Francesca Annis
Birthday: 1945-05-14
Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
Biography: Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in Reckless (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Deceit (2000) and Cranford (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie. Her film appearances include Krull (1983), Dune (1984), The Debt Collector (1999) and The Libertine (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francesca Annis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dune
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice exte...
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Krull
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invader...
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Doomsday Gun
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable ...
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Revolver
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allo...
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Shifty
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his...
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Macbeth
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of...
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The Libertine
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...
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Cleopatra
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
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Under the Cherry Moon
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. ...
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Saturday Night Out
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London....
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The Debt Collector
Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the ...
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The Pleasure Girls
When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discov...
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Copenhagen
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Da...
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The Young Jacobites
The story of Highland children who help Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape to France after the battle o...
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Carry On Teacher
When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning bo...
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones...
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Loving Miss Hatto
The story of one of Britain's most famous pianists, Joyce Hatto, and her husband William, from their...
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Crooks in Cloisters
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of L...
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Coming Out of the Ice
A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name....
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Absolute Hell
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very...
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Weep No More, My Lady
When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is he...
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The Eyes of Annie Jones
Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so....
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The Secret Adversary
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppenc...
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The Cat Gang
The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up ...
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Hamlet
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for t...
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His and Hers
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspirati...
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Flipper's New Adventure
While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy,...
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Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealt...
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The Explorer
Drama about the emotional problems left behind by a young explorer murdered in the Matto Grosso jung...
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Stronger Than the Sun
Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smug...
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Penny Gold
While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the vict...
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Run with the Wind
A young woman is unable to decide between a boxer and folk singer, and ends up losing both....
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Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth...
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Polanski Meets Macbeth
A 1971 documentary by Frank Simon featuring rare footage of the film’s cast and crew at work....
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Big Truck and Sister Clare
A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pret...
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The Sky Pirate
Low-budget film illustrates the various factors which have lead a man to hijack a plane to Cuba....
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Milk
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy fa...
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Reckless: The Sequel
One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other ide...
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El río de oro
During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country hous...
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The Walking Stick
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome s...
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King of Thieves
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to ...
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Romeo.Juliet
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a bo...
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Murder Most Foul
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she ...
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West 11
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young u...
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A Haunting Harmony
A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral....
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No Kidding
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-mak...
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The London Studios: Home of the Stars
The end of an era as the studios where ITV filmed its many shows for 45 years closes its doors for t...
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The Comedy of Errors
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identic...
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Onegin
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat....
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The Wood Demon
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll mar...
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Sign It Death
A young woman schemes to marry a wealthy businessman by becoming his secretary....
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Destination Dune
A short documentary that was originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity ev...
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The Briny
A recently divorced woman believes she is experiencing a sympathetic pregnancy with Kate Middleton....
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