Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born March 3, 1958) is an English actor. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger (1985) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage (1992) and Tom & Viv (1994). A seven-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Damage. She has also been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning twice for Enchanted April (1992) and the TV film Fatherland (1994). In 1996, one critic asserted that she is "the greatest actress of our time in any medium" after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival. Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End debut in the 1981 play Moving, before being nominated for the 1987 Olivier Award for Best Actress for A Lie of the Mind. Her television credits include Blackadder (1986–1989), A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), Merlin (1998), The Lost Prince (2003), Gideon's Daughter (2006), the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007), and Rubicon (2010). She was nominated for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for Operation Orangutan.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.0973 |
| Birthday | 1958-03-03 |
| Place of Birth | Southport, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Miranda Jane Richardson, میراندا ریچاردسون, |
2002
The Hours
7.3/1857
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...
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The Hours
2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7.8/22042
When his name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triw...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2006
Paris Je T'aime
6.8/826
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...
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Paris Je T'aime
1987
Empire of the Sun
7.505/2105
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...
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Empire of the Sun
1999
Sleepy Hollow
7.188/7315
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...
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Sleepy Hollow
1997
The Apostle
6.299/154
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
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The Apostle
2000
Get Carter
5.215/647
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes...
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Get Carter
2007
Southland Tales
5.214/598
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santar...
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Southland Tales
1992
Damage
6.568/667
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
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Damage
2004
The Prince & Me
6.21/1036
A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents...
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The Prince & Me
2007
Fred Claus
5.855/909
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes over...
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Fred Claus
1996
The Evening Star
6/78
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has on...
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The Evening Star
2000
The Miracle Maker
6.061/49
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...
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The Miracle Maker
1994
Fatherland
6.183/134
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret....
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Fatherland
1992
The Crying Game
6.8/841
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA...
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The Crying Game
2000
Chicken Run
6.839/5380
The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly!...
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Chicken Run
1996
Kansas City
6.075/93
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
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Kansas City
1999
Alice in Wonderland
6.2/391
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy W...
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Alice in Wonderland
2007
Puffball
3.5/20
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.
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Puffball
2001
Snow White
5.9/246
Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's...
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Snow White
2009
Spinning Into Butter
5.4/8
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race...
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Spinning Into Butter
2003
The Actors
5.5/38
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his charac...
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The Actors
1991
Enchanted April
6.7/75
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for...
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Enchanted April
2002
Spider
6.643/927
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a k...
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Spider
2004
The Phantom of the Opera
7.264/1761
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
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The Phantom of the Opera
1985
Dance with a Stranger
6.1/53
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da...
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Dance with a Stranger
2023
The Magician's Elephant
6.797/231
Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister stil...
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The Magician's Elephant
2009
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
6.6/21
The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. B...
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Turtle: The Incredible Journey
2003
The Rage in Placid Lake
6.4/34
Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success....
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The Rage in Placid Lake
2005
Wah-Wah
5.8/37
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu...
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Wah-Wah
2007
Provoked: A True Story
6.7/21
Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed car...
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Provoked: A True Story
1999
The Big Brass Ring
4.2/13
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past...
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The Big Brass Ring
2010
Made in Dagenham
6.673/327
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Made in Dagenham
1999
The King and I
5.422/115
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...
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The King and I
1994
Tom & Viv
6.1/33
The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a...
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Tom & Viv
2009
The Young Victoria
7.2/1062
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mot...
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The Young Victoria
1998
St. Ives
5.4/12
In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the pris...
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St. Ives
2022
The House
7.022/1128
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy...
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The House
2005
Gideon's Daughter
6.3/36
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Di...
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Gideon's Daughter
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
7.554/28
After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.5/84
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
7.714/7
A look back at the making of the entire Blackadder series to commemorate its 40th anniversary, featuring contributions from Blackadder's biggest fans...
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Blackadder: A Cunning Story
1996
Saint-Ex
2.3/3
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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Saint-Ex
1997
The Designated Mourner
5.2/6
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story...
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The Designated Mourner
1989
Twisted Obsession
5.429/28
An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and mani...
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Twisted Obsession
2015
Operation Orangutan
7/2
A rehabilitation centre in western Kalimantan in Borneo aims to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned orangutans for release back into the wild...
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Operation Orangutan
1995
The Night and the Moment
4.3/8
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts...
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The Night and the Moment
1991
Old Times
4/4
The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the countryside somewhere beyond London, where a prosperous and urbane couple are entertaining the w...
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Old Times
2013
Belle
7.079/721
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in Engl...
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Belle
2015
Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey
5.8/16
A look at the phenomenal success of novel, Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey
1990
The Bachelor
0/0
In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.
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The Bachelor
1998
The Scold's Bridle
6.1/7
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
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The Scold's Bridle
1987
After Pilkington
6.8/3
The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague.
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After Pilkington
2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
6.933/877
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
1999
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
3.6/6
Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "Two-Two" for having to say things twice to be heard...
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Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
1990
Les Dogs
0/0
Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and b...
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Les Dogs
2015
Testament of Youth
7.3/790
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi...
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Testament of Youth
2013
Hidden Universe
6.8/12
An extraordinary journey deep into space offering fresh insight into the origins and evolution of the universe.
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Hidden Universe
1993
Demonella
0/0
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called...
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Demonella
1993
Jealousy
0/0
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair...
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Jealousy
1993
Century
4.9/7
Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
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Century
2014
Muppets Most Wanted
6.3/890
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his das...
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Muppets Most Wanted
1986
Lost Property
0/0
Anne and John Forrest live in an old Victorian school building. But what for Anne is the fulfillment of her childhood fantasy about a “pretend” school...
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Lost Property
1999
Blackadder: Back & Forth
7.008/185
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and h...
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Blackadder: Back & Forth
2014
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
4.5/10
Harry Hill stars in this comedy based on Norman Hunter's books. The Professor has a fight on his hands when a councillor tries to run him out of town...
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The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
1998
Ted & Ralph
6.6/5
One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded s...
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Ted & Ralph
2025
The Yellow Tie
8/3
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in...
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The Yellow Tie
1989
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
4.4/4
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France.
The other families t...
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Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
2005
Comic Aid
5/1
Shot live at the one off Comic Aid benefit gig at London’s Carling Apollo – which sold out in just three and a half minutes of tickets being put on sa...
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Comic Aid
2003
Falling Angels
5.8/22
The wickedly funny story of three sisters' coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of the 60's, free love, the Cold W...
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Falling Angels
1987
Eat the Rich
6.2/35
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...
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Eat the Rich
2004
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
5.2/37
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I...
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Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2015
An Inspector Calls
7.405/258
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide....
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An Inspector Calls
1992
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
4.5/2
Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour...
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Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
1990
The Fool
7/2
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...
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The Fool
1994
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
7.1/18
A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woma...
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The Line, the Cross & the Curve
2017
Churchill
6.176/335
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
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Churchill
2017
Stronger
7/1567
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
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Stronger
2017
iBoy
5.955/1212
After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to no...
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iBoy
1988
The Master Builder
0/0
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpa...
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The Master Builder
1991
Redemption
0/0
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
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Redemption
2015
Casanova
8.2/4
Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behin...
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Casanova
2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
7.8/11
To mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documen...
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Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
1997
Swann
2.5/2
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure...
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Swann
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
0/0
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde...
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Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1985
The Innocent
5.5/2
A young Yorkshire boy struggles to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mo...
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The Innocent
1988
Mountain Language
4/1
Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer...
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Mountain Language
1985
Transmutations
3.9/35
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating...
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Transmutations
2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
8.3/3
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's fra...
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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
1988
Sweet as You Are
3.8/5
A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.
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Sweet as You Are
2000
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
7.1/35
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.
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Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2020
Rams
6.3/84
In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal ill...
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Rams
2001
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
6/2
An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth.
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Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
1987
The Death of the Heart
8/1
A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who...
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The Death of the Heart
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.7/20272
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
1991
Broken Skin
0/0
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Broken Skin
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
4.5/2
A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders.
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Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
1989
Communicators From Hell
0/0
John Cleese training video.
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Communicators From Hell
1986
The Demon Lover
0/0
When young Kathleen makes a promise to Keith Cameron during World War One, that no matter what happens they will meet again one day, she little realis...
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The Demon Lover
2024
Like Tears in Rain
7.7/3
His entire life, the charismatic actor Rutger Hauer kept the outside world at a distance. His inner circle included only a small group of people, amon...
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Like Tears in Rain
The Duchess and I
0/0
Telling the story of the final years of the woman who married King Edward VIII and broke up the monarchy.
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The Duchess and I
The Queen of Fashion
0/0
The ups and downs of Blow’s life, championing unknown and marginalised fashion figures like Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, and Sophie Dahl, whom sh...
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The Queen of Fashion
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
6/1
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
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Custom of the Country
0/0
Based on the Edith Wharton classic of the same name, Undine Spragg, a fiercely ambitious woman from the Midwest, strives for the social heights of tur...
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