Juliet Stevenson
Also Known As: Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson
Biography: From Wikipedia Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an English actor of stage and screen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Essex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: October 30, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Female
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Bend It Like Beckham
Overview: Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-11
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In Search of Haydn
Overview: In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. In Search of Haydn is an intricate portrait of Haydn's life told through performances and interviews from today's most admired classical musicians.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-19
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Mona Lisa Smile
Overview: Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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Infamous
Overview: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-13
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Drowning by Numbers
Overview: Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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Desert Flower
Overview: The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
Overview: Who is the new Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Gogol waiting to be discovered by the English-speaking world? Hosted by actor, author, and activist Stephen Fry, focuses on six authors whose vibrant, idiosyncratic work continues to gain traction with a global audience: Dmitry Bykov, Mariam Petrosyan, Zakhar Prilepin, Anna Starobinets, Vladimir Sorokin, and Lyudmila Ultiskaya. With contributions from their literary critics, publishers, and peers, the film features extensive interviews with each author.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-13
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Food of Love
Overview: Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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Walls Like Windows
Overview: When Maggie invites a stranger into her home, she is confronted with the very thing she has been trying to avoid.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Overview: Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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Orangutans: The Great Ape Escape
Overview: Leonora is no ordinary orangutan, she is a pioneer. With her three year old son in her arms, she is about to set off on an epic journey back to the wild - the great ape escape. It is a long way from what she is used to. After being orphaned as a baby, she has spent the majority of her life in a rescue centre. She is leaving behind 600 other orangutans, all of whom are relying on her for their chance at freedom. If Leonora can make it, they could too.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
Overview: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Red Mercury
Overview: Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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The Secret of Moonacre
Overview: When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Truly Madly Deeply
Overview: Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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The Trial
Overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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B.P. Confidential
Overview: Documentary revealing the true character of those working behind and in front of the camera on Blue Peter - Britain's longest continuously running children's programme.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-16
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A Previous Engagement
Overview: When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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Life Story
Overview: Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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The Pact
Overview: A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-04
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The Snow Queen
Overview: When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering landscape to her frozen palace in the North. Gerda embarks on a magical and perilous journey to find and rescue Kay, finally arriving in the realm of the Snow Queen. But will this little girl in her red velvet cloak be able to match the power of the winter witch?
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-24
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Play
Overview: The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-14
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Diana
Overview: During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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Trial by Fire
Overview: Juliet Stevenson stars as prosecutor Helen West from the popular crime novels by Frances Fyfield. Helen and her significant other, Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey (Jim Carter), have recently moved to a sedate London suburb only to face a shocking murder. Bailey thinks he has the case wrapped up, but Helen punches holes in the evidence and his ego, and then proceeds to track down the real killer.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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Stanley
Overview: The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination he needed two wives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-31
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Stone, Scissors, Paper
Overview: Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she forms a relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-07
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On Angel Wings
Overview: One cold Christmas night, an old shepherd recounts the magical story of how he came to be the first visitor to the new born Christ child - ahead of the other shepherds, and in complete secret. Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-01
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The Letters
Overview: Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable women who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-23
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The Secret Rapture
Overview: Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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Cider with Rosie
Overview: This adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie comes of age under the protective eye of his mother, he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie discovers women.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-26
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In Search of Mozart
Overview: Made to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, IN SEARCH OF MOZART is the first feature-length documentary on Mozart's life. Produced with the world's leading orchestras and musicians, told through a 25,000 mile journey along every route Mozart followed, this detective story takes us to the heart of genius. Throughout, it is the music that takes center stage, with the jigsaw of Mozart's life fitting around it.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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The Burning Season
Overview: Dorjee Sun, a young Australian Entrepreneur, believes there's money to be made from protecting rainforests in Indonesia, saving the orangutan from extinction and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his carbon trading scheme. It is a battle against time. Achmadi, the palm oil farmer is ready to set fire to his land to plant more palm oil, and Lone's orangutan centre has reached crisis point with over 600 orangutans rescued from the fires. The Burning Season is an eco-thriller about a young man not afraid to confront the biggest challenge of our time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-02
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Evita: Una Tumba Sin Paz
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-22
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The Legends of Treasure Island
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Cult Killer
Overview: On January 7th 2005, 29 year old Rick Rodriguez murdered his former nanny and then killed himself on a lonely desert highway. Hours earlier he had videoed his suicide note and this final message provided a remarkable insight into a deeply damaged life. It also lifted the lid on one of the most notorious religious cults to emerge out of the 1960s counter culture: The Children of God sect.
Genres: Documentary Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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Out Of Love
Overview: The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-10
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A Doll's House
Overview: One of Ibsen's best known plays, A Dolls House caused a sensation when first published, as it provided a critique on the conventions of Victorian marriage. Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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Ladder of Swords
Overview: An escaped convict, pursued by an obsessive policeman, hides out in a travelling circus
Genres: Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
Overview: Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment in the afterlife, the cruel and greedy Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to show him how the course of his life led him to where he is - and where it will lead if he doesn't change his ways.
Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Reawakening
Overview: John and Mary have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when she was fourteen and no trace of her whereabouts has ever been found. When Clare returns, now a young woman of twenty-four, Mary is overjoyed. But John comes to believe that Clare is not who she claims to be. As old tensions resurface, a gripping search for the truth unfolds.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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In Search of Chopin
Overview: The latest in British documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky's In Search Of series, looking at the life of Polish pianist and composer: Frédéric François Chopin, whose grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and whose music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive
Overview: Documentary charting the Derek and Clive phenomenon. The two foul-mouthed toilet attendants were the creations of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and were responsible for some of the filthiest comedy to come out of Britain. Despite being banned from radio and television the duo achieved great success and a cult status, but the act broke up one of the greatest comedy partnerships of recent years. Featuring excerpts from the actual records and video footage of Cook and Moore.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-25
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Love Is Thicker Than Water
Overview: Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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Ceres
Overview: Ceres tells the story of a daughter seeking refuge from her emotionally abusive partner at the home of her estranged mother. It follows their attempt to reconnect, and move forward, despite the knowledge that their time together is limited; bound in a knot of silent agreement to the changing of the seasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-21
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Departure
Overview: An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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The March
Overview: A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-22
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Triage
Overview: The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Treasure Island
Overview: Jim Hawkins races to beat Long John Silver to the riches awaiting on Treasure Island. An animated retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, featured the main characters as animals.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-14
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The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart
Overview: In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is stolen from her bedroom in the middle of the night. The most unlikely of victims in a seemingly motiveless crime. The abduction of Elizabeth Smart was so bizarre and unique that it transfixed America.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-19
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Breaking and Entering
Overview: Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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The Search for John Gissing
Overview: Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Hear the Silence
Overview: The four-year-old Nicolas Shield leads a brash and peaceful life. An annual unpleasant day has arrived: he has to visit the doctor to get an injection against mumps, measles and rubella. This goes without any problem, because Nicolas - also called Nicky - is a good guy. However, after a few months, Nicolas's behavior begins to change. Mother Christine does everything to get the boy back on the right track. But then comes the dreaded diagnosis: Nicky suffers from autism.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-15
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories
Overview: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories is a compilation of five of Eric Carle’s most popular stories. In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a tiny caterpillar eats and eats... and eats his way through the week; Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me shows a young girl asking her father for the moon, but he discovers that the moon is very, very big. The Very Quiet Cricket is about a cricket who finally finds his voice and The Mixed-Up Chameleon learns an important lesson about being himself. Finally, I See A Song invites audiences on a magical musical journey. But can you really see a song?
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-15
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The Mallen Secret
Overview: Movie version of The Mallen Secret. Edited together from the episodes of The Mallens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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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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Let Me Go
Overview: The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-04
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Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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In Search of Beethoven
Overview: In Search of Beethoven offers a comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's finest musicians were recorded and 100 interviews conducted in the making of this beautifully crafted film. Eleven interviews are included in the Extras and Six complete movements.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-17
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Emma
Overview: Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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The Road from Coorain
Overview: A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-03
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A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Overview: Documentary about internationally-renowned author Ariel Dorfman, the third generation of his family to know exile. His father's leftwing beliefs saw the family uprooted from both Argentina and the US, before settling in Chile. When Allende came to power, Ariel was a prominent member of his circle, but the bloody 1973 coup saw many of his friends and colleagues killed or disappeared and Ariel forced into exile again. Peter Raymont journeys with Ariel as he looks back on his life. (Storyville)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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The Mallen Curse
Overview: The fourth and final instalment of the Mallen family saga. Barbara, rejected by Michael, enters into a loveless marriage with a son of the Benshams, who now own Squire Thomas' former home, High Banks. Meanwhile, Mr Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore, Barbara's former governess, who has a burning ambition to become mistress of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-18
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Living with Dinosaurs
Overview: A socially awkward young English boy deals with his fears about his unemployed artist father, his pregnant mother, and his asthma, with the help of his favorite doll, a stuffed dinosaur named Dog.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-30
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1066: A Year to Conquer England
Overview: Drama-Documentary in which historian Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to the Battle of Hastings.
Genres: History Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-28
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Dustbin Baby
Overview: The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour. On the morning of her fourteenth birthday April has a devastating row with her foster mother, Marion and leaves the house determined to find out where she really comes from, who she really is and maybe, just maybe, find her real mother. Telling no-one what she's up to or where she's going, April skips school and begins the search she's dreamed about all her life. It's a blur of social workers, children's homes and special schools as April revisits and recalls the key scenes of her fragmented past. It's a painful journey, sometimes frightening but there's also friendship and love and laughter. And now she's started, there's no going back - April must find her mother.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-21
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Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter Theatre. Robert Icke's innovative modern-dress production, featuring Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Angus Wright and Jessica Brown Findlay, has been widely acclaimed as a dazzlingly intelligent, forcefully contemporary staging. The Evening Standard hailed Andrew Scott's 'career-defining performance... he makes the most famous speeches feel fresh and unpredictable.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-31
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Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Overview: Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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Theban Plays: Antigone
Overview: In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
Overview: Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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London Unplugged
Overview: A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives intersect unpredictably. A refreshing take on the complexities, contradictions and compromises of modern living in the greatest City on Earth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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The Portrait
Overview: The film examines some complex dilemmas within three generations of one family. Through the painting of a portrait we are asked to consider: Is it ever better not to know some things than to know them? Does secrecy protect or damage those we love? Can all things be forgiven and forgotten?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Overview: When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-08
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John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction
Overview: Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was, through interviews with colleagues, flatmates, family friends and scientists. His life, as can best be constructed, is revealed and his body of work, once settling on the name John Wyndham, is analyzed and discussed. An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived, and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined. The emphasis is on what his personality may have been, the scientific ramifications of his themes, and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those, on later generations.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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Sea Sorrow
Overview: A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where past and present establish a dialogue. A reflection on the importance of human rights.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Paris Was a Woman
Overview: Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-19
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The Hunt for the Camden Ripper
Overview: The discovery of human body parts behind a pub in Camden over Christmas 2002 triggered one of the Metropolitan Police's largest man hunts and shocked the nation. The revelations that followed, about a man's brutal murder of three London women shocked a nation. But the story of the search for Anthony Hardy also revealed some painful truths about the anonymity of a city, and the complex challenges facing mental health units charged with protecting both the public and their patients.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-08
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Aimée
Overview: A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously successful rock promoter and an anguished private life. Now he's facing the hardest of all moral choices - a life or death decision which is to have a shattering impact on the lives of new friends who offer shelter, and on the new arrival on the seemingly tranquil scene.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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Four
Overview: A Dowager prepares for her birthday party. A young couple are on the run. A mysterious man in black watches from the shadows. Four rooms. One evening. Nothing is quite as it seems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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The Mallens
Overview: Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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Rhoda
Overview: After years of living alone, Rhoda takes in a lodger, but the change unsettles the equilibrium of her home.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-09
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Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me
Overview: In Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me, a young girl asks her Father for the moon, but Papa discovers that the moon is very, very big. Taken from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories collection. Based on Eric Carle's picture book.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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