Billie Whitelaw
Also Known As: Билли Уайтлоу, Billie Honor Whitelaw
Biography: Billie Honor Whitelaw (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English stage and screen actress. She worked in close collaborration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and wass regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs Baylock, the demonic nanny in The Omen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: June 06, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 21, 2014
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Frenzy
Overview: London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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The Omen
Overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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Quills
Overview: A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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The Krays
Overview: The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-27
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The Lost Son
Overview: Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-25
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Joyriders
Overview: The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Jamaica Inn
Overview: The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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The Dark Crystal
Overview: On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Maurice
Overview: After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Duel of Hearts
Overview: Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Gumshoe
Overview: A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Night Watch
Overview: A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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Hell Is a City
Overview: Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-10
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Payroll
Overview: A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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A Murder of Quality
Overview: At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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The Secret Garden
Overview: When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-30
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Lena, O My Lena
Overview: Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-25
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Overview: Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-04
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Overview: Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-02
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Twisted Nerve
Overview: Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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The Sleeping Tiger
Overview: A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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Charlie Bubbles
Overview: Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-11
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Leo the Last
Overview: Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-04
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The Dressmaker
Overview: In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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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 Fifteen Streets
Overview: In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Room in the House
Overview: Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-25
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Leopard in the Snow
Overview: A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives incognito after supposedly being killed in an auto accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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Eagle in a Cage
Overview: 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-09
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No Love for Johnnie
Overview: Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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The Picnic
Overview: A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, and her anticipation of a birthday picnic by the river are clouded by a series of murders in the district and by a fear rooted rather nearer home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-19
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Shadey
Overview: A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-31
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Deadly Advice
Overview: Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Miracle in Soho
Overview: In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a barmaid, and "The Miracle" happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-09
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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An Audience with Mel Brooks
Overview: Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespearean actor Jonathan Pryce. Brooks Spontaneous humor, social commentaries and zany sketches leave the audience rolling in the aisles and will leave you wanting more of Mel!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-04
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The Devil's Agent
Overview: German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub (Christopher Lee), the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Overview: After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Overview: Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-04
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Camille
Overview: Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-11
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The Adding Machine
Overview: An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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Bobbikins
Overview: Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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Make Mine Mink
Overview: In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-09
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The Fake
Overview: Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-25
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Breakout
Overview: A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Murder Elite
Overview: An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Hot Fuzz
Overview: Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Small Hotel
Overview: The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-14
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Not I
Overview: Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January, 1973 Produced for the BBC in 1977 by Tristram Powell Directed by Anthony Page and Samuel Beckett Cast: Billie Whitelaw
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-27
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Mr. Arkadin
Overview: Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Overview: After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Slayground
Overview: After thieves botch an armored truck robbery that leads to the death of an innocent young girl, her father vows revenge by recruiting a sociopathic hitman to track them down and assassinate them.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Poet Game
Overview: Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against the temptations of celebrity and addiction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-14
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The Chain
Overview: Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Cloning of Joanna May
Overview: Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-16
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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I, Of Whom I Know Nothing
Overview: John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, where Calder met with Billie Whitelaw, the muse, so to speak, of Beckett’s stage work, who is now relegated to a nursing home for actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Skallagrigg
Overview: Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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Mr. Topaze
Overview: Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
Overview: In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-07
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The Comedy Man
Overview: A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Morrissey - Hulmerist
Overview: Hulmerist is a VHS and DVD release that includes seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS, in 1990, and then on DVD in 2004. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on 18 January 1991. The title refers to Morrissey's childhood home in Hulme, Manchester. The L is silent, so it sounds like "humourist". The promotional films are 'The Last of the Famous International Playboys', 'Sister I'm a Poet', 'Everyday is Like Sunday', 'Interesting Drug', 'Suedehead', 'Ouija Board, Ouija Board' and 'November Spawned a Monster'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-01
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Tangiers
Overview: A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of the Tangier Straits who happens to be a stiff
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Story of 'Frenzy'
Overview: Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-06
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The Entertainer
Overview: Adaptation of John Osborne's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-04
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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
Overview: The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-15
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-07
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The Water Babies
Overview: Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young apprentice, Tom, for the crime. Tom runs away and jumps into a river where, instead of drowning, he finds himself transformed into a mystical aquatic creature. Swimming and breathing effortlessly, he discovers a colorful underwater world replete with creatures both cruel and kind.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-23
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The Curse of 'The Omen'
Overview: The filming of "The Omen" (1976) was plagued by tragedy and bizarre incidents. "The devil was at work and he didn't want that film made" - Producer Harvey Bernhard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
Overview: A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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Rockaby
Overview: A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produced by Labeille on behalf of the State University of New York's Programs in the Arts for a festival and symposium in commemoration of Beckett's 75th birthday (Wikipedia). A self-reflective drama of a figure, W, rocking "to and fro" in her dead mother's rocking chair wearing her mother's sequined funereal garment. With the aid of her pre-recorded voice, W recounts the different phases of a single memory in a bid to connect with "another creature like herself" before rocking herself into an eternal sleep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-08
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Notfilm
Overview: NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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Carve Her Name with Pride
Overview: London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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Ghost Trio
Overview: A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano Trio no. 5. The film repeats the imagery, and then shows what he has been reacting to.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-17
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Last Summer's Child
Overview: Young Col is not enjoying his Cornish holiday and wishes his father would not join the family. Events make him grow up rather fast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-06
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Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Overview: Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-05
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Freddie as F.R.O.7.
Overview: The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve the mysterious disappearances of some of Britain's greatest monuments. Several hundred years later, Freddie is now living in modern day Paris -- a six-foot-tall amphibian with the moniker Secret Agent F.R.O.7. Messina, too, is still around causing mischief, joining forces with an arch-villain named El Supremo in a scheme to shrink Big Ben. Freddie, alerted to Messina's nefarious plans, gathers his fellow agents Daffers and Scottie together, planning to hide out in Big Ben and surprise the evil doers when they are set to strike at the much-loved British landmark.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
Overview: The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-23
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Night Duty
Overview: A night worker at a mental institution finds his job beginning to change.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-20
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