Gillian Hanna
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 20, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 18, 2019
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Oliver Twist
Overview: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Crime Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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Woman of the Wolf
Overview: This fairy-tale-like drama, based on a 1904 short story by American poet and feminist author Renée Vivien, tells two opposing versions of the same narrative: one told verbally by Pierre Lenoir, a male narrator at a Victorian dinner party; the other told visually through the behavior of an unnamed woman who meets him on a fantasy cargo boat. The intercutting of the two stories creates a tension between the different world views of the woman and the man.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Heart Surgeon
Overview: Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-04
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Mr. Nice
Overview: Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Overview: A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-18
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The Heart of Me
Overview: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Genius
Overview: New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-10
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15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Overview: A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-18
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National Theatre Live: Treasure Island
Overview: It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
Genres: Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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All the Queen's Men
Overview: A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-14
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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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Ethel & Ernest
Overview: This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Safe
Overview: Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-13
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