Paul Jesson

Vera

overview: A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

character: Dale Acreman

original_name: Vera

Intimate Contact

overview: A self-satisfied, upper-middle-class husband discovers that his marital infidelities have caused him to contract AIDS.

character: Trevor Singleton

original_name: Intimate Contact

Pie in the Sky

overview: Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

character: Chief Constable Stokes

original_name: Pie in the Sky

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Lynton Pargeter

The Trials of Jimmy Rose

overview: Jimmy has just been released from prison after 12 years and is struggling to come to terms with his new life. His family and friends are finding it difficult to accept him back in to their lives and he must find a way to make things right.

character: Roy Anderson

original_name: The Trials of Jimmy Rose

The Glass

overview: Jim Proctor, a middle-aged tycoon, decides to hand over his glass-making company to his young nephew Paul Duggan.

original_name: The Glass

Spooks

overview: Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

character: Guy Facer

original_name: Spooks

Endeavour

overview: The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

character: Professor Ernest Burrowes

original_name: Endeavour

Chewing Gum

overview: The life of Tracey, a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old  living in an estate in Tower Hamlets, and the mishaps of her neighbourhood, friends and family. Oh, and obvs her boyfriend!

character: Noah

original_name: Chewing Gum

Midsomer Murders

character: Hector Bridges

Widows

overview: Armed robbers Harry, Terry, and Joe die when the security van that they're robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows–Dolly, Shirley, and Linda–find their husbands' schematics and decide to stage it themselves.

character: D.I. Alec Fuller

original_name: Widows

character: D.I. Fuller

The Crown

overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.

The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

character: Sir Geoffrey Howe

Working Shakespeare

overview: How do we enter the heightened, extravagant language of Shakespeare and yet feel truthful in our contemporary world? How do performers excite the audience with Shakespeare's rich imagery and dynamic rhythm, yet make it real for the twenty-first century? We assume that a sophisticated intellectual background is required to grapple with Shakespeare. But there is a much deeper, almost primal response as available to inner-city students as to their counterparts in the private school to the sound and rhythm in Shakespeare's language which arouses our emotions: feelings of anger and sorrow, of passion and laughter. This landmark five-part video series gives voice to Shakespeare's most beloved and widely known speeches and sonnets, performed by a powerhouse ensemble of American and British actors, as they delve into the structure, meaning and power of Shakespeare's language.

original_name: Working Shakespeare

Foyle's War

overview: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

character: Godfrey Watson

original_name: Foyle's War

Carry On Laughing

overview: An anthology of half-hour stories, mostly historical romps and satires of pop culture, some feature recurring characters; based on the blockbuster Carry On films, the series was an attempt to address the films' declining cinema attendance by transferring the franchise to television. Many original cast members were featured in the series.

character: Messenger

original_name: Carry On Laughing

Clayhanger

overview:
Clayhanger is a British television drama based on Arnold Bennett's novel series of the same name, published between 1910 and 1918, dramatised by Douglas Livingstone for ITV. Produced by Associated Television, the 26-episode programme is a coming-of-age story set in 19th century England.

Edwin Clayhanger aspires to be an architect but is expected to join his father's printing business. His personal growth, eventual acceptance of the family business, and his romantic entanglement with Hilda Lessways are explored.

Clayhanger was ITV's longest-ever drama at the time. While some found the pacing slow, it was nonetheless praised for its faithful adaptation, excellent acting, and atmospheric sets.

character: Tom Swetnam

original_name: Clayhanger

The Devil's Whore

overview:
The Devil's Whore is a four-part television drama serial produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, broadcast from 19 November to 10 December 2008.

As the English Civil War rages, when both politics and religion divide the nation, spirited aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe is drawn to the anti-monarchist cause. She tells the story as England dares to execute its king and search for an alternative means of government.

character: Bradshaw

original_name: The Devil's Whore

A Very Peculiar Practice

overview: A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.

character: P.R. Prettiman

original_name: A Very Peculiar Practice

The Bible: A History

overview: It is a book that originated thousands of years ago in the Middle East. The subject of intensive scholarship and interpretation, the Bible and its rich narratives have shaped politics, culture, and the human experience through the ages. Seven people from different walks of life offer their perspectives on what history's best selling book says about spiritual life and relationships with others.

original_name: The Bible: A History

A Touch of Frost

overview: Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

character: DS Dorridge

original_name: A Touch of Frost

Widows

character: DS Alec Fuller

The BBC Television Shakespeare

overview: The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.

original_name: The BBC Television Shakespeare

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Paul Jesson

biography: Paul Jesson (* 6. Juli 1946 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) ist ein britischer Schauspieler.

title: Waiting at the Field Gate

overview: Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?

character: Ron

original_title: Waiting at the Field Gate

title: All or Nothing

overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

title: Quartermaine's Terms

overview: TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly teacher at the school who, becuase of his gentle character, has hardly any enemies - in fact, the rest of the staff confide in him or generally pplay on his good nature. Then Derek Meadle arrives on the scene. He is a new part-time teacher who really wants to be full-time, but people like Quartermaine are in the way.

character: Derek Meadle

original_title: Quartermaine's Terms

title: Coriolanus

overview: Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with certain colleagues. When a riot results in his expulsion from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius. Together, the pair vow to destroy the great city.

character: Tribune Brutus

original_title: Coriolanus

title: Mr. Turner

overview: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner  lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

character: William Turner Snr

original_title: Mr. Turner

title: Margaret

overview: A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

character: Kenneth Baker

original_title: Margaret

title: Joggers

overview: When five girls start jogging in Liverpool's Sefton Park they soon encounter predictable male opposition. The result is a comedy that ends with a relay race of Wagnerian proportions. A BBC co-production with the Liverpool Everyman

character: Edgar

original_title: Joggers

title: Vera Drake

overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

character: Magistrate

original_title: Vera Drake

title: RSC Live: Coriolanus

overview: A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of the republic of Rome.Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. His ambitious mother attempts to carve him a path to political power, but he struggles to change his nature and do what is required to achieve greatness. In this new city state struggling to find its feet, where the gap between rich and poor is widening every day, Coriolanus must decide who he really is and where his allegiances lie.Rome Season Director, Angus Jackson, completes the Royal Shakespeare Company’s collection of Shakespeare’s Roman plays with a visceral production which sees Sope Dirisu (One Night in Miami, Donmar Warehouse, 2016) take on the title role.

character: Menenius

original_title: RSC Live: Coriolanus

title: Resnick: Rough Treatment

overview: A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him - for both her husband and the drugs. But the precious powder belongs to someone else. And he wants it back. So if he feels he's been double-crossed, there's no telling what might happen.  Detective Inspector Resnick has a hunch that there's more to this story than meets the eye. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, it's obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice.

character: Det Chief Supt Jack Skelton

title: Resnick: Lonely Hearts

overview: Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs

title: The Sound of Music Live!

overview: The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.

title: Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

overview: Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery and the murder of a policeman. The only witness to the killing of Stephen Cameron was his fiancée, Danielle Cable, who was forced to change her identity after giving the evidence which convicted Noye.

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

title: Marrowbone

overview: A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

title: Henry VI Part 1

overview: The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

title: Henry VI Part 2

title: Home Sweet Home

overview: Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

title: The Muscle Market

overview: Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.

title: Henry VI Part 3

title: The Tragedy of Richard III

overview: Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.

title: Cymbeline

overview: Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.

title: Acceptable Levels

overview: A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.

title: The Children Act

overview: In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

title: The Tragedy of Coriolanus

overview: A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

title: The Winter's Tale

overview: The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.

title: Love's Labour's Lost

overview: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

title: National Theatre Live: King Lear

overview: An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.

title: National Theatre Live: Travelling Light

overview: In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.

title: Sitting

overview: Bafta Award-winning Katherine Parkinson's debut play. Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.

title: Closer to the Moon

overview: A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

title: The Trial of Lord Lucan

overview: An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children. He disappeared the day after the killing and was never found.

title: Pity in History

overview: A sculptor is working to finish off a memorial to the Royalist years - just as Cromwell's men are approaching the surrounding cathedral walls.

title: The Old Man & The Thief

overview: A lonely retiree returns home to find that he's been burgled, only to then realise that the culprit never left.

title: Tender Loving Care

title: Waiting at the Field Gate

title: All or Nothing

title: Quartermaine's Terms

title: Coriolanus

title: Mr. Turner

title: Margaret

title: Joggers

title: Vera Drake

title: RSC Live: Coriolanus

title: Resnick: Lonely Hearts

title: Resnick: Rough Treatment

title: The Sound of Music Live!

title: Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

title: Marrowbone

title: Henry VI Part 1

title: Henry VI Part 2

title: Home Sweet Home

title: The Muscle Market

title: Henry VI Part 3

title: The Tragedy of Richard III

title: Cymbeline

title: Acceptable Levels

title: The Children Act

title: The Tragedy of Coriolanus

title: The Winter's Tale

title: Love's Labour's Lost

title: National Theatre Live: King Lear

title: National Theatre Live: Travelling Light

title: Sitting

title: Closer to the Moon

title: The Trial of Lord Lucan

title: Pity in History

title: The Old Man & The Thief

title: Tender Loving Care


Kathryn Hunter

biography:
Aikaterini Hadjipateras (Greek: Αικατερίνη Χατζηπατέρα; born 9 April 1957), known professionally as Kathryn Hunter, is an actress and theatre director known for her work in physical theatre. Hunter has appeared as Arabella Figg in the Harry Potter film series, as Eedy Karn in the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor, and as the Three Witches in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth. Hunter's accolades include the Olivier Award for Best Actress and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Landscapers

overview: A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.

character: Tabitha Edwards

original_name: Landscapers

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Les Misérables

overview: France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19 years, but a small mistake puts the law again on his trail. Ruthless Inspector Javert pursues him thorough years, driven by a twisted sense of justice, while Valjean reforms himself, thrives and dedicates his life to good deeds. In 1832, while the revolution ravages the streets of Paris, Valjean and Javert cross their paths for the last time.

character: Madame Victurnien

original_name: Les Misérables

origin_country: FR GB

Andor

overview: In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

character: Eedy Karn

original_name: Andor

Black Earth Rising

overview: As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

character: Capi Petridis

original_name: Black Earth Rising

Grotesquerie

overview: A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.

character: Maisie DeBroses Montgomery / Moira Hatzigeorgiou

original_name: Grotesquerie

character: Maisie DeBroses Montgomery

Black Doves

overview: When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.

character: Lenny

original_name: Black Doves

Flowers

overview: Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.

character: Wendy

original_name: Flowers

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Kathryn Hunter

biography: Aikaterini Hadjipateras (griechisch: Αικατερίνη Χατζηπατέρα; * 9. April 1957), bekannt unter ihrem Künstlernamen Kathryn Hunter, ist eine Schauspielerin und Theaterregisseurin, die für ihre Arbeit im Bereich des physischen Theaters bekannt ist. Hunter spielte unter anderem Arabella Figg in der Harry-Potter-Filmreihe, Eedy Karn in der Disney+-Star-Wars-Serie „Andor“ und die drei Hexen in Joel Coens „Macbeth“. Zu ihren Auszeichnungen zählen der Olivier Award als Beste Hauptdarstellerin und der New York Film Critics Circle Award als Beste Nebendarstellerin.

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凯瑟琳·亨特

biography: 凯瑟琳·亨特，演员，参演电影《美丽佳人欧兰朵》《魔法圣婴》《哈利·波特与凤凰社》。

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凱瑟琳·亨特

biography: 凱瑟琳·亨特，演員，參演電影《美麗佳人歐蘭朵》《魔法聖嬰》《哈利波特：鳳凰會的密令》。

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Aikaterini Hadjipateras

title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

overview: When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

character: Arabella Figg

title: Girls' Night

overview: Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...

character: Nurse

original_title: Girls' Night

title: Grushko

overview: A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internicine gang rivalries escalate towards war on the streets.

character: Dr Sopova

original_title: Grushko

title: All or Nothing

overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

character: Cécile

original_title: All or Nothing

title: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

overview: Based on Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a new work for theatre conceived and directed by Simon McBurney. Tokarczuk’s controversial, violent, genre defying novel – part thriller, part comedy, and part blistering poetic manifesto for the rights of animals and the environment – caused an uproar in its native Poland upon publication.

character: Janina

title: Inside/Outside

overview: Truth becomes the source of creativity; actions are a result of being, not thinking. This film, INSIDE/OUTSIDE is based upon Monika’s processes over many years.  Robert Golden has had the privilege of meeting and photographing some of Monika’s late work. Although her teaching is for performers, Robert has said that her gift of understanding humanity has been gifted in some small ways to him.  Monika’s inspirational way of working, helps actors to find a unity between their inner psyche and its outer expression.  The 46-minute film shows a precise description of her work. Monika explains it in detail along with thoughts about movement, performance and theatre. The insightful and entertaining book and film are relevant to actors, dancers, Laban yoga, Feldenkrais, Pilates and other sports and movement systems and to people working with children.

character: Self

original_title: Inside/Outside

title: The Pod Generation

overview: In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about this new way of birthing babies, his love for Rachel prompts him to take a leap of faith.

character: Post Office Clerk

original_title: The Pod Generation

title: Maria's Child

overview: Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.

character: Margarita Guzman

original_title: Maria's Child

title: Poor Things

overview: Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

character: Swiney

original_title: Poor Things

title: The Front Room

overview: Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda after her mother-in-law moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.

character: Solange

original_title: The Front Room

title: Inland

overview: A young man, of Romani descent, returns to his hometown of Gloucester. He is met by local garage mechanic, Dunleavy. They embrace, smiling. But what past does the young man carry with him? What awaits him back amongst people he doesn't really understand and who don't understand him? And what lurks in the forest, watching, silent, old as the trees?

character: Eliza 'Lizzie' Heron

original_title: Inland

title: Megalopolis

overview: In a futuristic New York known as New Rome, visionary architect Cesar Catilina dreams of building "Megalopolis," a utopian city that redefines society’s limits. Opposing him is the corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who clings to power and profit. Between them stands Julia, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar forces her to choose between loyalty, ambition, and the fate of humanity.

character: Teresa Cicero

original_title: Megalopolis

title: Beckett by Brook

overview: With hindsight, we can see exactly how wrong the labels given to Samuel Beckett have been, since it has been said that his writing was sad, negative and desperate. Nowadays, it can be said that several of his pieces submerge us in the reality of human existence, but with an element of humor - and it is this humor that has saved us. Beckett rejects every theory, every core belief, looking for the truth. He observes people amid the darkness and takes them into what is vast and unknown about life, so they can discover their truth by taking a look at themselves and others. Like Beckett, we share their uncertainty, their search, their pain.  This theatrical reflection by the masters of European theater, Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, incorporates parts of Fragments, a piece premiered in 2008 and filmed in 2015 and which contains the short plays Rough For Theater I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II and Neither.

original_title: Beckett by Brook

title: Tale of Tales

overview: The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

overview: A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

title: Vicious

overview: When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.

title: The Baby of Mâcon

overview: In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

title: Orlando

overview: England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

title: Simon Magus

overview: Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise

title: Wet and Dry

overview: The heroine is a mummy, possibly of an Egyptian princess or goddess, who in former times was executed for sacrilegous adultery and is now condemned to dusting this old house, which, like her and her mind, is falling apart .

title: Kafka's Monkey

overview: Kafka’s Monkey is based on ‘A Report to an Academy’, a story by Franz Kafka in which an ape, Red Peter, gives a lecture about his transformation from ape to human. This production was captured by Digital Theatre live at London’s Young Vic Theatre and was performed by Kathryn Hunter.

title: RSC Live: Timon of Athens

overview: Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. Surely it can’t last?  When the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gone. Left alone, she flees Athens to take refuge in the woods, cursing the city she once loved.

title: Until The Lions

overview: In this partial adaptation of poet Karthika Naïr’s award-winning book Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, an original reworking of the epic Mahabharata, Akram Khan uses kathak and contemporary dance to tell the tale of Amba, a princess abducted on her wedding day and stripped of her honour, who invokes the gods to seek revenge.

title: The Tragedy of Macbeth

overview: Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

title: Hedda

overview: Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.

title: Megadoc

overview: Presenting a behind-the-scenes account of a visionary at work. From Oscar-nominated Mike Figgis, Megadoc gives audiences an unfiltered and intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic sci-fi drama Megalopolis.

title: The Coen Brothers - An American Story

overview: Tracing the careers of these two cinema enthusiasts, this documentary reveals the secrets behind the work of Ethan and Joel Coen, screenwriters and directors who are interchangeable within the same two-headed entity. It features fascinating, previously unseen interviews with some of the most iconic actors from their filmography.

original_title: Die Coen-Brüder - Eine amerikanische Geschichte

title: Jasmine. Home. Mother.

overview: On a surreal game show where stories are currency, a WOMAN battles a system that censors her every word, fighting to reclaim the memory of her family, her homeland, and the jasmine that once bloomed there.

title: Ladies First

overview: An arrogant but charismatic ladies' man finds his life of money, power and casual flings upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women.

title: Ray Gunn

overview: In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.

title: Girls' Night

title: Grushko

title: All or Nothing

title: Inside/Outside

title: The Pod Generation

title: Maria's Child

title: Poor Things

title: The Front Room

title: Inland

title: Megalopolis

title: Beckett by Brook

title: Tale of Tales

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

title: Vicious

title: The Baby of Mâcon

title: Orlando

title: Simon Magus

title: Wet and Dry

title: Kafka's Monkey

title: RSC Live: Timon of Athens

title: Until The Lions

title: The Tragedy of Macbeth

title: Hedda

title: Megadoc

title: The Coen Brothers - An American Story

title: Jasmine. Home. Mother.

title: Ladies First

title: Ray Gunn


Gary McDonald

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gary McDonald (born in London in 1961) is an English actor of Jamaican descent. A student at Elliott school in Putney, McDonald played football for Wimbledon FC under Dario Gradi.

He was a member of the Royal Court Theatre from 1979-80, appearing in various plays at the Court such as Hard time Pressure, Hero’s Welcome and Che Walker’s Been so Long. In the 1980’s he performed with the Talawa Theatre company in The Black Jacobins, The Importance of Being Earnest and A Raisin in the Sun with the Black Theatre. He appeared at the Royal National Theatre in Macbeth and Black Poppies, Rhapsody in Black & White and at The Cottlesloe in Blood Wedding. Other theatre credits include Scrape of the Black and Mike Leigh’s It’s a Great Big Shame at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

His first notable television role came in 1987 when he was cast as Darren Roberts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He left the role in 1988. He has also appeared in Numb3ers, The Bill, Between the Lines, South of the Border, as Captain John Black in Dream Team (1999-2006) and in Brothers and Sisters, among others. He has also appeared in various films.

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Dream Team

overview: On and off pitch battles of of the fictional Harchester United Football Club.

character: John Black

original_name: Dream Team

EastEnders

overview: The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

character: Darren

original_name: EastEnders

South of the Border

overview: Female private detectives Pearl Parker and Finn Gallagher operate within the bustling multicultural communities of South London.

character: Harvatt

original_name: South of the Border

Death in Paradise

overview: A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

character: Temmy Verga

original_name: Death in Paradise

Holby City

overview: Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.

character: Thomas Abara

original_name: Holby City

name: Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down

overview: A fearless rogue soldier, a former general and the U.S. President become pawns in a deadly contest of wills on a global scale.

character: Pilot Walsh

Thief Takers

overview:
Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The show depicted the work of a team in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad. Each case was a stand alone episode or sometimes spread over two episodes and continuing drama was provided by the depiction of the personal lives of the officers in the team and their families.

Production comprised a pilot aired in 1995 followed by the commissioning of three series between 1996 and 1997.

character: DC Alan Oxford

original_name: Thief Takers

overview: Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

character: LAPD #1

Murder in Mind

overview: A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

character: DC Jed Culshaw

original_name: Murder in Mind

The Tower

overview: A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

character: Harry Bowman

original_name: The Tower

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

character: Gee

original_name: Screen Two

Wire in the Blood

overview: Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.

character: Lenny Mestone

original_name: Wire in the Blood

Steal

overview: A typical day at Lochmill Capital is upended when armed thieves burst in and force Zara and her best friend Luke to execute their demands. In the aftermath, conflicted detective Rhys races against time to find out who stole £4 billion pounds of people's pensions and why.

character: Deuchart

original_name: Steal

4 Play

overview: Series of One-Off dramas produced by various companies for Channel 4.

character: Valentine

original_name: 4 Play

Deutsch

Gary McDonald

biography:
Gary McDonald (geboren 1961 in London) ist ein englischer Schauspieler jamaikanischer Abstammung. Während seiner Schulzeit an der Elliott School in Putney spielte McDonald unter Trainer Dario Gradi Fußball für Wimbledon FC.

Von 1979 bis 1980 war er Mitglied des Royal Court Theatre und wirkte dort in verschiedenen Stücken mit, darunter „Hard Time Pressure“, „Hero’s Welcome“ und „Been So Long“ von Che Walker. In den 1980er-Jahren spielte er mit der Talawa Theatre Company in „The Black Jacobins“, „The Importance of Being Earnest“ und „A Raisin in the Sun“ mit dem Black Theatre. Er trat am Royal National Theatre in „Macbeth“, „Black Poppies“ und „Rhapsody in Black & White“ auf und spielte am Cottlesloe Theatre in „Blood Wedding“. Weitere Theaterrollen umfassen „Scrape of the Black“ und Mike Leighs „It’s a Great Big Shame“ am Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Seine erste nennenswerte Fernsehrolle hatte er 1987 als Darren Roberts in der BBC-Seifenoper „EastEnders“. Er verließ die Rolle 1988. Er wirkte außerdem in Serien wie „Numb3ers“, „The Bill“, „Between the Lines“, „South of the Border“, als Captain John Black in „Dream Team“ (1999–2006) und in „Brothers and Sisters“ mit. Darüber hinaus war er in verschiedenen Filmen zu sehen.

title: The Shepherd: Border Patrol

overview: A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.

character: Billy Pawnell

original_title: The Shepherd: Border Patrol

title: All or Nothing

overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

character: Neville

title: Voodoo Macbeth

overview: In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast to perform Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', directed by a young and arrogant Orson Welles, battles to make it to opening night.

character: Jack Carter

original_title: Voodoo Macbeth

title: Mob Rules

overview: Time is running out for two elite criminals as they seek out revenge to get the money they are owed after a heist gone wrong, years ago. They’ve traveled across the country, tracked down their ex-partner and planned every detail of their attack. When they finally come face to face these two criminals will refuse to back down until they get what belongs to them.

character: Tyrone

original_title: Mob Rules

title: Outpost: Black Sun

overview: A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.

character: Abbot

original_title: Outpost: Black Sun

title: Burning an Illusion

overview: A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.

character: Policeman

original_title: Burning an Illusion

title: London's Burning: The Movie

overview: It's Josie Ingham's first day at Blackwall Firestation but things aren't going so well being the only female firefighter in an all-male team. Not only does she have to prove to them that she can do the job, problems at home complicate her life even further. Outside, in the heart of the city, tensions are rising to the extreme, Blue Watch have a long night ahead.

character: Andreas 'Ethnic' Lewis

original_title: London's Burning: The Movie

title: Floating

overview: Disturbed by visions of a labyrinthine London about to be consumed by water, a lonely father begins to destroy his family's tower block flat in order to make room for an unlikely refuge in their front room.

original_title: Floating

title: Respect

overview: A love story set during a hot summer in London's Portobello district.

original_title: Respect

title: Until Death

overview: Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.

character: Larenz Brighton

original_title: Until Death

title: A Miracle Before Christmas

overview: With a little help from an angel, Mercedes Wright, a fast-talking popular relationship therapist with all the answers when it comes to fixing everyone else's marriage, must now use the magic of Christmas to find the secret to save her own.

character: Bartender Gary

original_title: A Miracle Before Christmas

title: #Unknown

overview: Years after a series of random murders took place in 2017, book author Michael Lane suddenly begins receiving haunting calls from the unknown. Instead of focusing on the encore to his successful debut book, he becomes obsessed with this mystery and spirals out of control as he unravels each victim caught in the web of a sadistic killer.

character: The Knight

original_title: #Unknown

title: Young Soul Rebels

overview: Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

character: Davis

original_title: Young Soul Rebels

title: Bliss

overview: Life for shy, romantic civil servant Leslie Bliss would be pure bliss if only he could get together with Julia, the new love of his life. Saffron and Gee appea rto be having a few problems on that score in the flat upstairs. Should all his hopes come to nothing, there's always his beloved Mastermind to fall back on.

original_title: Bliss

title: Top Kids

overview: A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer hackers that wire an arcade game to work as a time machine. Among appearances in the movie are Henry Ford, Mercedes Benz, and modern race car driver Niki Lauda, as one of the boys becomes trapped within the newly created game.

character: Man (uncredited)

original_title: Top Kids

title: Fields of Gold

overview: A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at a cottage hospital. But why is the new environment minister keeping tabs on their every move? The TV movie tackles controversial topics like genetically modified plants, the role of large pharmaceutical companies and the question of control of state and government

character: Johnson

original_title: Fields of Gold

title: Fedz

overview: In London, just a few years from now, the government have enforced a curfew - no civilians on the streets after dark. A terrorist group have threatened to release a killer virus. Time is running out for the FEDZ.

character: Rizzle

original_title: Fedz

title: Secrets & Lies

overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

character: Boxer

original_title: Secrets & Lies

title: Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre

overview: When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Growth Centre with a difference - offering sex, drugs and personalised water births.

title: Shooting Stars

overview: Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.

title: Elphida

overview: Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.

title: Black Poppies

overview: "A dramatisation of the experiences of black servicemen from the Second World War to the present day. These fascinating accounts - vivid, humorous, often harrowing - offer an unusual and sometimes startling perspective on army life.  First produced by the Royal National Theatre Studio and now re-created for television, Black Poppies was filmed on the Broadwater Farm Estate in north London." - Radio Times, 1992

title: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

overview: A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

title: Private Number

overview: A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.

title: The Shepherd: Border Patrol

title: All or Nothing

title: Voodoo Macbeth

title: Mob Rules

title: Outpost: Black Sun

title: Burning an Illusion

title: London's Burning: The Movie

title: Floating

title: Respect

title: Until Death

title: A Miracle Before Christmas

title: #Unknown

title: Young Soul Rebels

title: Bliss

title: Top Kids

title: Fields of Gold

title: Fedz

title: Secrets & Lies

title: Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre

title: Shooting Stars

title: Black Poppies

title: Elphida

title: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

title: Private Number


Edna Doré

biography: 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.

Hotel Babylon

overview: Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.

original_name: Hotel Babylon

EastEnders

overview: The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

character: Mo Butcher

The Bill

overview: The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

original_name: The Bill

Eyes Down

overview: Eyes Down is a comedy starring Paul O'Grady as Ray Temple, the manager of a bingo hall in Liverpool, England called The Rio, although the series was filmed in Rayners Lane in London. Although it had moderate ratings, the programme only lasted for two series until it was cancelled by the BBC in 2004. The show was written by Angela Clarke and directed by Christine Gernon.

character: Mary Hardcastle

original_name: Eyes Down

The Paul O'Grady Show

overview: The Paul O'Grady Show is a British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV before moving to Channel 4, where the show was produced by Olga TV. The programme is a teatime chat show consisting of a mixture of celebrity guests, comic stunts, musical performances, and occasionally viewer competitions.

original_name: The Paul O'Grady Show

No Bananas

overview: This 10-episode television miniseries, set in England during World War II, tells the story of two families, the wealthy Hamiltons and the working-class Slaters, now united through marriage.

character: Grandma Slater

original_name: No Bananas

Roger Roger

overview: Roger Roger is a BBC television comedy-drama written by John Sullivan. The series was about a mini-cab firm called Cresta Cabs. The pilot aired in 1996 and there were three subsequent series on BBC1 in 1998, 1999 and 2003.

character: May

original_name: Roger Roger

Streets Apart

overview: Childhood sweethearts Bernie and Sylvia are reunited after twenty years and resume their relationship, although their lives have become very different.

character: Gran

original_name: Streets Apart

All About George

overview: A comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of a couple whose extended family never seem to fly the nest.

original_name: All About George

Outbreak of Murder

original_name: Outbreak of Murder

Doctor Who

overview: The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

character: Maeve

original_name: Doctor Who

Tenko

overview: Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

character: Edna

original_name: Tenko

origin_country: AU GB

The Mysteries

overview: National Theatre Cottesloe production filmed for Channel 4

character: Mary Mother / Mrs. Noah

original_name: The Mysteries

Peak Practice

overview:
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series.

Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

character: Maisie Jutson

original_name: Peak Practice

character: Maisie Pullen

Casualty

overview: Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

character: Grace Harper

original_name: Casualty

All About George

character: Lily

Casualty

character: Joan Hughes

Terry and June

overview: Middle-aged Terry and June Medford are beginning to find the trials of life more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley, south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird have disappeared, as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with friendly next door neighbour Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague, Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise, things were much as before, with Terry's pigheaded childishness causing no end of problems, usually thwarting June's attempts at leading a cosy life.

character: Gert

original_name: Terry and June

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Granny Brightwell

original_name: Midsomer Murders

Murder in Mind

overview: A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

character: Grandmother Kite

Gavin & Stacey

overview: Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.

character: Edna Sutcliffe

original_name: Gavin & Stacey

Our Mutual Friend

overview: After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

character: Betty Higden

original_name: Our Mutual Friend

Shameless

overview: The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.

character: Nin

original_name: Shameless

Play for Today

overview: Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

character: Mrs. Clark

original_name: Play for Today

Open All Hours

overview:
Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville.

The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

character: Woman Wanting Firelighters

original_name: Open All Hours

The Duchess of Duke Street

overview: In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

character: Mrs Bertram

original_name: The Duchess of Duke Street

tlc

overview:
tlc is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom created and written by Fintan Coyle, set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality complex.

Dr Laurence Flynn finds himself thrown in at the deep end when he gets his first job after leaving Medical School (where he failed his finals). Always the butt of jokes by other staff (being called on to revive dead people)he has to cope not only with the patients but mad colleagues too – an ex surgeon now the hospital chaplain and a German theatre assistant with a masochistic kink.

The show never confirms what 'tlc' stands for, although it's presumed to be a sarcastic reference to the widely used abbreviation for 'tender loving care', but could equally refer to the alternative yet related abbreviation 'total lack of concern'.

character: Ethel

original_name: tlc

King of the Ghetto

overview: An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run-down area of London's east end.

character: Mrs Deedes

original_name: King of the Ghetto

Espionage

overview: Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

character: Lavender Seller

original_name: Espionage

origin_country: GB US

A Year in Provence

overview: Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.

character: Mrs Robinson

original_name: A Year in Provence

The Play on One

overview: A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

character: Betty

original_name: The Play on One

Deutsch

Edna Doré

biography: Die am 31. Mai 1921 in Bromely als Edna Lillian Gorring geborene Kent Edna Doré war eine Schauspielerin, die vor allem durch ihre Rolle als Streitaxt Mo Butcher in EastEnders von 1988 bis 1990 sowie durch die Filme Les Misérables (1998) und die Mike-Leigh-Filme Another Year, All or Nothing und High Hopes bekannt wurde. Letztere erhielt bei den European Film Awards 1989 den Preis als beste Nebendarstellerin. Sie war mit Alexander Doré verheiratet. Sie starb am 11. April 2014 im Alter von 92 Jahren in Sussex, England.

title: Nil by Mouth

overview: 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.

title: Weak at Denise

overview: 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.

title: All or Nothing

overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

title: Trust Me

overview: 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.

title: Skellig

overview: 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.

title: High Hopes

overview: Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

title: Lena, O My Lena

overview: Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.

title: Jungle Street

overview: 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.

title: Les Misérables

overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

title: 44 Inch Chest

overview: Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.

title: Tube Tales

overview: Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)

title: The Canterville Ghost

overview: '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?

title: More Deadly than the Male

overview: An American in London kills the husband of a woman he covets. She returns the favor by killing his fiancée.

title: The Wind of Change

overview: 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.

title: King of the Ghetto

overview: An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's east end

title: Stuart: A Life Backwards

overview: 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.

title: Gas and Candles

overview: Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.

title: Brazen Hussies

overview: 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.

title: Another Year

overview: During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

title: Goodbye Charlie Bright

overview: 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.

title: Pasmore

overview: Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

title: Under the Skin

overview: "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.

title: Reservations

overview: Linda: When are we going? Gary: Next Friday.  Linda: Have you booked? Gary: It's called making a reservation.  Linda: I feel excited Gal. My stomach feels all funny.  Gary: If it feels funny now, wait till next Friday ...

title: My Little Eye

overview: The discovery of the world by a young boy singing "I spy with my little eye something beginning with..."

title: All About George

overview: All About George is a British family sitcom which follows the extended family of George Kinsey. The show includes five generations, from George's grandmother to his first granddaughter, Jasmine.

title: Thatcherworld

overview: The Jenkins family are selected by a computer to be the first visitors of the nation’s newest and most exciting theme park - Thatcherworld.

title: Nil by Mouth

title: Weak at Denise

title: All or Nothing

title: Trust Me

title: Skellig

title: High Hopes

title: Lena, O My Lena

title: Jungle Street

title: Les Misérables

title: 44 Inch Chest

title: Tube Tales

title: The Canterville Ghost

title: More Deadly than the Male

title: The Wind of Change

title: King of the Ghetto

title: Stuart: A Life Backwards

title: Gas and Candles

title: Brazen Hussies

title: Another Year

title: Goodbye Charlie Bright

title: Pasmore

title: Under the Skin

title: Reservations

title: My Little Eye

title: All About George

title: Thatcherworld


Xavier Beauvois

biography:
Xavier Beauvois ( born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.

His film Of Gods and Men received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as France's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist.

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Duel

overview: Mayor Dellas accidentally kills his mistress and Inspector Alexander Konygnski is determined to uncover the truth. Seeking re-election, Dellas fells threatened by this renewed attention, and is driven to extreme lengths to protect his career and reputation. A gripping game of cat and mouse.

character: Alexandre Konygnski

original_name: Duel en ville

original_language: fr

Haven of Grace

overview: As he approaches sixty, the time has come for Pierre Leprieur to take stock of his life. What did he accomplish and what did he mess up during his life? He was formerly an influential trade unionist on the docks at Le Havre. The passing years saw his relationship with his wife and his now-adult children subside. One evening, with his whole family gathered together to celebrate his birthday, the party is ruined. His sons, Jean and Simon, find themselves accused of mass drug trafficking. Whilst their sister, Emma, a criminal lawyer, tries to get them out of this difficult situation, Pierre, who si convinced that he is being targeted, does his utmost to help them. Yet he knows that if he roots around too much, he could end up unearthing truths best left untold.

character: Sébastien Prevost

original_name: De grâce

Call My Agent!

overview: At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis.

character: Self

original_name: Dix pour cent

Beau geste

original_name: Beau geste

C à vous

overview: Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: C à vous

Español

biography: Realizador, actor y guionista francés nacido en Auchel, Pas-de-Calais. Su película No olvides que vas a morir (1995), ganó el Premio del Jurado del Festival de Cannes. Quince años después, De dioses y hombres (2010), consiguió el Premio César como mejor película francesa del año. Mucho antes filmó su debut cinematográfico con Nord (1991), con él mismo como protagonista. Otras películas suyas son, Según Matthieu (2000) y El pequeño teniente (2005). Su largometraje más famoso, De dioses y hombres, protagonizado por Lambert Wilson y Michel Londsdale, narra la historia real de siete monjes cristianos de Argelia, que fueron secuestrados y asesinados por islamistas radicales en los años noventa. Xavier Beauvois filmó una película deslumbrante y trascendente, llena de humanismo y fraternidad. Un alegato sincero, intenso y emocionante en favor de la paz y la convivencia.

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Deutsch

Xavier Beauvois

biography:
Xavier Beauvois (* 20. März 1967) ist ein französischer Schauspieler, Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor. Sein Film „Vergiss nicht, dass du sterben wirst“ lief 1995 bei den Filmfestspielen von Cannes und gewann dort den Jurypreis.

Sein Film „Von Menschen und Göttern“ wurde 2010 bei den Filmfestspielen von Cannes mit dem Großen Preis der Jury und dem Preis der Ökumenischen Jury ausgezeichnet. Der Film wurde außerdem als französischer Beitrag für den Oscar in der Kategorie „Bester fremdsprachiger Film“ bei den 83. Academy Awards eingereicht, schaffte es aber nicht auf die Shortlist.

Français

biography:
Xavier Beauvois, né le 20 mars 1967 à Auchel (Pas-de-Calais), est un acteur, réalisateur et scénariste français.

Il débute en assistant réalisateur avec André Techiné sur Les Innocents, et Manoel de Oliveira pour Mon cas, avant de faire ses premières armes de réalisateur avec un court-métrage, Le Matou (1986). Il franchit le pas du long-métrage trois ans plus tard avec Nord, où il évoque le Pas-de-Calais à travers la désintégration d'une famille incapable de communiquer.

Après un séjour à la Villa Médicis, lieu de résidence et de travail pour artistes sous la tutelle du Ministère de la culture, il réalise en 1995 N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir, chronique désenchantée et romantique d'un étudiant apprenant sa séropositivité, qui lui vaut le Prix Jean Vigo et le Prix du Jury au Festival de Cannes. Acteur à l'occasion, notamment pour Michel Deville (Aux petits bonheurs, 1994), Jacques Doillon (Ponette, 1996) et Philippe Garrel (Le Vent de la nuit, 1999), il signe en 2001 Selon Matthieu, avec Benoît Magimel et Nathalie Baye. Il offre à cette dernière l'un des deux rôles principaux du Petit lieutenant (2005), celui de Vaudieu, commandant de police alcoolique et mentor de Jalil Lespert dans un drame policier âpre aux accents documentaires. Et, c'est tout naturellement que lorsque le comédien réalise son premier long métrage (24 mesures, 2007), il lui offre le petit rôle du patron du peep-show.

En tant qu'acteur, Xavier Beauvois est fidèle à ses réalisateurs. Ainsi, on peut le voir trois fois chez Jean-Paul Salomé (dans Arsène Lupin, Les Femmes de l'ombre et Le Caméléon) et deux fois chez Benoît Jacquot (dans Villa Amalia et en Louis XVI dans Les Adieux à la reine). Toujours dans des petits rôles, il se glisse en 2011 dans la peau de personnages secondaires mais marquants pour les besoins de L'Apollonide - souvenirs de la maison close et De bon matin (le patron sadique de Jean-Pierre Darroussin, c'était lui !). L'année suivante, il est le meilleur ami de Jean-Paul Rouve dans le deuxième film que le comédien met scène, l'émouvant Quand je serai petit.

Côté mise en scène, l'année 2010 marque à la fois une consécration et un tournant décisif dans sa carrière. En effet, cinq ans après son dernier film, Xavier Beauvois revient à la réalisation en présentant au Festival de Cannes Des hommes et des dieux, dans lequel Lambert Wilson et Michael Lonsdale interprètent les membres éminents des moines de Tibhirine, retrouvés assassinés en 1996 en Algérie. Succès monumental, tant critique que commercial (plus de 3 millions d'entrées sur le territoire français), le film obtient le Grand Prix du Jury et, plus tard, le César du Meilleur film.

Après ce triomphe, le réalisateur adapte un fait divers survenu dans les années 70 : deux hommes décidant de voler le cercueil de Charlie Chaplin, dans le but de demander une rançon à sa famille. Benoit Poelvoorde et Roschdy Zem prêtent leurs traits à ces deux malfrats, dans un film intitulé La Rançon de la Gloire.

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普通话

biography: 电影制片人、演员和编剧，1967年出生于法国欧谢勒。在为安德烈·泰希内和曼努埃尔·德·奥利维拉担任助理导演后，他开始自己拍剧情片。这些影片曾多次获得提名和奖项，包括《北方》、《别忘记你将死》和由纳塔莉·贝伊主演的犯罪片《小上尉》。他与朗贝尔·维尔森和迈克尔·朗斯代尔合作的电影《人与神》同样获得了影评人和观众的好评，并获得了戛纳电影节评审团大奖和凯撒最佳影片奖。

Français

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普通话

澤維爾·布瓦

biography: 電影制片人、演員和編劇，1967 年出生於法國歐謝勒。在為安德烈·泰希內和曼努埃爾·德·奧利維拉擔任助理導演後，他開始自己拍劇情片。這些影片曾多次獲得提名和獎項，包括《北方》、《別忘記你將死》和由納塔莉·貝伊主演的犯罪片《小上尉》。他與朗貝爾·維爾森和邁克爾·朗斯代爾合作的電影《人與神》同樣獲得了影評人和觀眾的好評，並獲得了戛納電影節評審團大獎和凱撒最佳影片獎。

Latviešu

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english_name: Latvian

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자비에 보브와
泽维尔·布瓦

title: Drift Away

overview: Laurent, a young brigade commander in a gendarmerie in a small town in Normandy is planning his wedding with Marie, his partner and mother of his daughter. He loves his job despite facing social misery on a daily basis. One day, a farmer who might try to kill himself runs away.

character: Jacques

original_title: Albatros

title: The Young Lieutenant

overview: A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

character: Nicolas Morbé

original_title: Le Petit Lieutenant

title: Villa Amalia

overview: Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.

character: Thomas

original_title: Villa Amalia

title: North

overview: The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.

character: Bertrand, the son

original_title: Nord

title: Ponette

overview: After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Confused by the religious explanations provided by adults, and challenged by the cruel taunts of a few children at school, little Ponette must make her way through her emotional turmoil.

character: Le Père

original_title: Ponette

title: Twice Upon a Time

overview: Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of France to discover that the boys parents are exactly like his parents, only to know that his life is payed over again just 30 years post. He then chooses to be the guest in his own life, while he has a life to live at hand.

character: Stéphane

original_title: Quand je serai petit

title: Lovers

overview: In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent.

character: Marc's lover

original_title: Les Amoureux

title: The Killer

overview: Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his killer when he is in town to execute Zimmermann.

character: Franzen

original_title: Le Tueur

title: Don't Forget You're Going to Die

overview: Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control with drugs, alcohol, and nightclubs.

character: Benoit

original_title: N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir

title: Life's Little Treasures

overview: This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

character: Marc

original_title: Aux petits bonheurs

title: The Wind of the Night

overview: A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.

character: Paul

original_title: Le Vent de la nuit

title: Early One Morning

overview: Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act.

character: Alain Fisher

original_title: De bon matin

title: Farewell, My Queen

overview: A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.

character: Le roi Louis XVI

original_title: Les Adieux à la reine

title: Marie-Octobre

overview: After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...

character: Marc Donizzi

original_title: Marie-Octobre

title: Making Of

overview: Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the budget; his own crew goes on strike; his personal life is in shambles; and to make things worse, his lead actor Alain is an egocentric jerk. Joseph, an extra who wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct the making of and shoot the behind-the-scenes. He takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew, capturing all this mess... What follows is proof that the making of can sometimes be far better than the film itself!

character: Marquez

original_title: Making Of

title: Meeting with an Angel

overview: Judith, a young nurse, is so meek in front of her husband Roland, that she can't manage to tell him that she has lost her job. When he learns this, he starts to follow her...He discovers that in a secret life, she is another mysterious and sublime person.

character: l'homme au bar chic

original_title: Rendez-vous avec un Ange

title: In a Rush

overview: Ada was settled in her life, she was pleased with it, or thought she was. She was one half of a couple who seemed happy, she'd had a child, was even due to get married, and wham... she met Paul... And this Paul was writer to boot, who lived alone with his grown daughter, had an exceedingly intrusive mother, and had the unfortunate idea of losing his father when this story had hardly got off the ground... Life started to gather speed. It was about time.

character: François

original_title: Au Galop

title: Day and Night

overview: Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange lady-oracle Sonia (Lauren Bacall). As the film opens, the melancholy Alexandre is visited by the sensuous actress Laure (Arielle Dombasle) and her producer Raoul Fillipi (Karl Zero) who is going to make a movie of one of Alexandre's best-loved books. Laure is determined to play the part of the heroine and is willing to resort to seduction to get it. At the same time, Ariane is involved in a passionate affair with French-Mexican seismologist Carlo (Xavier Beauvois). While all of these characters wrangle and tangle with their different agendas, the local residents prepare for a violent revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

character: Carlo

original_title: Le Jour et la Nuit

title: Turf

overview: This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…

character: Commissaire Dubiton

original_title: Turf

title: The Sky Above Paris

overview: Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.

character: The Sigher

title: Daniel Asleep

overview: The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.

title: Bodybuilder

overview: Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.

title: House of Pleasures

overview: The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.

original_title: L'Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close

title: Disparus

overview: Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz, an earnest Jewish radical and erstwhile poet who disappeared in 1938. With the aid of a history professor, Louise unravels what happened to Katz. In the feverish climate of pre-WWII Paris, Katz reveals himself as both a fervent Trotskyite and an unabashed romantic. At a party thrown by the noted surrealist Andre Breton, he meets Mila, a beautiful part-time model, part-time whore. As soon as he falls for her, he learns of her other lover Felix, a fervent Stalinist. Bored with politics, Mila eventually marries Katz. Soon betrayal and politics catch up with the poet.

title: Let the Sunshine In

overview: Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

title: Chocolat

overview: Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.

title: Maryline

overview: A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.

title: Jean Douchet, Restless Child

overview: Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a part of the history of Cahiers du Cinema and this art of loving to which he has devoted his existence.

title: Paris Pigalle

overview: Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they begin to produce short porn films.

title: Go, Toto!

overview: A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the marcassin at Madeleine's house, Vincent's trip to India and his troubles with the monkeys, or Joseph's dreams provoked by the continuous pressure machine, are three stories that Pierre will share and that in one way or another summon up our relationship with the animal, with this other neighbor

title: Django

overview: The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.

title: Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

overview: This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.

title: À bicyclette

overview: A young man being schizophrenic remission is seen taken by an obsession for bikes. He remembers a childhood where they exit traumatized by his inability to pedal. Nevertheless, he tries again to ride a bike and fall. It ends at the hospital. Two amazing fellows will then take over and help him.

title: Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer

title: 24 Bars

overview: It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There they encounter Chris. All three will end the night together. It’s their last move in joy and perdition.

title: Female Agents

overview: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.

title: The Summer House

overview: A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.

title: The Witnesses

overview: Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

title: A Castle in Italy

overview: Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.

title: Sailing Home

overview: Passionate about sailing, Jean-Paul is going through a rough patch. Up to his ears in debts, he pulls away from his family. Determined to take his life back in hand, he signs up for Virtual Regatta, the online version of Vendée Globe boat race. To enhance his impression of being a “real” skipper, Jean-Paul holes up for 3 months on his boat in his garden. His voyage, unlike any other, will allow him to reconnect with his family and, even more, with himself.

title: The Chameleon

overview: The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe, even thought he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment, Nicholas's family welcomes him like their son, leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a race against time for the investigators, family and Bourdin. But who is manipulating whom? And who is Frederic Bourdin in reality?

title: Disco

overview: Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.

title: Disco

title: The Price of Fame

overview: A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

title: Badinter

overview: Biopic about the famous French lawyer and politician, Robert Badinter.

title: Belmondo: The Incorrigible

overview: Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.

title: The Young Lieutenant

title: The Young Lieutenant

title: North

title: Of Gods and Men

overview: A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.

title: Of Gods and Men

title: Don't Forget You're Going to Die

title: Don't Forget You're Going to Die

title: To Mathieu

overview: Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...

title: The Price of Fame

title: The Guardians

overview: In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.

title: To Mathieu

title: Sailing Home

title: Sailing Home

title: The Guardians

title: The Wind of the Night

title: North

title: Drift Away

title: Drift Away

title: The Price of Fame

title: Drift Away

title: The Young Lieutenant

title: Villa Amalia

title: North

title: Ponette

title: Twice Upon a Time

title: Lovers

title: The Killer

title: Don't Forget You're Going to Die

title: Life's Little Treasures

title: The Wind of the Night

title: Early One Morning

title: Farewell, My Queen

title: Marie-Octobre

title: Making Of

title: Meeting with an Angel

title: In a Rush

title: Day and Night

title: Turf

title: The Sky Above Paris

title: Daniel Asleep

title: Bodybuilder

title: House of Pleasures

title: Disparus

title: Let the Sunshine In

title: Chocolat

title: Jean Douchet, Restless Child

title: Maryline

title: Paris Pigalle

title: Go, Toto!

title: Django

title: Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

title: À bicyclette

title: Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer

title: 24 Bars

title: Female Agents

title: The Summer House

title: The Witnesses

title: A Castle in Italy

title: Sailing Home

title: The Chameleon

title: Disco

title: Disco

title: The Price of Fame

title: Badinter

title: Belmondo: The Incorrigible

title: The Young Lieutenant

title: The Young Lieutenant

title: North

title: Of Gods and Men

title: Of Gods and Men

title: Don't Forget You're Going to Die

title: Don't Forget You're Going to Die

title: To Mathieu

title: The Price of Fame

title: The Guardians

title: To Mathieu

title: Sailing Home

title: Sailing Home

title: The Guardians

title: The Wind of the Night

title: North

title: Drift Away

title: Drift Away

title: The Price of Fame