Shirley Henderson
Also Known As: شرلی هندرسون
Biography: Shirley Henderson is a Scottish film and television actress, best known for playing Moaning Myrtle in the "Harry Potter" movie franchise as well as Jude in several "Bridget Jones" movies. She's a graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, England, UK.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Forres, Morayshire, Scotland
Birthday: November 24, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Overview: The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Trainspotting
Overview: Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-23
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Overview: Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Overview: Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Overview: When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-24
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24 Hour Party People
Overview: Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-13
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Doctor Sleep
Overview: While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Overview: Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek loves Shirley so much that he proposes to her on national television.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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A Cock and Bull Story
Overview: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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Yes
Overview: She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the cabarets. She sends him a ticket, but harbors no illusions that He will join her in this Caribbean melting pot.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Overview: London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-07
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Wonderland
Overview: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-13
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Frozen
Overview: It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another reality and from this portal Kath is trying to say something.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Overview: Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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Wild Child
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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American Cousins
Overview: Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn't the tough guy they'd expected. Gino and Settimo try to repay Roberto's hospitality by chasing off a debt collector who wants his property, but their strong arm tactics alarm him and he realises they aren't the PR consultants they claimed to be.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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The Claim
Overview: A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-29
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Topsy-Turvy
Overview: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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Life During Wartime
Overview: Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-16
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I Really Hate My Job
Overview: While anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant in London's Soho must deal with rats, arguments and kitchen-based power struggles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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The Gruffalo's Child
Overview: A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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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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Meek's Cutoff
Overview: A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-08
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Filth
Overview: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-23
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Anna Karenina
Overview: In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Everyday
Overview: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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The Look of Love
Overview: Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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The Selkie's Lover
Overview: A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwittingly falls in love with a young fisherman.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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In Secret
Overview: In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-17
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Speak Like a Child
Overview: Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate beauty of the coastline is captured in stunning panoramas, while strong performances by the young cast help to create a lyrical and poignant drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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Fishy
Overview: An unemployed misfit falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish and as her search for work flounders her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her place is at his side…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-01
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Set Fire to the Stars
Overview: An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Tale of Tales
Overview: The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-05-14
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AfterLife
Overview: High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-19
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The Trouble with Jessica
Overview: Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along. After a seemingly trivial argument, Jessica hangs herself in the garden. Tom goes to call the police when Sarah realizes if the buyer finds out, the sale will collapse, meaning definite financial ruin. The only solution - to convince Richard and Beth to take Jessica’s body to her flat and make it look like she killed herself there. If they’re clever enough about it, what could possibly go wrong?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Dreaming
Overview: Unemployed Ayrshire teenager Sammy Nelson is a dreamer, using his vivid imagination to conjure up a gallery of heroes. But far from simply providing an escape from grim reality, his dreams become weapons to confront it. With appearances by Deacon Blue. Billy Connolly and Marianne Faithful
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-24
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Blue
Overview: After her daughter has passed away, a mother senses an ethereal poltergeist-like energy around her and wants to know if her child has come home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-12
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Urban Hymn
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social worker who inspires her to use it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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Dirty Filthy Love
Overview: A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-24
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Okja
Overview: A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-28
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Wedding Belles
Overview: A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-29
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Bridget Jones's Baby
Overview: After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn - while a weekend away at a music festival, she meets a dashing American named Jack, who is everything Mark is not, and spends a night with him. A week later, she runs into newly-separated Mark, and has a one-night dalliance. In an unlikely twist, she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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T2 Trainspotting
Overview: After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Bumping the Odds
Overview: The first of three contemporary love stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. A working-class Scotswoman tries to save her deeply indebted friend from Glasgow’s inner city loan sharks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-06
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Overview: Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he's over twenty years her junior isn't the only thing causing problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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I Swear
Overview: John Davidson, diagnosed with Tourette's at 15 and targeted as insane by his peers, struggled with a condition few had witnessed. Campaigning for Tourette's as an adult, he accepted his MBE from the Queen in 2019.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
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Rob Roy
Overview: In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Genres: Adventure History Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-13
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Intermission
Overview: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Einstein's Big Idea
Overview: Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among Einstein's ideas, E = mc2 is by far the most famous. Yet how many people know what it really means? In a thought-provoking and engrossing docudrama, NOVA illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unraveling the story of how it came to be.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-11
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On the Road
Overview: North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
Genres: Drama Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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The Nutcracker
Overview: In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Music Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-24
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Salt on Our Skin
Overview: A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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Never Steady, Never Still
Overview: A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-09
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Stan & Ollie
Overview: With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-28
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May Contain: Nuts
Overview: When the going gets tough, the mums get tougher and will do almost anything to ensure their children get into the best school!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-11
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Greed
Overview: A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-07
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-21
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Overview: The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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The Skywalker Legacy
Overview: The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-18
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How The Earth Must See Itself
Overview: Based on The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd and the performance project Into The Mountain by Simone Kenyon. A homage to Scotland’s Cairngorm Mountains, with a dreamlike voice over by Shirley Henderson and a polyvocal score by by Hanna Tuulikki.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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See How They Run
Overview: In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Glenrothan
Overview: After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Donal to take over the family's whisky distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the family's legacy. But their reunion forces the brothers to confront the past and the real reason Donal left Glenrothan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Elio
Overview: Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-06-18
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