Pauline Collins
Nacimiento : 1940-09-03, Exmouth, Devon, England, UK
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Pauline Collins, OBE (born 3 September 1940) is an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which she received Laurence Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk awards. She reprised the role in a 1989 film adaptation, winning a BAFTA and garnering Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
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Priscilla
Determinada a detener el funeral de su ex amante en el glamoroso escondite francés Île de Ré, la ex sirena de Hollywood Helen escapa de su casa de retiro en Londres con la ayuda de la reprimida ama de casa inglesa Priscilla y salieron a la carretera juntos en una carrera para llegar al funeral a tiempo.
Lady Mawgon
El destino de la magia está unido a la vida del último dragón. Y el destino de Jennifer Strange está inscrito en la espada que debe matarlo.
Ernestine
Two ladies in their seventies drive through north County Sligo in a neat Japanese car. As they pass by village pubs and beaches, they imagine the terrible, immoral lives people are living today. Their one consolation is the innocence of children… Adapted from a Kevin Barry short story, this is an absurd and macabre tale about how the petty-minded destroy themselves
Joanna
Nat Dayan, un viejo panadero judío del este de Londres, se esfuerza por mantener la actividad de su tienda frente a la competencia de un supermercado cercano, que llega incluso a quitarle a su empleado. Sin mucho entusiasmo, contrata como aprendiz a un joven inmigrante musulmán originario de Darfur, que ocasionalmente es vendedor de cannabis. Su relación no es fácil hasta que un incidente fortuito hace reactivar las ventas.
Cissy Robson
Un grupo de viejos amigos que viven en una especie de residencia para cantantes de ópera retirados organizan cada año, coincidiendo con el aniversario de Giuseppe Verdi, un concierto para recaudar fondos que les permitan mantener la casa en que viven. Los problemas surgen con la llegada de un nuevo residente que resucita una antigua rivalidad entre dos divos.
Margaret Baker
Irlanda, siglo XIX. Una mujer (Glenn Close) se ve atrapada en un triángulo amoroso inusual. Se disfraza de hombre para poder trabajar y sobrevivir, pero 30 años después se encuentra perdida en su propia prisión.
Mrs. Tweedle
Dos mundos separados por siglos enteros. Cuando Tolly, de 13 años, descubre que puede viajar de uno a otro, comienza una aventura que liberará antiguos secretos de familia enterrados por generaciones enteras. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cristal
Amor, sexo, humor y traiciones. Las pasiones, ambiciones y angustias de los miembros de una familia provocan conflictos que los llevan a vivir peligrosas situaciones e incluso los ponen al borde de la locura.
Lil Taylor
Thirty-something Nick Taylor and his wife Laura have been together for ten years and things aren't going too well. She senses her biological clock is ticking away and she wants children while Nick is not as sure. Not because he does not like kids but because he feels a child could be just one responsibility too many. Nick's problem is his elderly parents.
Dr. Catherine Kendall
Se desarrolla una cena para celebrar el triunfo de un equipo deportivo. Acuden siete invitados. Empiezan a conversar amigablemente y George Balton propone un brindis por su matrimonio con la bellísima Rose Mary. Nada más beber la copa, Rose Mary muere. A partir de este momento comienzan a investigar su misteriosa muerte.
Thelma Caldicot
After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.
Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Cuando las tropas japonesas sitian Singapur, un grupo de mujeres de distintas nacionalidades son evacuadas en barco hacia los Estados Unidos. Durante la travesía, el barco es atacado por la aviación japonesa y naufraga frente a las costas de Sumatra. Las mujeres son apresadas y enviadas a un campo de concentración en medio de la selva.
Aileen Matthews
Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.
Elsa Tabori
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Joan Bethel
Drama basado en el best-seller homónimo de Dominique Lapierre, sobre las miserables condiciones en que viven los desheredados en la India. Un cirujano norteamericano, tras perder a un paciente, se desmorona y decide viajar a la India en busca de paz espiritual. En Calcuta, tras ser golpeado y robado, es ayudado por un granjero que lo lleva a una clínica en la "Ciudad de la alegría", una de las zonas más pobres de la ciudad.
Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
Shirley Valentine (Pauline Collins) es una mujer madura, extravagante pero simpática, que un día decide abandonar su aburrida vida para buscar el amor en las islas griegas. Tom Conti es El divertido propietario de un restaurante (Tom Conti) empezará cortejarla.
Sylvia
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Sylvia
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
Eileen
Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
Samantha Briggs
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Ben also vanishes. The Second Doctor and Jamie are left to convince the sceptical airport Commandant there has been foul play.
One Windmill girl tells the tragic history of another who took to drink and, finally, killed herself after working in strip clubs.
