Harriet Walter
Also Known As: هریت والتر
Biography: Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE (born 24 September 1950) is a British actress. She has received a Laurence Olivier Award as well as numerous nominations including for a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama. Walter began her career in 1974 and made her Broadway debut in 1983. For her work in various Royal Shakespeare Company productions, including Twelfth Night (1987–88) and Three Sisters (1988), she won the 1988 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival. Her other notable work for the RSC includes leading roles in Macbeth (1999) and Antony and Cleopatra (2006). She won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth I in the 2005 London revival of Mary Stuart, and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play when she reprised the role on Broadway in 2009. She reprised her roles of Brutus in Julius Caesar (2012) and the title role in Henry IV (2014), as well as playing Prospero in The Tempest, as part of an all-female Shakespeare trilogy in 2016. Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Governess (1998), Villa des Roses (2002), Atonement (2007), The Young Victoria (2009), A Royal Affair (2012), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Denial (2016), The Sense of an Ending (2017), Rocketman (2019) and Ridley Scott's The Last Duel (2021). On television she starred as Natalie Chandler in the ITV drama series Law & Order: UK (2009–14), in four episodes of Downton Abbey (2013–15), in the miniseries London Spy (2015), as Clementine Churchill in The Crown (2016), in Patrick Melrose (2018), and in the third season of Killing Eve (2020). She is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee; two for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Succession (2018–21) and one for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Ted Lasso (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: September 24, 1950
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Gender: Female
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Babel
Overview: In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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May Fools
Overview: An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Overview: A drama telling the story of the life of the writer of Frankenstein; the 19-year-old Mary Shelley. Telling of her influences, her writing and her personal life. The extraordinary story of how she created Frankenstein, one of the world's most terrifying monsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-07
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Atonement
Overview: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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The Mysterious Mr Webster
Overview: Professor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious man behind The Duchess of Malfi, the son of a coachmaker who ended up rivalling Shakespeare.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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Burial
Overview: Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ‘Werewolf’ partisans and picked off one-by-one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried in order to hide the truth forever.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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The Leading Man
Overview: Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-12
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The Good Father
Overview: Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Overview: Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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Chromophobia
Overview: Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-10
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The Hour of the Pig
Overview: In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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Villa Des Roses
Overview: In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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On The Line
Overview: Alderney, Channel Islands. 1964. A telephone operator ends up being the pivotal piece of a drama unfurling which puts professional integrity, and relationships, to the test.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-15
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The Governess
Overview: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-31
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Macbeth
Overview: Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition. On the stage this Royal Shakespeare Company presentation was universally lauded. Following sell-out seasons at Statford's Swan Theatre and in London, the production played Japan and in the United States, where The New York Times praised director Gregory Doran's interpretation as a "harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century". To make this compelling screen version, Gregory Doran worked with all of the original cast and filmed at London's Roundhouse. Brilliantly shot by director of photography Ernie Vincze, the production uses the edgy techniques of fly-on-the-wall documentaries. The effect is raw, intimate and strikingly dynamic.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Wedding Video
Overview: When the rogueish but loveable Raif is asked to be his brother Tim's best man at his wedding, he decides the best present for the happy newlyweds would be to catch the entire thing on video. He returns home from abroad to find his brother is no longer the bohemian vagabond that he used to be, and is in fact marrying into a very wealthy family, and the wedding they're about to be part of will be the most outlandish and bizarre that Cheshire has ever seen... Thank the lord Raif has caught it all on tape!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-17
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The Domino Effect
Overview: If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we sometimes like to think.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Chéri
Overview: The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-08
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Reflections
Overview: A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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They Never Slept
Overview: When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-20
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Benefactors
Overview: Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Suite Française
Overview: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Ballet Shoes
Overview: An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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Hard Times
Overview: Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Overview: Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Sense and Sensibility
Overview: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-13
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The Maitlands
Overview: There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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Your Christmas or Mine?
Overview: Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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The Imitation Game
Overview: Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the Enigma code.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-24
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And Mrs
Overview: When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of the land, and her loved one's objections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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Man Up
Overview: A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-29
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The Sense of an Ending
Overview: A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Overview: Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
Overview: In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-22
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A Royal Affair
Overview: A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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Bright Young Things
Overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Overview: Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-15
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From Time to Time
Overview: A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-15
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The Young Victoria
Overview: As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-04
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The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
Overview: Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, post-war Nazi-hunting adventures and a side career as a heavy metal rock singer. And one of the most iconic actors of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-09
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Amy
Overview: The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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Bedrooms and Hallways
Overview: At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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Denial
Overview: Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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Late in Summer
Overview: Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to first love in middle life and an impossible choice.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: en
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Overview: From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
Genres: Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Turtle Diary
Overview: Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-06
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A Short Stay in Switzerland
Overview: Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true story.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-25
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Mindhorn
Overview: A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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The Price
Overview: Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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My Dinner with Hervé
Overview: An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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The Door
Overview: A man of incredible wealth and power is haunted by a childhood memory.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Rocketman
Overview: The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Overview: Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-20
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Morris: A Life with Bells On
Overview: The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-09
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Abraham's Point
Overview: A man struggles to get over a family tragedy that has haunted him since childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Last Duel
Overview: King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-13
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A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Overview: It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle class English married woman, he is an lonely Irish mechanic. Despite the gulf between them they start an affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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Onegin
Overview: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat – a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Henry IV
Overview: Harriet Walter takes the lead in the second installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Featuring a diverse company of women, this unique interpretation combines both parts of Shakespeare’s history plays about King Henry IV and his son Prince Hal.
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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The Tempest
Overview: Phyllida Lloyd’s final installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy concludes with an all-female version of The Tempest starring Harriet Walter as Prospero. This captivating reimagining explores themes of freedom and justice in the context of a women’s prison.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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Herself
Overview: Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
Overview: Viewers step inside the enchanting Osborne House, a place that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert cherished as their private refuge from the demands of royal life. It’s a unique opportunity to explore the history, the opulence, and the intimate moments that unfolded within these historic walls. The program offers a rare glimpse into the life of Queen Victoria, shedding light on the personal retreat she created with Prince Albert. It’s a chance to discover the secrets, stories, and hidden treasures of this beloved royal residence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-16
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Broken Lines
Overview: After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-02
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