Frances Barber

Frances Barber

Born: May 13, 1958
in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Movies for Frances Barber...

Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
Released: February 27, 2024
Type: Movie
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement.
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Title: Dreamland
Character: Cheryl
Released: April 6, 2023
Type: TV
In town of Margate, Eldest sister Trish is pregnant and expecting a girl baby. Her sisters Clare and Leila rally around her with their mum. But other sister Mel makes an unexpected return threatens to destabilize the entire family.
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A Bird Flew In
Title: A Bird Flew In
Character: Marie
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.
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Title: The Chelsea Detective
Character: Olivia Arnold
Released: February 7, 2022
Type: TV
Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Title: A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Character: Mrs Ambrigail
Released: December 24, 2021
Type: Movie
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.
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Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Title: Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Character: Herself
Released: May 28, 2021
Type: Movie
With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert Popper's iconic comedy, from celebrity fans to Paul Ritter's infamous squirrel-based catchphrase
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Title: Whitstable Pearl
Character: Dolly Nolan
Released: May 24, 2021
Type: TV
With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all manner of cases. But when an old friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with gruff new cop in town, DCI Mike McGuire.
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Trick or Treat
Title: Trick or Treat
Character: Miss Ferguson
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan just murdered a gangster's son? Or maybe there's an even more sinister explanation.
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Title: Queens of Mystery
Character: Viv Collins
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
Matilda Stone is a perennially single female detective whose three aunts are well-known crime writers that help her solve whodunit style murders as well as set her up on blind dates.
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Title: Let's Talk About Sex
Character: Narrator
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: TV
When it's the big questions, who do you trust? Danny Dyer explains the birds and the bees along with Miriam Margolyes, Alastair Campbell, London Hughes & Ulrika Jonsson.
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The Queen and I
Title: The Queen and I
Character: Princess Margaret
Released: December 24, 2018
Type: Movie
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
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Blue Iguana
Title: Blue Iguana
Character: Princess
Released: August 23, 2018
Type: Movie
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
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An Ideal Husband
Title: An Ideal Husband
Character: Mrs. Cheveley
Released: June 5, 2018
Type: Movie
In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery, that is.
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McKellen: Playing the Part
Title: McKellen: Playing the Part
Released: May 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood into a demanding career that placed him in the public eye for the best part of his lifetime. Using an abundance of photography from McKellen's private albums and cinematically reconstructed scenes, a raw talent shines through in the intensity, variety and devotion to that moment in the light.
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Alison
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Title: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Character: Joy
Released: November 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.
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The Bookshop
Title: The Bookshop
Character: Jessie
Released: November 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
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The Chosen
Title: The Chosen
Character: Natalia Sedova
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
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Mr. Holmes
Title: Mr. Holmes
Character: Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
Released: June 19, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
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Title: Mapp and Lucia
Character: Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
Released: December 29, 2014
Type: TV
1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
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Bucky
Title: Bucky
Character: Miss Eversham
Released: September 4, 2014
Type: Movie
A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Lesley
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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The IT Crowd Manual
Title: The IT Crowd Manual
Character: Self
Released: January 4, 2014
Type: Movie
This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans.
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Muse of Fire
Title: Muse of Fire
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!
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Title: Psychobitches
Character: Various Roles
Released: May 30, 2013
Type: TV
Sky Arts takes famous females from history and puts them in the psychiatrist's chair.
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Title: The Spa
Character: Virginia (Ginny) Trench
Released: February 7, 2013
Type: TV
The Spa is a sitcom created, written and starring Derren Litten. It is set in a health spa in Hertfordshire and follows the daily goings-on of the business.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Davina Malmort
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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May I Kill U?
Title: May I Kill U?
Character: Bernice
Released: January 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.
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Title: Bad Education
Character: Alfie's Mum
Released: August 14, 2012
Type: TV
Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford, Hertfordshire.
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We'll Take Manhattan
Title: We'll Take Manhattan
Character: Diana Vreeland
Released: January 26, 2012
Type: Movie
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.
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Title: Great Expectations
Character: Mrs. Brandley
Released: December 27, 2011
Type: TV
The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Diana Watson
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Released: October 24, 2011
Type: TV
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
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Title: Friday Night Dinner
Character: Sheila Bloom
Released: February 25, 2011
Type: TV
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
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Title: Silk
Character: Caroline Warwick
Released: February 22, 2011
Type: TV
Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as "taking silk."
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Title: The Nativity
Character: Elizabeth
Released: December 20, 2010
Type: TV
Drama revealing the human story beneath the classic biblical tale, from the courtship of Mary and Joseph in Nazareth to the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem stable.
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Title: Vexed
Character: Pat Poynter
Released: August 15, 2010
Type: TV
Comedy drama following a mismatched pair of police officers who disagree on everything with their partner, from policing to their personal life.
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Title: Pete versus Life
Released: August 6, 2010
Type: TV
Pete versus Life is a Channel 4 sitcom created by George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore. It stars Rafe Spall and the first episode was aired on 6 August 2010. It was recommissioned for a second series after averaging 1.6 million viewers and a young demographic during its first run, and series two started airing on 21 October 2011.
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The Fattest Man in Britain
Title: The Fattest Man in Britain
Character: Janice
Released: December 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.
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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: Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
Character: Dinner Guest
Released: November 2, 2008
Type: TV
Rory Bremner takes a satirical look at the 2008 'credit crunch'. He spoofs politicians and other public figures to tell the story of the US and UK financial markets.
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Title: Beautiful People
Character: Miss Prentice
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: TV
Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and moving to cosmopolitan London "to live amongst the beautiful people." The first episode aired on BBC Two on 2 October 2008 and recorded overnight ratings of 1.5 million viewers and positive critical reaction. Episodes are self-contained, but do follow a loose story arc throughout the course of each series. The second and final series finished airing on 18 December 2009.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Goneril
Released: August 6, 2008
Type: Movie
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
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Goal! II: Living the Dream
Title: Goal! II: Living the Dream
Character: Carol Harmison
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
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Title: Benidorm
Character: Daisy
Released: February 1, 2007
Type: TV
Set in the Solana all-inclusive Resort, Benidorm follows the antics of regulars and first-time holiday makers on their journeys abroad.
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Title: The Street
Released: April 13, 2006
Type: TV
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
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Title: The IT Crowd
Character: Herself
Released: February 3, 2006
Type: TV
Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.
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Title: The IT Crowd
Character: Doctor Mendall
Released: February 3, 2006
Type: TV
Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.
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Title: Hotel Babylon
Released: January 19, 2006
Type: TV
Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.
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Title: Funland
Released: October 23, 2005
Type: TV
Funland is a comedy thriller serial, produced by the BBC, about a detective who arrives in Blackpool to find the killer of his mother with only the flimsiest of clues to go on. It was first screened from 23 October 2005 to 7 November 2005, on the digital channel BBC Three. Created by Jeremy Dyson and Simon Ashdown, the series consists of a fifty-minute opening episode followed by ten half-hour installments.
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Dead Fish
Title: Dead Fish
Character: S & M Prostitute
Released: October 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!
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Goal!
Title: Goal!
Character: Carol Harmison
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Madame Kovarian
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Eye Patch Lady
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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His Passionate Bride
Title: His Passionate Bride
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Adrian Savage will have to marry if he wants to inherit his father's estate and he plans to marry Lola. However Lola loves Russell; a man she met in a night of passion who went off to become a war photographer where he was shot and lost a leg. When the two meet at the engagement party, Lola remembers how much she cares for him; but now Russell has a mistress (Elizabeth) who jealously spies Lola's flickering of lust.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Lizzie Hinchcliffe
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Evilenko
Title: Evilenko
Character: Fenja Evilenka
Released: April 16, 2004
Type: Movie
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.
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The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Title: The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Character: Miss Piggy (voice)
Released: April 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...
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Title: Hustle
Character: Clarissa
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Title: New Tricks
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Listening
Title: Listening
Character: Woman
Released: October 3, 2003
Type: Movie
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in love.
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Title: Monkey Dust
Released: February 9, 2003
Type: TV
Monkey Dust is a British satirical cartoon, notorious for its dark humour and handling of taboo topics such as bestiality, murder, suicide and paedophilia. There were three series broadcast on BBC Three between 2003 and 2005. Following co-creator Harry Thompson's death, no further series were made.
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Flyfishing
Title: Flyfishing
Character: Frances
Released: February 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at first like a perfect solution, soon takes a messy turn for the worst when they, and their clients, all start falling in love with each other!
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Title: Celeb
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: TV
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The Red Siren
Title: The Red Siren
Character: Eva
Released: August 21, 2002
Type: Movie
Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police believe he is dead and that Alice is in denial. Nonetheless, they dispatch Anita, an Italian police officer on loan to the French, to find Alice and bring her back. Meanwhile, Eva has launched her own paramilitary force to hunt for Alice, and Alice has found a protector in Hugo, an ex-soldier turned hit man and gang member. He promises to get her to her father. All roads lead to a small town on the Portuguese coast.
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Superstition
Title: Superstition
Character: Isabella Flores
Released: October 13, 2001
Type: Movie
19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames. Is seems as if Julie possesses rare telepathic skills, that she cannot control. Her young lawyer fights for her in court and against the public opinion in Italy, who take her for a witch.
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Title: Love in a Cold Climate
Character: The Bolter
Released: February 4, 2001
Type: TV
Dramatization of Nancy Mitford's novel about three aristocratic young girls' adventures in love.
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Esther Kahn
Title: Esther Kahn
Character: Rivka Kahn
Released: October 4, 2000
Type: Movie
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
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Shiner
Title: Shiner
Character: Georgie
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: Movie
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
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The Escort
Title: The Escort
Character: Jessica
Released: November 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make ends meet by working as a male escort.
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Title: Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Released: October 17, 1999
Type: TV
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the longstanding satirical team of John Bird and John Fortune with the satirical impressionist Rory Bremner, and to date has 16 series.
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Title: Plastic Man
Character: Louise Ferman
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: TV
A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
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Plastic Man
Title: Plastic Man
Character: Louise Ferman
Released: May 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
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Toy Boys
Title: Toy Boys
Character: Mrs. Chambers
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.
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Title: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Character: Janine
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: TV
Linda La Hughes (Kathy Burke) shares a flat with Tom Farrell (James Dreyfus). Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's also sex mad and obsessed with men. Tom is an aspiring actor. He's got an agent, but finds it difficult to get parts. He doesn't like Linda much, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that they share a flat. She isn't completely comfortable with his homosexuality, perhaps because she finds it difficult to live with a man who doesn't find her sexually attractive.
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Still Crazy
Title: Still Crazy
Character: Lady in Black
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
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Just in Time
Title: Just in Time
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to keep casual. Frank's secret is a burden he bears lightly, but he finds himself increasingly drawn into examining his unworthiness which ultimately horrifies him. Maria, an artist, is his good humoured wife putting a brave face on his neglect. Feeling increasingly emotional and isolated as she approaches middle age, she eventually breaks down admitting her loneliness at Frank's absences. The cathartic point of the film is when Michael, the co-owner of the cottage where they're staying, pays a visit with a woman other than his wife. Not knowing that he has left his wife and has moved in with this other woman, embarrassment and awkwardness increase, straining this social setting. With the illicit couple hot-footing it back to the city, Frank and Maria are left feeling threatened trying to reason the situation, at the midst of which lies Frank's secret.
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Tea
Title: Tea
Character: Woman
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A middle-aged woman and a young man drink tea and discuss masturbation.
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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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A Royal Scandal
Title: A Royal Scandal
Character: Lady Jersey
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
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Photographing Fairies
Title: Photographing Fairies
Character: Beatrice Templeton
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets
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Title: Ruby
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: The Ice House
Character: Diana Goode
Released: April 5, 1997
Type: TV
A corpse is found in an ice house ten years after Phoebe's husband went missing. The police seem determined to accuse Phoebe, to the delight of the villagers.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Ingrid Lockston
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Constance Fielding
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Rhodes
Character: Princess Catherine Radziwill
Released: September 15, 1996
Type: TV
Martin Shaw stars as Cecil Rhodes, the man whose controversial career included the creation of de Beers, the addition of nearly one million square miles to the Britain's African Empire, and had given his name to a country (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) larger than most of Europe. Martin Shaw's son plays the younger Rhodes and other cast members include Neil Pearson, Frances Barber and Ken Stott.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
Title: Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
Character: Adonia
Released: September 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire and why his theatrical innovations are still staples of the contemporary theatre.
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Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
Title: Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
Character: Sally Denton
Released: February 5, 1995
Type: Movie
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.
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3 Steps to Heaven
Title: 3 Steps to Heaven
Character: Andrea Wallis
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.
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Scarborough Ahoy!
Title: Scarborough Ahoy!
Character: Maria
Released: November 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A boozy barmaid (Frances Barber) and her newly found gay friend (Con O’Neill) quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the lookout for sex and excitement in this multi-award-winning film based on Tennessee Williams’ short story Two on a Party. This sensitive and finally very moving film both celebrates and challenges the unusual relationship between the two characters.
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Giorgino
Title: Giorgino
Character: Marie
Released: October 5, 1994
Type: Movie
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....
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Title: Space Precinct
Released: October 3, 1994
Type: TV
Space Precinct is a British television series that aired from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later on BBC Two in Britain, and in first-run syndication in the US. Many US stations scheduled the show in late night time slots, which resulted in low ratings and ensured cancellation. The series was created by Gerry Anderson and was a mix of science fiction and police procedural that combined elements of many of Anderson's previous series such as Space: 1999, UFO and Thunderbirds, but with an added dash of Law & Order and Dragnet. Gerry Anderson was Executive Producer along with Tom Gutteridge. One of the series' directors was John Glen who had previously helmed various James Bond movies.
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Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
Title: Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
Character: Anna Lindsay
Released: September 28, 1994
Type: Movie
1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young writer, weighed down by the hardships of life. Germaine, daughter of a wellknown figure, is one of the most brilliant woman of the century. Early on, Germaine lutes against Benjamin's love and only admits ot admiring his spirit. But, little by little, a violent and indispensable passion bonds them together. The two lovers continue to love one another and to struggle against this love for a period of twenty years. Season after season they meet and bask in each other's company. These intimate moments are at times ambivalent, but never lack in obstinance and passion.
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In The Cold Light Of Day
Title: In The Cold Light Of Day
Character: Mother
Released: June 15, 1994
Type: Movie
It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mother can't wait to show off her Swedish lumbago belt and toaster. But Morris is gripped by a deeper passion that will change his life - one that will not be illuminated for 50 years.
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Return to Blood River
Title: Return to Blood River
Character: Karen
Released: April 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.
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Fish Tale
Title: Fish Tale
Character: Helen Wormsley
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.
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Title: Rik Mayall Presents
Character: Sally Denton
Released: May 20, 1993
Type: TV
Showcasing the talent and versatility of its star, Rik Mayall Presents comprises six episodes of dark humour spread over two series, where he plays such diverse roles as a paranoid TV show host, an uncontrollable liar who pretends to be a gangster and a man on a date who is trapped in a cycle of escalating comic violence!
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A Statement of Affairs
Title: A Statement of Affairs
Character: Pip
Released: March 8, 1993
Type: Movie
A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide?
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Title: Chef
Character: Anita Lawrence
Released: January 28, 1993
Type: TV
Sharp knives and even sharper tongues! Meet Britain's finest, most short-fused chef, Gareth Balckstock.
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Title: Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Character: Miss Trumble
Released: January 15, 1993
Type: Movie
Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchicker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
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The Leaving of Liverpool
Title: The Leaving of Liverpool
Character: Ellen, Lil's Mother
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: Movie
A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
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Title: The Leaving of Liverpool
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: TV
The Leaving of Liverpool is a 1992 television mini-series, an Australian–British co-production between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and British Broadcasting Corporation. The series was about the Home Children, the migration scheme which saw over 100,000 British children sent to Commonwealth realms such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
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Title: Murder Most Horrid
Character: Gloria Twigge
Released: November 14, 1991
Type: TV
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!
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Hancock
Title: Hancock
Character: Freddie Hancock
Released: September 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the peak of his powers as Britain's number one comedian to his eventual mental, alcoholic decline and suicide in Australia.
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Young Soul Rebels
Title: Young Soul Rebels
Character: Ann
Released: August 9, 1991
Type: Movie
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
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Secret Friends
Title: Secret Friends
Character: Angela
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.
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Title: The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Character: Medusa
Released: March 30, 1991
Type: TV
A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
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Do Not Disturb
Title: Do Not Disturb
Released: March 17, 1991
Type: Movie
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont other forces start to stir.
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Title: The Orchid House
Character: Joan
Released: February 21, 1991
Type: TV
A white, plantation owning family in Dominica waits for the return of the patriarch from WWI, but things change when he does. Its focus on the declining power of the white plantocracy on the island of Dominica between the war years, handled through the prism of an intimate family drama, has great depth while remaining accessible. The series was shot in its entirety in Dominica.
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The Grasscutter
Title: The Grasscutter
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind his eldest son. Although his wife and two young boys are also in New Zealand, they are no longer together, and he has a new love interest. After some eight years his past catches up with him when former comrades show up, intent on extracting revenge. After two nearly successful attempts by them (in Dunedin), the action moves to a final confrontation and shootout in the hills above Queenstown.
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Chambre à part
Title: Chambre à part
Character: Gert
Released: November 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.
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Title: The Nightmare Years
Character: Helga Bauer
Released: November 17, 1989
Type: TV
Based on the historical work "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "The Nightmare Years" tells the story of William Shirer, American journalist who, during his days of correspondence as a foreign press in report in 1930s Germany, had to deal with the growing oppression of the Nazi regime, the increasing censorship of the press, and finally the prospect of World War. In the last days of peace, Shirer also struggles to have his German wife and child escape to the United States.
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Title: Behaving Badly
Released: February 20, 1989
Type: TV
Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast by Channel 4. The series was released on DVD in 2005. The plot focuses on Bridget Mayor, a middle-aged housewife and part-time teacher who is forced to re-evaluate her life when her husband of twenty years abandons her for a younger woman.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Lady Millicent
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Merlina Rival
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Title: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Character: Viola / Cesario
Released: December 30, 1988
Type: Movie
The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disguises herself as a man and takes service with Duke Orsino, who has fallen in love with Lady Olivia. Entrusted with pleading on her master's behalf, Viola is utterly disconcerted to find that Olivia has fallen in love with her. Thus begins the confusion of this delightful comedy.
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We Think the World of You
Title: We Think the World of You
Character: Megan
Released: December 22, 1988
Type: Movie
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
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Title: Red Dwarf
Character: Genny
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Duck
Title: Duck
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Character: Rosie
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
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Prick Up Your Ears
Title: Prick Up Your Ears
Character: Leonie Orton
Released: April 17, 1987
Type: Movie
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Nicole Burgess
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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Title: Casualty
Character: Nancy
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Castaway
Title: Castaway
Character: Sister Saint Winifred
Released: March 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.
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A Zed & Two Noughts
Title: A Zed & Two Noughts
Character: Venus de Milo
Released: October 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
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White City
Title: White City
Character: Alice
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A film based on Townshend's album "White City: A Novel". The story is based on the area where Townshend was raised. The drama is directed by Richard Lowenstein.
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Hard Feelings
Title: Hard Feelings
Character: Viv
Released: March 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified home. But when Jane's boyfriend introduces a discordant note of reality from the streets, Viv plots her retribution. And behind her double-locked doors there are some hard feelings to contend with.
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A Flame to the Phoenix
Title: A Flame to the Phoenix
Character: Wanda Grabinska
Released: December 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War II begins.
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Those Glory Glory Days
Title: Those Glory Glory Days
Character: Woman
Released: November 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
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Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Dagmara
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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Acceptable Levels
Title: Acceptable Levels
Character: Jill
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.
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The Missionary
Title: The Missionary
Character: Mission Girl
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
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Title: Timewatch
Character: Annie Besant
Released: September 29, 1982
Type: TV
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
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Home Sweet Home
Title: Home Sweet Home
Character: Melody
Released: March 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
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Title: An Audience with...
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
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Title: Play for Today
Character: Melody
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Title: Having It Off
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Having it Off is a one-off TV comedy series for BBC Choice made by Red Production Company in 2002. It was set at a cheap hairdressing salon in Eccles, Greater Manchester. It was shown only once and is not available yet on DVD. Out gay bitchy stereotype Guy La Trousse, desperately tries to escape the drudge of daily wash and crop and change the fortunes of the salon - and his career. This is all thwarted by April, nymphomanic loud-mouthed wife of the hairdressers owner. The BBC website describes it as "rude, crude, strongly working-class sitcom on the lesser-seen BBC Choice, Having It Off promised much yet fell curiously short of the mark, lacking the key that would have propelled it to a higher level". However, tapes have been known to change hands on eBay for high prices.