Annette Badland
Also Known As: آنت بادلند
Biography: Annette Badland (born 26 August 1950) is an English actress known for a wide range of roles on television, radio, stage, and film. She is best known for her roles as Margaret Blaine in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, Mrs. Glenna Fitzgibbons in the first season of Outlander, and Babe Smith in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK
Birthday: August 26, 1950
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Gender: Female
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Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Overview: Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known as the 'Queen of the Music Hall', who was famous at the turn of the 20th century not just for her performances on stage but also for her riotous behaviour off it. Lloyd's love life and outrageous conduct made her a target for the rising tabloid newspapers of the time. The film includes some of Lloyd's most famous songs, including 'My Old Man Said Follow the Van' and her theme song 'A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-09
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TwentyFourSeven
Overview: In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-31
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Little Voice
Overview: After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-05
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The Kovak Box
Overview: David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-18
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The Baker
Overview: Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Three and Out
Overview: A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-12
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Night of the Broken
Overview: In 1965, a Jewish doctor, Gertrude Rosen, is called to a remote care home in England to help identify and treat a dying patient. As Gertrude slowly wins the patient's trust, she discovers the horrible truth of who he is, and faces an awful dilemma. To help end his life peacefully, or let the monster suffer in pain like the millions of her people who died at his hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-01
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Mother's Milk
Overview: An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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Psycho Pussies: Mad Cat Attacks
Overview: An amusing look at lives of cats who make their owners lives hell! Cats are loveable, often hilarious but sometimes... complete psychopaths! Inter-cut with hilarious cat clips and with analyses from a vet and a cat behaviourist, we see cats in all their bonkers glory. In the UK alone, there’s a whopping 11 million felines lounging around our homes, but for some owners having a cat is a bit like sharing your sofa with a serial killer!
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-24
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Wish 143
Overview: A fifteen-year-old boy with only months to live is granted one wish from the Dreamscape Charity. But David doesn’t want to go to Disneyland or meet Gary Neville; what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
Overview: This retrospective follows Sir Michael Caine's impressive career, featuring archive clips woven together with interviews from colleagues and critics. It covers his 50-year-long career with classic films like Zulu, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job, The Man Who Would Be King and Get Carter, plus the more recent controversial British film, Harry Brown.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-26
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Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
Overview: This documentary explores the enduring popularity of one of Britain's best loved crime dramas, Midsomer Murders, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-29
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Jabberwocky
Overview: A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Angels and Insects
Overview: In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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The Grotesque
Overview: Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Syrup
Overview: A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece. Oscar nominated short film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Caught in the Act
Overview: Lucinda goes on a trip away with her two friends Katherine and Amanda and convinces them to join her on form a variety act in order to impress her childhood crush Neville, a talent agent holding a gala night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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Lace 2
Overview: While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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Chinese Whispers
Overview: Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends. When a strange young man is introduced to the group, he threatens the love, discipline and respect that have been the very basis of Kenny's authority, and all that surrounds the institution is scant protection from the madness of the world beyond.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-02
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A Quiet Passion
Overview: The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Secret Society
Overview: Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-29
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Beyond Bedlam
Overview: An experiment gone awry places a neurologist and a homicide detective in a psychopath's nightmarish world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-22
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Almost Adult
Overview: Two refugee teenage girls from Africa meet and become friends and help each other deal with the horrors in their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-28
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Legacy
Overview: Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological thriller. Haunted by his demons while holed up in his room, Malcolm ponders the ascent of his brother (Eamonn Walker), an ambitious senator with designs on the presidency.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Overview: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-13
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Two Minutes
Overview: Two brothers rob a corner shop only to be interrupted by their Nan.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-12
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Crossing to Freedom
Overview: A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-08
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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
Overview: After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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Beautiful People
Overview: In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-16
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Honest
Overview: In 1960s London, sisters Gerry, Mandy and Jo don male disguises and rob jewelry stores. Gerry also takes a job at a hip magazine in order to scope out a potential target. Sparks fly, however, between Gerry and American journalist Daniel Wheaton, and their budding romance threatens to expose the sisters' latest operation.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-26
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-05
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Overview: In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Sacred Hearts
Overview: A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Last Day of Summer
Overview: A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-07
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Captives
Overview: A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-03
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Valiant
Overview: Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-25
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CBeebies Presents: The Tempest
Overview: A magical island, a stormy shipwreck and a royal mystery!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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Club Le Monde
Overview: London, 1993: a wild range of clubbers get together to drink, drug, dance and waste the night away at one of city's most happening underground venues...Club Le Monde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Anchoress
Overview: A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a colossal sweep that takes audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival. Staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, this new production is directed by Blanche McIntyre and stars Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (East Enders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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Knights & Emeralds
Overview: A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A popular black band from school needs a drummer and he joins them, but being colour blind in this town makes life very difficult.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-11
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Summerhill
Overview: Summerhill, whose headmistress is Zoe Redhead, is a seventy year old progressive school, run on cooperative lines with pupils having an equal say in its constitution. However officious OFSTED inspector Wharton regards it as a waste of money and a means of teaching children disrespect - though his assistant Myrtle is charmed by its ambience. In a court hearing to decide the school's future barrister Geoffrey Robertson points to the many alumni from the school but also, thanks to a tip-off from a pupil, is able to reveal that Wharton had told Myrtle that the school was virtually due for closure and the inspection was purely a formality. Consequently Summerhill is saved, Myrtle gets to teach there and the children launch a pirate ship with the banner 'Freedom' to celebrate the victory. Two children whose future at the school looked uncertain are also given cause to celebrate.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-21
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The Naked Civil Servant
Overview: Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Snodgrass
Overview: In 1991 50-year old John Lennon, living on the dole in Birmingham and following the moderate success of the Beatles, recalls how he left the band in 1962 after they were persuaded to release 'How Do You Do It?' as a single, rather than 'Love Me Do'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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The Act
Overview: In 1965 - the eve of decriminalization for acts of male homosexuality in the U.K. - Matthews, a young gay man at odds with the world, discovers love, sex, and a new family in the backstreets and underground bars of Soho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-28
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The Kitchen Child
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Sisi & I
Overview: After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-03-30
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Portraits of Dangerous Women
Overview: A bored teacher, bold caretaker, passionate art dealer and young maverick meet through a bizarre road accident. At first they don't seem to have much in common, but they soon develop a genuine interest in each other, and as their pasts unravel, forge odd alliances and friendships.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-11
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Apocalypse Slough: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Overview: Gemma is delighted to be recruited by the Serious Crimes Agency, but sadly they don't want Terry because of his criminal past.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-26
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