Polly Walker
Also Known As: Πόλι Γουόκερ, 폴리 워커, Polly Alexandra Walker, پالی واکر
Biography: Polly Alexandra Walker was born on May 19, 1966 in Warrington, Cheshire, England. She graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but an injury at age 18 forced her to change direction. She started at London's Drama Centre to the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she portrayed small parts before graduating to small roles on television. Polly landed the title role in the television series Lorna Doone (1990) before making her feature debut in Journey of Honor (1991) ("Shogun Mayeda"). She first gained attention as an English woman in an Irish terrorist brigade in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games (1992)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Birthday: May 19, 1966
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Gender: Female
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Sliver
Overview: A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Bandyta
Overview: Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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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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Robinson Crusoe
Overview: Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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Enchanted April
Overview: When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Patriot Games
Overview: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-04
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After Alice
Overview: A washed-up detective discovers his own psychic ability when assigned to investigate a serial murder case. The killer has a deranged obsession with the novel "Alice in Wonderland." As the psychopath's bloody reign of terror continues, the cop spirals deeper and deeper into the case where the horrors of the past and present come together.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Walking a Tightrope
Overview: A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic consequences when he later discards him for another youth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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Savage Messiah
Overview: As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Roseanna's Grave
Overview: Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-06
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John Carter
Overview: John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-07
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Clash of the Titans
Overview: Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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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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Talk of Angels
Overview: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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The Woodlanders
Overview: The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor Fitzpiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-06
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Dark Harbor
Overview: A bickering couple drive fast through a downpour to catch the last ferry to their island retreat. In a flash, they recognize a crumpled body laying at the side of the road and after much argument they stop, only to find a young man battered and bruised. An offer of summoning the police firmly rejected, the two help the man as best they can although it certainly means missing the ferry... and so starts this thriller: a tale of twisted sexual attraction and ulterior motives.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Lorna Doone
Overview: A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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The Gambler
Overview: Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of excess Dostoyevsky's characters come to life as he struggles to complete his work.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Kremlin Farewell
Overview: A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Overview: In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of Peace in Paris.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-18
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Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
Overview: A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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8 ½ Women
Overview: Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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Restoration
Overview: An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Control
Overview: Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Overview: Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Journey of Honor
Overview: The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-27
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D-Tox
Overview: A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-04
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Curtain Call
Overview: A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-05
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