Éric Besnard

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biography:
Éric Besnard est un réalisateur et scénariste français, né le 15 mars 1964. Il est le fils du réalisateur Jacques Besnard.

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Éric Besnard

biography:
Éric Besnard (* 15. März 1964) ist ein französischer Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor.

Besnard studierte zunächst Politikwissenschaft. Ab den 1990er Jahren wurde er als Regisseur und Drehbuchautor tätig und war an mehr als 15 Projekten beteiligt.

title: Fucking Kassovitz

overview: A making-of of the chaotic production of Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D. (2008).

character: Self

original_title: Fucking Kassovitz

job: Screenplay

title: Delicious

overview: France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.

department: Writing

original_title: Délicieux

job: Original Film Writer

title: Wrath of Man

overview: A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score.

original_title: Wrath of Man

original_language: en

job: Writer

title: The New Protocol

overview: A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.

original_title: Le Nouveau protocole

title: Babylon A.D.

overview: A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.

original_title: Babylon A.D.

job: Director

title: Ca$h

overview: A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.

department: Directing

original_title: Ca$h

title: Le sourire du clown

overview: A clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he has in his possession a computer disc with information wanted by the police, several organized crime figures and the European Agency for Atomic Energy.

original_title: Le sourire du clown

title: Le sourire du clown

title: The Italian

overview: Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director is openly proposed and his companion for a year, Helen, has the firm intention to marry her. For Dino, life is great, except that this perfect life was built on a lie. Dino is actually called Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor Helen and even less his parents are aware of this false identity. In ten days begins Ramadan and Mourad who passes every year will this time assume the promise made to his sick father. Taking part in Ramadan, For Dino - the Italian - it will not be easy.

original_title: L'Italien

title: In Gold We Trust

overview: A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.

original_title: 600 kilos d'or pur

title: Blind Man

overview: A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.

original_title: À l'aveugle

title: Mes héros

overview: A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.

original_title: Mes héros

title: Cash Truck

overview: Vigilante, a small armored truck company, is in full crisis mode. Victim of three violent hold-ups in a year, which left no survivors, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and its employees are extremely worried. Some even suggest a complicity between the robbers and the firm.  It is in this difficult context that a man, Alexandre Demarre, one morning presents himself to start his first day of work at Vigilante.

original_title: Le Convoyeur

title: A Great Friend

overview: Vincent is a famous successful entrepreneur. One day, a car breakdown on a mountain road temporarily interrupts his frantic lifestyle. Pierre, who lives apart from the modern world in the middle of sublime nature, comes to his aid and offers him his hospitality. The meeting between these two men, who are opposites will upset their respective beliefs and they will find themselves laughing. The question is...deep down, are they really each living the lives they want to live?

original_title: Les Choses simples

title: A Great Friend

title: Among Friends

overview: Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their friendships.

original_title: Entre amis

title: The Sense of Wonder

overview: Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.

original_title: Le Goût des merveilles

title: Made in France

overview: Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.

original_title: Made in France

title: Miss Violet

overview: France. End of the 19th century. Louise Violet  40, a Parisian teacher, is sent on a mission to the French countryside. But in a place where the daily life is linked to the seasons, land and crops, she must first convince parents to send their kids to school. With the help of the mayor, she is gradually accepted by the parents and their children. But soon, her past catches up with her. Despite the obstacles she faces, Miss Violet will give her heart and soul to her belief that education is the key to freedom.

original_title: Louise Violet

title: Miss Violet

title: The Sense of Wonder

title: Like a Son

overview: Jacques Romand is a history teacher who has lost faith in his vocation. One evening, witnessing a shopkeeper attacked by three young robbers, he catches one of the aggressors, Victor, a 14-year-old Roma boy.

title: In Gold We Trust

title: In Gold We Trust

title: Les amants du bagne

overview: In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inhuman conditions. He meets a prisoner, Camille, and his wife, Claudia, who's in French Guyana to find a way to free her husband. He decides to help her.

title: The Antidote

overview: JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.

title: Almost Italian

overview: An Italian car salesman wants to impress the woman of his dreams, but he gets entangled in his own web of lies.

title: Ca$h

title: L'Esprit de famille

overview: A writer must face the sudden death of his father, but after the burial, the latter reappears to him. He will have to learn to live with this facetious companion, but difficult to explain the situation to his family, because he is the only one who can see him. This disturbing presence will create an earthquake in the family.

title: The Emperor of Paris

overview: Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police chief, he makes a bold decision that will turn the ruthless mastermind of the Parisian underworld against him.

title: The Emperor of Paris

title: Mes héros

title: Delicious

title: Jean Valjean

overview: Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is repeatedly turned away. Desperate, he unknowingly finds refuge at the house of Bishop Bienvenu, who lives simply, with his sister and a single servant. There, he is surprised by their warm welcome, and his inner demons start to waver. But the temptation to be what society sees in him still haunts him, and he steals the Bishop’s silverware. When the police ultimately catches him, the Bishop forgives him and gifts him the candlesticks. This acts becomes the starting point of Jean Valjean’ transformation into a new man who reclaims his humanity.

title: Jean Valjean

title: Housewarming

overview: Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love with her, her son and daughter are becoming nearly homeless since the flat's walls are demolished, the architect has new plans every day, an irregular workers fall in love with Chantal too and dance with her daughter, Martin (the son) still continue to roller blade around... Could the works go forward in this mess?

title: Avis de tempête

title: Avis de tempête

title: Il était une fois

title: Gentleman Burglar

overview: The true story behind Arsène Lupin, a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc, first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout.

title: Quasimodo

overview: As the cholera epidemic spreads through the city, Quasimodo is caught between political turmoil and an impossible love.

title: L'Esprit de famille

title: Un petit grain de folie

overview: Franck and Florence share not only their lives, but also their practice. She is a psychologist, beautiful and cheerful. He is a psychoanalyst, grumpy and jealous. His wife's frequent absences fuel this jealousy. Florence is, however, a model wife, but she prefers that her husband believe her to be unfaithful rather than learn the truth

title: Un petit grain de folie

title: Fucking Kassovitz

title: Delicious

title: Wrath of Man

title: The New Protocol

title: Babylon A.D.

title: Ca$h

title: Le sourire du clown

title: Le sourire du clown

title: The Italian

title: In Gold We Trust

title: Blind Man

title: Mes héros

title: Cash Truck

title: A Great Friend

title: A Great Friend

title: Among Friends

title: The Sense of Wonder

title: Made in France

title: Miss Violet

title: Miss Violet

title: The Sense of Wonder

title: Like a Son

title: In Gold We Trust

title: In Gold We Trust

title: Les amants du bagne

title: The Antidote

title: Almost Italian

title: Ca$h

title: L'Esprit de famille

title: The Emperor of Paris

title: The Emperor of Paris

title: Mes héros

title: Delicious

title: Jean Valjean

title: Jean Valjean

title: Housewarming

title: Avis de tempête

title: Avis de tempête

title: Il était une fois

title: Gentleman Burglar

title: Quasimodo

title: L'Esprit de famille

title: Un petit grain de folie

title: Un petit grain de folie


Lesley Manville

biography: Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).

Ain't Misbehavin'

overview: When Clive and Sonia discover that their respective partners are having an affair, they join forces in an attempt to save their marriages.

character: Melissa Quigley

original_name: Ain't Misbehavin'

The Gentle Touch

overview: Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.

original_name: The Gentle Touch

Silent Witness

overview: A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

original_name: Silent Witness

Law & Order: UK

overview: Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.

original_name: Law & Order: UK

Other People's Children

overview: Other People's Children is a four-episode 2000 British television drama, adapted by Leigh Jackson from Joanna Trollope's 1998 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of how three women and two men deal with new marriages and the consequences of the new spouses or partners having to deal with their partner's children of different ages from previous marriages.

character: Nadine

original_name: Other People's Children

The Bite

overview: Ellie and Jack Shannon move to Burma to start a jewellery business but soon find themselves caught in the dark underbelly of the Golden Triangle drug trade and an international AFP conspiracy.

character: Ellie Shannon

original_name: The Bite

Cranford

overview: A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

character: Mrs. Rose

original_name: Cranford

Magpie Murders

overview: An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.

character: Susan Ryeland

original_name: Magpie Murders

The Cazalets

overview:
The Cazalets is a 2001 television drama series about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex.

The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD.

character: Villy Cazalet

original_name: The Cazalets

Painted Lady

overview: From the Irish countryside to London to New York and back again, Maggie reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and charisma, she finds more than an auction, a rekindled interracial love affair, helpful relatives and a painting of great price. She finds more than she bargained for in the labyrinth and milieu of stolen art.

character: Susie Peel

original_name: Painted Lady

origin_country: GB US

The Queen

overview:
The Queen was a 2009 British drama-documentary showing Queen Elizabeth II at different points during her life. Broadcast on Channel 4 over five consecutive nights from 29 November 2009, the Queen was portrayed by a different actress in each episode. The Queen was portrayed by Emilia Fox, Samantha Bond, Susan Jameson, Barbara Flynn and Diana Quick. Katie McGrath played Princess Margaret in the first episode and Lesley Manville played Margaret Thatcher in the third episode. The series was co-funded by the American Broadcasting Company, the network which aired the series in the US.

This reunited Emilia Fox and Katie McGrath who had played sisters in BBC One's Merlin.

character: Margaret Thatcher

original_name: The Queen

Fleming

overview: Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting rare books and living off his family fortune. Forever in the shadow of his brother Peter, and an eternal disappointment to his formidable mother Eve, Fleming dreams of becoming the ‘ultimate’ man – a hero, a lover, a brute and the one who always gets the girl. He is finally given some direction in his life when he’s recruited by the Director of Naval Intelligence to help in the effort against the Nazis. Suddenly, Fleming finds his chance to shine and prove his worth.

character: Evelyn Fleming

original_name: Fleming

I Am...

overview: Each hour-long film follows a different woman as they experience “moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal”.

character: Maria

original_name: I Am...

origin_country: US GB

Mayday

overview: It's Mayday in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until suddenly she goes missing.

character: Gail Spicer

original_name: Mayday

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: Princess Margaret

original_name: The Crown

River

overview: Respected police officer John River, a gifted cop with a troubled mind, struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of a colleague, and chases a suspect across London - with tragic consequences. Now at odds with the authorities, River ends up in a precarious position as he seeks to bring closure to the mother of murdered teenager, who blames him for failing to keep his promise.

character: Chrissie Read

original_name: River

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

overview: Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain's finest actors star in 10 of Bennett's classic scripts, alongside two brand new Talking Heads penned by the acclaimed writer last year.

character: Susan

original_name: Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Mum

overview: A comedy about a mother at a milestone in her life. We follow her and her family through a year of new beginnings as she rebuilds her life following the death of her husband. Mum is joined by her supportive life-long friend Michael. Through a year of new beginnings she rebuilds her life surrounded by her family: son Jason and his girlfriend Kelly; her brother Derek and his new partner, Pauline; and her in-laws.

character: Cathy

original_name: Mum

Sherwood

overview: Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

character: Julie Jackson

original_name: Sherwood

Dangerous Liaisons

overview: A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".

character: Genevieve de Merteuil

original_name: Dangerous Liaisons

Disclaimer

overview: When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.

character: Nancy Brigstocke

original_name: Disclaimer

Harlots

overview: Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.

character: Lydia Quigley

original_name: Harlots

Kavanagh Q.C.

overview:
John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London, commanding admiration from colleagues and opponents alike. However, all this has come at a price as his dedication to work has taken its toll on his private life…

Going beyond traditional courtroom dramas, “Kavanagh Q.C.” uncovers the pressures of legal battles and the problems of defining the truth, providing a compelling representation of the euphoric ups and costly downs of success and failure in the legal world.

character: Lucy Cartwright

original_name: Kavanagh Q.C.

King Cinder

overview:
King Cinder is a six-part British children's television serial made by the BBC in 1977. It was first shown between 2 November and 7 December 1977 on BBC1.

A gritty series, King Cinder by John Foster, pitches two teenagers, played by Peter Duncan a speedway bike rider and Lesley Manville his girlfriend against a criminal gang running an extortion racket run by nasty Todd Edwards and Hells Angel Daniel Abineri in a South Coast fictional seaside town called Barton. Possibly one of the best final chase scenes on children's British television in the 1970s where Edwards driving a red Austin Maxi chases a running Kerry through a quarry only to see Edwards crash over a cliff.

The executive producer was Anna Home.

character: Nikki

original_name: King Cinder

Life After Life

overview: If you could live your life time and again, would you ever get it right? Ursula dies and is reborn, living through turbulent times - but what is it she needs to stay alive for?

character: Narrator

original_name: Life After Life

Bodily Harm

overview:
Bodily Harm is a two-part British miniseries written by Tony Grounds, and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4. Airing in June 2002, it stars Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Annette Crosbie, and George Cole.

On the eve of his 44th birthday, mild-mannered suburban stockbroker Mitchel Greenfield spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and discovering his father is dying of cancer.

character: Mandy Greenfield

original_name: Bodily Harm

Goggle Eyes

overview: Kitty struggles to accept her divorced mother embarking upon a new relationship; her attempts to thwart this relationship are hampered by her younger sister's acceptance of this "new dad" in their lives.

character: Rosalind Killin

original_name: Goggle Eyes

Tears Before Bedtime

overview: A story of middle-class professional couples who employ full-time live-in nannies to look after their children. The nannies meet up as a collective group, and often discuss their employers' habits in sordid detail. As the plot develops, it becomes clear that most of the nannies are usually stuck in the middle of domestic unsettlement, affairs, neurotic partners, and manipulation.

character: Beattie Freeman

original_name: Tears Before Bedtime

Moonflower Murders

overview: Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there. Cecily MacNeil, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?

original_name: Moonflower Murders

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

overview: Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

World on Fire

overview: The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.

character: Robina Chase

original_name: World on Fire

Agatha Christie's Poirot

overview: From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

character: Mrs. Lorrimer

original_name: Agatha Christie's Poirot

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: Nurse Redd

original_name: Grotesquerie

The Graham Norton Show

overview: Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

Soldier Soldier

overview: The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

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.

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.

Performance

overview: An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Coronation Street

overview: The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

Citadel

overview: What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn't know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they're called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the past to save the future.

Loose Women

overview: A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.

Objects of Affection

overview: A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

Love Life

overview: A romantic comedy anthology series which follows a different protagonist each season on the journey from first love to last love, with each half-hour episode chronicling one of their relationships.

The Mushroom Picker

overview: The story of an outlandish love affair between an impressionable English woman and a Soviet man obsessed with food.

Screen Two

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

North & South

overview: Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...

Marble Hall Murders

overview: Returning to England, Susan Ryeland is reluctantly drawn into a new Atticus Pünd mystery, this time written by a new, young writer. 'Pünd’s Last Case" is a story set in 1955, in an exotic villa in Corfu – but the identity of a real killer is hidden in the text, and once again Susan is going to find herself in grave danger.

Playhouse

overview: A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

A Bunch of Fives

overview: A Bunch of Fives is an English children’s television show broadcast in the 1970s on ITV. A precursor of Grange Hill, it starred Lesley Manville and Jamie Foreman as Fifth formers who start a school newspaper. The show spawned one paperback tie-in.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story

overview: The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

overview: Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater.

Black Cab

overview: A series of ten 10-minute films – some humorous, some dramatic – capturing key in the lives of taxi drivers and their passengers. Among these journeys, a man visits his lover, a gay prostitute goes to work, two girls party on Christmas Eve, an American tourist sees 'real' London, and a cabbie helps a woman in distress.

Little Napoleons

overview: N.K. Edwards and Vijay Shah are a pair of warring solicitors whose conflict spills out of the courtroom and into chambers, their quarrel witnessed by Councillor Judith Silver.

Holding On

overview: The lives of a seemingly unconnected group of Londoners are strangely affected by the murder of a young woman. While some are able to take a newfound hope from the remains of the tragedy, others, including food critic Gary Rickey, simply watch on as despair begins to unravel in the light of the aftermath.

David Copperfield

overview: A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

ScreenPlay

overview:
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993.

Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Rose and Maloney

overview: Investigators Rose Linden and Marion Maloney, of the Criminal Justice Review Agency, take on claims of miscarriages of justice, assessing whether there are grounds to reopen old cases.

Escorted

overview: A divorced dad in Manhattan accidentally becomes a male escort in this romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.

Sharing Time

overview: Anthology of stories set in a timeshare flat.

Português

biography: Lesley Manville (Brighton, 12 de março de 1956) é uma atriz britânica. Conhecida pelos filmes All or Nothing (2002) e Another Year (2010), pelos quais venceu o London Film Critics' Circle, foi indicada ao Oscar de melhor atriz coadjuvante na edição de 2018 por Phantom Thread (2017),

Nederlands

biography:
Lesley Manville werd geboren op 12 maart 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, Engeland. Ze is een meermaals bekroonde actrice van theater, film en televisie en heeft veel samengewerkt met regisseur Mike Leigh. Ze staat bekend om Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999) en Secrets & Lies (1996), en haar optreden in Phantom Thread (2017), die werd genomineerd voor de Academy Award voor Beste vrouwelijke bijrol. Ze had ook een bijrol in Maleficent (2014). Manville's uitgebreide podiumcarrière omvat rollen in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses en The Alchemist. Haar filmdebuut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).

Lesley kreeg een OBE in de 2015 Queens Birthday Honours List.

普通话

莱丝利·曼维尔

biography:
Lesley Ann Manville 是一名的英国女演员，被英王室授予CBE勋章。

她与导演迈克·李合作多次，在众多经典影片中塑造了令人难忘的角色，如《一无所有》《秘密与谎言》和《又一年》。2018年，她因饰演PTA《魅影缝匠》中不苟言笑复杂冷静的姐姐Cyril荣获了奥斯卡最佳女配角提名，2023年，因饰演喜剧《哈里斯夫人去巴黎》乐观风趣勇敢逐梦的Mrs Harris而获得金球奖音乐/喜剧类最佳女主角提名，2022—2024 她又出演了《王冠》第五第六季中的老年玛格丽特公主，将悲情与风趣演绎地淋漓尽致，令人心碎，这个角色也为她带来了美国演员工会和英国电影学院奖的提名。无论是喜剧悲剧还是正剧角色，她都能使之栩栩如生。

Manville 从舞台剧走向电影，又从电影回到舞台，两者都让她的演技打磨地更加细腻而纯粹，她曾凭借易卜生戏剧《群鬼》中的阿尔文太太一角获得了Olivier奖。

她称自己为“晚开花”，如今正在努力创造更好的，更能体现各类老年女性生命的作品。

她曾与演员Gary Oldman在1987—1990年有过一段婚姻，并育有一子Alfie Oldman。

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萊斯利·曼維爾

biography:
萊斯利·曼維爾 是一名的英國女演員，被英王室授豫 CBE 勳章。

她與導演邁克·李合作多次，在眾多經典影片中塑造了令人難忘的角色，如《一無所有》《秘密與謊言》和《一年未緣》。2018 年，她因飾演 PTA《魅影縫匠》中不苟言笑複雜冷靜的姐姐 Cyril 榮獲了奧斯卡最佳女配角提名，2023 年，因飾演喜劇《夏夫人的巴黎夢》樂觀風趣勇敢逐夢的 Mrs Harris 而獲得金球獎音樂/喜劇類最佳女主角提名，2022 — 2024 她又出演了《王冠》第五第六季中的老年瑪格麗特公主，將悲情與風趣演繹地淋灕盡致，令人心碎，這個角色也為她帶來了美國演員工會和英國電影學院獎的提名。無論是喜劇悲劇還是正劇角色，她都能使之栩栩如生。

Manville 從舞台劇走向電影，又從電影回到舞台，兩者都讓她的演技打磨地更加細膩而純粹，她曾憑藉易卜生戲劇《群鬼》中的阿爾文太太一角獲得了 Olivier 獎。

她稱自己為“晚開花”，如今正在努力創造更好的，更能體現各類老年女性生命的作品。

她曾與演員 Gary Oldman 在 1987 — 1990 年有過一段婚姻，並育有一子 Alfie Oldman。

Türkçe

biography:
Lesley Ann Manville, 12 Mart 1956 tarihinde Brighton, İngiltere'de dünyaya gelmiştir. Genç yaşta soprano şarkıcısı olarak eğitim alan Manville, kariyerine tiyatro sahnesinde yön vermeye karar vererek Italia Conti Tiyatro Sanatları Akademisi'nde okudu. Kariyerinin başlarında, ileride filmografisinin temel taşını oluşturacak olan yönetmen Mike Leigh ile tanıştı ve onun doğaçlama temelli çalışma yöntemini benimsedi. Royal Shakespeare Company ve Royal Court Theatre gibi prestijli topluluklarda sahneye çıkarak neslinin en yetenekli tiyatro oyuncularından biri olarak ün kazandı.

Mike Leigh ile yaptığı iş birliği, Manville'in kariyerinde merkezi bir rol oynadı. High Hopes (1988), Sırlar ve Yalanlar (Secrets & Lies) (1996) ve Karmakarışık (Topsy-Turvy) (1999) gibi filmlerde unutulmaz karakterler yarattı. Ancak ona en büyük kritik başarıyı getiren Leigh filmi, Başka Bir Yıl (Another Year) (2010) oldu. Bu filmdeki dokunaklı performansıyla Ulusal Eleştiri Kurulu tarafından En İyi Kadın Oyuncu seçildi ve BAFTA da dahil olmak üzere çok sayıda ödüle aday gösterildi.

Manville'in uluslararası alandaki asıl çıkışı, Paul Thomas Anderson'ın yönettiği Phantom Thread (2017) filmiyle geldi. Daniel Day-Lewis'in canlandırdığı karakterin sadık ve sert mizaçlı kız kardeşi Cyril rolündeki muhteşem performansıyla En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu dalında Akademi Ödülü (Oscar) ve BAFTA'ya aday gösterildi. Bu başarı, onu Hollywood'un da aranan yüzlerinden biri haline getirdi ve Malefiz (Maleficent) (2014) serisi ile başrolünü üstlenerek Altın Küre adaylığı kazandığı Bayan Harris Paris'e Gidiyor (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) (2022) gibi yapımlarda yer aldı.

Televizyon kariyeri de sinemadaki kadar parlaktır. BBC sitcomu "Mum" (2016-2019) dizisindeki başrolüyle iki kez BAFTA TV Ödülü'ne aday gösterildi. "Harlots" (2017-2019) ve "World on Fire" (2019) gibi dizilerdeki rolleriyle de beğeni topladı. Son olarak, küresel bir fenomen olan "The Crown" (2022-2023) dizisinin son iki sezonunda Prenses Margaret karakterini canlandırarak büyük takdir kazandı. Tiyatro sahnesindeki başarıları ise Ibsen'in "Hayaletler" (Ghosts) oyunundaki performansıyla 2014 yılında Laurence Olivier Ödülü kazanmasıyla taçlandı. Sanata yaptığı katkılardan dolayı Britanya İmparatorluk Nişanı (CBE) ile onurlandırılan Lesley Manville, derinliği, çok yönlülüğü ve karakterlerine kattığı incelikle günümüzün en değerli aktrislerinden biri olarak kabul edilmektedir.

Italiano

biography: Lesley Manville è nata il 12 marzo 1956 a Brighton, East Sussex, Inghilterra. È un'attrice pluripremiata di teatro, cinema e televisione, e ha lavorato ampiamente con il regista Mike Leigh. È conosciuta per Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999) e Secrets & Lies (1996), oltre che per la sua interpretazione in Phantom Thread (2017), candidato all'Oscar come miglior attrice non protagonista. Ha anche avuto un ruolo di supporto in Malefica (2014). La lunga carriera teatrale di Manville include ruoli in Come vi piace, Les Liaisons Dangereuses e L'Alchimista. Il suo debutto cinematografico è stato in Dance with a Stranger (1985).

title: Back to Black

overview: The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.

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.

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.

title: Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men

overview: A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.

original_title: Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men

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: Dance with a Stranger

overview: Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.

title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

overview: Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.

title: Cold Storage

overview: When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.

title: Sparkle

overview: Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.

title: Milk

overview: Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execution of Ruth's will. The one object that everyone seems to want, and several people try to steal, is Ruth's valuable Modigliani painting. In the midst of all this confusion over Ruth's death, a mysterious visitor named Ilaria inserts herself onto the scene and has a surprising effect on those gathered.

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: The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

overview: In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act, that will horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest, hidden fears.

title: Topsy-Turvy

overview: For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.

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: Queer

overview: In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

title: A Christmas Carol

overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

title: The Firm

overview: A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans. When 'The Firm' decide to confront a rival gang, it ends in tragedy.

title: Midwinter Break

overview: Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.

title: Romeo & Juliet

overview: In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are instantly smitten but dismayed to learn that their families are enemies. Romeo and Juliet figure out a way to pursue their romance, but Romeo is banished for his part in the slaying of Juliet's cousin, Tybalt.

title: Womb

overview: A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

title: Maleficent

overview: A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.

title: High Season

overview: On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.

title: Spike Island

overview: Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

title: A Five Star Life

overview: Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea, who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

title: An Adventure in Space and Time

overview: Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

title: Top Girls

overview: Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

title: The Christmas Candle

overview: Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.

title: The Critic

overview: Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.

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.

title: Ghosts

overview: Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.

title: Angels in the Annexe

overview: Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show.  Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the nativity play, and this is her last year before retirement. She is unlikely to change her ways without a battle.

title: Ashes

overview: One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.

title: Dual Balls

overview: A teacher has a titillating experience after accepting an unusual gift from a friend.

title: Winter of the Crow

overview: Warsaw, December 13, 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And visiting British Professor Joan Andrews finds herself trapped. After witnessing the murder of a young student by the secret police (the "Crows"), Joan herself becomes the target.

title: Mr. Burton

overview: In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war and his own ambitions. However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural talent for drama catches the attention of his teacher, Philip Burton.

title: Rupture

overview: A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.

title: Grown-Ups

overview: Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.

title: The Go-Between

overview: An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.

title: Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

overview: An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.

original_title: Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

title: A Very British Brothel

overview: A look at the daily life of an English brothel.

title: Perfect Parents

overview: After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one they can afford is St. Mary of the Veil, run by nuns whose 'preference' for Catholic families is de facto exclusivity, given the waiting list. So they pose as devout, and get his murky mate Eddie to find them a priest they can 'bribe' for a parish reference, while Lucy is genuinely converted. It works, but when Stuart overhears a dark secret things take a tragic turn.

title: A Very British Brothel 2

overview: This follow-up film returns to Sheffield's City Sauna. The certified massage parlour run by a mum and daughter team, which specialises in mature and larger ladies, is looking to expand.

title: The Moon Over Soho

overview: A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

overview: Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

title: The One and Only Mike Leigh

overview: In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.

title: Promoted to Glory

overview: An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

title: Phantom Thread

overview: In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

title: Hampstead

overview: Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets  local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.

title: Dog Ends

overview: A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.

title: Christmas Present

overview: A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor family.

title: To Provide All People

overview: To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birthing of Nye Bevan's vision of free healthcare for all people with personal stories of the NHS in British society today.

title: National Theatre Live: LOVE

overview: In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas. The bonds of love that keep people together are put to the test.

title: Misbehaviour

overview: A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.

title: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

overview: Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

title: Ordinary Love

overview: An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

title: The Agency

overview: Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a modern and stylish take on middle class female empowerment, amidst the social sub-culture, described collectively as "ladies who lunch". Disillusioned with a decade of domesticity, housewife Hannah Baines (Ania Sowinski), is befriended by an enigmatic older woman Anthea (Lesley Manville,) who introduces a select and seductive inner circle of women. In confidence, Anthea recommends a private and reliable company who "can set up something marvellous" for her. Hannah contemplates the implications of attending her initial consultation, at The Agency.

title: Let Him Go

overview: Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

title: Plain Jane

overview: Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.

title: David Copperfield

title: A Statement of Affairs

overview: A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide?

title: O Mary This London

overview: Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour.

title: Toy Boys

overview: Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.

title: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

overview: A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

title: Bad Girl

overview: A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.

title: Our Winnie

overview: Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father is buried. Also in the cemetery are two art students, one of whom (Liz) asks if she can take a photograph of the three women. She takes it while they are not prepared, making them look ridiculous (Cora is putting her make-up on, Winnie is staring at the camera with her mouth open). Cora is angry, and Liz takes another of them properly posed. But she enters the first photograph for a competition, where it wins a prize

title: Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

overview: A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

title: Jack of Spades

overview: A gothic mystery unfolds in the atmospheric setting of 1880s Scotland.

title: National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

overview: A new staging of Christopher Hampton's celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path. Filmed live at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

original_title: National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

title: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

January

overview: It’s the morning of Cathy’s husband’s funeral and her family gather at the house to wait for the funeral cars. Battling her brother's partner and meeting her son's new and over-enthusiastic girlfriend Kelly, Cathy prepares herself for a day of great emotion with help from her friend Michael.

February

overview: It’s Cathy’s first Valentine’s day since she lost her husband. Her brother Derek comes round to keep her company, but his partner Pauline wishes that she was anywhere else. Cathy's son, Jason, has some surprising news for her and when Michael turns up unannounced he's concerned to find that Cathy has received a Valentine’s card.

May

overview: Cathy is clearing out her garage and the family come round to help. Her brother and his partner are fresh from playing golf and making friends with a millionaire. Kelly’s mum comes round to take an old fridge and Cathy sees a new side to Kelly. Michael is helping out too and faces a decision.

title: The Critic

title: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

title: Back to Black

title: Secrets & Lies

title: Vera Drake

title: All or Nothing

title: Dance with a Stranger

title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

title: Cold Storage

title: Sparkle

title: Milk

title: Another Year

title: The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

title: Topsy-Turvy

title: High Hopes

title: Queer

title: A Christmas Carol

title: The Firm

title: Midwinter Break

title: Romeo & Juliet

title: Womb

title: Maleficent

title: High Season

title: Spike Island

title: A Five Star Life

title: An Adventure in Space and Time

title: Top Girls

title: The Christmas Candle

title: The Critic

title: Mr. Turner

title: Ghosts

title: Angels in the Annexe

title: Ashes

title: Dual Balls

title: Winter of the Crow

title: Mr. Burton

title: Rupture

title: Grown-Ups

title: The Go-Between

title: A Very British Brothel

title: Perfect Parents

title: A Very British Brothel 2

title: The Moon Over Soho

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

title: Promoted to Glory

title: The One and Only Mike Leigh

title: Phantom Thread

title: Hampstead

title: Dog Ends

title: Christmas Present

title: To Provide All People

title: National Theatre Live: LOVE

title: Misbehaviour

title: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

title: Ordinary Love

title: The Agency

title: Let Him Go

title: Plain Jane

title: David Copperfield

title: A Statement of Affairs

title: O Mary This London

title: Toy Boys

title: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

title: Bad Girl

title: Our Winnie

title: Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

title: Jack of Spades

title: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris


Alison Garland

biography: Alison Garland is an actress, known for All or Nothing (2002), The Bill (1984) and Virtual Sexuality (1999).

Hustle

overview: A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

character: Helen

original_name: Hustle

The Last Detective

overview: "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.

character: Marilyn

original_name: The Last Detective

Footballers' Wives

overview: Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006. The show began with a multi-lateral focus on a variety of different types of relationships explored; however, from the third series onward, the primary focus was on a complex love triangle between Tanya Turner, Amber Gates and Conrad Gates.

character: Nanny

original_name: Footballers' Wives

Magic Grandad

job: Production Office Assistant

overview:
Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two under the title 'Switch On, Switch Off' during Schools section of 1993. The show saw 'Magic' Grandad take his young grandchildren back in time, many of the adventures are about comparing the past and the present and seeing how evidence of what happened in the olden days still survives.

The show was said to make learning about history "fun for youngsters" and was aimed at children aged 5-7 years. The series was introduced to support the History National Curriculum at Key Stage 1. New seasons have been made periodically to support new areas of the infant history curriculum such as seaside holidays and toys.

The early season have a companion booklet of teacher's notes with descriptions of the episodes, various suggestions for follow-up work and photocopiable worksheets.

department: Crew

original_name: Magic Grandad

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

Alison Garland

biography: Alison Garland ist eine Schauspielerin, bekannt für All or Nothing (2002), The Bill (1984) und Virtual Sexuality (1999).

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

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: Rachel

original_title: All or Nothing

title: Virtual Sexuality

overview: A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.

character: Scary Nurse

original_title: Virtual Sexuality

title: Secret Society

overview: Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.

character: Anne / Polar Bear

original_title: Secret Society

title: All or Nothing

media_type: movie

title: Virtual Sexuality

title: Secret Society

Hustle

media_type: tv

known_for_department: Acting


Marion Bailey

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

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: Eileen Grant

original_name: A Touch of Frost

Inspector Morse

overview: Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

character: Fran Pierce

original_name: Inspector Morse

Monday Monday

overview:
Monday Monday is an ITV, UTV comedy drama. It stars Fay Ripley, Jenny Agutter, Neil Stuke, Holly Aird, Morven Christie, Tom Ellis, and Miranda Hart.

It is set in the head office of a supermarket that has fallen on hard times and had to re-locate its staff from London to Leeds. The show was initially announced as part of ITV's Winter 2007 press pack, but was "iced" until 2009 due to falling advertising in the wake of the economic downturn.

original_name: Monday Monday

Charlie

overview: Charlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations when he stumbles across the dying Stan Peace, a shop steward in the Distributive Worker's Union. Peace dies, but Charlie wants to know why his name was in Peace's address book. As Charlie investigates, things get murkier.

character: Susan Alexander

original_name: Charlie

Heat of the Sun

overview: Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya. It began airing in January 1998 in the UK and was broadcast in the United States in 1999 as part of Mystery!.

original_name: Heat of the Sun

Agatha Christie's Poirot

overview: From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

character: Jane Mason

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

overview: The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

character: Ros Swan

original_name: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Stay Lucky

overview:
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds.

Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.

original_name: Stay Lucky

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: Joy Waddington

original_name: Casualty

character: Anna Longford

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: Sue Anderson

original_name: The Trials of Jimmy Rose

Obsession

overview: A respected London surgeon's affair with his son's fiancée turns into an erotic infatuation that threatens to change their lives forever.

character: Elizabeth

original_name: Obsession

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: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

original_name: The Crown

All the Light We Cannot See

overview: A blind French girl and a young German soldier's paths collide during WWII.

character: Madame Manec

original_name: All the Light We Cannot See

Temple

overview: Talented and successful surgeon Daniel Milton has his world shattered when his wife Beth develops a fatal degenerative disease. After conventional treatment options run out, Daniel partners with the lonely yet resourceful Lee to start a literal Underground clinic in the vast network of tunnels beneath Temple Tube Station in London.

character: Ingrid

original_name: Temple

name: Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

overview: Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.

character: Edie Brosnan

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: Alyssa Bradley

original_name: Midsomer Murders

Being Human

overview: Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.

character: Ruth

original_name: Being Human

The Dreamer: Becoming Karen Blixen

overview: The story of one woman’s struggle to find her place in life while freeing herself from the expectations of family and society. The series takes place in the 1930s and follows Karen Blixen’s return to her childhood home Denmark after many years in East Africa.

character: Lady Islington

original_name: Drømmeren - Karen Blixen bliver til

original_language: da

Case Histories

overview: Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.

character: Gloria Hatter

original_name: Case Histories

Shades

overview: Meeting as "shades" after their unexpected deaths, Mark and Maeve team up to try influencing the world they can't seem to leave.

character: Caroline MacIntyre

original_name: Shades

Shine on Harvey Moon

overview:
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian.

This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement.

The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

character: Avis

original_name: Shine on Harvey Moon

The Chief

overview: The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

character: Isabelle Melly

original_name: The Chief

Murder Before Evensong

overview: In 1980s England, Canon Daniel Clement, the Rector of Champton, finds himself unexpectedly entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church. When Daniel announces a plan to modernize the church, the parish is suddenly divided. And then a body is found dead at the back of the church. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.

character: Kath

original_name: Murder Before Evensong

Worlds Beyond

overview: Worlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.

character: Norma Moran

original_name: Worlds Beyond

Big Deal

overview: The ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker addiction has on his long suffering girlfriend Jan Oliver and family.

character: Alison Diamond

original_name: Big Deal

Prisoner 951

overview: The true story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - imprisoned in Iran and separated from her daughter - and her husband Richard, who fights both the British and Iranian governments to facilitate her release.

character: Barbara Ratcliffe

original_name: Prisoner 951

Dalziel and Pascoe

overview: In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

character: Lorraine Wildgoose

original_name: Dalziel and Pascoe

To Have and to Hold

overview: A surrogate arrangement between sisters takes a complicated turn when the surrogate unexpectedly falls in love with her brother-in-law after they conceive naturally, leading to tough times for the family.

character: Ann Fletcher

original_name: To Have and to Hold

Deutsch

iso_3166_1: AT

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

Deutsch

Marion Bailey

biography: Marion Bailey (* 5. Mai 1951 in Bushey) ist eine britische Theater- und Filmschauspielerin.

title: All or Nothing

character: Carol

title: Good Boy

overview: Out of money and out of luck, Danny is determined to turn his life around, but the interventions of his anarchic mum and the reappearance of figures from his past threaten to derail him at every turn.

title: Meantime

overview: A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.

title: Way Upstream

overview: Two couples go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.

title: Coppers

overview: Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen One TV movie

title: Tommies

overview: In Regency-era London, five women waiting for a carriage descend into a frenzy of vicious gossip.

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.

title: The Lady in the Van

overview: The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

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.

title: Allied

overview: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

title: Nasty Neighbours

overview: Mr. and Mrs. Peach's favourite neighbours emigrate to Australia, leaving the grieving couple anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban cul-de-sac home waiting to see who will be moving in next door. Unfortunately, far from their ideal, a flash, young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman  turn out to be their new neighbours.

title: National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea

overview: A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

title: Fuel to Fire

overview: To end a bitter blood feud and bind two warring families, a mother must accept her son's murderer into her home.

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

overview: Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

title: Persuasion

overview: Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law, Frederick returns as a captain - but will he remember Anne?

title: Toast

overview: Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.

title: The One and Only Mike Leigh

overview: In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.

title: Cherished

overview: A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidence about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death Syndrome) which has since been discredited.

title: Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

overview: William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie is under pressure from his boss to make sure the contract is completed.

title: Peterloo

overview: An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.

title: The Sickie

overview: When events at work prove too stressful for Douglas Knott, a diligent and extremely busy office manager, he decides to throw a sickie. Unfortunately, his attempts to enjoy a day off are soon sabotaged by the insidious voice of his conscience. Literally.

title: Brighton

overview: A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result is a vengeful act of violence that exposes the gaps and similarities between class, gender, and sexual orientations.

title: Sakharov

overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

title: Flights

overview: 'Imagine. The whole sky filled with silent sportsmen.'  Henry is a teacher, and a very good one, but his dream of man-powered flight, and his habit of destroying the odd greenhouse on his test runs, threatens his career. Also there's his daughter Ruth, who would dearly love to retrieve her bicycle wheels from his flying machine.

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: The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz!

overview: Experience a captivating collection of five award-winning gay short films, each celebrated for their brilliance, artistry, and storytelling.  These exceptional works represent the very best in gay cinema.

title: Tender Loving Care

title: Security

overview: A married man finds a young woman asleep in his self-driving car and decides to drive her home. When he lets her have a go at driving it, a moment of intimacy turns sour.

title: All or Nothing

title: Good Boy

title: Meantime

title: Way Upstream

title: Coppers

title: Tommies

title: Mr. Turner

title: The Lady in the Van

title: Vera Drake

title: Allied

title: Nasty Neighbours

title: Fuel to Fire

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

title: Persuasion

title: Toast

title: The One and Only Mike Leigh

title: Cherished

title: Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

title: Peterloo

title: The Sickie

title: Brighton

title: Sakharov

title: Flights

title: Reservations

title: Tender Loving Care

title: Security