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The Light Princess (1978)
Character: Maid
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
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Fourwinds Island (1961)
Character: N/A
Mary Lockwood is left an island in the Scillies but it does not look as though she can afford to keep it until she finds the Lockwood jewels and the radio-active sands of Jacob's Reach.
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Exchange and Divide (1980)
Character: Mrs. Benson
A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.
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The Young Ones (1961)
Character: Barbara
Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.
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The Party's Over (1965)
Character: Fran
A group of close friends spend their time drinking and partying. When the American fiancé one of them shows up, the clique protects her by hiding her from him. He slowly becomes deeper involved with the wild bunch while the party rages on. This once controversial British movie was filmed in 1962 but not released until three years later.
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Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966)
Character: Anne Chaplet
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
Character: Phoebe
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
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Separate Tables (1970)
Character: Doreen
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
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Joanna (1968)
Character: N/A
When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.
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Always on Sunday (1965)
Character: Alfred Jarry
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
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The Debussy Film (1965)
Character: Gaby Dupont
An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
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They Put You Where You Are (1966)
Character: The Girlfriends: Shirley
The Spare Parts are a successful 1960s pop band. They are hugely popular, but backstage, there is tension.
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Andover and the Android (1965)
Character: Lydia
Roger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him. But to present a life-like female android as your wife: surely that will satisfy everyone? Andover finds more than he bargained for when his robot bride challenges his preconceptions about humanity.
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