Lia Williams
Also Known As: لیا ویلیامز
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK
Birthday: November 26, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The King Is Alive
Overview: Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-11
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Shot Through the Heart
Overview: The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-04
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Chica de Río
Overview: Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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Dirty Weekend
Overview: Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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Scoop
Overview: Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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Flowers of the Forest
Overview: Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-26
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The Yob
Overview: An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan. Slowly, he begins to change - taking on some undeniably yobbish tendencies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-12
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Living
Overview: London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Different for Girls
Overview: Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Distance
Overview: Three estranged siblings reunite after the death of their father. Amidst secrets and recriminations, is there a hope for reconciliation?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-23
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Imogen's Face
Overview: The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her while she spends time with her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-02
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The Truth Commissioner
Overview: Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Overview: In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-24
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Overview: When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-06
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The Foreigner
Overview: Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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Snow White: The Sequel
Overview: Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to life. However the jealous 'good' fairy decides that she and the prince were meant to be, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale characters' traditional good nature.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-31
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The Russian Bride
Overview: Christopher, a middle-aged man who is obsessed with repairing old radios, marries the Russian bride Natasha. She comes to live with him and his mother Dora in his London house. Dora instigated the marriage in order to have someone look after her son when she dies. Natasha is bored as Christopher takes no sexual interest in her, and she is treated as a servant. Eddie, an out-of-work actor, stirs up the household when he befriends Christopher and Dora, in order to seduce Natasha.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Firelight
Overview: In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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Archive
Overview: 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
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Benediction
Overview: Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-23
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The Fifth Province
Overview: Timmy Sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very rainy part of the Irish midlands. His only consolation are his visits to Dr. Drudy, a psychiatrist whom he can tell about the love of his life - the President of Ireland. A new motorway puts Timmy's guesthouse off the map. A strange Spanish pilot named Marcel comes to visit and create havoc in the guesthouse. Timmy goes to a scriptwriters' conference where only fast, urban and up-beat stories are expected, nothing like Timmy's own story. Uneasy in any of the four provinces of Ireland, he desperately tries to reach the Fifth Province, the province of magic, of passion, of possibility.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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