Maria Charles
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: September 22, 1929
Deathday: April 21, 2023
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Cor, Blimey!
Overview: Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-24
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Sisterhood
Overview: Catherine St.John-Burke is an independent, uptight, status obsessed, sophisticated, British woman, living alone in London's Chelsea, and doing herself no favors by having an affair with a married man. Her world is turned upside down when she comes home one day to discover an uneducated, Kiwi woman (with very hairy legs) drinking beer in her living room. Shirley Zachary claims to be Catherine's long lost half-sister and that their father, who Catherine thought died when she was a child, is still alive and trying to make claims on both of their properties following the death of their mothers! Furious and frustrated with Shirley's refusal to 'disappear', Shirley reluctantly agrees to undertake a DNA test.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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The Fallout Guy
Overview: Raymond Gold, a 40-year-old Walter Mitty character from Philadelphia, is recruited to pass secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians in the 1940s. His girlfriend Danica discovers that he is a fantasist while the FBI suspect him of spying. His world falls apart, with tragicomic results.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-24
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Victor/Victoria
Overview: A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-25
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The Deadly Affair
Overview: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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Sixty Six
Overview: A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Fast Hands
Overview: Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the door.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-03
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The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: This is the story of Rodya Raskalnikov (Patrick Dempsey), an intellectual who is suspended from University and is living in poverty in 19th century Russia. Raskalnikov believes that in order for great men like Napoleon to accomplish great things, they must be above the law.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-11
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Bar Mitzvah Boy
Overview: On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Hot Fuzz
Overview: Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Savage Hearts
Overview: When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head man won't rest until he gets his two million dollars back.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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Bad Girls: The Musical
Overview: Bad Girls The Musical is an original British musical based on characters from the award winning and hugely popular television drama Bad Girls. Set in the fictional HMP Larkhall, it's the story of new idealistic Wing Governor Helen Stewart and her battles with the entrenched old guard of Officer Jim Fenner and his sidekick Sylvia Hollamby. It also follows the love story that develops between Helen and charismatic inmate Nikki Wade. Other featured characters include Shell Dockley and her runner Denny Blood, old-timer Noreen Biggs, The Two Julies and the ultimate Top Dog, King-of-Gangland's missus, Yvonne Atkins. A tragic death on the wing - in which Jim Fenner is implicated - leads to an angry protest from the women and forces Helen and Nikki to their opposite sides of the bars. But when it's clear that Helen stands to lose her job over Fenner's misdeeds, the race is on for the women to nail him once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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Cuba
Overview: A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Thriller Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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A Gunman Has Escaped
Overview: In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Antonia and Jane
Overview: Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
Overview: Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sends thousands of men to their deaths for virtually no territorial gain. In Paris, Indy falls in love with the seductive German spy Mata Hari, only to suffer the pains of deceit.
Genres: Action Adventure War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-10
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Elphida
Overview: Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-08
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
Overview: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-08
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Under the Bed
Overview: A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight.
Genres: Comedy Family Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Oliver Twist
Overview: Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-15
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Geh Kinde Geh
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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