Joanna Scanlan
Also Known As: Jo Scanlan, Ms. Joanna Scanlan, Joanna Scanlon
Biography: Joanna Scanlan is a British actress and television writer, best known for her roles in various British comedy series, such as The Thick of It, Doctors and Nurses, Getting On, Catherine Dickens in period drama, The Invisible Woman and Little Britain. Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: West Kirby, Merseyside, England, UK
Birthday: October 27, 1961
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Gender: Female
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Notes on a Scandal
Overview: A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Overview: This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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Ropey
Overview: A jet-black dramedy about love, loss and the complexities of mental health.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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Kinky Boots
Overview: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-30
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The Moon and the Stars
Overview: 1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each others' initial antagonism and eventually fall in love. Meanwhile the fascist police are looking for an excuse to arrest the Jewish filmmaker and any other potential "troublemakers." The producer and his crew decide to make one final extraordinary effort to complete the film - against all odds.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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The Invisible Woman
Overview: In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Hot Hot Hot
Overview: Ferdinand is a long-standing employee at Fish Land, the aquatic centre within the globalised leisure complex "Worlds Apart". He's a small, bald forty year-old, and a solitary, anxious introvert, entirely devoted to his passion for fish. But Ferdinand's obsessive little existence is turned upside down the day Fish Land closes down for six months of renovation. He is transferred to another section of "Worlds Apart", the Finnish-Turkish Delight spa, entirely geared towards the pleasure of saunas and steam rooms. Ferdinand is suddenly thrown into a world of nudity, sensuality, relaxation and letting go... In short, everything he could possibly be afraid of! HOT HOT HOT is the belated journey of initiation of an inhibited little man, who slowly but surely learns to open up to the pleasures of life. It paints a colourful yet sensitive picture of a world caught between artificiality and authenticity, between norm and peculiarity.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-24
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Dylan's Room
Overview: A mother finds a way back to her lost son.
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Original Language: en
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Get Santa
Overview: A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-05
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Tabby McTat
Overview: Busker Fred and his cat Tabby McTat entertain and delight passersby with music across London. One day, Fred falls, injures his leg, and is whisked away in an ambulance, leaving Tabby alone on the city's streets.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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This Is Christmas
Overview: Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire carriage to hold their own Christmas party together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-04
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Wicked Little Letters
Overview: When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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Grow Your Own
Overview: A refugee family are given an allotment plot and are met with suspicion by the people who have worked the gardens for years
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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In the Loop
Overview: The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-22
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The Rising of the Sap
Overview: When her daughter Bea abruptly arrives home, Elizabeth struggles to keep her from being unwittingly drawn into the power of The Rising.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-11
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A Little Trip to Heaven
Overview: Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt examines the scene of the wreck, it all seems a bit too perfect. And when he interviews Isold Mcbride and her shifty husband, Fred -- the impoverished beneficiaries of the massive, recently initiated life-insurance policy -- he begins to suspect that something is amiss.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-26
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Fungus The Bogeyman
Overview: Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next door comes to life on Sky 1. Timothy Spall, Victoria Wood and Keeley Hawes star
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-27
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Testament of Youth
Overview: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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The Deal
Overview: It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-28
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The Announcement
Overview: A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly drink and drug-fuelled party, the event is like many such evenings. That is, until Beth and Ross make an announcement. They tell those assembled that they have secretly married. The impact is not as simple as they had expected. We then track the events of the evening as the news affects each person in turn. Instead of the absolute approval Ross and Beth had hoped for, the news throws a harsh spotlight on everyone's relationship and notions of marriage. The film explores the confused attitudes of a generation whose model of love and romance is complex and demanding. The evening degenerates into a rash of revelations and discoveries about all of the friends, but most dramatically it unravels Ross and Beth's relationship in a way neither of them could have foreseen. This is no fairytale
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Overview: In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they navigate the complexities of intergalactic culture and the trials of first love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Stardust
Overview: In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-10
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The Rise of the Nutters
Overview: With Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior minister Ben Swain. He is one of the 'Nutters', the group keen to take power when the P.M. resigns and keen to make a name for himself - which he does in the wrong sense when Jeremy Paxman skewers him on 'Newsnight'. This is music to Tucker's ears as it is in his interest for the P.M. to remain in power for as long as he can. Ollie's new girlfriend Emma is working for Shadow Minister Peter Mannion and hopes to impress by stealing one of Ollie's idea for use on their immigration policy though things do not go fully to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-02
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A Rather English Marriage
Overview: A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Maxwell
Overview: Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests status with fellow mogul Rupert Murdoch and descends into marital and monetary chaos.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-04
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Tulip Fever
Overview: An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-13
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-09
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Overview: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-28
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Pin Cushion
Overview: Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes 'best friends' with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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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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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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40 Year Old Virgins
Overview: Most of us lose our virginity in our teens or early twenties. But for some, problems having sex for the first time overshadow their lives. Clive, aged 45, from Hertfordshire, and 29-year-old Irish-born Rosie, are both virgins – and not through choice. Now they’ve decided it’s time to lose it. This film follows Clive and Rosie as they embark on a radical course of sex therapy in the USA where they work intensively with a therapist and professional sex surrogate partner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-28
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The Bad Education Movie
Overview: Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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The Angina Monologues
Overview: Victoria Wood takes to the stage with an all female bill for a night of comedy in support of The British Heart Foundation to help raise awareness of heart disease in women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Wild Honey Pie!
Overview: A wanna-be author feels pressured to move beyond her meandering writing career and get a more stable job. She decides to organize a Shakespeare festival, a plan that could have tricky ramifications for her marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-12
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How to Build a Girl
Overview: The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-24
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After Love
Overview: Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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Spinners and Losers
Overview: Peter Mannion's speech on immigration, leaking the PM's policy, did not have the effect Tucker desired and now the PM is resigning, leaving the way clear for the Nutters and their leader Tom. Ollie has been promised a job by young Nutter Ben Swain, Tucker's assistant has encouraged Hugh's predecessor Cliff to stand as a stalking horse and Glenn is keen to keep Hugh in the frame whilst his boss is in Australia. Fortunately Tom has a dark secret which is just what Tucker is looking for but will it be enough?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-03
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Don vs Lightning
Overview: When Don, an elderly Scottish grump, finds himself the victim of multiple lightning strikes he begins to worry that his quiet, orderly life may never be the same again.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-22
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Joy
Overview: A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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Rhubarb Rhubarb
Overview: In Yorkshire's legendary “rhubarb triangle”, Jo and her aging father cultivate the delicate pink herbaceous plant for which the region was famous a century ago. They harvest by candlelight, like their ancestors before them, and nothing could prepare them for the imminent threat looming in the darkness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-01
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Poe
Overview: A biography of Edgar Allan Poe wraps around four of his most famous tales and several of his poems.
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Original Language: en
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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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