Miriam Margolyes
Also Known As: Miriam Margolyes, OBE, میریام مارگولیس
Biography: Miriam Margoyles OBE (born May 18, 1941) is a British-Australian actress, writer, political activist and television personality, most prominent as a character actor on stage and screen. Her earliest roles were in theatre and, following a transition to film and television, she won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oxford, England, UK
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Birthday: May 18, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Female
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Romeo + Juliet
Overview: In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Overview: Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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James and the Giant Peach
Overview: When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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I Love You to Death
Overview: Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time, she goes to extreme lengths to punish him.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Overview: The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Mulan
Overview: To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-18
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The Last Artifact
Overview: Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys, rests a small metallic cylinder about the diameter of a golf ball. Encased within three vacuum-sealed bell jars it may not look like much, but it is one of the most important objects on the planet. It affects nearly every aspect of our lives from the moment we are born, to the food we eat, the cars we drive, and even the medicines we take. The Last Artifact follows the high-stakes race to redefine the weight of the world reveals the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet. The kilogram, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units, helped send humans to the moon and satellites into space. This small hunk of metal is the object against which all others are measured. Yet over time, its mass mysteriously eroded by the weight of an eyelash. A change that, unbeknownst to most, unleashed a crisis with potentially dire consequences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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The Age of Innocence
Overview: In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Pacific Heights
Overview: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Undertaking Betty
Overview: A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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Scotch & Wry
Overview: Video Compilation of the Scottish TV Comedy Sketch Show. Stand out characters include Supercop, an idiot motorcycle policeman whose catchphrase was 'Alright Stirling, oot the car' and whose goggles would spring off his helmet; Dirty Dickie Dandruff; Gallowgate Gourmet, the unbelievably unhygienic TV chef; and McGlinchey, a colourful wide-boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-03
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Cats & Dogs
Overview: When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy. The fur flies as the feline faction, led by Mr. Tinkles, squares off against wide-eyed puppy Lou and his canine cohorts.
Genres: Family Comedy Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Flushed Away
Overview: London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-22
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Babe: Pig in the City
Overview: Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-25
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Cold Comfort Farm
Overview: In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Overview: Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-12
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End of Days
Overview: On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city and searching for his chosen bride — a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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Babe
Overview: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-18
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Happy Feet
Overview: Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-16
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Immortal Beloved
Overview: A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-16
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Overview: When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-10
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Alone
Overview: Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can silence the horror of a tortured soul. As the quest becomes darker and more sinister Alex's fear filled stalking leaves behind a trail of dead bodies. Inspector Hannah is the detective who makes a desperate attempt to piece together the mystery as he is drawn into this terrifying journey.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-11
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The Dukes
Overview: The Dukes,a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. Their manager is desperately trying to get them work but is met with failure at every turn. Finally pushed to the extreme , they pull a heist only a fool would attempt, which leaves them even more desperate. When all seems lost, they find themselves.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-23
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The Good Father
Overview: Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Little Dorrit
Overview: A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film originally released in two parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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The Awakening
Overview: When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-09
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The Apple
Overview: In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subsequently a maze of drugs, sex, and temptation.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Sunshine
Overview: The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Electric Dreams
Overview: Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after having champagne spilled on it. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbor.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-20
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Magnolia
Overview: On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Overview: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Scrubbers
Overview: Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-24
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Mog's Christmas
Overview: Mog feels a little ignored during the Thomas family's Christmas preparations. When she spots the huge Christmas tree, she freaks out and climbs to the roof, where she refuses to move no matter how hard the family tries.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-17
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Stalin
Overview: The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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The First Snow of Winter
Overview: Sean is a little duck with a big problem. Due to a mishap with a jet aircraft Sean misses the annual migration South and has to face the winter alone. However, he is befriended by a water vole, and with Vole's help, Sean learns the lessons of survival, and most importantly, the value of friendship.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Overview: After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-23
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Different for Girls
Overview: Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys' school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Dead Again
Overview: In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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The Wedding Video
Overview: When the rogueish but loveable Raif is asked to be his brother Tim's best man at his wedding, he decides the best present for the happy newlyweds would be to catch the entire thing on video. He returns home from abroad to find his brother is no longer the bohemian vagabond that he used to be, and is in fact marrying into a very wealthy family, and the wedding they're about to be part of will be the most outlandish and bizarre that Cheshire has ever seen... Thank the lord Raif has caught it all on tape!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-17
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Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Overview: A look back at the making of the entire Blackadder series to commemorate its 40th anniversary, featuring contributions from Blackadder's biggest fans including Jack Whitehall, Darren Harriott, Sarah Hadland, Ardal O'Hanlon and Nina Wadia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-16
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My Happy Ending
Overview: A famous actress goes incognito to seek treatment for a medical issue, and in a hospital waiting room she meets three remarkable women who help her face adversity with humor and camaraderie.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
Overview: Marjorie the cow lives in a run-down stable in the middle of Bethlehem. Nothing exciting ever happens in Bethlehem until now… there’s a census or something and there’s going to be some sort of street party – that’s what Marje has heard, anyway!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-19
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The Long Way Home
Overview: The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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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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Naughty Girls
Overview: A travelogue depicting the adventures of English girls when they visit the Far East.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Overview: Miriam Margolyes is one of Britain’s best loved and most provocative actresses. Across her eclectic career, she has played scene-stealing turns in Blackadder, voiced some of our most well-known adverts and found fame internationally as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-25
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The Ha-Ha
Overview: A young woman has a mental breakdown in a state institution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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Liberation
Overview: Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II - the Allied campaign to liberate Europe and Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews. The World War II documentary uses film footage, radio broadcasts, and period music gathered from archives around the world. Interwoven throughout the film are the compelling stories of the Jews of Europe - unforgettable stories of tragedy, courage, resistance, and survival. Liberation begins in 1942, when Adolf Hitler was still at the height of his power and the Allies began envisioning a cross-channel invasion of Europe.
Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Sir Billi
Overview: An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to save an illegal fugitive - Bessie Boo the beaver!
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Overview: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth, film and television personalities take turns championing their favourite of Dahl's 10 best-selling children’s books, culminating in a nationwide vote. Rik Mayall reads from George’s Marvellous Medicine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-04
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The Seventeenth Kind
Overview: Black comedy scifi about a washed up TV presenter who doesn't let small things like alien invasions stop him from broadcasting.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-01
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The Lifeswappers
Overview: Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-12
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The Itch of the Golden Nit
Overview: Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-28
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Unexplained Laughter
Overview: Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-25
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As You Like It
Overview: Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Overview: Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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A Nice Girl Like Me
Overview: Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-23
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Overview: Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-04
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Overview: Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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Reds
Overview: An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Morons from Outer Space
Overview: The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Little Shop of Horrors
Overview: Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-19
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Orpheus Descending
Overview: Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Overview: Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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The Butcher's Wife
Overview: A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-25
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Ed and His Dead Mother
Overview: A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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Balto
Overview: An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Ladies in Lavender
Overview: Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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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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Modigliani
Overview: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-18
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Wallis & Edward
Overview: In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and Edward is the first time that the events have been considered from Wallis's point of view. The drama follows the beginning of their affair whilst Edward was Prince of Wales and Wallis was still married to Ernest Simpson.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-18
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Overview: Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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The Guilt Trip
Overview: An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-19
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Demonella
Overview: Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called 'Demonella' he is anxious to fulfill his part of the deal, to give the Devil his mother's secret recipe for chicken soup to serve her celebrity guests in Hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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The Fringe, Fame and Me
Overview: The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a crucible where new stars are forged, careers made, and sometimes, dreams dashed. Told by the stars who first found fame at the Edinburgh Fringe, this is the inside story of what it takes to make a name here, from those who enjoyed overnight success to those who slogged for years to make it. Through their triumphs, favourite jokes, and sometimes painful failures, we’ll discover a hidden history of British comedy – revealing how the gags we find funny and the comedians we love reflect our changing culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-08
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Overview: A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth inspired him to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Part 2 consists of a visualization of Coleridge’s epic poem.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-11
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House!
Overview: A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country's largest bingo centre nearby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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Maya the Bee Movie
Overview: A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from violin-playing grasshoppers to a hornet named Sting.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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The Legend of Longwood
Overview: When 12-year-old Mickey Miller moves from New York to Ireland, she soon discovers a link between herself and the 300-year-old legend of the mysterious Black Knight, who regularly haunts the sleepy Irish village. With courage and a sharp mind, she sets out to save a precious herd of white horses and to thwart the evil plans of a greedy, ambitious woman.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-16
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When Harry Left Hogwarts
Overview: BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes of the final days of the final two Harry Potter films, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2. Hear the personal stories of the faces we know, and those we don't, as we come to the end of one of the most successful eras in cinema history. Special feature on select editions of Deathly Hallows 1 & 2.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-11
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David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Overview: The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Neil Gaiman.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-21
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Outlier
Overview: Cancer patient and successful writer Lilith Winterbottom should be dead by now. But the cynical misanthrope seems to scare even death away, in order to finish her last book and find a hero's death worthy of her main character Spider.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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We Are Most Amused
Overview: We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales, in aid of The Prince's Trust. Prince Charles attended the event with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and younger son Prince Harry. The show had a similar format to the Royal Variety Show and showcased a variety of comedy acts. The performance was televised by ITV to the public on 15 November 2008. Robin Williams made his first UK stage appearance in more than 25 years. Tickets were sold to the general public and the event sold out in one hour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-15
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Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
Overview: Self-confessed Christmas Scrooge, Miriam Margolyes, turns to her love of Charles Dickens and the festive traditions in 'A Christmas Carol' to see if she can rekindle her love for Christmas
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-20
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Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Overview: A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a look at her work in TV favourites such as A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By, where Judi's performances won her four BAFTA awards, and her tenure in the James Bond franchise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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Yentl
Overview: In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
Overview: An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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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 Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
Overview: Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy’s private world, exploring the many secrets of his comic talent, revealing never-before-seen home-videos, stage performances and extracts from some of the thousands of Ken’s diary notebooks which he’d asked his wife to burn after his death. Wrestling with her conscience for quite some time, Lady Dodd, finally agrees with entertainment historians, museum curators and many of Ken’s admirers like Stephen K Amos, Harry Hill, Shaparak Khorsandi, Lee Mack, Paul O’Grady, Johnny Vegas, and Sir Ian McKellen to preserve Doddy’s notebooks for posterity. These stars explore their passion and memories of Ken in this candid, insightful film which takes you backstage behind the red curtain to reveal a far more intriguing man than the public or even his wife ever realised.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-09
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The Battle of Billy's Pond
Overview: A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environment.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
Overview: The Doctor finds himself with an old face and something is very wrong. How can Donna remember him and why has he got one of his old faces back? A compilation release featuring "The Star Beast," "Wild Blue Yonder," and "The Giggle."
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-18
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Honeysuckle
Overview: A short film about unity. This is a story about boy who finds an unlikely connection with his eccentric neighbour Patricia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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On the Game
Overview: Comic look at the history of prostitution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-01
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Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
Overview: An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the divergent themes and styles of two contemporary and radical women artists working in the upheaval of the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Overview: In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Echoes That Remain
Overview: Echoes That Remain combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The film's production team spent over a year of research in archives around the world collecting film footage and photographs to help dramatize the folk stories, parables, and anecdotes. Playing an important role in the film are a series of evocative images from the famed photo biographer of Eastern European shtetl life, the late Roman Vishniac.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Spirit-ED
Overview: What if Angels went to school too? Spirit-ED is a magical, fantasy adventure set in Divinity, a school for guardian angels. Following the perilous adventures of two young angels, Edmund and Grace, on a quest to earn their wings. Success will allow them to venture beneath the clouds to watch over a recently orphaned boy - failure is too dark to consider.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-01
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A Closed Book
Overview: Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-13
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Overview: A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story through objects in their collection, in an ambitious new exhibition: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic. J.K. Rowling, who is lending unseen manuscripts, drawings and drafts from her private archives (which will sit alongside treasures from the British Library, as well as original drafts and drawings from Jim Kay) talks about some of the personal items she has lent to the exhibition and gives new insight into her writing, looking at some of the objects from the exhibition that have fired her imagination.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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The Little Vampire 3D
Overview: Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of "similar" age (313!), encounters trouble when his clan is threatened by a dangerously obsessed hunter. Fate brings these two boys together, as Tony & Rudolph set off an action-packed battle to stop the villain, save Rudolph's family and learn the power of friendship.
Genres: Comedy Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-04
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Old Flames
Overview: Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and sad. This reluctant pair are caught up in an alliance againstu an ingenious conspiracy which threatens both of their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-14
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Early Man
Overview: Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.
Genres: Family Comedy Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Overview: It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Postcards from the 48%
Overview: This is a film made by the some of the 48% who voted Remain. The film is of the 48% and for the 48%. It is their story, feelings and reasons for remain, made totally from their perspective.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-06
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Overview: After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
Genres: Drama Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-27
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H Is for Happiness
Overview: A twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the strange new boy at school, and sets out to mend her broken family – whatever it takes.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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What the Pythons Did Next...
Overview: A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Thin End of the Wedge
Overview: A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in their lives are even greater than his own.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-20
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Wings
Overview: A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-06
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The IMAX Nutcracker
Overview: This 37-minute 3-D Imax film adaptation from E.T.A. Hoffman's story is a straight narrative fantasy rather than a ballet. Little Clara receives a Christmas gift of a nutcracker doll and that night witnesses toys expanding in size and coming to life. The Nutcracker Prince takes Clara to his enchanted sugar castle where she meets pastry chef Sugar Plum who uses spun sugar to concoct the dancing Sugar Fairy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-27
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In Search of Peace
Overview: In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East conflict. Combining a rich tapestry of rare archival film and photos, the film offers a unique global perspective on one of the seminal events in the 3,500-year history of the Jewish people. Featuring the voices of Edward Asner, Anne Bancroft, Richard Dreyfuss, Miriam Margolyes and Michael York. "An unabashedly emotional and stirring inspirational history of Israel..."
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Overview: Inspired by "Letters of Note", the bestselling anthology compiled by Shaun Usher, and "To the Letter" by Simon Garfield, Letters Live is a series of curated, live events that celebrate the enduring power of literary correspondence. Performed by a remarkable and surprise cast each night, Letters Live is a unique event that is heartbreaking, euphoric, hilarious and inspiring in equal measure. Those who have previously attended Letters Live will know how memorable these evenings are. In addition, a portion of the proceeds from each show are channeled towards a number of carefully selected literacy charities to support the important work they do.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-15
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Next to You
Overview: Set five years on from the school days of director Stevan Filipovic's previous film Next to Me, a state of emergency exists and politicians are accused of capitalising on public anxiety around Covid-19, which makes the shocking situation that reunites the characters significantly more extreme. The story centres on Ksenija (newcomer Mina Nikolic), a driven young woman striving to move from tabloid hack to a career journalist in a world of click-bait headlines and showbiz scandals cooked up to feed the masses. Ksenija's personal and professional journey is hampered when Vera tests positive for Coronavirus and Ksenija must question how far she will bend to survive in a climate where political pressure is increasingly overt and can be said to capitalise on fear during the pandemic.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2023-09-06
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Not Afraid, Not Afraid
Overview: After being abandoned by her husband after 28 years, an overbearing, self-centered psychologist embarks on a quest to revisit her past loves, accompanied by her 6-year-old grandson, who has Down syndrome, after he turns up unexpectedly in her van.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Overview: A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Chasing Liberty
Overview: The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-09
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How To Make It In Comedy
Overview: Told by the stars who first found fame at the Edinburgh Fringe, this the inside story of what it takes to make a name there, from those who enjoyed overnight success to those who slogged for years to make it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-03
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Holy Days
Overview: Three quirky older nuns hit the road looking for miracles but end up learning to drive like demons instead. When the last of the sisters of St. Suzanne’s face forced retirement, they take matters into their own hands. A last-minute dash to New Zealand’s stunning South Island leads them to an ex-nun-turned-lawyer who can defend their rights. A young Māori boy jumps onboard to help, but has a secret mission of his own: to reach the peak of Mt. Cook, where he believes he’ll find his recently deceased mother before she steps off into the spirit world. But things go terribly wrong when an unexpected snowstorm throws everyone off course, and this oddball group of friends faces their greatest challenge yet — mortality.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
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The Importance of Being Miriam
Overview: Actress Miriam Margolyes reflects on the influences that shaped her career and shares her love of classic literature.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-18
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Angels in the Asylum
Overview: In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove Asylum. Isolated and stigmatized, they endure harsh conditions while fighting for their basic human rights against a cruel medical system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Mother
Overview: Lara has always lived in the shadow of her mother. That is, until the morning of one life-changing decision that Lara knows, must be made alone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Overview: The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-03
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Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
Overview: A star-studded documentary revealing the private man behind one of Britain’s greatest comic geniuses, using home movies and extracts from notebooks that he wanted to be burnt after his death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-23
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A Friend of Dorothy
Overview: A poignant short film that delves into the unexpected bond between Dorothy, an elderly woman living alone, and JJ, her young neighbor. When JJ’s football accidentally lands in Dorothy’s garden, a gentle friendship begins to bloom. As their connection deepens, the film tenderly explores themes of loneliness, intergenerational connection, and queer identity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Overview: A look at Dame Maggie Smith's life from a two-up two-down in Essex to Broadway and Hollywood. Starring in more than 60 films and 70 plays across her 70-year career, Maggie's incredible determination and talent landed her among the elite.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-23
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The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
Overview: A dramatized documentary looking at how the British Board of Film Censors imposed an extraordinary stranglehold over the content of British cinema in the 1930s and exposing their deliberations, opinions and prejudices.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-31
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