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Borrowed Time (2022)
Character: Mary
Based on true events, the story of a sixteen-year-old during one of her life's most defining moments. Olivia has a complicated relationship with her mother, who suddenly calls her to go back home and while they are driving to their destination, they get into a car crash. A tale of loss and growth between three generations of women, this day will define Olivia for years to come.
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Goodie-Two-Shoes (1984)
Character: Veronica
Goodie-Two-Shoes is a 1984 British short film written and directed by Ian Emes. A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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The House of Bernarda Alba (1991)
Character: Amelia
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
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Benjamin's Struggle (2005)
Character: Vivienne
In 1930s Germany, a young boy attempts to steal the original manuscript of Hitler's Mein Kampf in the hope that it will end the suffering of his family.
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The Bloody Chamber (1983)
Character: N/A
A beautiful teenage girl, marries an older, wealthy French Marquis, whom she does not love. He gifts her a choker made of rubies, warning her against taking it off.
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Die Stimme (1989)
Character: Julia
A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.
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Des Teufels Paradies (1987)
Character: Julie
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
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Small Zones (1990)
Character: Irina Ratushinskaya
Intertwined story of the lives of two women; an Englishwoman suffering abuse from her violent husband, and a Russian poet serving hard labour because of her subversive work.
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A Relative Stranger (1996)
Character: Jenny Bell
Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he has a wife he doesn't recognise and two children. Unable to remember anything of the intervening twenty years, he feels he has jumped forward in time. He goes in search of his former girlfriend and is forced to face the fact that he has become a person he never expected to be.
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Ladies (1980)
Character: Susan
MIRIAM: "Here we are; celebrating a marriage, eating a cake, drinking, standing in a uniform, standing in a canteen ... with a Teasmade and a red red garter ... and I want an explanation." VALERIE: "I want to know why you all resent me." BRENDA: "Because you're not one of us."
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Johnny Bull (1986)
Character: Iris
An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ideas about the life and culture that her son should have.
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Murder East - Murder West (1990)
Character: Regine Kleinschmidt
This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the former Germany. Edgar Rutchinski, who has made a living smuggling refugees, finds his past catching up with him in the shape of the ex-girlfriend he thought was dead.
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One Fine Day (1979)
Character: Linda
Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
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Duel of Hearts (1992)
Character: Harriet Wantage
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
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Tale of a Vampire (1993)
Character: Ann
Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.
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Out of Africa (1985)
Character: Felicity
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
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The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Character: Stasya's Mother
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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Pina (2026)
Character: Pina Fisk
Pina, a 62-year-old lawyer, is in denial about her increasing dementia and is desperate to convince her colleague that she can still work.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Character: Julia
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
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Swallows and Amazons (1974)
Character: Susan Walker
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
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A Masculine Ending (1992)
Character: Veronica Puddephat
While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
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A Pattern of Roses (1983)
Character: Rebecca
While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.
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Tess (1979)
Character: Izz Huett
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.
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My Feral Heart (2016)
Character: Margaret
Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.
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Wetherby (1985)
Character: Karen Creasy
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
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PANDA (2023)
Character: N/A
On Chef Antonia's birthday, her estranged mother pays a surprise visit to the restaurant. Struggling with feeling abandoned by her mother when her twin brother died 10 years ago, Antonia imagines her brother urging reconciliation.
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Birth of a Nation (1983)
Character: Alison Cooper
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
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Brimstone & Treacle (1982)
Character: Patricia Bates
A mysterious stranger inserts himself into a troubled family's life, blurring the lines between good and evil as he cares for their disabled daughter.
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Ride the Snake (2025)
Character: Harper
When Harper and her daughter take the law into their own hands, they believe they have the upper hand. But their plans take a dark turn when they kidnap the drunk driver that killed Harper's husband and he isn't what he seems.
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175 (2024)
Character: N/A
Rural England, winter 2013, Ruth and Juliet are waiting for the British Parliament to pass a legislation that would allow same-sex marriage, so they can get married. But they are out of time.
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