Anna Massey
Also Known As: Anna Raymond Massey, Anna Massey CBE, Anna Massey OBE, Anna Raymond Massey CBE
Biography: Anna Raymond Massey CBE (11 August 1937 - 3 July 2011) was an English stage, screen, and television actress. She was the daughter of Hollywood actor Raymond Massey.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK
Birthday: August 11, 1937
Deathday: July 03, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Frenzy
Overview: After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Overview: A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-03
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The Machinist
Overview: Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Mountains of the Moon
Overview: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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Peeping Tom
Overview: Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-16
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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Overview: A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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Another Country
Overview: In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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The Oxford Murders
Overview: At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-18
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Belonging
Overview: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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A Doll's House
Overview: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-10
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Murder in Mind
Overview: A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-02
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Psycho Tom
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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-06
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Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Dark Blue World
Overview: Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2001-05-17
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Mad Cows
Overview: When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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The Looking Glass War
Overview: When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Overview: All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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A Hazard of Hearts
Overview: When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-27
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The Grotesque
Overview: Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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The Gigolos
Overview: Sacha is an aging, well-established London 'male escort' with a select clientèle of weekly socialite ladies, such as baroness James, who expect an impeccable service he can only provide thanks to his in-living 'orderly', handsome 'clever Trevor', who moonlights as nude arts class model. Ben is a rising novice, who seeks their coaching. When Sasha makes a bad fall, Trevor must cover during his recovery, but jealous Sasha is far from grateful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-26
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Come and Go
Overview: An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible secrets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Captain Jack
Overview: Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century. Assembling a crew of oddballs and misfits, the cantankerous captain weighs anchor and voyages into the unknown. His ship has been certified unseaworthy, and he's pursued by the Royal Navy, NATO and journalists, but nothing is going to stop Captain Jack fulfilling his wildest dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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The Vault of Horror
Overview: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Pinochet in Suburbia
Overview: In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-26
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The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
Overview: A portrait of Virginia Woolf, including a recreation of the furor around the 1910 and 1912 post-Impressionist exhibits, documentation of the Woolfs' contribution to the creation of the League of Nations, the recently discovered letters of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, and the actual 1940 Gestapo arrest list that shows the Nazis' intention to arrest Leonard and Virginia Woolf. With archival footage, paintings of the period, and family photos of a Victorian childhood of both beauty and abuse, the film interweaves the personal story of Virginia’s life and loves with the turbulent times she lived in. Includes interviews with Woolf's acquaintances and relatives; and readings of her works.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Foreign Body
Overview: Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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An Angel for May
Overview: When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-08-10
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Driftwood
Overview: When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that makes her forget her loneliness and she decides to therefore lie about their situation... She says that they are situated on an island, where no one can reach them. From now, his life lies in her hands.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Season's Greetings
Overview: Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests leaving sooner than they thought. Alan Ayckbourn's stage play adapted for BBC TV, 1986
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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De Sade
Overview: The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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The Corn Is Green
Overview: A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-29
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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 Man from the Pru
Overview: The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a solution to the crime has been found through a surfeit of working hypotheses.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-30
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Hotel du Lac
Overview: Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-02
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The Critic
Overview: Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-28
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Dead of Night: A Woman Sobbing
Overview: Jane is an discontented middle-class wife and mother. One night in her bedroom she hears a woman crying, though her husband hears nothing. Is it a symptom of her depression or is her home haunted? In her attempts to discover the truth she becomes increasingly paranoid.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
Overview: Actress attended by homosexual dresser.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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Haunted
Overview: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
Genres: Mystery Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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A Very British Psycho
Overview: A documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy surrounding its release, and the life of its screenwriter, Leo Marks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Overview: A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Sweet William
Overview: William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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Angels and Insects
Overview: In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Déjà Vu
Overview: L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-22
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David Copperfield
Overview: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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The McGuffin
Overview: Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-12
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Remember the Germans
Overview: The conflict of a German man, Robert, who worked during the war for U.S Intelligence and now has been drawn back to his country to be honoured by his old University.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-28
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Little Girls Don't
Overview: Little Girls Don't" is the tale of two girls, Sheryl and Abbey who have been inseparable friends since childhood despite coming from very different backgrounds. Then Billy arrives on the scene. He is a bad boy who likes to steal cars, but with the encouragement of girlfriend Abbey this soon turns into something much more serious, with tragic consequences for everyone involved.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-10
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Relics
Overview: Daniel is about to marry a woman 30 years his senior. The woman begins to suspect that he is after her money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-10
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Afternoon Off
Overview: Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-03
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Impromptu
Overview: In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Room to Rent
Overview: Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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The Day After the Fair
Overview: Based on the short story by Thomas Hardy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Possession
Overview: Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-16
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Elizabeth's Pirates
Overview: The Elizabethan founders of the British Empire have long been considered heroes of great personal genius and skill who civilised the natives and founded one of the greatest empires in the history of the world. In fact they were a bunch of murdering, thieving pirates whose sole ambition was to line their own pockets.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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A Good Murder
Overview: An illegal immigrant on the run from a Russian mafia boss, falls for an artist. When he discovers her family home is worth millions, he hatches a plot to get hold of the deeds.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-13
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The Slab Boys
Overview: Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-28
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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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Tears in the Rain
Overview: When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known her mother.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Affinity
Overview: A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-28
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The Little Drummer Girl
Overview: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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I Remember Nelson
Overview: Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
Genres: History TV Movie Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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Sacred Hearts
Overview: A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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The Tall Guy
Overview: An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Emily's Ghost
Overview: Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Overview: Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more meets Lawrence of Arabia, and encounters the Arab Prince Faisal and a young Ho Chi Minh. Disillusioned by the hard and cynical realpolitik of international deal-making, he returns home to Princeton, New Jersey after a three-year absence, where he finds his father as cold and distant as ever, and discovers a detrimental change in his boyhood friend, Paul Robeson, caused by bigotry.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-19
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Light the Blue Touch Paper
Overview: Armchair Theatre episode released under the Armchair Theatre Archive banner in 2019
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-24
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The Sleeper
Overview: Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of the happiest times of her life. Violet's control is not only threatened by their decision, but also by the sudden reappearance of someone from her past whom she meets at a local spiritualists club. Someone who has the potential to resurrect a long buried secret as well expose her current plot to put a stop to the sale of the farm. When Violet takes the opportunity to silence this person, she doesn't consider that enemies have friends...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-26
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A Little Romance
Overview: Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebirds team up with eccentric pickpocket Julius to run away to Venice, where, according to legend, a couple who kiss under the Bridge of Sighs will stay together forever.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Sweet Angel Mine
Overview: Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community. He meets Rauchine, a young, beautiful and unaffected girl who lives with her unstable mother and domineering grandmother on a nearby island, who is eking out a harsh and isolated living. Paul finds himself enmeshed in a web of jealousy, bitterness and fear as his attraction to Rauchine begins to grow. After a failed attempt to leave the island with Paul, Rauchine must make a crucial decision and break the cycle of violence and death that has marked her life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-17
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Moving on the Edge
Overview: A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-06
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The Love of a Good Woman
Overview: Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-15
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Journey into the Shadows: Portrait of Gwen John 1876-1939
Overview: Moving out from under the shadow of her artist brother Augustus John, Gwen John moved to Paris in 1903, working as an artist's model until becoming the mistress of famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. After Rodin's death, she concentrated on her work as an artist, rivalling her brother's reputation with her own expressive portraits.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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The Color of the Wind
Overview: Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-02
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The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
Overview: The reputation of the Academy for the Daughters of Respectable Monarchs has, of course, always been of the highest order... then suddenly Signor Doloro de Lara— a Professor of Magic— puts in an unwelcome appearance, and the enchanting little world is turned upside down.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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Virginia Fly is Drowning
Overview: Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ignorant...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-04
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