Sally Phillips
Also Known As: Sally Elizabeth Phillips, سالی فیلیپس
Biography: Sally Phillips is a British film and television actress, best known for her parts in the television series Smack the Pony, as well as the Bridget Jones feature films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Birthday: May 10, 1970
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Gender: Female
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Birthday Girl
Overview: John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-06
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Overview: Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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Gladiatress
Overview: Three unlikely heroines set out to thwart a Roman invasion and save Celtic Britain in their own unique and outrageous style.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-19
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The Monk, The Mermaid & Molise
Overview: The film follows Guy, down on his luck, as he accepts an invitation to spend five days playing a series of bass clinics in a remote Italian region, Molise, run by a super fan, and must face up to decisions from his past.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Overview: Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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How to Please a Woman
Overview: When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-19
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Mean Machine
Overview: Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-26
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The Decoy Bride
Overview: A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Born Romantic
Overview: In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Tooth
Overview: Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies have forgotten about magic, she decides to give away all of its money. When Tooth begins to understand how much trouble she is in, she realizes the only person who can help is the legendary Mrs. C, who disappeared, along with magic over 100 years ago. Teaming up with two human children and a number of fairies, who are living incognito amongst humans she sets off on the adventure of a lifetime. Pursued by the evil Plug, a terrifying fairy hunter and his posse, the race is on to save the world before Christmas, Easter and all the holidays are ruined forever.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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BoyTown
Overview: They were the hottest thing in the eighties, the pin-up boys on every teenage girl’s wall. And with hits like “Tough Titties” and “BoyTown”, they cemented their reputation as the biggest boy band on the planet. Now two decades later, BoyTown are back – they may be the Old Kids on the Block and a bit Out of Synch, but these Boys to Men are ready to suck in the gut, put on the pastels and get those middle aged women crying for more!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-19
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Out at Work
Overview: This film tells the stories of six workers in a variety of jobs. They come from very different backgrounds, and each has their own way of dealing with prejudice against lesbians, gays and bisexuals.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Coffee Wars
Overview: Coffee aficionado Jo is doing her best to keep her plant-based, independent coffee shop afloat alongside her band of misfit employees. In a last-ditch effort to save her business, Jo and her team embark to battle it out as the underdogs competing in the World Barista Championship in order to finally have a chance to prove herself in the dairy-dominated world of coffee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-21
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My Happy Ending
Overview: A famous actress goes incognito to seek treatment for a medical issue, and in a hospital waiting room she meets three remarkable women who help her face adversity with humor and camaraderie.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Overview: A fund-raising event organised by Comic Relief.
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
Overview: This retrospective follows Sir Michael Caine's impressive career, featuring archive clips woven together with interviews from colleagues and critics. It covers his 50-year-long career with classic films like Zulu, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job, The Man Who Would Be King and Get Carter, plus the more recent controversial British film, Harry Brown.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-26
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Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness
Overview: A seventy-two-hour whirlwind in the life of bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi to his friends, follows a chaotic series of events through the streets of war torn Paris in 1916. On the run from the police, his desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow artists Maurice Utrillo, Chaim Soutine and Modi’s muse, Beatrice Hastings. Modi seeks advice from his art dealer and friend, Leopold Zborowski — however, after a night of hallucinations, the chaos in Modi’s mind reaches a crescendo when faced with an American collector, Maurice Gangnat, who has the power to change his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-05
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The Case of the High Foot
Overview: Comedy short set in the 1930s in which Hilda Stolf (Sally Phillips) visits her doctor (Reece Shearsmith) complaining of a rare case of 'high foot'. But what can be done about it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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The Fence
Overview: The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys it. Teaming up with his scoundrel friends he desperately tries to track it down before it's gone for good.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Overview: Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-11
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Abroad
Overview: A young Canadian girl struggles to decipher the ways of the English especially the men when she comes to London to take up a junior position at the London Post.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-14
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Svengali
Overview: Satirical sitcom on the music industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-01
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Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
Overview: Celebrating the legendary comedy with clips and insights from the cast and celebrity fans.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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Burn Burn Burn
Overview: Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-28
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Seahorse
Overview: The story of a first love, an unrequited love and a pregnant boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-30
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Overview: Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-01
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We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Overview: Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-22
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Overview: A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.
Genres: Romance Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-04
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Bridget Jones's Baby
Overview: After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn - while a weekend away at a music festival, she meets a dashing American named Jack, who is everything Mark is not, and spends a night with him. A week later, she runs into newly-separated Mark, and has a one-night dalliance. In an unlikely twist, she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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Set the Thames on Fire
Overview: Two young men plot to escape a dystopian future London ruled by corporate tyrant The Impresario
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-30
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The Best Of Smack The Pony
Overview: Comediennes Sally Phillips, Doon MacKichan and Fiona Allen star in this compilation of the best moments from the first two series of their hit comedy show. Prior to 'Smack the Pony', Doon was probably best known to viewers for her work on 'The Day Today' and 'Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge', while Sally co-starred in 'I'm Alan Partridge' and Fiona made a splash following her sordid affair with Mike Baldwin in 'Coronation Street'.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-12
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The Junkies
Overview: Sal, Big Al and Jackie all deal with heroin use in a fun-filled romp.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-31
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Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Overview: A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I. to play the part of Winston Churchill. Their take on the war depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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Nina Conti: Clowning Around
Overview: This film follows Nina as she trains as a giggle doctor with Theodora Children's Charity, beginning with her trying to find her clown persona, who might be Scottish... or might not. Devastated by the discovery that Monkey can only perform in hospitals if he can be boil-washed, Nina tries to go it alone with only a red nose, a few misshapen balloon animals and some slightly disappointing magic tricks. Not to mention her professional snobbery rearing up as she finds herself turning into a baby-voiced children's entertainer. Then there are the difficulties she encounters when faced with clown phobia. Following her directorial debut with Her Master's Voice which won a Grierson Award and a BAFTA nomination, Nina Conti brings us another frank and intimate documentary about her eventful two-year stint as a hospital clown. Join her to discover whether Nina raised a laugh amongst sick children or whether she cried the tears of a clown.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Egg
Overview: ‘Egg’ is an absurd comedy about friendship and expecting the unexpected. Ivy and Margaret meet for tea, same time, same place, everyday. But today Ivy has some important news… From first time director Alice Trueman and starring Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones's Diary, Miranda, Smack The Pony) and Kiki Kendrick (The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-21
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Overview: Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he's over twenty years her junior isn't the only thing causing problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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A World Without Down's Syndrome?
Overview: Documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, fronted by Sally Phillips. This film explores the science and thinking around the proposed new screening test for Down's syndrome and its possible availability on the NHS. Driven by the experience of raising her son Olly, who has Down's syndrome, Sally explores some of the ethical implications of our national screening policy. By talking to experts in the Down's syndrome community, the world's top scientists and including people with Down's syndrome in the debate, Sally investigates a thorny subject that begs questions relevant to us all: what sort of world do we want to live in and who do we want in it?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-05
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Ferdinand
Overview: Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. Based on the classic 1936 children's book by Munro Leaf.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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The Rizen
Overview: The year is 1955. NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. Now, they have finally succeeded but what the Army has unleashed threatens to tear our world apart. One woman must lead the only survivors past horrors that the military has no way to control - and fight to close what should never have been opened.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-06
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Rain
Overview: A woman wakes up from rain on her pillow. When she gets out of bed the rain follows her. She carries the rain with her through the day.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-01-24
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You, Me and Him
Overview: Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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The Fight
Overview: Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and her husband Mick are juggling full time jobs and three children. Determined to ditch the dysfunction and beat her inner demons, Tina puts on her fighting gloves - literally, stepping into the boxing ring to sweat out her anxieties and punch up her self-worth. But does she have what it takes to get her family off the ropes and emerge victorious?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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The More You Ignore Me
Overview: Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an unconventional family in 1980s rural England. The film focuses on Gina, a young mother, whose efforts to be a loving mother and wife are undermined by her declining mental health. Things deteriorate when she develops an obsession with the local weatherman, which leads to an admission to the nearby psychiatric hospital. Over the years, as she grows up, her daughter Alice struggles to relate to her heavily medicated mum, and causes chaos when she comes up with a plan to reconnect with her, which divides the family forever and leads to a moving climax. Set to the songs of The Smiths, The More You Ignore Me provides a sometimes stark, yet comical insight into life within this quirky household, whilst addressing mental health issues and their impact on the family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-13
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Cluub Zarathustra
Overview: 'Using the stinking carcass of so-called comedy as a lens, we shall focus harsh philosophee, religion, poetrie and base animal passion onto your ear, causing it to smoulder'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Pregnant Pause
Overview: Steph is in a happy, long-term relationship, but now she might be pregnant she has no idea what she wants.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-19
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Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
Overview: Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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The Many Faces of Ronnie Barker
Overview: Programme telling the story of Ronnie Barker, a quiet dedicated actor who might have been a bank manager but went on to become one of the country's favourite comedy stars. Ben Elton, Michael Grade, David Renwick and Josephine Tewson are among friends and colleagues who remember his genius. Famed as one half of the Two Ronnies and the likeable convict Fletcher in Porridge, he was also a prolific writer and admired actor in serious roles.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-24
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Blood Shed
Overview: Jack loves a bargain. And he loves sheds. When he buys suspiciously cheap second-hand parts to build his very own dream shed, he and long-suffering wife Helen find they've got more than they bargained for: a killer shed with an appetite for blood. As the body count rises, and the shed's ferocious appetite grows, Jack is faced with a horrifying dilemma.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-27
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Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
Overview: A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and contributions from Angela's friends, family, students and admirers.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
Overview: Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special
Overview: To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll where Anne Boleyn (Emma again) asks jester Tim to send invitations to the guests for her Christmas party. However Cardinal Wolsey aims to steal them so that they will come to his own party and Tim must thwart him.
Genres: Comedy History Science Fiction Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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The Rizen: Possession
Overview: A group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed closed. But what they unleashed could almost tear our world apart.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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Huge
Overview: A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-18
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Blinded by the Light
Overview: In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-09
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You Are Here
Overview: One-off late '90s comedy special from a cast full of up and coming comic actors and comedians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
Overview: Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from the London Palladium.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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The Survivors Will Envy The Dead
Overview: The ever-magnificent Sally Phillips stars as Julia, a woman dealing with the stresses of the modern world and paranoia in the face of an unknown technological future. As Julia retreats from social conventions and human connection, she may have found that her detachment from progress is, in fact, a strength, in this silent scream for individuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-16
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20 Moments That Rocked Talent Shows
Overview: The film features clips looking at the successes, upsets and moments that caused drama in different talent shows.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-17
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How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Overview: This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Off the Rails
Overview: Now in their 50’s, three friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilling her dying wish. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements thrown in their way, they must put old feuds aside to complete the journey within five days and remind themselves that they are still at their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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Love at First Sight
Overview: Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reunite?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Happy Birthday Mr Bean
Overview: A celebratory documentary looking back at the 30 years since comedy legend Mr Bean landed on our screens. This documentary explores the magic behind this unlikely hero.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-10
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The Liar
Overview: Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill that does not go unrecognized at one of England’s finest educational establishments where he is groomed in the dark arts of spy craft. Whilst pursuing his first romance, Adrian is thrown into a wild and thrilling web of espionage. In a world where all is not what it seems, has Adrian met his match?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Night and Day
Overview: Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. The story of Katharine’s bold challenge to the Edwardian patriarchy is set against the backdrop of the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology, at the turn of the 20th century.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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