Lesley Sharp
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Biography: Lesley Sharp is an outstanding film and television actress who has been nominated for many prestigious awards, including BAFTA Best Supporting Actress (nominated) for 'The Full Monty', RTS Television Award for Best Actress (Winner) and Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress (Winner) for her drama series for 'Afterlife'.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: April 03, 1960
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Gender: Female
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From Hell
Overview: Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-08
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Help
Overview: Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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Inkheart
Overview: The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-11
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Spoon Fed
Overview: Ellie, a smart and successful woman, has her life changed when she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. As her condition worsens, she joins a support group where she meets Dan; an encounter that has unexpected results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-28
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Peekaboo
Overview: Emily and Andy have been trying for a baby for years. After three stillborn babies their world has been torn apart by grief. Having moved house to make a fresh start, Emily slips into a delusional state as a way of coping with her loss. Andy tries to help guide her through whilst privately struggling in his own way with the loss of his much wanted children, as well as the gradual loss of his wife as he becomes isolated from her world. Andy then takes drastic action to help Emily see the truth. But is their relationship strong enough to survive?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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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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Naked
Overview: An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-14
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Born With Two Mothers
Overview: A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Frank Bough: National Treasure, National Disgrace
Overview: Through archive, dramatic reconstructions and the recollections of key contributors, this documentary recalls the downfall of the popular TV presenter.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-11
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National Theatre Live: Paradise
Overview: When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspicion. And as an old enemy also emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-02
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Overview: Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-20
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Close My Eyes
Overview: After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Carrie's War
Overview: Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.
Genres: Drama Family History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Moonstone
Overview: Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-29
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Carla
Overview: The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-15
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The Second Coming
Overview: Steven Baxter is the Son of God, and can produce the miracles to prove it. How does the world react when he announces it has to produce a Third Testament within five days, or else it's Judgment Day?
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-09
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Road
Overview: A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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The Full Monty
Overview: Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Whistle and I'll Come to You
Overview: After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. But at night he seemingly becomes the victim of a ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-24
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Catherine Called Birdy
Overview: A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Overview: After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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Syrup
Overview: A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece. Oscar nominated short film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Prime Suspect: Murder In Suburbia
Overview: After his wife Diane vanished in 1983, suspicion centred on her respected GP husband Robert Jones, but he was never charged by the police. Now, new evidence reveals Diane Jones's secrets.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-01
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Night Voice
Overview: Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-25
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Wedded
Overview: A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-29
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Speaking In Tongues
Overview: Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-27
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Priest
Overview: The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-24
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Our Hidden Lives
Overview: Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the diaries of four very distinct people. In his book, Garfield selected some of the most expressive diarists, and focused on the post-war years giving a vivid portrait of how Britain coped in the post-war years and how little, or how much, attitudes have changed over the past 60 years. The stories touch on homosexuality, single women making their way in life post-war and a housewife handling the less than welcome return of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-03
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Cheeky
Overview: Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-08
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Planespotting
Overview: Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-20
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Shirley
Overview: Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn money singing in pubs around the docks after her father if jailed for sexual crimes. As a young teenager she begins singing and dancing in 'coloured review shows'. But it is a chance meeting with struggling agent Mike Sullivan that changes her life forever. He promises to make her a star, but has no idea of the personal sacrifice that will mean for the teenaged Shirley.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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MH17: The Plane Crash That Shook The World
Overview: When Flight MH17 was shot down in 2014, the reverberations affected world events. This documentary explores how the tragedy shaped what came after it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-20
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Paul Gascoigne "Gazza" in China
Overview: Football icon Paul Gascoigne is at the end of his playing career, heading to the Gansu the poorest province in China's remote north-west to play for the local team Gansu Tianma football club. Paul wants to show he can still offer a lot to football and battle his inner demons and addictions along with feeling isolated in his new home in China.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Great Expectations
Overview: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-12
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The Love Child
Overview: When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-22
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Married to the Moonies
Overview: Follows three young couples as they travel to Korea to be blessed by their messiah, Reverend Moon, at one of the movement's controversial mass weddings
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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Dusty and Me
Overview: A feel-good, heart-warming film set in Yorkshire in 1977 about an adolescent boy's big summer after leaving school. It's about a boy and a dog, class and ambition, first love, and above all, family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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The Rachel Papers
Overview: Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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In Passing
Overview: A Blitz mother confronts a home truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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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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Brighton
Overview: A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result is a vengeful act of violence that exposes the gaps and similarities between class, gender, and sexual orientations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-28
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All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
Overview: Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, whilst obsessively re-drafting the perfect suicide note.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-04
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National Theatre Archive: A Taste of Honey
Overview: When her mother Helen runs off with a car salesman, feisty teenager Jo takes up with Jimmie, a sailor who promises to marry her, before he heads for the seas. Art student Geof moves in and assumes the role of a surrogate parent until, misguidedly, he sends for Helen and their unconventional setup unravels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-30
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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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