Souad Faress

Souad Faress

Born: March 25, 1948

Movies for Souad Faress...

Title: Alexander: The Making of a God
Character: Oracle
Released: January 31, 2024
Type: TV
Expert interviews and gripping reenactments combine to reveal the extraordinary life of Alexander the Great and his burning desire to conquer the world.
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A House in Jerusalem
Title: A House in Jerusalem
Character: Older Rasha
Released: July 13, 2023
Type: Movie
West Jerusalem is dotted with comfortable stone villas built by affluent Palestinian families in the early 20th century, who were forced to abandon their homes 1948. The film delves into this legacy with a supernatural tale about a British-Jewish woman who moves to Jerusalem seeking to move on from a painful past. When she moves into old Palestinian house in West Jerusalem, she encounters the ghost of a Palestinian girl who was separated from her family in 1948.
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Title: The Change
Character: Annie
Released: June 21, 2023
Type: TV
Linda finds a new lease on life when she learns that she's experiencing menopause. So she heads to the forest on a journey of self-discovery.
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Title: Beyond Paradise
Character: Ella Woods
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: TV
After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.
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Title: Better
Character: Zaara Slack
Released: February 13, 2023
Type: TV
After a family tragedy is narrowly averted, a corrupt police detective undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right twenty years of wrongdoing but satisfying her newfound conscience won't be straightforward.
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Title: The Other Half
Character: Maman
Released: August 23, 2022
Type: TV
20-something Navid is half-Welsh, half-Iranian and 100% that bitch, who gets the chance to escape his small Welsh town when he lands an internship in the big city: Bristol.
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Title: The Sandman
Character: Fate Crone
Released: August 5, 2022
Type: TV
After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.
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Title: Landscapers
Character: Judge Blacklock
Released: December 6, 2021
Type: TV
A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
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Dune
Title: Dune
Character: Bene Gesserit Sister
Released: September 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
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Title: We Are Lady Parts
Character: Gran
Released: May 20, 2021
Type: TV
An anarchic, laugh-out-loud music comedy following a Muslim female punk band called Lady Parts, tracking the highs and lows of the band members as seen through the eyes of Amina Hussein — a geeky doctorate student who is recruited to be their unlikely lead guitarist.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: Ree
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: Movie
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
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Title: His Dark Materials
Character: Larissa
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: TV
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology, and magic are intertwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
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Title: The Spy
Character: Mama Sophie Cohen
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: TV
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
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Christopher Robin
Title: Christopher Robin
Character: Wealthy Woman
Released: August 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.
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Only the Lonely
Title: Only the Lonely
Character: Gurmeet
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
When Elspeth Morris, 70, loses her beloved husband George, life becomes intolerable. Increasingly surrounded by people she has nothing in common with, she feels utterly alienated, abandoned and alone until circumstances lead to an unlikely friendship with her neighbour, Gurmeet.
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Title: Porters
Character: Freda
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: TV
Deluded Simon Porter, dreams of becoming a doctor - but he has to start from the bottom and be a porter. His plan? Work his way up to be the best porter the NHS has ever seen.
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Bridget Jones's Baby
Title: Bridget Jones's Baby
Character: Judge
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: Movie
After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's '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. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack, the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father.
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Hampstead Theatre At Home: Tiger Country
Title: Hampstead Theatre At Home: Tiger Country
Character: Lakshmi / Bindu
Released: December 8, 2014
Type: Movie
December is the busiest time of year for London’s hospitals. For one particular team it’s business as usual, even with the seasonal upsurge. Brian, the urology consultant, is audaciously trying to convince his superior, Mr Leffe, to swap irksome patients. Newcomer Emily has already discharged 5 people and it’s not even 10am. Her boyfriend James, a dishy doctor, is as usual engaged in charming his superiors – not to mention the eye-catching Rebecca. Feisty senior house officer Mark is wrestling with his bossy mentor Vashti to allow him to be more hands-on. And throughout it all, John, the cardiology registrar, simply can’t find a minute in the day to enjoy his roast turkey sandwich…
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The Perfect Silence
Title: The Perfect Silence
Character: Homayra
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Heavily pregnant Natalie 18 (bolshie and brash) still parties hard with best mate Mel. Homayra 60's (Middle eastern and proud) lives next door and cares for ailing husband Sully. She's sick of Natalie and her friends, their racist comments and loud music. However one night, events change the course of the two women's lives forever and bring forth an unlikely union.
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Title: Vera
Character: Eve Jamshidi
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Title: Law & Order: UK
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
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Title: My Spy Family
Character: Mrs. Vong
Released: September 1, 2007
Type: TV
The show is about the Bannon family, who all have strong spy links. The parents, Dirk and Talia, were once arch enemy spies, but fell in love and got married. They now have three children who have all been brought up with spy techniques as a matter of course.
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Title: Being April
Released: June 20, 2002
Type: TV
Three kids. Three dads. One mum. Mum is April (Pauline Quirke), a 39-year-old single mother living in Leicester, who has had three children by three different fathers. Richard (Victor McGuire), her husband since she was 18, is a plumber who still adores her. They separated years ago but never got round to a divorce. Eddie (Nicholas Gleaves) is a barman, with whom she had a fling nine years ago until, a week after moving in with him, she discovered they were both looking for Mr Right. Sunil (Nitin Ganatra) followed, sexy, young and rich.
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Title: My Hero
Character: NHS Inspector
Released: February 4, 2000
Type: TV
My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.
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Such a Long Journey
Title: Such a Long Journey
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
The story, set in 1971 at the time of the war between India and Pakistan, is based on the novel of the same name by Rohinton Mistry, an Indian now living in Toronto. "Such a Long Journey" takes place mostly in and around a large apartment complex, its courtyard and the street, which the municipal authorities want to widen so that even more choking diesel fumes can cloud the air. We meet the hero, Gustad (Roshan Seth), in the process of defending the old concrete wall that protects his courtyard from the street, and later he strikes a bargain with an itinerant artist (Ranjit Chowdhry), who covers the wall with paintings from every conceivable religious tradition, with the thought that all of the groups represented will join in defending the wall.
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Title: Trial & Retribution
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: TV
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.
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Sixth Happiness
Title: Sixth Happiness
Character: Sera Kotwal
Released: October 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with brittle bone disease, which causes him to have never grown beyond four feet tall. The film follows his sexual awakening whilst his family simultaneously disintegrates all around him. An extremely moving drama confronting stereotypes around disability, sexuality and race, featuring a powerhouse performance from Kanga.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: Diomanda Yannis
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Bhaji on the Beach
Title: Bhaji on the Beach
Character: Rekha
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.
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My Sister-Wife
Title: My Sister-Wife
Character: Mumtaz
Released: February 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in name only. But with all three under one roof, Farah becomes increasingly insecure.
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Mrs. Duhra
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Shalom Salaam
Title: Shalom Salaam
Character: Nasreen
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Two disparate families become intertwined when a Jewish man and a Muslim woman fall in love while attending college.
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Title: Shalom Salaam
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: South Of The Border
Character: Manda
Released: October 25, 1988
Type: TV
Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The series was renowned for affording opportunities to new talent, women and people of colour both in front of and behind the cameras.
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Elphida
Title: Elphida
Character: Asian Woman 2
Released: October 8, 1987
Type: Movie
Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Hospital Doctor
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Title: My Beautiful Laundrette
Character: Cherry N. Ali
Released: November 16, 1985
Type: Movie
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
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Title: EastEnders
Character: Farah Ahmed
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Character: (Archive Material)
Released: September 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
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Who's Who
Title: Who's Who
Character: Samya
Released: February 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious friends Nigel, Giles, and Anthony, who gather for a wine-soaked dinner party with the chatty and risque Samantha and the mousy Caroline; the plummy Lord and Lady Crouchurst, in a spot of bother needing the help of Francis, a senior partner, to assist with the family's cash flow. Alan comes home from work to find Mr. Shakespeare doing a photo shoot of one of April's cats and a wealthy stranger, Miss Hunt, waiting to purchase one. His instincts for sycophantic palaver kick in.
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Title: Blake's 7
Character: Selma
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: TV
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
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Title: Secret Army
Character: Maria
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: TV
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
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Title: I, Claudius
Released: September 20, 1976
Type: TV
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Title: Albion Market
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Albion Market is a short-lived British soap opera, intended as a companion to Coronation Street on ITV.