Eleanor David
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lincolnshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 14, 1956
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Female
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Comfort and Joy
Overview: Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-14
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Slipstream
Overview: In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
Genres: Action Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-09
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
Overview: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-14
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84 Charing Cross Road
Overview: When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-13
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Overview: The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-26
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House of Boys
Overview: It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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The Rocking Horse Winner
Overview: In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind. After Paul's uncle cracks a joke about "filthy lucker", he becomes obsessed with finding luck, so that his family will have the money they need. His luck at the race track begins to improve, but the cost may be higher than anyone knows. Nominated for a BAFTA award in 1983.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-25
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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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The King's Whore
Overview: Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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Sylvia
Overview: New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting look at the unusual teaching methods she used while working with the children from the indigenous Maon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Spirit of Man
Overview: In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Overview: A Dickensian mock-Gothic tale of resourceful children, evil governesses, forged wills, cruel orphanages, and goodness triumphant set against an isolated country house, in an alternate 19th century where savage packs of wolves roam the snowbound countryside.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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Topsy-Turvy
Overview: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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Combat
Overview: A mother wants her son to marry but has to accept he is living with a man.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-28
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Facelift
Overview: In a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite "numbers" and the destitute "names" who escape the hardships of the their lives at a magic cabaret run by Zax. When Zax falls for a slumming-it "number" he builds a robot replica of her.
Genres: Science Fiction Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-21
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Paradise Postponed
Overview: A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-15
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Tricia
Overview: Davies discovers a link between three separate investigations - an armed robbery at a job centre, the disappearance of a pensioner and a routine house burglary.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-21
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White Hunter, Black Heart
Overview: Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-16
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The Making of Slipstream
Overview: The making of Steven Lisberger's 1989 Sci-Fi film Slipstream
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-25
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London Kills Me
Overview: For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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