Phyllida Law
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Phyllida Law is a Scottish actress, the mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Birthday: May 08, 1932
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Time Machine
Overview: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-04
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Copying Beethoven
Overview: A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-10
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Unleashed
Overview: Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-02
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Overview: Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Saving Grace
Overview: Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-24
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Nanny McPhee
Overview: Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
Overview: A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They both end up experiencing more excitement than Mickey could ever conjure in Orlando, when they meet up with bad guys and a legendary creature
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-14
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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The Waiting Room
Overview: Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives maybe they can meet again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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The Winter Guest
Overview: It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth, travels to Frances' house to reconnect with her daughter and grandson, Alex. Meanwhile, old women Chloe and Lily go to a funeral, youngsters Sam and Tom cut class, and Alex gets a crush on tomboy Nita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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I Want You
Overview: A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-15
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Miss Potter
Overview: Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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Milk
Overview: Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execution of Ruth's will. The one object that everyone seems to want, and several people try to steal, is Ruth's valuable Modigliani painting. In the midst of all this confusion over Ruth's death, a mysterious visitor named Ilaria inserts herself onto the scene and has a surprising effect on those gathered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Blinded
Overview: While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work in the area, and so she points him in the direction of Black's farm, an isolated steading. Francis Black, the owner, who is blind, and lives there with his ailing mother Bella, and enigmatic young wife Rachel, tells Mike he can work in the yard. But put off by the foreboding atmosphere, Mike declines. A chance encounter with Rachel, however, persuades him to stay and settle in. Since the accident that blinded him two years earlier, Francis has become incresingly bitter, and sensing hs young wife's attraction to the stranger, orders him to leave. But rather than force them apart, Mike's imminent departure only serves to bind teh two in a passionate relationship that will ultimately have dark consequences for them all.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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Mad Cows
Overview: When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Two Men Went To War
Overview: Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Miss Austen Regrets
Overview: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-03
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Ways to Live Forever
Overview: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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Brush with Fate
Overview: A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Pinochet in Suburbia
Overview: In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-26
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A Little Trip to Heaven
Overview: Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt examines the scene of the wreck, it all seems a bit too perfect. And when he interviews Isold Mcbride and her shifty husband, Fred -- the impoverished beneficiaries of the massive, recently initiated life-insurance policy -- he begins to suspect that something is amiss.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-26
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Peter's Friends
Overview: After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Albert Nobbs
Overview: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-21
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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Before the Rain
Overview: The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1994-06-09
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Day of Wrath
Overview: At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can local 16th-century sheriff Ruy de Mendoza discern who's responsible when no one wants to cooperate? After all, before Mendoza can even identify the bodies, the crime scenes are mysteriously cleared - and the villagers pretend the murders never happened.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-27
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Mia Sarah
Overview: In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a revered writer, create schemes to repel the latest in a long line of psychologists come to cure the grandson of his severe agoraphobia: some delicious biscuits with added spice, a refreshing glass of water with added laxative
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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Three Days in Havana
Overview: A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-28
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A Little Chaos
Overview: A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-26
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The Blue Boy
Overview: Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways." There, Marie is told the story of a young boy who drowned in a nearby lake long ago, and finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with his ghost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-02
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Lecture 21
Overview: A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Genres: Fantasy History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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Love at First Sight
Overview: A day in the life of 70-year-old Arthur, who falls in love with Ruth, a new resident at his retirement home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Judas Kiss
Overview: The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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Emma
Overview: Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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The Life and Death of King John
Overview: The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-24
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Otley
Overview: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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The Swap
Overview: British Tv Movie Thriller
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-10
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Overview: First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about. In Florence, when Indy's mother is equally smitten with Giacomo Puccini, composer of Romantic operas La Boheme and Tosca, Indy must guide his parent safely back to her spouse.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-19
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Evelyn
Overview: 'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Evelyn.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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The Lost Lover
Overview: After their son dies, a Jewish family moves from London to Israel in an attempt to piece their lives back together. The mother finds a way out of her depression through a relationship with a younger man—which doesn't seem to bother her husband. Meanwhile, their daughter begins dating a Palestinian handyman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-05
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Bakery in Brooklyn
Overview: Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her historic bakery. Vivien wants to keep up the tradition; Chloe feels that the business needs to be modernized. But when notified that they are about to be evicted, the two do not hesitate to work together to preserve the family legacy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-30
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Overview: A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-19
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Buffet
Overview: A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a businessman for the occasional drink? His wife and mistress for a start.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-02
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Then Came You
Overview: A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-11
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Tree of Hands
Overview: A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-07
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Tooth
Overview: Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies have forgotten about magic, she decides to give away all of its money. When Tooth begins to understand how much trouble she is in, she realizes the only person who can help is the legendary Mrs. C, who disappeared, along with magic over 100 years ago. Teaming up with two human children and a number of fairies, who are living incognito amongst humans she sets off on the adventure of a lifetime. Pursued by the evil Plug, a terrifying fairy hunter and his posse, the race is on to save the world before Christmas, Easter and all the holidays are ruined forever.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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