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In My Day (2023)
Character: Michelle's Grandmother
In this black and white drama, a young white British woman, Michelle, is deeply in love with her boyfriend Asif. But, the local far-right skinheads in the city and her parents in the countryside aren’t accepting of him and their relationship. The true reason for their hostility is only revealed at the end.
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The Fool (1990)
Character: N/A
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
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A Pin for the Butterfly (1995)
Character: Piano Teacher
Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppressive government .
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Wall of Tyranny (1988)
Character: Mrs. Mentz
A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.
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Being Normal (1983)
Character: Liz
Anna Carteret and David Suchet (TV's Hercule Poirot) star in Being Normal. The pair play a British couple who must come to terms with their son's physical handicap. "Denial" is the operative word in the early scenes, leading to several tense confrontations.
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Troilus & Cressida (1981)
Character: Andromache
The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.
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The Storyteller: The Luck Child (1988)
Character: Lucky's Mother
Seeking to avert a prophecy which foretells of a seventh son someday supplanting the current king, the unscrupulous monarch seeks out this luck child and attempts to do away with him. But those blessed with luck cannot be undone.
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Afterward (1983)
Character: Agnes
A skeptical family moves into their new home despite warnings of a resident ghost. They soon become believers.
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The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Character: Mrs Webb
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.
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Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Character: Lady Homeowner 1
At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.
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The Love-Girl and the Innocent (1973)
Character: 1st Woman
A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Character: Mrs. Parsons
Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.
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The Winter's Tale (1981)
Character: Emilia
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.
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The Sign of Four (1983)
Character: Mrs. Smith
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
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That Lucky Touch (1975)
Character: Antoinette
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Character: Old Woman
Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.
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Billy Elliot (2000)
Character: Secretary
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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Nina (1978)
Character: N/A
Play for Today about Russian dissidents.
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