overview: The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Overview: Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-12
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England, My England
Overview: The story of Henry Purcell.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Fox Wars
Overview: Love them or hate them, there are 33,000 urban foxes roaming Britain's suburbia. For the residents of the Copse in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire - as for so many other suburbanites - the urban fox provides evenings of enchantment. A cul-de-sac of neighbours compete to offer the tastiest snacks for their bushy-tailed visitors, with one couple even setting up their own CCTV system to provide happy evenings of Fox TV.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-22
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Grimsby
Overview: Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-24
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Overview: Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-16
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Horrid Henry: The Movie
Overview: When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his irritating little brother Perfect Peter, outwitting corrupt School Inspectors and toppling an evil Headmaster, winning a talent contest and facing his ultimate nemesis with no way out.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-29
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Colour Me Kubrick
Overview: The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-06
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George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Overview: Dramatised biography of writer George Orwell.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
Overview: Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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Never Mind the Horrocks
Overview: Jane Horrocks showcases her wide-ranging talents as a mimic and comedy performer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-19
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Down a Dark Hall
Overview: Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-01
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Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
Overview: A tribute to British comedian Mel Smith, who died in July 2013, aged 60, featuring home video footage, rare archive material and many classic sketches. Far more than a comic actor, Smith also wrote and edited a host of celebrated TV comedies in the 1980s and 90s. He was a theatre and film director, and as a TV producer he was responsible for several innovative comedy series. Friends and colleagues, including Griff Rhys Jones, John Lloyd and Richard Curtis, talk about Smith's talents, both in front of- and behind the camera. The programme also traces his time at Oxford and, before that, Latymer Upper School, where Smith's talents were first spotted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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Edmund the Magnificent
Overview: When news breaks that the county pig fete's being revived, the once-legendary Farmer decides to make one final roll of the dice - and invest his life savings in a thoroughbred piglet with which to breed new life back into his now dilapidated farm. But when he puts young Edmund out to breed and the lad abstains, the Farmer's forced on a journey that will challenge everything he thought he knew about pigs, love and the true value of life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-01
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The Gettys: The World's Richest Art Dynasty
Overview: With unique access to the inner world of the Getty family, this documentary unearths the lasting cultural impact of J Paul Getty and the Getty Centre in Los Angeles - the wealthiest art institution in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-14
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The Aeronauts
Overview: In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-04
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Mr. Bean: Funeral
Overview: Mr. Bean returns in a sketch for Comic Relief to celebrate his 25th anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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Cameraman to the Queen
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-25
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Marionette
Overview: A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-28
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Chateau Chunder: A Wine Revolution
Overview: A documentary on the recent history of Australian wine. How a small group of enterprising Australian winemakers took on the elitist world of wine - and won.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-30
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Overview: The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid. As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-14
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Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
Overview: A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from the golden age of jazz. Featuring some of the greatest names in American music, including the godfather of New Orleans jazz Louis Armstrong, the King of Swing Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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