Edna Doré
Nacimiento : 1921-05-31, Bromley, Kent, England
Muerte : 2014-04-11
Historia
Born Edna Lillian Gorring on May 31, 1921 in Bromely, Kent Edna Doré was an actress, best known for playing the battleaxe Mo Butcher in EastEnders from 1988 to 1990 and for the films Les Misérables (1998), and the Mike Leigh films Another Year, All or Nothing and High Hopes, the latter saw her receive the award for Best Supporting Player at the 1989 European Film Awards. She was married to Alexander Doré. She died on April 11, 2014 in Sussex, England at the age of 92.
Allotment Lady
La familia y la amistad. Alegría y pena. Esperanza y desánimo. La soledad. Un nacimiento. Una muerte. Gerri (Ruth Sheen), terapeuta, y Tom (Jim Broadbent), geólogo, están felizmente casados, aunque algo preocupados de que su hijo Joe (Maltman), que es abogado, permanezca soltero. Esta preocupación les impide darse cuenta de cómo María (Lesley Manville), una frágil compañera de trabajo de Gerri, ha llegado a depender de su amistad con ellos.
Archie's Mum
Provocativa, extravagante y sorprendentemente tierna en medio de una explosión de testosterona. "44 inch chest" (La medida de la venganza) explora el ego masculino al límite, probando si el miedo es más fuerte que el amor. Colin está pasándolo fatal, destrozado por la infidelidad de su mujer.
Grace
An ordinary boy named Michael is going through some extraordinary changes in his life. His family has just moved into an unfamiliar house, and his brand new baby sister has fallen ill. One day, while cleaning out the garden shed, he stumbles across something mysterious, a strange creature huddled in the corner; weak of body but strong of will. This is Skellig.
Stuart's Gran
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.
Martha
Penny, una cajera de supermercado, ha dejado de querer a su marido Phil, un taxista tierno y de espíritu filosófico. Su hija Rachel es limpiadora en una residencia de ancianos, pero su hijo Rory, un chico de carácter agresivo, está en el paro. Phil y Penny han perdido la alegría de vivir, pero cuando Rory cae enfermo y tiene que ser ingresado urgentemente en el hospital, el dolor los une de nuevo y vuelven a descubrir el amor.
Colin (Bill Thomas) flies remote-controlled model aeroplanes and plods away as a bureaucrat in a local benefit office. A confirmed failure in all romantic matters, woefully under the thumb of his elderly mother, Colin's latent sexual passions are suddenly set ablaze when the gorgeous Denise (Chrissie Cotterill) appears on the scene. Except that Denise and her boyfriend Roy (Craig Fairbrass) have evil plans for the naive Colin which draw him into a web of sexual intrigue, bizarre life-threatening experiences and a very incompetent murder plot. An off-beat comedy.
Miss Saville
Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate where they live. With Tommy about to join the army and Francis having fallen in love, friendships and loyalties are tested as the friends drift in their own directions.
Bag Lady (My Father The Liar)
Tube Tales es una colección de nueve cortometrajes basados en las experiencias de la vida real de pasajeros del metro de Londres, expuestos en la revista Time Out. Las historias y el guión y filmadas de forma independiente.
Old Woman
Francia, a principios del siglo XIX. De forma cruel e injusta, Jean Valjean es condenado y llevado a prisión por robar una barra de pan. Pero el convicto logra escapar de la cárcel y se refugia en la pobre villa de Vigau, de la que con el tiempo llegará a ser alcalde y a la que convertirá en una próspera ciudad. Mientras, para el policía Javert, encontrarle se ha convertido en una obsesión y le perseguirá de forma implacable durante toda su vida.
Mrs. Umney
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?
Kath
Una familia que habita en uno de los barrios más desfavorecidos de Londres, vive sustentada por el impulso y el aguante de sus mujeres; Valeria, su madre Janet, su abuela Kath y la pequeña Michelle viven azotadas por los golpes de la vida.
Justin's Gran
After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging business by turning it into a male stripper club, with the help of untrustworthy businessman Billy Bowman.
Rose
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
Betty
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
Mrs Bender
La vida de tres parejas, de diferentes clases sociales, que gira alrededor de una anciana de carácter irreductible, le sirve al director para realizar un fiel retrato de la sociedad británica de la época.
Mrs Deedes
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of the east end
Mrs. Clark
"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.
Landlady
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial immigration at 'home'. The film deals with the 'colour problem' within the context of Teddy boy violence.
Mrs. Collins
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger escapes by double crossing the blackmailer by stealing the money and his girlfriend to boot. Unfortunately the police are in hot pursuit.
Ruth LeFol
An American in London kills the husband of a woman he covets. She returns the favor by killing his fiancée.