Rita Tushingham
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Biography: Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942) is an English actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), and Being Julia (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rita Tushingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Birthday: March 14, 1942
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Gender: Female
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Elicit
Overview: About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-23
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Overview: Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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The Human Factor
Overview: After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-19
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A Taste of Honey
Overview: While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Puffball
Overview: Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-28
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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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Straight On Till Morning
Overview: Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-09
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The Hideout
Overview: A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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The Knack... and How to Get It
Overview: A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Flying
Overview: Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives with her mother and bad step-father. Robin is accepted to the school athlethics team but is not accepted by some other girls, so she works out at a friends house. Eventually Robin and her team compete in the national scholastic meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-14
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Girl with Green Eyes
Overview: A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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Moscow in Madrid
Overview: When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a location on the plains outside Madrid, Spain and built a set to look like the Russian capital. This promotional film gives viewers a short look at the set under construction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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The Trap
Overview: A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
Genres: Adventure Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-07
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A Judgment in Stone
Overview: An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Soon her severe psychosis and her attempts to keep her sexuality from asserting itself combine to cause trouble for all concerned.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Under the Skin
Overview: Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating, Iris spirals out of control and copes by losing herself in sexual oblivion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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The Wee Man
Overview: The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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The Leather Boys
Overview: Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to drift apart. Dot seems content to pursue her own interests, until Reggie meets Pete, a fellow cyclist, and begins to explore his own identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-08
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Smashing Time
Overview: Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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The Guru
Overview: Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-10
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Mysteries
Overview: In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1978-09-07
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Fischia Il Sesso
Overview: A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant clandestine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-06
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A Place to Go
Overview: Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Pane, burro e marmellata
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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Boudica
Overview: Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-26
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The Calling
Overview: Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-23
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Overview: Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-18
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The Boy from Mercury
Overview: Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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Resurrected
Overview: A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
Genres: War Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-12
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Spaghetti House
Overview: Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Diamonds for Breakfast
Overview: Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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Rachel's Man
Overview: The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fate intervenes as Rachel's sister sleeps with Jacob and bears him a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Overview: In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles in the movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Athena Syndrome
Overview: Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They are both about to be tested in the field against a ruthless underworld army. How will they hold up? Will they survive?
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
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Gospel According to Harry
Overview: Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-12
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Overview: Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Swing
Overview: When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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Spending Nights with Joan
Overview: A drama directed by Horst Königstein.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-05-13
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Hard Days, Hard Nights
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-08-16
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Green Eyes
Overview: Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-03
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Seamonsters
Overview: Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl comes between them the friendship is torn apart and their lives are changed forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-17
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Being Julia
Overview: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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Angel Cake
Overview: A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially miraculous consequences follow for her family and friends. Her arthritic mother Millie is suddenly able to move freely, her irresponsible son Todd falls in love, and both she and her husband Ed are offered the chance of other relationships. But miracles are not all they seem.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Outside Bet
Overview: A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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Out of Depth
Overview: Seeking to avenge an attack on his mother, Paul decides to hire a local villain, Lenny, to give the attacker a beating. Lenny however has also been contracted to kill the same man and soon Paul is thrown into an impossible situation involving corrupt police chiefs, violence and intimidation.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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Black Journal
Overview: A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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Sunday Pursuit
Overview: Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new ideas. Thomas advertise under "Lonely Hearts" and receives an answer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-23
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Overview: Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-19
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Red Riding Hood
Overview: A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-10
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My Name Is Lenny
Overview: The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-09
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Paper Marriage
Overview: Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in need of citizenship in Britain.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-03-10
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Last Night in Soho
Overview: A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Slaughter Day
Overview: Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part of his plan. In the background Michael pulls the strings and mercilessly plays the actors on his stage against each other. This strategy also poses unsolvable problems for the police until something goes wrong and the house of cards collapses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Rapture of Deceit
Overview: Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with the daughter of an influential businessman. Jutka moves in with a female friend, Dóra likewise has to face a difficult choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Owners
Overview: A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-27
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Ragazzo di borgata
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Stretford Wives
Overview: The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford, Greater Manchester, England.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-01
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The American Backyard
Overview: A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary's elderly mother's house, separated by a grim garden.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-03-06
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Broken Lines
Overview: After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-02
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Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
Overview: The Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen the murder of visiting jazz singer Cab Vee, and it is up to the Five to uncover just who is plotting to kill him.
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Original Language: en
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