Amanda Donohoe
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Biography: Amanda Donohoe (born 29 June 1962) is an English actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Donohoe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: June 29, 1962
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Gender: Female
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Liar Liar
Overview: Fletcher Reed, a fast-talking, habitual liar, divorced father, is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He is used to giving priority to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher often lets Max down, by missing his son's birthday party. But even then at 8:15 Max decides to make him an honest man as he wishes for a whole day where his father can't lie. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday, he only has one wish - for his father to stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest obstacle
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Overview: The war against the Bugs continues! A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck. It's up to Colonel/General Johnny Rico, reluctant hero of the original Bug Invasion on Planet P, to lead a team of Troopers on a daring rescue mission.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-19
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The Lair of the White Worm
Overview: On a farm owned by Eve Trent and her sister Mary, young archaeologist Angus Flint discovers a large and inexplicable skull, which he soon deduces belonged to the D'Ampton Worm, a mythical beast supposedly slain generations ago by the ancestor of the current Lord D'Ampton. The predatory Lady Sylvia Marsh soon takes an interest in both Flint and the virginal Eve, hinting that the vicious D'Ampton Worm may still live.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-21
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The Madness of King George
Overview: Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-28
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A Knight in Camelot
Overview: Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-08
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The Rainbow
Overview: Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins to feel trapped by her prim surroundings, but her life changes when she has an erotic experience with Winifred, a bisexual teacher. From then on, Ursula puts all of her passion and creativity into the pursuit of sexual fulfillment. But her insatiable quest becomes a source of anguish.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Circus
Overview: Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he hires Leo to kill Gloria, Julius's wife. Leo does it, but then Julius shows up with the murder on tape, saying Gloria isn't his wife - it's blackmail. Leo's bookie, Troy, is also closing in, wanting to be paid. Bruno and Lily as well as Bruno and Julius have their own scams running, and Leo is their target. Maybe Leo can get Troy off his back, avoid Moose (Bruno's huge enforcer), send Gloria's corpse out of England, turn the tables on Bruno's murderous brother Caspar, and outfox Lily. Or is Lily his fox? It's a three-ring circus.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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Castaway
Overview: Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-05
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Paper Mask
Overview: A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Foreign Body
Overview: Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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The Real Howard Spitz
Overview: Howard Spitz is a cranky, has-been detective novelist out of money and out of luck - until he meets eight-year-old Samantha, who convinces him he has what it takes to write children's books.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Dark Obsession
Overview: Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Lucky Day
Overview: Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed by an unknown assailant. Though discouraged from doing so by investigating detective Marinello, Nora insists upon trying to solve Bill's murder herself.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-27
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It's Nothing Personal
Overview: An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-01
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The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star
Overview: A priceless relic is stolen from identical royals Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy, who enlist the help of their sketchy look-alike cousin Fiona Pembroke to retrieve it.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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The Calling
Overview: Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-23
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The Last Belle
Overview: The Last Belle is an animated short featuring two characters journeying towards a blind date: WALLY, who suffers a nightmarish drunken trip through London as he races against the clock to the rendezvous; and ROSIE, who waits in a bar dreaming of how wonderful her date is going to be...if he ever turns up.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-18
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The Substitute
Overview: A high school substitute English teacher resorts to murder to protect her murderous dark past while seducing a student who begins to suspect her true identity.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-22
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Hooded Angels
Overview: A gang of women wreak vengeance upon the society that failed them.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-23
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Wild About Harry
Overview: A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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Stardust
Overview: A scientist finds his newest invention; a microchip that infuses inanimate objects with human qualities co-opted by the company he works for, which wants to capitalize on his findings. Knowing his creation can be used for evil purposes, he stashes it away, but his 11-year-old son, Charlie (Jared Robbins), finds it and implants it into a vacuum cleaner he calls Stardust. Will he manage to elude his dad's greedy bosses?
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Frankie and Johnnie
Overview: When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-02
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Shame
Overview: A tough female lawyer on holiday ends up in a small Pacific Northwest town where she befriends a local teenage girl and tries to persuade her to to press charges against the young thugs who raped her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-18
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Phoenix Blue
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Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Shame II: The Secret
Overview: A motorcycle riding lawyer fights to save the life of a mentally retarded man on death row. His own mother is ready to let him go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-07
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Tank Malling
Overview: Tank is an investigative reporter and jailbird, framed on scant evidence supplied by the London mob. Helen is the sensuous call-girl who offers Tank ammunition and retribution. But, retaliation is swift and brutal, in the guise of Sir Robert Knights and his equally lethal lawyer, Dunboyne. A series of hideous murders follow as the devil protects his own. Only Malling and Helen can halt the onslaught. But, for how long, and at what price?
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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The Laughter of God
Overview: Amanda Donohoe and Peter Firth star in Tony Bicât’s unnerving thriller about a poisoned marriage in which both people are locked in passionate affairs and fantasizing about murder
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-10
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Rik Mayall Presents: Briefest Encounter
Overview: Having just met at a party, Siobhan brings back Greg to her flat for what might be a night of of unbridled passion. Greg really thinks his luck's in but things don't go quite according to plan as he doesn't account for Siobhan's pet dog putting a spanner in the works when it attacks him. Forced to defend himself Greg seemingly kills his beautiful hosts beloved pet and in attempting to cover up it's demise the night descends in to a chaotic night of misunderstood intentions which neither will ever forget...that's if either lives to remember it.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-27
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Gladiatrix
Overview: Based on the discovery of an unusual Roman-era grave found in England, this documentary investigates the role of women warriors in ancient Rome and speculates on the possibility of a 'Gladiatrix,' or a female gladiator.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-08
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Star Quality
Overview: Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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Blue Iguana
Overview: He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-23
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One Night Stand
Overview: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Overview: Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love, Tommy and The Devils. Friends and admirers - including Glenda Jackson, Terry Gilliam, Twiggy, Melvyn Bragg, Robert Powell and Roger Daltrey - recall a pioneering documentary-maker, talented photographer and fearless film director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-14
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An Affair in Mind
Overview: A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish husband and the idea of "accidental" death comes up. The writer doesn't go through with it and they break off. However, she's not done with him yet.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-05
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Deep Secrets
Overview: Gripping drama about an undercover police officer who infiltrates the Manchester underworld to investigate a brutal murder, and his method of getting to know what's happening is to seduce the gang leader's sexy wife
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-06
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Trafficker
Overview: When a young Vietnamese-Australian thug botches a gangland assassination and runs into serious debt with his triad, his younger brother is forced to embark on a harrowing drug run from Vietnam to pay off the mob bosses.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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The Atlantis Conspiracy
Overview: Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide whether she wants to reconnect with the life she abruptly left behind. When a mystery stemming from a suicide draws her in, she and two friends, a young bookie and a cynical federal agent, seek to uncover the truth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Last Days of George Michael
Overview: The final days of the late singer, George Michael.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-23
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