Felicity Dean
Nacimiento : 1959-01-24, London, England, UK
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Based on a true story, 3 Sleeps features 9-year-old Casey, who lives on a tough London estate with her mother and two young sisters. Casey is sworn to secrecy when her mother leaves the girls home alone for the weekend, but navigating an adult world alone won’t be easy. Things take a turn for the worse when Casey’s youngest sister falls seriously ill, leaving her caught between protecting her mum or saving her sister’s life.
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Desde que Hobbs, agente del Servicio de Seguridad Diplomática de Estados Unidos, y el británico Shaw, proscrito sin ley, se enfrentaron por primera vez, solo han intercambiado bofetadas y malas palabras. Pero cuando las despiadadas acciones de Brixton, un anarquista cibergenéticamente mejorado, amenazan el futuro de la humanidad, ambos se unen para derrotarlo.
Jacqui
When the rogueish but loveable Raif is asked to be his brother Tim's best man at his wedding, he decides the best present for the happy newlyweds would be to catch the entire thing on video. He returns home from abroad to find his brother is no longer the bohemian vagabond that he used to be, and is in fact marrying into a very wealthy family, and the wedding they're about to be part of will be the most outlandish and bizarre that Cheshire has ever seen... Thank the lord Raif has caught it all on tape!
Dido
Stuart Shorter y Alexander Marsters. Un vagabundo alcohólico de pasado violento y un escritor que trabaja en ayudas sociales. Cuando entre ellos se crea una insólita amistad, Alexander le pide permiso para escribir su historia y Stuart la va desvelando hacia atrás, "para hacerla más emocionante". A través de atracos, intentos de suicidio, encierros en numerosas instituciones y traumas infantiles, Alexander ofrece al mundo un vistazo dentro de un mundo totalmente ajeno para comprender cómo la vida de Stuart quedó tan fuera de control.
Edith Simcox
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.
Patricia
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Eileen
A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.
Mrs. Clay
Año 1813, Inglaterra. La joven Anne Elliot, de 29 años, cuya edad "adecuada" para contraer matrimonio ha pasado, vive con su opresivo y vanidoso padre Sir Walter Elliot de Kellynch Hall, y su hermana mayor Elizabeth. Ocho años antes fue persuadida por Lady Russell, íntima amiga de su difunta madre, para que renunciara a su amor por un oficial de la marina de posición social inferior y con poco futuro, el capitán Wentworth. Sin embargo, después de todos esos años éste aparece nuevamente en su círculo social, ascendido a capitán, y enriquecido por la guerra.
Victoria
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. The CIA then hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out. This big budget film with many 'A' stars was barely released. In fact, despite being a U.S. production filmed in Europe, it was never widely screened theatrically in America nor did it receive a video release.
Cynthia Goodburn
Frank Jones, ex combatiente en Corea y actual hombre de negocios, ve como su vida cambia radicalmente al enterarse de la muerte de su hijo Bob, traductor de ruso para los servicios de espionaje británicos. No satisfecho con la versión oficial que le han dado, decide investigar por su cuenta. No descansará hasta averiguar quién asesinó a su hijo.
Betsy
Al Pacino es Tom Dobb, un pobre e inculto trampero intentando sacar adelante a su hijo cuando la rebelión estalla en Nueva York. El pequeño bote de Dobb es requisado para suministros de guerra, mientras él y su hijo son reclutados de mala gana. Deberán pasar seis meses y ver el trato vil de los británicos para que el conflicto y la causa americana se convierta en algo personal para Dobb.
Dawn Meadows
Steaming is the final film directed by Joseph Losey. It was adapted from Nell Dunn's play by Patricia Losey and Nell Dunn. It is about three women who meet regularly in a steam room and decide to fight its closure.
Sarah
La idílica existencia de un diplomático en una nación de las islas antillanas se transforma en el caos, cuando una empresa de perforación encuentra una enorme fuente de agua mineral natural.
(Archive Material)
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Caroline
Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious friends Nigel, Giles, and Anthony, who gather for a wine-soaked dinner party with the chatty and risque Samantha and the mousy Caroline; the plummy Lord and Lady Crouchurst, in a spot of bother needing the help of Francis, a senior partner, to assist with the family's cash flow. Alan comes home from work to find Mr. Shakespeare doing a photo shoot of one of April's cats and a wealthy stranger, Miss Hunt, waiting to purchase one. His instincts for sycophantic palaver kick in.
Blanka
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.
Lady Jane
Tom es un ladronzuelo que por azar se encuentra con el príncipe de Gales. Ambos se sorprenden por su parecido y deciden intercambiar sus ropas, pues se prepara en el castillo real un baile de disfraces. El cambio es tan asombroso que en la corte los confunden: el verdadero príncipe es expulsado del castillo, mientras que el ladronzuelo es tratado como el heredero. Tras la muerte del rey Enrique VIII, el joven Tom ve con horror cómo va a ser coronado, mientras el verdadero príncipe intenta desesperadamente poder volver al palacio. Para ello recibirá la ayuda de un noble caído en desgracia, llamado Miles Hendon, que cree su descabellada historia.