Miriam Margolyes
Birthday: 1941-05-18
Place of Birth: Oxford, England, UK
Biography: Miriam Margolyes (born May 18, 1941) is a British-Australian actress, writer, political activist and television personality, most prominent as a character actor on stage and screen. Her earliest roles were in theatre and, following a transition to film and television, she won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993).
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Romeo + Juliet
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed progra...
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James and the Giant Peach
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess...
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I Love You to Death
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie d...
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings...
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Mulan
To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and b...
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The Last Artifact
Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys,...
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The Age of Innocence
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her ...
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Pacific Heights
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately ...
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Undertaking Betty
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so...
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Scotch & Wry
Video Compilation of the Scottish TV Comedy Sketch Show. Stand out characters include Supercop, an i...
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Cats & Dogs
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets t...
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Flushed Away
London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for ...
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Babe: Pig in the City
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but afte...
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Cold Comfort Farm
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphane...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just a...
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End of Days
Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When ...
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Babe
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, lik...
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Happy Feet
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born wh...
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Immortal Beloved
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the...
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Alone
Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices ...
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The Dukes
The Dukes,a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. ...
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The Good Father
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his...
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Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...
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The Awakening
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter....
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The Apple
In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subs...
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Electric Dreams
Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after ha...
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Magnolia
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famo...
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousi...
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Scrubbers
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls....
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Mog's Christmas
Mog feels a little ignored during the Thomas family's Christmas preparations. When she spots the hug...
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Stalin
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of An...
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The First Snow of Winter
Sean is a little duck with a big problem. Due to a mishap with a jet aircraft Sean misses the annual...
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors...
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Different for Girls
Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns ...
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Dead Again
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a dete...
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The Wedding Video
When the rogueish but loveable Raif is asked to be his brother Tim's best man at his wedding, he dec...
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Blackadder: A Cunning Story
A look back at the making of the entire Blackadder series to commemorate its 40th anniversary, featu...
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My Happy Ending
A famous actress goes incognito to seek treatment for a medical issue, and in a hospital waiting roo...
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The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
Marjorie the cow lives in a run-down stable in the middle of Bethlehem. Nothing exciting ever happen...
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The Long Way Home
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of ...
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Body Contact
In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beaut...
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Naughty Girls
A travelogue depicting the adventures of English girls when they visit the Far East....
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imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Miriam Margolyes is one of Britain’s best loved and most provocative actresses. Across her eclectic ...
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Liberation
Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II - the Alli...
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Sir Billi
An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villa...
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Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth, film and television personalities tak...
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The Seventeenth Kind
Black comedy scifi about a washed up TV presenter who doesn't let small things like alien invasions ...
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The Lifeswappers
Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since thing...
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The Itch of the Golden Nit
Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only wit...
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Unexplained Laughter
Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beauti...
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As You Like It
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguis...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of hi...
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A Nice Girl Like Me
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she le...
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists....
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a...
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Reds
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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Morons from Outer Space
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four...
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Little Shop of Horrors
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors...
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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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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could buil...
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The Butcher's Wife
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They...
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Ed and His Dead Mother
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexp...
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Balto
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska....
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Ladies in Lavender
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard...
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Being Julia
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a...
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Modigliani
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing ...
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Wallis & Edward
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorce...
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards...
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The Guilt Trip
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention....
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Demonella
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies...
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The Fringe, Fame and Me
The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago t...
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his...
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House!
A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country's largest bingo centre nearby....
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Maya the Bee Movie
A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from vio...
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The Legend of Longwood
When 12-year-old Mickey Miller moves from New York to Ireland, she soon discovers a link between her...
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When Harry Left Hogwarts
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scene...
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David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Ba...
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Outlier
Cancer patient and successful writer Lilith Winterbottom should be dead by now. But the cynical misa...
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We Are Most Amused
We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour ...
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Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
Self-confessed Christmas Scrooge, Miriam Margolyes, turns to her love of Charles Dickens and the fes...
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Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determina...
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Yentl
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a bo...
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusi...
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Co...
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The Fool
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper ...
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The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth loo...
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The Battle of Billy's Pond
A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environ...
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Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
The Doctor finds himself with an old face and something is very wrong. How can Donna remember him an...
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Honeysuckle
A short film about unity. This is a story about boy who finds an unlikely connection with his eccent...
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Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but...
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...
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Echoes That Remain
Echoes That Remain combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with...
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Spirit-ED
What if Angels went to school too? Spirit-ED is a magical, fantasy adventure set in Divinity, a scho...
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A Closed Book
Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities...
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the ...
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The Little Vampire 3D
Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. M...
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Old Flames
Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a...
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Early Man
Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being sp...
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protecti...
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Postcards from the 48%
This is a film made by the some of the 48% who voted Remain. The film is of the 48% and for the 48%....
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventur...
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H Is for Happiness
A twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the str...
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What the Pythons Did Next...
A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terr...
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The Thin End of the Wedge
A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for frie...
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Wings
A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War...
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The IMAX Nutcracker
This 37-minute 3-D Imax film adaptation from E.T.A. Hoffman's story is a straight narrative fantasy ...
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In Search of Peace
In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the or...
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Inspired by "Letters of Note", the bestselling anthology compiled by Shaun Usher, and "To the Letter...
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Next to You
Set five years on from the school days of director Stevan Filipovic's previous film Next to Me, a st...
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Not Afraid, Not Afraid
After being abandoned by her husband after 28 years, an overbearing, self-centered psychologist emba...
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Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 1...
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Chasing Liberty
The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her ento...
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How To Make It In Comedy
Told by the stars who first found fame at the Edinburgh Fringe, this the inside story of what it tak...
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Holy Days
Three quirky older nuns hit the road looking for miracles but end up learning to drive like demons i...
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The Importance of Being Miriam
Actress Miriam Margolyes reflects on the influences that shaped her career and shares her love of cl...
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Angels in the Asylum
In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove...
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Mother
Lara has always lived in the shadow of her mother. That is, until the morning of one life-changing d...
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and...
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Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
A star-studded documentary revealing the private man behind one of Britain’s greatest comic geniuses...
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A Friend of Dorothy
A poignant short film that delves into the unexpected bond between Dorothy, an elderly woman living ...
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The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
A look at Dame Maggie Smith's life from a two-up two-down in Essex to Broadway and Hollywood. Starri...
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The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
A dramatized documentary looking at how the British Board of Film Censors imposed an extraordinary s...
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a ...
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Peter and the Wolf
Gorgeous tunes and orchestral thrills for the young and young at heart: with a twinkle in her eye, t...
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Crystal Gazing
Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil,...
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Hilda: The Fairy Isle
Hilda journeys into the fairy mound to look for her father, unravelling surprising family secrets al...
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