Jodhi May

Jodhi May

Born: May 8, 1975
in Camden, London, England, UK
Jodhi Tania May (née Hakim-Edwards; 8 May 1975) is a British actress. Starting her career as a child actress, she is the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, for A World Apart (1988). Her other film appearances include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Sister My Sister (1994), and A Quiet Passion (2016).

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Title: Transatlantic
Character: Peggy Guggenheim
Released: April 7, 2023
Type: TV
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII.
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Title: The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Character: Hep Elliot
Released: December 8, 2022
Type: TV
Based on Sara Collins’ award-winning novel of the same name, which is set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, this powerful drama follows the eponymous Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham.
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The Silent Twins
Title: The Silent Twins
Character: Marjorie Wallace
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
Title: Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
Character: Mary Belcher
Released: June 30, 2022
Type: Movie
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
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The Invisible Thread
Title: The Invisible Thread
Character: Tilly Nolan
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
The teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary film about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Leah
Released: March 27, 2021
Type: Movie
In Resurrection, Jesus’ followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from the dead, they realize that hope didn’t die on the cross. It lives on in them. One man changed the world and brought hope in a time of despair.
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Title: Small Axe
Character: Selma James
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: TV
An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: The Fall of an Icon
Title: Aung San Suu Kyi: The Fall of an Icon
Character: Narrator
Released: November 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Exploring the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. After 15 years of house arrest in Myanmar, she was celebrated as an icon of democracy, but ten years on, she is seen by many as an international pariah.
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Making The Witcher
Title: Making The Witcher
Character: Self - Queen Calanthe
Released: August 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Journey into the extraordinary world of "The Witcher" — from casting the roles to Jaskier's catchy song — in this behind-the-scenes look at the series. Go behind the monsters, the ballads and every bit of magic that went into bringing The Witcher's Continent to life.
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Title: The Witcher
Character: Queen Calanthe
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: TV
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Title: The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: November 15, 2019
Type: Movie
The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
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Scarborough
Title: Scarborough
Character: Liz
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Set over three days, two different couples - each comprising of a teacher and a student - spend a life-changing weekend at the seaside resort town of Scarborough to seek an escape from the constraints of every day life.
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Title: Gentleman Jack
Character: Vere Hobart / Vera Cameron
Released: April 22, 2019
Type: TV
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
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Down a Dark Hall
Title: Down a Dark Hall
Character: Heather Sinclair
Released: August 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
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Let Me Go
Title: Let Me Go
Character: Beth
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: Movie
The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.
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Title: Genius
Character: Helen Dukas
Released: April 25, 2017
Type: TV
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.
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A Quiet Passion
Title: A Quiet Passion
Character: Susan Gilbert
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
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Common
Title: Common
Character: Coleen O'Shea
Released: July 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent bystander to accessory to premeditated murder after giving a few friends a lift.
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Title: Crossing Lines
Character: Evelyn St. Clair
Released: August 22, 2013
Type: TV
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.
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Title: The Ice Cream Girls
Character: Poppy Carlisle
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: TV
In the summer of 1995, two vulnerable teenage girls are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two girls go their separate ways, Poppy having been charged with the murder. Fast-forward to modern day. Happily married mother Serena is now back in the same seaside town for the first time as she cares for her dying mother Rachel. Poppy is living in quite different circumstances. Having served seventeen years for a crime she still insists she didn’t commit, she has only one thing on her mind… the truth. And if she didn’t kill Marcus, then who did?
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Ginger & Rosa
Title: Ginger & Rosa
Character: Anoushka
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: Movie
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
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The Scapegoat
Title: The Scapegoat
Character: Blanche
Released: September 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.
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I, Anna
Title: I, Anna
Character: Janet Stone
Released: March 3, 2012
Type: Movie
A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Maggy
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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Title: Strike Back
Character: Layla Thompson
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: TV
The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
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Title: Blood And Oil
Character: Claire
Released: March 29, 2010
Type: TV
Two British women become embroiled in a hostage negotiation situation.
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Blood and Oil
Title: Blood and Oil
Character: Claire Unwin
Released: March 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Mark Unwin is one of four employees of Krielsen International oil company captured by militant group MEND whilst they are working in Nigeria. His wife Claire flies out with Alice Onuko, Nigerian-born,British-raised P.R. for Krielsen. When the women arrive in Port Harcourt they are told a ransom has been agreed - as is the norm since MEND depends on ransoms to fund itself.
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Sleep With Me
Title: Sleep With Me
Character: Lelia
Released: December 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A couple are torn apart when a French woman enters their loves and pulls them into personal a game of lust and obsession.
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Title: Emma
Character: Mrs. Weston
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: TV
Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Character: Tamara Skidelsky
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
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Einstein and Eddington
Title: Einstein and Eddington
Character: Elsa Einstein
Released: November 29, 2008
Type: Movie
A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
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Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Title: Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Character: Geertje
Released: October 4, 2008
Type: Movie
J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's paintings into 17th century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate beings. However, reality was different.
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Flashbacks of a Fool
Title: Flashbacks of a Fool
Character: Evelyn Adams
Released: June 5, 2008
Type: Movie
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.
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Nightwatching
Title: Nightwatching
Character: Geertje
Released: September 6, 2007
Type: Movie
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
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Title: The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Character: Miranda Lennox
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: TV
Supermarket manager Ros Pritchard decides to stand for election and her steady gains of support gives rise to thoughts of becoming Prime Minister.
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Land of the Blind
Title: Land of the Blind
Character: Joe's Mother
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Land of the Blind
Title: Land of the Blind
Character: Joe's Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
Title: The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
Character: Jean Ibbotson
Released: December 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Set in Colonial India in 1925, the hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time.
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Bye Bye Blackbird
Title: Bye Bye Blackbird
Character: Nina
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: Movie
A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying gravity on the trapeze, however, he endeavors to pair Josef with his aerialist daughter Alice in a perilous sky-high pas de deux. Offers a romantic view of big top life, with a moth-eaten angel in his feathered, tattered costume.
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Friends & Crocodiles
Title: Friends & Crocodiles
Character: Lizzie Thomas
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: Movie
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a local estate agent's, to come and work for him as his assistant, to bring some order to his chaos. He inspires her with his enthusiasm and imagination, and frustrates her with his apparent carelessness and destructiveness, which culminates in her calling the police as one of his parties is attacked by local troublemakers, seemingly with his tacit approval. But their paths are destined to cross again and again as Lizzie, with the help of some of the people that she met at Paul's house, rises through the changing landscape of corporate Britain. This is the tale of a meaningful and powerful relationship that isn't a love story; it's about those rare people who profoundly influence and shape our lives.
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Round About Five
Title: Round About Five
Character: Bicycle Courier
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: Movie
Desperate to get across London to meet his girlfriend off the Eurostar, a man persuades a pretty bicycle courier to take him on the back of her bike, creating a dilemma he wasn't expecting.
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On a Clear Day
Title: On a Clear Day
Character: Angela
Released: August 18, 2005
Type: Movie
After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates - rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie - are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible - swimming the English Channel.
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The Best Man
Title: The Best Man
Character: Tania
Released: July 9, 2005
Type: Movie
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior to the nuptials, Olly is drawn to a woman whom he thinks is the bride's sister -- only she turns out to be the bride, Sarah. Can Murray, who dislikes James, help get Sarah and Olly together?
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Character: Elizabeth Jane
Released: December 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his loss, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far. Eighteen years later, Henchard has become Mayor of Casterbridge, a man well respected but not well liked. The unexpected return of his wife and daughter Elizabeth Jane sets off a turn of events that force him to face the consequences of his selfish impulses and violent temper.
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Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Character: Elizabeth-Jane
Released: August 17, 2003
Type: TV
At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his loss, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far. Eighteen years later, Henchard has become Mayor of Casterbridge, a man well respected but not well liked. The unexpected return of his wife and daughter Elizabeth Jane sets off a turn of events that force him to face the consequences of his selfish impulses and violent temper.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Title: The Other Boleyn Girl
Character: Anne Boleyn
Released: March 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, before being ousted by her younger sister, Anne. Mary leaves the Court to marry a commoner, but returns when Anne embarks on a reckless policy to save herself from ruin.
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Title: Tipping the Velvet
Character: Florence Banner
Released: December 9, 2002
Type: TV
A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the 1890s. Nan Astley embarks on a voyage of emotional and sexual discovery with Kitty Butler, a music hall male impersonator.
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Title: Tipping the Velvet
Character: Florence
Released: December 9, 2002
Type: TV
A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the 1890s. Nan Astley embarks on a voyage of emotional and sexual discovery with Kitty Butler, a music hall male impersonator.
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Title: Daniel Deronda
Released: November 23, 2002
Type: TV
Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 November to 7 December 2002. The serial starred Hugh Dancy as Daniel Deronda, Romola Garai as Gwendolen Harleth, Hugh Bonneville as Henleigh Grandcourt, and Jodhi May as Mirah Lapidoth. Co-production funding came from WGBH Boston. Louis Marks originally wanted to make a film adaptation of the novel but abandoned the project after a lengthy and fruitless casting process. The drama took a further five years to make it to television screens. Filming ran for 11 weeks from May to August on locations in England, Scotland and Malta. The serial was Marks' final television production before his death in 2010.
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The Escapist
Title: The Escapist
Character: Christine
Released: April 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.
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Title: The Jury
Character: Katherine Bulmore
Released: February 17, 2002
Type: TV
The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse.
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The House of Mirth
Title: The House of Mirth
Character: Grace Julia Stepney
Released: September 23, 2000
Type: Movie
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
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The Turn of the Screw
Title: The Turn of the Screw
Character: Miss
Released: December 26, 1999
Type: Movie
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
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Warriors
Title: Warriors
Character: Emma
Released: November 29, 1999
Type: Movie
If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.
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Title: Warriors
Character: Emma
Released: November 20, 1999
Type: TV
The series tells the story of a group of British peacekeepers serving in a peacekeeping operation of the UNPROFOR in Vitez, in Bosnia during the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing in 1993.
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Title: Aristocrats
Character: Lady Sarah Lennox
Released: June 20, 1999
Type: TV
Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution.
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Aristocrats
Title: Aristocrats
Character: Lady Sarah Lennox
Released: June 20, 1999
Type: Movie
18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers.
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The Woodlanders
Title: The Woodlanders
Character: Marty South
Released: February 6, 1998
Type: Movie
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor Fitzpiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
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The Gambler
Title: The Gambler
Character: Anna Snitkina
Released: October 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of excess Dostoyevsky's characters come to life as he struggles to complete his work.
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Title: Signs and Wonders
Character: Claire Palmore
Released: January 16, 1995
Type: TV
Claire Palmore (Jodhi May) is caught in the web of a dangerous religious cult. Her mother (Prunella Scales) hires a cult de-programmer (James Earl Jones) who must rescue her before it's too late.
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Sister My Sister
Title: Sister My Sister
Character: Lea
Released: December 15, 1994
Type: Movie
A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Alice
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
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Eminent Domain
Title: Eminent Domain
Character: Ewa
Released: April 12, 1991
Type: Movie
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
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Max and Helen
Title: Max and Helen
Character: Miriam Weiss
Released: January 8, 1990
Type: Movie
In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated by the war.
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A World Apart
Title: A World Apart
Character: Molly Roth
Released: June 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
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The Severed Sun
Title: The Severed Sun
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.
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Title: Dune: Prophecy
Character: Empress Natalya
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, the Harkonnen Sisters combat forces that threaten the future of humankind and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit.