Vanessa Redgrave
Birthday: 1937-01-30
Place of Birth: Greenwich, London, England, UK
Biography: Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and political activist. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers, and the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. She also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Bostonians (1984), and Howards End (1992). Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons (1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.
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A Man for All Seasons
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Mission: Impossible
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Blow-Up
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and...
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The Palestinian
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The House of the Spirits
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Girl, Interrupted
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Murder on the Orient Express
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Atonement
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Oh! What a Lovely War
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Wilde
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The Pledge
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Evening
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Yanks
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Good Boy!
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Agatha
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Deep Impact
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Howards End
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The Devils
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The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...
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1961
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Circus at Clopton Hall
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Prick Up Your Ears
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If These Walls Could Talk 2
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Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
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The Bostonians
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Venus
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A Month by the Lake
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How About You...
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Mother's Boys
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Julia
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
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The Gathering Storm
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill durin...
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Isadora
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
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Lulu on the Bridge
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Anonymous
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Sparrow
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The Riddle
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Bear Island
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Miral
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The Fever
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Mary, Queen of Scots
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Mrs. Dalloway
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The Trojan Women
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Little Odessa
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Alice, Through the Looking
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Cars 2
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The Whistleblower
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Comrades
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The White Countess
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Camelot
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Playing for Time
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A Rumor of Angels
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Robinson in Ruins
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Bella Mafia
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The Boy at the Back of the Class
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
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Sing Sing
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All That I Am
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A Quiet Place in the Country
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The Wind in the Willows
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The Willows in Winter
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Foxcatcher
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Coriolanus
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The Locket
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Down Came a Blackbird
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Byron
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Crime and Punishment
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Great Moments in Aviation
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Song for Marion
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The Butler
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Steaming
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Short Order
SHORT ORDER tells a story so vibrantly sumptuous each still could be served as its own meal. Amidst ...
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Wetherby
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Déjà Vu
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Out of Season
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A Man for All Seasons
Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces de...
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Exile in Buyukada
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Vacation
An allegedly insane woman is allowed to finally leave the madhouse to see if she is capable of funct...
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Behind the Mask
A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patien...
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The Sea Gull
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th ...
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The Body
A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and ...
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Consuming Passions
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic acci...
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Stalin's Funeral
1953 year. Moscow says goodbye to the leader. In the funeral crowd, Eugene met with Elya. During the...
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Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Bono and others in a major Dublin, city wide event in honor of revered human rights activist Aung Sa...
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Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS is a political documentary on the uncontrolled widespread of smal...
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The Thirteenth Tale
Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who ...
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Orpheus Descending
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trap...
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They
A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident....
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Looking for Richard
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...
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Second Serve
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it...
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Two Mothers for Zachary
A grandmother sues her daughter for custody of her grandson, because she believes that her daughter'...
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The Ghost of Richard Harris
A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the...
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The Secret Scripture
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...
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Merchant Ivory
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership,...
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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Last Will. & Testament
It's the greatest mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? DEREK JACOBI leads an imp...
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On Our Way
Up-and-coming Henry struggles to write a debut feature “On Our Way”. Confronted by memories from ear...
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The Sailor from Gibraltar
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who...
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A Sunday in September
Documentary about the anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Trafalgar Square on 17 September 1961....
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmma...
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to disc...
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Mirka
The isolated lives of people on a farm at the top of the mountains are changed by a ten-year-old chi...
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Ein Job
Victorija comes to Hamburg from the Ukraine to carry out a triple murder. But the "killer cat" learn...
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Michael Redgrave: My Father
Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, natur...
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My Body, My Child
A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child....
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The Go-Between
An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wr...
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Entree Des Artists
A tragic, yet inspiring love story between a young actress and young filmmaker, whose relationship b...
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The Wound and the Gift
The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with an...
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Cradle Will Rock
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attem...
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A Wall of Silence
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government....
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The Thief Lord
A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in t...
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As You Like It
One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shake...
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Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
The Almeida Theatre makes its live screening debut with an explosive new adaptation of Richard III, ...
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode c...
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The Estate
The story of the Wellsleys, an aristocratic family unable to save their ancestral estate because of ...
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Breath of Life
Set in Italy in 1946 just after World War 2, the film explores the lives and emotions of a group of ...
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Thank You, Doctor Rey
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaiso...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the...
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century M...
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Sea Sorrow
A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voi...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Aca...
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Georgetown
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United Stat...
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Right to Work March
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London....
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The Aspern Papers
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress....
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a m...
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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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A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Bo Widerberg talks with actress Vanessa Redgrave about giving birth without painkillers and the Viet...
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Red and Blue
Musical short, filmed for the abandoned portmanteau film Red, White and Zero (1967)....
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate ...
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Red, White, and Zero
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Bri...
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Mrs Lowry & Son
An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. ...
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "wi...
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Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
This documentary contains dramatized episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant...
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly...
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Letters to Juliet
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of ...
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Restraint
Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being....
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Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her all-tim...
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The Lost Girls
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Finding You
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Searching for Debra Winger
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Nothing Like a Dame
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God, Smell and Her
A stream of consciousness, a journey, a wonder of human beings, life and the world, of the corporeal...
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The Fifth War
A war documentary that stands as an example of both the possibilities of international solidarity an...
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Maggie
East-End housewife Maggie Proud (Vanessa Redgrave) has two demanding children, a selfish mother-in-l...
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The Crystal Planet
11-year-old Rea has recently moved to a distant planet in an outer-space colony where she discovers ...
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Cold Storage
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two young employees – joined by...
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Common Wealth
A conservatively raised capitalist travels the world on an evolutionary journey exploring alternativ...
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Behind The Mask
Documentary about rebel group IRA (Irish Republican Army), and their view of the conflict against th...
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