Lesley Manville
Also Known As: Lesley Ann Manville, Леслі Менвілл, 莱丝利·曼维尔 饰, لزلی منویل
Biography: Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brighton, England, UK
Birthday: March 12, 1956
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Gender: Female
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Back to Black
Overview: The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
Genres: Music History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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Secrets & Lies
Overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-24
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Vera Drake
Overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
Overview: A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-18
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All or Nothing
Overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Dance with a Stranger
Overview: Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Overview: Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Cold Storage
Overview: Several decades ago, a highly infectious, constantly mutating micro-organism – capable of extinction-level destruction – was contained in a military facility. In the present day, the military has sealed the facility’s lowest sublevel selling the remaining space to a self-storage company. As temperatures rise underground, the micro-organism finds a way to escape – and if left to spread, it will soon uncontrollably multiply around the world. The fate of humanity now rests on a retired bioterror operative and two unlikely heroes employed in the facility – who are caught in a race against time to destroy the organism and save mankind.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
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Sparkle
Overview: Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-17
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Milk
Overview: Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execution of Ruth's will. The one object that everyone seems to want, and several people try to steal, is Ruth's valuable Modigliani painting. In the midst of all this confusion over Ruth's death, a mysterious visitor named Ilaria inserts herself onto the scene and has a surprising effect on those gathered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Another Year
Overview: During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
Overview: In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act, that will horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest, hidden fears.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-14
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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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High Hopes
Overview: Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-13
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Queer
Overview: 1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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The Firm
Overview: A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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Midwinter Break
Overview: Midwinter Break follows Stella and Gerry, a long-time married couple who reach a crossroads in their relationship when they take a trip to Amsterdam.
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Original Language: en
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Romeo & Juliet
Overview: In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are instantly smitten but dismayed to learn that their families are enemies. Romeo and Juliet figure out a way to pursue their romance, but Romeo is banished for his part in the slaying of Juliet's cousin, Tybalt.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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Womb
Overview: A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-15
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Maleficent
Overview: A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-28
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High Season
Overview: On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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Spike Island
Overview: Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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A Five Star Life
Overview: Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi), who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-24
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An Adventure in Space and Time
Overview: Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Top Girls
Overview: Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-02
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The Christmas Candle
Overview: Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-22
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The Critic
Overview: Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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Mr. Turner
Overview: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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Ghosts
Overview: Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-26
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Angels in the Annexe
Overview: Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the nativity play, and this is her last year before retirement. She is unlikely to change her ways without a battle.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-24
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Ashes
Overview: One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Dual Balls
Overview: A teacher has a titillating experience after accepting an unusual gift from a friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Winter of the Crow
Overview: Warsaw, December 13th 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And visiting British Professor Joan Andrews finds herself trapped. After witnessing the murder of a young student by the secret police (the "Crows"), Joan herself becomes the target.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-02-27
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Mr Burton
Overview: Based on a remarkable true story, discover how the poor son of a miner became one of the greatest actors the world has ever known, with the help of an unlikely mentor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-04
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Rupture
Overview: A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Grown-Ups
Overview: Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-27
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The Go-Between
Overview: An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-20
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Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Overview: An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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A Very British Brothel
Overview: A look at the daily life of an English brothel.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-03
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Perfect Parents
Overview: After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one they can afford is St. Mary of the Veil, run by nuns whose 'preference' for Catholic families is de facto exclusivity, given the waiting list. So they pose as devout, and get his murky mate Eddie to find them a priest they can 'bribe' for a parish reference, while Lucy is genuinely converted. It works, but when Stuart overhears a dark secret things take a tragic turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-28
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A Very British Brothel 2
Overview: This follow-up film returns to Sheffield's City Sauna. The certified massage parlour run by a mum and daughter team, which specialises in mature and larger ladies, is looking to expand.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-04
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The Moon Over Soho
Overview: A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-18
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Overview: Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-04
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
Overview: In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-24
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Promoted to Glory
Overview: An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-21
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Phantom Thread
Overview: In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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Hampstead
Overview: Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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Dog Ends
Overview: A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-17
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Christmas Present
Overview: A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor family.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-19
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To Provide All People
Overview: To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birthing of Nye Bevan's vision of free healthcare for all people with personal stories of the NHS in British society today.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-28
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LOVE
Overview: In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas. The bonds of love that keep people together are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-08
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Misbehaviour
Overview: A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-12
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14 Actors Acting
Overview: This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Overview: Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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Ordinary Love
Overview: An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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The Agency
Overview: Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a modern and stylish take on middle class female empowerment, amidst the social sub-culture, described collectively as "ladies who lunch". Disillusioned with a decade of domesticity, housewife Hannah Baines (Ania Sowinski), is befriended by an enigmatic older woman Anthea (Lesley Manville,) who introduces a select and seductive inner circle of women. In confidence, Anthea recommends a private and reliable company who "can set up something marvellous" for her. Hannah contemplates the implications of attending her initial consultation, at The Agency.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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Let Him Go
Overview: Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Genres: Thriller Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-05
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Plain Jane
Overview: Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-27
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David Copperfield
Overview: After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother dies shortly after the death of another child, whereupon Mr. Murdstone sends David to London, where he has to work for a starvation wage.Here he makes some new friends, but soon flees from the capital of England to his aunt Traddles in Canterbury, where he is adopted by her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-25
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A Statement of Affairs
Overview: A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-08
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O Mary This London
Overview: Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-30
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Toy Boys
Overview: Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Overview: A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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Bad Girl
Overview: A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-14
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Our Winnie
Overview: Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father is buried. Also in the cemetery are two art students, one of whom (Liz) asks if she can take a photograph of the three women. She takes it while they are not prepared, making them look ridiculous (Cora is putting her make-up on, Winnie is staring at the camera with her mouth open). Cora is angry, and Liz takes another of them properly posed. But she enters the first photograph for a competition, where it wins a prize
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Overview: A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-13
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