Jane Horrocks
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician, and singer. She is best known for her role as "Bubble" in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous as well as her distinctive voice. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Horrocks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England
Birthday: January 18, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Witches
Overview: A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
Genres: Fantasy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Corpse Bride
Overview: In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Chicken Run
Overview: The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-23
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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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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Overview: A blue harvest moon will rise, allowing the fairies to use a precious moonstone to restore the Pixie Dust Tree, the source of all their magic. But when Tinker Bell accidentally puts all of Pixie Hollow in jeopardy, she must venture out across the sea on a secret quest to set things right.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-03
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Tinker Bell
Overview: Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fairy is finally revealed in the all-new motion picture "Tinker Bell."
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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Life Is Sweet
Overview: Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-15
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Roots
Overview: Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political matters by her boyfriend Ronnie. Through trying to pass on what she has learned, she discovers her own voice and views.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-28
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Fifi and the Flowertots Talent Show
Overview: Join Fifi and the Flowertots in five exciting episodes. Episodes include: 'Fifi's Talent Show', 'Smelly Slugsy', 'Bumble Catches A Cold', 'Bumble's Big Race!' and 'Flowertots Fallout'.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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One Night with Robbie Williams
Overview: Promoting his 2001 jazz covers album 'Swing When You're Winning', English pop rock singer Robbie Williams fronts a 58-piece big band for a live show of crooner standards at the Royal Albert Hall in London on October 10, 2001.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-03
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Overview: A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Overview: A Dickensian mock-Gothic tale of resourceful children, evil governesses, forged wills, cruel orphanages, and goodness triumphant set against an isolated country house, in an alternate 19th century where savage packs of wolves roam the snowbound countryside.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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Gracie!
Overview: In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy's entry into the war Monty is in danger of being interned so Gracie consents to his moving to America whilst she tours Canada, fund-raising for the war effort. She is accused of deserting the country which made her famous and booed offstage, though she later tours battlefields as a singer. With the war over she regains popularity, performing 'Take Me To Your Heart Again' at the London Palladium. Banks dies in 1950 and, though still a successful singer, Gracie never regains her pre-war iconic status.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-23
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Pixie Hollow Games
Overview: Rosetta and new arrival Chloe band together to try to break the garden fairies' legendary losing streak in the Pixie Hollow Games, a sports spectacle filled with pixie pageantry, fantastic fairy events and hilarious surprises.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-24
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Getting It Right
Overview: Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ugly assistant in the barbershop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Second Best
Overview: The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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The Dressmaker
Overview: In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Something Borrowed
Overview: When a sweet old woman lends her pen to a hopeless young chap, a whirlwind of a chase ensues.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-24
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The Fifteen Streets
Overview: In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Flint Street Nativity
Overview: With angels crying in the toilets all because of a jealous Angel Gabriel, it could only be the eagerly awaited performance of the Primary school nativity play - this time with a twist! The UK's finest comedy actors take the leading roles as the eight year old performers. Through the inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out, the children's characters evolve into mirror images of thier parents, the nativity play's audience. You'll be drawn into the amusing and enchanting worlds and minds of young children and reminisce about your own childhood performances!
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
Overview: Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a sinister plot to bring up her record sales. Amazed at the posthumous record sales of Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, Marty becomes determined to arrange a similar fate for Marla, staging the perfect tragic demise. But he didn't count on Marla not being quite ready to go.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-16
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Road
Overview: A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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An Audience with Ken Dodd
Overview: Marking 40 years in show business, legendary comedian and entertainer Ken Dodd presents this comedy extravaganza, entertaining a host of celebrities including Frank Carson, Samantha Fox and Warren Mitchell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-03
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Sunshine on Leith
Overview: Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-03
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Deadly Advice
Overview: Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Cabaret
Overview: Filmed live from the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as cabaret girl Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as the bicurious Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the impish Emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside, a notorious political party grows into a brutal force.
Genres: Romance Music Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Overview: Follow Robbie as he sets out to discover a mythical tribe of lost Viking warriors to help him save his friends from another dastardly plot by the evil Blitzen and his new-found partner-in-crime The White Rabbit. Robbie is having girl trouble too - Donner is feeling neglected and decides to give Robbie an ultimatum. Can Robbie save the day, keep his girl and unravel the mystery of the Legend of the Lost Tribe?
Genres: Family Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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Inside Lidl at Christmas
Overview: Does the supermarket offer the cheapest Christmas cheer? The Wynne family put the store through its paces, to find out whether it offers the cheapest turkey and trimmings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-17
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Lion of Oz
Overview: Before Dorothy landed on the Wicked Witch of the East with her little farm house, the witch had to contend with another resident of middle America. The Lion, who was once part of the Omaha Circus, comes to Oz with the Wizard and starts on an adventure to stop the witch from obtaining the Flower of Oz. As new friends and strange characters look to him for his courage, Lion could loose exactly what it is that makes him so brave. Based upon the book by Roger S. Baum (Great-Grandson of Oz L. Frank Baum, the original author of the Oz books). Written by Max Vaughn
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-26
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Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Overview: During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop. There, she reminisces about the people and events which have made her what she is today.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-28
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How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Overview: Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-06
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Memphis Belle
Overview: The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Bremen.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-07
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The Road to Coronation Street
Overview: The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-15
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Milkshake Treats!
Overview: Hello Everyone! This is our first ever Milkshake treats DVD. We have jam-packed it with sixteen of our favourite programmes like Peppa Pig, Fifi and the Flowertots, Hi-5 and many more. It also includes the 'Milkshake Shake'! We really enjoyed making this DVD and hope you enjoy it too! Kemi, Naomi and Beth. Peppa Pig - Muddy Puddles. Hi-5 - Action Heroes. Fifi and the Flowertots - Sports Day. Insect Antics - Home is Best. Softies - Rainbow. Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - The Big Green Bug. Mechanick - The Professor's Car. The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill - The Big Fish. Funky Valley - Dippy Over the Moon. Bird Bath - Another Bob. Sailor Sid - The Birthday Surprise. Monkey Makes - Bus Driver Rock Dance. Mio Mao - The Beaver. Harry & His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs - But I Like Mud. Roobarb & Custard Too - When There Was An Elephant. Ebb & Flo - Ebb's Birthday.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
Overview: Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment in the afterlife, the cruel and greedy Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to show him how the course of his life led him to where he is - and where it will lead if he doesn't change his ways.
Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Dodger Special: Christmas
Overview: A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-04
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Pixie Hollow Bake Off
Overview: Tink challenges Gelata to see who can bake the best cake for the queen's party. Plus 10 Disney Fairies Mini-Shorts: - Just Desserts - If The Hue Fits - Dust Up - Scents And Sensibility - Just One Of The Girls - Volleybug - Hide And Tink - Rainbow's Ends - Fawn And Games - Magic Tricks
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-20
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Alive and Kicking
Overview: Gritty and powerful Screen One film that takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Lenny Henry plays a dealer convinced he is untouchable, Robbie Coltrane the ex-gangster turned drug counsellor who is determined to break him. Writer Al Hunter (The Firm) was inspired by the true story of a football team founded to help drug addicts kick their habit.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-13
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Hot Tub Britain
Overview: Britain has gone mad for hot tubs. Thousands of people are splashing out on the latest icon of social status - even if their backyards are too small and the neighbours don't like it. At the centre of the craze is Hot Tub Superstore; a family run business specialising in the weird and wonderful world of hot tubs. This quirky ob-doc follows the showroom exploits of the sales team and their customers. It reveals the often comical efforts of ingenious delivery men manoeuvring hot tubs down narrow British streets. Most tantalising of all, Hot Tub Britain takes a peek over the proverbial garden fence to examine the social politics bubbling underneath the hot tub obsession.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-09
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Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Overview: It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the village has a Santa competition, but things take a dark turn as competitors start being killed off in a host of warped and festive ways.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-16
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Born Romantic
Overview: In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Ivor the Invisible
Overview: Written by Raymond Briggs, this beautifully animated film tells the story of ten-year-old John. After being woken up early one morning. John finds a big invisible something sitting on his bed.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-24
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Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again
Overview: A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, where she goes into a lesbian bar/club, and considers revealing her gayness to her mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-07
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Suffer The Little Children
Overview: Deborah Hayes is charged with murdering her son Michael, aged 8 months. In the Police Interview Room, suffering from the immediate after-shock of the event, Deborah explains to two police officers and her solicitor why she gave her suffering son her own sleeping tablets and then attempted suicide herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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Nona
Overview: British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly woman who is causing a drain on the resources of her entire family, with her constant craving for food and demands, which everybody indulges, in spite of falling into prostitution and bankruptcy. Her two grandsons hit on the idea of marrying her off to an elderly man who runs a tobacconists and sweet kiosk, however, the latter believes that Chico is trying to hitch him up with the beautiful young Marta.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-19
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Time Travel is Dangerous!
Overview: Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in North London. One day, their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine appears outside their shop. Mixing reality with fantasy, we explore the strange and outlandish world of The Unreason, as the girls traverse space and time sourcing items to sell.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-28
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Hunting Venus
Overview: Former pop-star turned con artist Simon Delancey is kidnapped by two fans of his eighties band the Venus Hunters, and blackmailed to re-form the band for one final show.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-30
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Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
Overview: Robbie the Reindeer arrives at the North Pole, ready to take his place as navigator on Santa's Christmas sleigh team. However, Robbie is soon plagued by doubt regarding his ability, and sets out to regain his self-respect and the admiration of his team-mates.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Overview: Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit first came to life.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-26
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Overview: Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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Secret of the Wings
Overview: Tinkerbell wanders into the forbidden Winter woods and meets Periwinkle. Together they learn the secret of their wings and try to unite the warm fairies and the winter fairies to help Pixie Hollow.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-17
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Arthur Christmas
Overview: For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
Genres: Drama Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy
Overview: Zarina, a smart and ambitious dust-keeper fairy who’s captivated by Blue Pixie Dust and its endless possibilities, flees Pixie Hollow and joins forces with the scheming pirates of Skull Rock, who make her captain of their ship. Tinker Bell and her friends must embark on an epic adventure to find Zarina, and together they go sword-to-sword with the band of pirates led by a cabin boy named James, who’ll soon be known as Captain Hook himself.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-13
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Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Overview: Robbie and Donner's wedding is interrupted when Donner is kidnapped by aliens. Robbie saves the day again though with the help of his friends and an alien crystal.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Overview: Big Chris leads a chorus of characters from various animated children's television shows in a medley of seven songs: 1. "Can You Feel It" 2. "Don't Stop" 3. "Jai Ho!" 4. "Tubthumping" 5. "Never Forget" 6. "Hey Jude" 7. "One Day Like This"
Genres: Music Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Faeries
Overview: While waiting for their new home to be renovated, Nellie and her younger brother George are sent to a farm in the countryside, much to George's delight and Nellie's disgust. However, the farmhouse and the surrounding area are teeming with fey creatures. The first the two children encounter is a somewhat crotchety and unfriendly hobgoblin named Broom, who is (more or less) secretly looking after the farm.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Faeries
Overview: While waiting for their new home to be renovated, Nellie and her younger brother George are sent to a farm in the countryside, much to George's delight and Nellie's disgust. However, the farmhouse and the surrounding area are teeming with fey creatures. The first the two children encounter is a somewhat crotchety and unfriendly hobgoblin named Broom, who is (more or less) secretly looking after the farm.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Last Rumba in Rochdale
Overview: Bodney Brooks, a twelve year old master of computer controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to get back into his family’s good books. But, as ever in Bodney’s world, things don’t quite go to plan.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Never Mind the Horrocks
Overview: Jane Horrocks showcases her wide-ranging talents as a mimic and comedy performer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-19
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Swimming with Men
Overview: A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-06
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Self Catering
Overview: Alan Bleasdale's star-studded comedy/drama about the lives of five plane crash survivors stranded together on a deserted island. Starring Jane Horrocks, John Gordon Sinclair, Jennifer Ehle, Noreen Kershaw and Andrew Schofield. When a plane crashes, five very different survivors find themselves trapped together on an apparently deserted, idyllic island. Everyone else has been killed except for the five survivors that emerge from the wreckage, one unconscious. One of these people, a dedicated film-lover, makes light of their perilous situation by comparing it to countless movie plots. This leads the survivors to start their lives afresh, taking on the names and personalities of famous movie stars to cope in their interactions with each other, which leads to many hilarious and erotic encounters.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-04
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Some Kind of Life
Overview: Young housewife Alison tries to care for both her husband, who became brain-damaged after a motorbike accident, and their young child. Her husband's mother and best friend make things even more difficult.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-22
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Nightlife
Overview: An agoraphobic woman with voyeuristic impulses witnesses the kidnapping of a young man. Breaking out of her comfort zones, she strives to track down and rescue the man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-01
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Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
Overview: Hamm is an ageing, blind tyrant who is confined to a wheelchair – but soon becomes locked in a bleakly funny and subversively devastating stalemate. Endgame forms the first half of a double bill, performed alongside Samuel Beckett’s rarely-seen short play Rough for Theatre II.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-01
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Heartland
Overview: This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-21
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Overview: Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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Bad Girl
Overview: A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-14
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Butter
Overview: Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting friends and revisiting old habits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Mirrorball
Overview: Vivienne Keill and Jackie Riviera are a couple of aging stage actresses who live in vertically adjacent flats. The two are of questionable talent, and their careers seem to be at a standstill. During the course of the pilot, Vivienne has the opportunity to be cast in a new show but delivers a horrifying rendition of the standard "Send in the Clowns", thanks in part to Jackie's off-kilter advice.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Brothers of the Head
Overview: In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-28
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On the Palm
Overview: Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend....
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-05
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Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Overview: A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage down memory lane revealing how the show was made, pay tribute to much-missed castmember June Whitfield, and celebrate its ground-breaking influence on female comedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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