Sheila Reid
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Biography: Sheila Reid (born 1937) is a Scottish actress, best known for her performance as Madge Barron in Benidorm. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sheila Reid, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
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Birthday: December 21, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
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Love Without Walls
Overview: Sophie and Paul (an aspiring musician) can't pay their London rent and turn to friends and family for support. Over the course of a summer, things go from bad to worse: The couple lose everything and find themselves lost in the underbelly of life on the streets. Though frustrated, their good humour and positivity land them odd jobs and a temporary shelter.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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Hush
Overview: A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver when they see something disturbing in the back of his vehicle.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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The Alphabet Murders
Overview: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-26
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What We Did on Our Holiday
Overview: Thirty-something Nick Taylor and his wife Laura have been together for ten years and things aren't going too well. She senses her biological clock is ticking away and she wants children while Nick is not as sure. Not because he does not like kids but because he feels a child could be just one responsibility too many. Nick's problem is his elderly parents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-08
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The Winter Guest
Overview: It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth, travels to Frances' house to reconnect with her daughter and grandson, Alex. Meanwhile, old women Chloe and Lily go to a funeral, youngsters Sam and Tom cut class, and Alex gets a crush on tomboy Nita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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Felicia's Journey
Overview: Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Demons Never Die
Overview: When a young girl takes her own life, Archie and the other Suicide Kids decide to follow her lead and form a pact. But as the group begin to die on by one, Archie realizes that they have all become the target of a masked killer and that his commitment to death has become a terrifying fight for survival and a battle to protect the girl he loves. But who's the killer?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Z.P.G.
Overview: In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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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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Somewhere I've Been
Overview: Mary (Sheila Reid) is the last resident of a council estate that is due to be demolished. When the news of her eviction arrives, it has tragic ramifications for everyone involved.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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Cruel Train
Overview: In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfather. With her assistance, Ruben plots murder on the Brighton Express.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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The Touch
Overview: A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-07-14
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Brassneck
Overview: Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property speculation of the 1960s and the disillusionment with the Labour government in the early 1970s. Like most of the early work of the writers, David Hare and Howard Brenton, committed radical (if not revolutionary) socialists throughout the 1970s, it is a satirical attack on capitalist greed and corruption, full of savage, and often disturbing, humour.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-22
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The Black Room
Overview: An unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he brings there.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-09
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The Aerodrome
Overview: In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative England is taken over wholesale by 'The Air Force.' Living in the village is young Roy, who has just learned he is not who he thought he was. Attempting to forge a new sense of identity, he joins the dashing Air Force, seduced by its dynamism and direct and brutal ways.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-13
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Three Sisters
Overview: Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Containment
Overview: Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-09
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Somewhere More Central
Overview: A TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Formby. As the family gathers for Grandma's funeral, it seems to Olive that the eccentric old lady they have come to bury is far from dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-16
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Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
Overview: When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Overview: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
Overview: After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Overview: Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-07
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Murder on the Blackpool Express
Overview: A Blackpool coach driver and a tour guide get caught up in a deadly comedic conspiracy when bus passengers begin mysteriously dying one by one.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-11
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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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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-28
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Still Crazy
Overview: In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Elderflower
Overview: Emily has opened a florist, she's living her dream, but she soon learns her new venture used to be a front for an entirely different business altogether.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-01
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Death on the Tyne
Overview: Draper's Tours are taking Mildred and her care home friends on an overnight ferry trip from North Shields to Amsterdam, where things will quickly turn turbulent as the passengers and crew begin to get bumped off one-by-one. Throughout it all, Terry is still desperate to pop the question to Gemma, even if the circumstances are less than romantic.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-15
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National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Overview: The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-11
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Overview: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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Othello
Overview: General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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Dial M for Middlesbrough
Overview: Terry and Gemma are forced to take refuge in a sinister and dilapidated caravan park after their coach breaks down. During the unplanned stay, visitors and residents begin to be bumped off one by one under grizzly circumstances.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-14
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Brazil
Overview: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday
Overview: Ahead of the start of the tenth series of the award-winning ITV sitcom, this special programme talks to the show's creator and writer Derren Litten about how it was created and cast members talk about their roles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-20
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Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
Overview: Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Twelfth Night
Overview: Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John Dexter’s production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Originally broadcast on Britain’s ITV, this classic performance captures all the slapstick, puns and double entendres that have amazed and amused audiences for over four hundred years.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-12
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The Man in the Hat
Overview: The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2CV into which is squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more, coming face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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I Want What I Want
Overview: Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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The Dresser
Overview: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Overview: In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies, and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-08
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Vroom
Overview: Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubblegum pink chevrolet.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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American Friends
Overview: Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-22
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Raspberry Ripple
Overview: A clever paraplegic man, haunted by visions of imaginary gangsters, becomes desperate to leave the "cripple" facility he's stuck in. To get out, he must outwit the facility's matron and the constant surveillance of one of his fellows.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Big Wheels and Sailor
Overview: Children of long distance lorry drivers, travelling with their fathers, become involved in attempted hijacking.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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Portraits of Dangerous Women
Overview: A bored teacher, bold caretaker, passionate art dealer and young maverick meet through a bizarre road accident. At first they don't seem to have much in common, but they soon develop a genuine interest in each other, and as their pasts unravel, forge odd alliances and friendships.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-11
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