Claire Skinner
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Biography: Claire Skinner is a British stage, film and television actress, best known for her role as the hapless mother Sue Brockman in the BBC sitcom "Outnumbered". Her film work includes the Mike Leigh productions "Life Is Sweet" and "Naked", "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Sleepy Hollow".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Birthday: October 07, 1964
Age: 60 years old
Gender: Female
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Sleepy Hollow
Overview: Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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You're Dead...
Overview: A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Strings
Overview: Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people - and where he least expects it - he finds true love.
Genres: Adventure Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-24
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Naked
Overview: An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-14
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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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Clockwork Mice
Overview: When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But attitudes begin to change when he makes a connection with a particularly unruly student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-22
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The Escort
Overview: Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make ends meet by working as a male escort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Class of '76
Overview: Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Eliminate: Archie Cookson
Overview: A burnt-out British spy becomes the recipient of tapes implicating senior MI-6 officers in some light treason. Before he even knows what he has, most of his office has already been killed.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-13
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The Critic
Overview: Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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You Can Choose Your Friends
Overview: Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-07
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The Trial of Tony Blair
Overview: Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-15
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Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Overview: Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-11
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
Overview: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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I.D.
Overview: Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Two Golden Balls
Overview: A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook on life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-18
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Eroica
Overview: British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-04
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The Booze Cruise
Overview: A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a booze cruise to France, with mixed success and many mishaps along the way. Events involving their wives and families back home also form a large part of the plot.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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Shoot Me!
Overview: Images of female sexuality and the insecurities and attitudes that surround women and ageing. Plus the rather unusual affects certain indigestion tablets can have on one's tongue
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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The Return of the Native
Overview: Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-04
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Overview: Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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The Rachel Papers
Overview: Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Overview: It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness - all she has to do is make a wish.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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Boxing Day
Overview: Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Isabel
Overview: An estranged couple are brought back together for their daughter's wedding, but the unavoidable presence of their past reopens old wounds, allowing historic mistakes to be renewed.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Overview: Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son's science teacher.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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Nana's Party
Overview: It is Nana's special day, and she is excited about spending the afternoon with her whole family, even Pat and Jim, who both love a great practical joke. Angela has put on a lovely spread, including a huge cake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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The Trial
Overview: In 2035, a new law holds parents responsible for their children’s crimes. Set in the United Kingdom, Dione and David Sinclair are thrust into a nightmarish legal battle when their teenage daughter, Teah, commits a serious crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-08
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