Sophie Okonedo
Also Known As: 苏菲·奥康内多, 소피 오코네도, ソフィー・オコネドー, Софі Оконедо, سوفی اوکوندو, سافی اوکوندو
Biography: Sophie Okonedo, OBE (born 1968) is a British actress and singer, who has starred in both successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels. In 2004, she gained critical acclaim for her role as Tatiana Rusesabagina, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda (2004). Her role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sophie Okonedo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: August 11, 1968
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Gender: Female
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Hotel Rwanda
Overview: Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Dirty Pretty Things
Overview: An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-05
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The Jackal
Overview: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Martian Child
Overview: A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Born With Two Mothers
Overview: A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Miss Queencake
Overview: A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Laika
Overview: Laika, the stray dog that the Soviet Union sent into orbit.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Æon Flux
Overview: 400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-30
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Young Soul Rebels
Overview: Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
Genres: Drama Mystery Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-09
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Overview: Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Genres: Crime Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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The Secret Life of Bees
Overview: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-17
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Stormbreaker
Overview: Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.
Genres: Adventure Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-21
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Return to Africa's Witch Children
Overview: Reporting on children in parts Nigeria branded as witches.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-21
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Skin
Overview: Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-07
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Mad Bad Mortal Beings
Overview: Cait, who has lost her boyfriend Marvin to another woman, sets herself a number of rituals to help overcome her loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Overview: Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Alibi
Overview: A thriller with a bit of romance and touches of black humor along the way. Greg is discovered with the dead body of his wife's lover by Marcey, a public servant moonlighting as a waitress at a party thrown by Greg for he and his wife's wedding anniversary. Marcey sets about organizing the slightly neurotic Greg in his attempts to cover up the accident.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-25
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After Earth
Overview: One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-30
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Dead Casual
Overview: The only things Wayne cares about are that Chelsea wins at the football, how much beer there is in the fridge, and his son's viewing habits. When Wayne's mates arrive to watch a match news is heard that a local policeman has been killed. The party atmosphere changes to something more sinister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-23
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Raymond & Ray
Overview: Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they’ve become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Mrs Mandela
Overview: How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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Maria's Child
Overview: Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-28
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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Overview: The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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War Book
Overview: Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-07
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Go Now
Overview: Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-16
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Heart of Stone
Overview: An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-09
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Catherine Called Birdy
Overview: A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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Whose Baby?
Overview: Hard-hitting drama about a man who discovers that he has fathered a child only when he is approached by a child support agency. A few years after the fling that led to his unknown fatherhood, the man has settled into a new life, but the establishing of his paternity makes him determined to pursue a relationship with his child, leading to a heartbreaking struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-25
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Running With The Beest
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-19
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10 Lives
Overview: A pampered cat takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt after he is rescued and loved by Rose, a kind-hearted and passionate student. When he loses his ninth life, fate steps in to set him on a transformative journey.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-18
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Janet Planet
Overview: In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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The Stranger on the Bridge
Overview: The documentary follows 26 year old Jonny Benjamin as he tries to find the man who dissuaded him from taking his own life by jumping from Waterloo Bridge in London in 2008.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-04
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Celebration
Overview: All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-26
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The Good Terrorist
Overview: The story of anti-apartheid activist John Harris - who was hanged after a fatal bombing in Johannesburg in 1964 - told by those who knew him best and through newly discovered home movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-27
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Saving Africa's Witch Children
Overview: This shocking documentary reveals the plight of young Nigerians branded as witches.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-26
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Wild Rose
Overview: A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-12
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Concorde: A Supersonic Story
Overview: Concorde: A Supersonic Story follows the story of the most glamorous aeroplane ever built - told by the people whose lives she touched. We uncover rare footage telling the forgotten row between the French and British governments over the spelling of Concorde which threatened to derail the whole project.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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Hellboy
Overview: Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-10
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This Year's Love
Overview: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a less-than-inspiring start when Danny finds out Hannah has already been fooling around with a friend's husband, so Danny takes a walk and Hannah splits with a friend to get drunk. At the airport, where the newly-weds were supposed to leave for a honeymoon, Danny meets a cleaning woman named Mary (Kathy Burke) and is immediately infatuated, while Hannah is picked up by a scruffy artist named Cameron (Dougray Scott). Elsewhere, Liam (Ian Hart), a geeky comic-art enthusiast who shares an apartment with Cameron, finds romance with Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a single mother and full-time neurotic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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Christopher Robin
Overview: Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-01
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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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National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Overview: Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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Wimbledon Official Film 2016
Overview: Both defending champions entered the Fortnight with a great deal at stake. Novak Djokovic, seeking a third successive triumph and fourth in all at the All England Club, was also halfway to achieving the calendar year Grand Slam. Serena Williams meanwhile was trying to equal Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 Major singles titles and achieve parity with the German on seven Wimbledon singles titles a piece. The Championships took a series of twists along the way. In one of the biggest upsets in recent Wimbledon history, Djokovic was beaten by the big-hitting American Sam Querrey in the third round.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-24
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Death on the Nile
Overview: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-09
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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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Age of Treason
Overview: It's 69AD in Rome and streetwise hustler Marcus Didius Falco gets caught up in the death of the son of a man close to the new emperor, Vespasian. Hired by the victim's sister to discover the truth, Falco and his newly acquired slave, the gladiator Justus, uncover plots involving a cult which reaches into the Imperial household.
Genres: History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-20
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Peaches
Overview: Frank leaves college and faces a Summer of discontent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-22
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Escaping Eritrea
Overview: An unprecedented undercover investigation into one of the world’s most repressive regimes — Eritrea. Exclusive secret footage and testimony shed new light on shocking allegations of torture, arbitrary detention and indefinite forced conscription.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-04
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Charlotte
Overview: The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.
Genres: Animation Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-13
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