Anna Friel
Also Known As: Anna Louise Friel, Άννα Φριλ, 安娜佛芮, آنا فریل, آنا فرییِل
Biography: Anna Louise Friel (born 12 July 1976) is an English actress. She rose to fame in the UK as Beth Jordache on the Channel 4 soap Brookside. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Friel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: July 12, 1976
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Gender: Female
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic entanglements abound in the woods, with married fairy rulers Titania and Oberon toying with various lovers and each other.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-20
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Rogue Trader
Overview: Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-25
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Me Without You
Overview: During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Three Kisses and a Funeral
Overview: An examination of the impact that lesbian characters have had on breaking television taboos. Actresses Anna Friel (Beth in BROOKSIDE) and Michelle Joseph (Della in EASTENDERS) add their views and experiences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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Goal!
Overview: Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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Timeline
Overview: A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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Goal II: Living the Dream
Overview: Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Irish Jam
Overview: Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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An Everlasting Piece
Overview: Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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The War Bride
Overview: During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Bathory: Countess of Blood
Overview: Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to men’s aspirations for power and wealth.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-10
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Niagara Motel
Overview: A porn producer (Kevin Pollak), an alcoholic (Craig Ferguson), a drug-addicted mother (Anna Friel) and others struggle to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-23
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Overview: Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-22
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Mad Cows
Overview: When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Watermelon
Overview: A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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The Land Girls
Overview: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue, and Cambridge graduate Ag - become best friends in spite of their different backgrounds.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Land of the Lost
Overview: On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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London Boulevard
Overview: A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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St. Ives
Overview: In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Limitless
Overview: The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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The Tribe
Overview: Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-21
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Treasure Guards
Overview: On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old temple. It is encrypted with the location of the long lost Seal of Solomon, which, according to legend, was given to King Solomon by God himself. But this mighty treasure is also being sought by, amongst others, Victoria’s estranged father, renowned archaeologist Teddy Carter, who’s soon hot on its trail.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Sunset Strip
Overview: A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he doesn't see. Tammy is a costume designer, open to quick sex with the various rockers she works with and loved from afar by Michael, a photographer recovering from a case of the clap. His good friend is Felix, a morose, alcoholic songwriter. On hand for comic relief is Marty Shapiro, a fast-talking record producer. Getting ready for the gig at the club, Zach's performance, and the early-morning aftermath comprise the film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-18
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Perfect Strangers
Overview: When a man and a woman swap jobs and cities temporarily, they face many problems large and small, but their phone calls develop into romance.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-17
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The Look of Love
Overview: Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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Theatreland
Overview: 8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow. Also covers the early stages of Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Anna Friel and Joseph Cross.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Stringer
Overview: Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Good People
Overview: Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-12
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Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
Overview: A huntsman is punished for stumbling upon naked nymphs. A visual adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphis' telling of the ancient myth.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-01
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Having You
Overview: Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-04
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My Sister's Bones
Overview: Kate Rafter is back to home after a horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother. While packing up her mother's belongings she comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.
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Original Language: en
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The Cleanse
Overview: The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-04
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The Psychopath Next Door
Overview: She drops in and starts disrupting this close, cozy little community. She wants to be queen bee But there's already one. so she sets out to destroy her. This means having to break her legs, then feeding her cake so she gets fat, stealing her friends, etc...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-01
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Rubbish
Overview: A man dumps the garbage of his neighbours. Little does he know that this is going to affect his relationship to a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-24
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Locked In
Overview: A kindly nurse tries to unlock the secrets of a coma patient's injuries — and discovers the bitter rivalry, infidelity, betrayal and murder behind them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
Overview: Hitler was obsessed by this English opera singer who was working for MI6 and hiding escaped British airmen in her Berlin apartment. She sang to British PoWs, worked with MI6 spy John Brown and eventually gave evidence at war crimes trials.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-10
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Fields of Gold
Overview: A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at a cottage hospital. But why is the new environment minister keeping tabs on their every move? The TV movie tackles controversial topics like genetically modified plants, the role of large pharmaceutical companies and the question of control of state and government
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-08
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I.T.
Overview: Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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I Am Urban
Overview: A hard living, disillusioned, ex social worker becomes the unlikely savior to an anarchic gang of joy-riding, drug taking, thieving, out of control, care home runaway kids.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-02
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Tomato Red
Overview: When small town drifter Sammy Barlach (Jake Weary, “Animal Kingdom”) drives into town on the search for his next cold beer and opportunity, he gets more than he bargained for. Food, lodging and surprising possibilities of a better future fall into his lap thanks to redhead Jamalee (Julia Garner, “Ozark”) and her brother Jason (Nick Roux, “Jane by Design”). But breaks don’t come easy in Venus Holler. Finding themselves powerless against the forces of corruption and prejudice, Sammy has to fight.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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Last Rumba in Rochdale
Overview: Bodney Brooks, a twelve year old master of computer controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to get back into his family’s good books. But, as ever in Bodney’s world, things don’t quite go to plan.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Sea
Overview: On a grey day, a woman sits alone on a beach and calmly watches the birds. As she sits, she is joined by various people who make up the tapestry of her life, in a film about the fragile, fallible and human stories that compose our memories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-10
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The Amazing Spider-Man T4 Premiere Special
Overview: A TV special of the Amazing Spider-Man Premiere.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
Overview: Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from the London Palladium.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Sulphur & White
Overview: David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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Books of Blood
Overview: A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-07
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Charming the Hearts of Men
Overview: A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional ally, she inspires historic legislation which allows opportunities and protections never before afforded to women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-13
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Untitled Jimmy McGovern Drama
Overview: Centres around the Mitchell family, who are dealing with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse, and the knowledge that it was perpetrated by a member of their own family who, after serving his sentence, has just been released from prison
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Hear Me Roar
Overview: Elizabeth Bellinger became one of the few transgender people in Britain to get married in the 1980s. She kept this ceremony secret from almost everyone until 2000 when she launched a campaign to have her marriage to Michael Bellinger legally recognized and the case went to the courts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Beneath
Overview: Following the unexpected death of her mother, war correspondent Kate Rafter returns from Iraq to the family home in Herne Bay. She finds herself face to face with her estranged sister and house full of buried secrets. Kate is forced to confront the past and the demons she left behind, leading her to believe that something sinister might be at play in this sleepy seaside town.
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Original Language: en
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