Jack Shepherd
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Jack Shepherd is an English actor, playwright, theatre director, saxophone player and jazz pianist, who made his film debut in 1969 with All Neat in Black Stockings and The Virgin Soldiers. He is perhaps best known for his television roles, most notably the title role in detective drama Wycliffe. His daughter Catherine Shepherd is also an actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Birthday: October 29, 1940
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Gender: Male
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The Golden Compass
Overview: After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-04
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God on Trial
Overview: In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-03
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Wonderland
Overview: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-13
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Sons and Lovers
Overview: An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Into the Storm
Overview: This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-31
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Man and Boy
Overview: When television executive Harry has a one-night-stand, his wife Gina walks out on him, leaving Harry to look after the couple's young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-30
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Trust Me
Overview: Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-25
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All Neat in Black Stockings
Overview: A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-10
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Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Overview: In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-16
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The Unborn
Overview: A physicist has apocalyptic visions of his unborn baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-15
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Overview: Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, before being ousted by her younger sister, Anne. Mary leaves the Court to marry a commoner, but returns when Anne embarks on a reckless policy to save herself from ruin.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Blue Black Permanent
Overview: In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Twenty-one
Overview: Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Body Contact
Overview: In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-06
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The Virgin Soldiers
Overview: The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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Hope In The Year Two
Overview: In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Guillotine. His accusers are so afraid of the strength of his popular support that they have imprisoned a decoy to frustrate any attempt to rescue him. A young guard must decide if his prisoner is the real Danton - and whether it is too risky to help him.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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A Woman at War
Overview: Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine joins the underground resistance movement and strikes the Nazis from within...by joining the infamous Gestapo.
Genres: Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-10
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A Dad for Christmas
Overview: Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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Count Dracula
Overview: Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-22
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A Cock and Bull Story
Overview: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Overview: Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-25
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Overview: A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-11
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Escape from Sobibor
Overview: The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Genres: Drama Thriller War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-12
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Nina
Overview: Play for Today about Russian dissidents.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-17
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All Good Men
Overview: On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls his family together for a birthday celebration that results in dramatic revelations.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Occupations
Overview: In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered assistance by Kabak (who has just arrived from Moscow) but Gramsci soon realizes Kabak is not motivated by ideology, as he has other motives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-01
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Blue Ice
Overview: An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Greyhawk
Overview: A reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran is prompted into action when his only friend goes missing on a down-at-heel council estate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-28
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Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Overview: Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Shoot to Kill
Overview: Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-03
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Lights and Shadows
Overview: This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the famous picture of the Spanish king and his court. In order to return to the real world, he must convince the artist to create his famous painting. The other plot involves a film director who is not sure how his film within a film will be created. He is distracted by his troubled marriage and has difficulty focusing on his project.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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No Escape
Overview: In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Lorna Doone
Overview: The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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Two Days That Shook the Branch
Overview: Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-09
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The Act
Overview: Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special 'entertainment', devised by a mysterious Nazi captain. When they discover where they are to perform, they find themselves with an appalling dilemma.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-09
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Misterioso
Overview: On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-25
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Overview: A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-22
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The Big Man
Overview: An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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A Pint of Plain
Overview: 'A Pint of Plain' was filmed on location in and around Shepherd's Bush, here in West London. Because O'Sullivan enabled his actors to use improvisation and gave them no formal script, the film has a raw, gripping and truthful 'drama – documentary' feel about it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Through the Night
Overview: The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-02
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The Bed Sitting Room
Overview: In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-01
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Charlotte Gray
Overview: This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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The Object of Beauty
Overview: American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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The Only Boy for Me
Overview: Annie, a single mother who is devoted to her son Charlie, starts a relationship with Mack. The problems start when Mack asks Annie and Charlie to move to New York with him.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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Tales from Hollywood
Overview: A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-18
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The Ballad of Ben Bagot
Overview: Ben Bagot is 17; bright, charming and attractive, but he has difficulty setting his sights on reality and always makes the wrong decisions for himself and others. Faced with a pregnant girlfriend, he 'chucks' his job in a shoe shop without any future plans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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The Hospice
Overview: When he loses his way on a country road and is bitten by an animal, Maybury stumbles across a strange house where an extravagant dinner is taking place.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Something to Hide
Overview: A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Martins
Overview: Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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The Scarlet Tunic
Overview: Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor (Emma Fielding) in this period tearjerker adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy. Longing to escape their own personal imprisonments -- he, his service to the king, and she, her engagement to a man she doesn't love -- they find solace in each other's arms.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Roll On Four O'Clock
Overview: Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform to the macho culture and is labeled a homosexual, leading to bullying by both the pupils and some of the teachers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-19
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Scoop
Overview: Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-26
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Greed
Overview: A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-07
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Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Overview: Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his headmaster, his pupils, his young bride and her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-28
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A Room for the Winter
Overview: James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-03
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Hard Travelling
Overview: Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys whose encounters along the way bring humour, some comfort, but also danger.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-30
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Crimestrike
Overview: What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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The Angry Earth
Overview: About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Party
Overview: 10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a dialogue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Overview: Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negative be accepted, ensuring his pension prospects?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-18
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