Linda Bassett
Nascimento : 1950-02-04, Pluckley, Kent, England, UK
História
Linda Bassett was born in the Kentish village of Pluckley - location for the television series The Darling Buds of May (1991). She was brought up in Pimlico, South London, by her typist mother and police officer father. She became interested in acting as a child when she was frequently taken to see plays in London, most notably at the Old Vic, the famous classical theater. On leaving school, Linda went to work at the Old Vic as an usherette and catering manager, before going to read English at Leeds University. However, she dropped out after a year and became involved in a local drama group which put on plays in community-based locations, such as schools. She regards this as her theatrical schooling, having had no formal training. She made her London stage debut at the age of 32 in 1982 and, in 1991, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Although she was a well-regarded stage performer, it was the 1999 film version of the play East Is East (1999) (in which she had been an original stage cast member) which brought her to a larger audience and, throughout the 2000s, she has been a familiar face in a variety of films and television series. In the late 1980s, she returned to live in Pluckley.
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.
A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits three women as they indulge their taste for recreational cruelty.
Dr Yasmine Vondenburg
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Anna
Uma história de arte, sexo e intriga. O triângulo amoroso entre o crítico de arte John Ruskin (Greg Wise), sua mulher adolescente Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning) e o artista pré-rafaelita John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge) foi um escândalo sexual, que abalou a sociedade inglesa do século XIX.
Iris
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy (Frances de la Tour) wonders if an attic sale could be a solution.
Ella Khan
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.
Doll
Um bebê jamaicano órfão é adotado por um casal de idosos brancos e cresceu na zona branca de Londres. Ele torna-se um dos homens mais temidos e respeitados na Grã-Bretanha.
Ms. Brenner
Na Alemanha pós-2ª Guerra Mundial o adolescente Michael Berg se envolve, por acaso, com Hanna Schmitz, uma mulher que tem o dobro de sua idade. Apesar das diferenças de classe, os dois se apaixonam e vivem uma bonita história de amor. Até que um dia Hanna desaparece misteriosamente. Oito anos se passam e Berg, então um interessado estudante de Direito, se surpreende ao reencontrar seu passado de adolescente quando acompanhava um polêmico julgamento por crimes de guerra cometidos pelos nazistas.
Monica Pringle
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian restaurateur, Sam.
Trolley Lady
Durante as filmagens de 'De Olhos Bem Fechados', em Londres, entre 1998 e 1999, um homem fingiu ser o recluso diretor Stanley Kubrick e entrou em festas, restaurantes e nightclubs mais badalados da capital inglesa. Baseado em fatos reais, o projeto foi desenvolvido por dois colaboradores de Kubrick, Anthony Frewin, que assina o roteiro, e Brian Cook, na direção.
Maggie
O casamento aparentemente perfeito de James e Anne é abalado quando esposa conhece e se apaixona pelo vizinho Bill e eles começam a ter um caso. Um crime muda as suas vidas e as revelações não param de sondar a família.
Mel
Um encontro acidental com um travesti cantor de cabaré deixa o jovem Charlie Price inspirado. Agora, o rapaz que assumiu a fábrica de sapatos depois da morte do pai tem um novo desafio ao iniciar a fabricação de sapatos eróticos, na tentativa de salvar o negócio das dificuldades financeiras.
Auntie Vee
Jack, Steve and Goat are East-End Spivs. They spend their time wheeling and dealing wherever and whenever they can. It's not until Jack and the others get involved with a guy called Villa, and they are landed with a big payday they have been waiting for, when they realise what a mess they are into. At the back of the lorry they have smuggled goods in, they find illegal immigrants. Most of them escape but they are left with 2 kids; a boy and a girl, and have to decide what to do with them... Are they going to look after them and feed them, clothe them, love them, etc. or are they going to leave them on the streets of East-End London?
Cora
Mulheres maduras de Yorkshire posam nuas para um calendário com o intuito de arrecadar dinheiro para um hospital. Elas acabam se transformando em uma grande sensação mundial.
Nurse Nina
A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are thrown into the terrifying world of neo-natal intensive care when their son Luke is born prematurely. Willed on by his desperate parents, he gradually grows in strength - but as Sadie develops a unique bond with her son, her relationship with Richie begins to suffer.
Nelly Boxall
No começo do século 20, Virginia Woolf lida com a depressão e tenta finalizar o romance "Mrs. Dalloway". Seu texto afeta profundamente uma dona de casa dos anos 1950 e uma mulher nos dias atuais, que parece viver os eventos do livro.
Anthea
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!
Housekeeper
The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love.
Sister
Em 1993 a guerra da Bósnia está em seu momento mais crítico e vários refugiados da Iugoslávia estão chegando na Inglaterra. Quatro típicas famílias londrinas terão suas vidas transformadas pelo conflito e pelos refugiados da guerra.
Ella Khan
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
Maryann Money
This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her impulsive nature pushes her into a web of deceit and destruction.
Mrs. Spud
Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
Mary Thornton
Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children.
Betty Stratton
Depois de uma infância de abuso por parte de seu pai evangelista, o desajustado Oscar Hopkins se torna um ministro anglicano e desenvolve uma obsessão divina por jogos de azar. Lucinda Leplastrier é uma rica herdeira australiana que compra em Londres materiais para sua fábrica de vidro recém-adquirida em seu país. Decidido a viajar para a Austrália como um missionário, Oscar conhece Lucinda a bordo do navio e uma obsessão mútua floresce. Eles fazem uma aposta que vai alterar cada um de seus destinos.
Doctor
Um jovem dançarino cuja vida e arte são integralmente conectados ao seu corpo se vê passando por profundas mudanças quando confrontado com o HIV. Depois de herdar o papel principal no balé Indian Summer de seu amigo Ramon (Anthony Higgins), Tonio (Jason Flemyng) recusa todos os tratamentos que possam interferir em suas habilidades de dança, se reconectando com a vida apenas com Jack (Anthony Sher), um homem tão diferente dele quanto duas pessoas podem ser, mas que se torna seu companheiro e amante.
Mary's Mother
No século XIX na Inglaterra, uma arrumadeira (Julia Roberts) vai trabalhar na casa de um médico conceituado e rico (John Malkovich). Entretanto, este médico é o Dr. Jekyll e, apesar de idolatrar seu patrão, ela gradativamente descobre que ele é um homem desesperado, que esconde um terrível segredo que envolve seu assistente, o senhor Hyde.
Madame Brontski
Um professor cético visita uma propriedade britânica remota para desmascarar alegações de fenômenos psíquicos, mas logo se vê assombrado por um fantasma de seu próprio passado.
Mum
Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a "raver" who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs scene. The girl falls in love with the raver, played splendidly by Ian Hart, but - when fired from her cafe job - she becomes involved with the seedier world of dealing.
Gwen
An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.
Mrs. Loveless
It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mother can't wait to show off her Swedish lumbago belt and toaster. But Morris is gripped by a deeper passion that will change his life - one that will not be illuminated for 50 years.
Susan
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
Mrs. Miles
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
Virginia Lyddon
Every cub reporter wants a front page 'splash' and the journalists from The Brit, a top-selling daily tabloid, are no exception. They're on the trail of a sensational story and their jobs depend on it.
Janet Swanton
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
Gertrude Stein
Vencedor do prêmio Sundance. Retrato ficcional de um dos grandes casais literários da história: Stein & Toklas. França no verão dos anos 1930, Alice cuida da enferma Gertrude; eles visitam Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, outros; e Hemingway aparece.
Have you ever wondered what happens with your pet when you are not at home? A dog worried about its future, a lazy parrot and an aquarium full of fish with strong religious beliefs, show us what really happens, since they share an uncertain future with the old age of its owner.
