Edna Doré
Nascimento : 1921-05-31, Bromley, Kent, England
Morte : 2014-04-11
História
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
Tom (Jim Broadbent) e Gerri (Ruth Sheen) são casados e levam uma vida confortável. O único filho deles é Joe (Oliver Maltman), que tem 30 anos e permanece solteiro. No verão Tom e Gerri resolvem visitar Ken (Peter Wight), um amigo dele dos tempos de colégio. Acima do peso e bebendo compulsivamente, Ken está infeliz. O casal decide fazer um churrasco para animá-lo e convida Mary (Lesley Manville), uma amiga de Gerri, para o evento. Mary está divorciada e em busca de um novo relacionamento. Após o churrasco ela aceita dar uma carona a Ken, que tenta assediá-la sexualmente.
Archie's Mum
Colin está em agonia, abalado pela infidelidade de sua esposa. No entanto, Colin e seus amigos sequestram o amante da mulher e mantém ele preso para que Colin possa restaurar seu ego com vingança
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
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Martha
O amor de Penny (Lesley Manville) por seu companheiro, o motorista de táxi Phil (Timothy Spall), secou. Phil é gentil e sem ambições, enquanto que ela trabalha como caixa de supermecado. Rachel (Alison Garland), filha deles, faz faxina na casa de idosos e o filho do casal, Rory (James Corden), está desempregado e desenvolveu uma agressividade acentuada, preferindo ficar sentado o dia todo no sofá a fazer algo produtivo da vida. A alegria abandonou completamente a relação de Phil e Penny. Até que Rory fica doente, é internado no hospital com problemas cardíacos e muda a perspectiva das coisas. O incidente primeiro evidencia os problemas no relacionamento deles, depois acaba aproximando-os pela primeira vez em anos.
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)
Viagem Urbana é um engraçado e misterioso passeio pelos túneis, corredores e escadarias do metrô. São algumas histórias dirigidas por grandes atores como Jude Law, Ewan McGregor e Bob Hoskins baseadas nas experiências reais dos passageiros do metrô de Londres, um dos mais movimentados do planeta. Em um dos episódios, uma mãe vivida por Rachel Weiz, perde sua filha no metrô e entra em pânico, porém sua filha está bem em um lugar maravilhoso. Outro episódio dirigido por Ewan McGregor, um músico inventa um mundo de fantasia a partir de um bilhete perdido. Você também irá acompanhar a aventura de dois jovens golpistas que roubam o caixa do metrô e fogem por uma plataforma abandonada. Embarque nessa viagem e viva uma experiência inesquecível. Menos
Old Woman
Jean Valjean rouba um pedaço de pão e é injustamente condenado a prisão e a marginalidade. Mais tarde ele se apaixona por Fantine, cuja morte intempestiva faz com que ele se transforme no pai adotivo de Cosette, filha de sua amada. O tempo passa e a menina Cosette se apaixona profundamente por Marius, um jovem e carismático revolucionário.
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
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
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
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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.