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Elphida (1987)
Character: Marcia
Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
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Resonant Frequency (2014)
Character: Pauline
Haunted by threatening voices from a radio, a paranoid schizophrenic descends into psychosis.
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This Little Life (2003)
Character: Midwife
A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are thrown into the terrifying world of neo-natal intensive care when their son Luke is born prematurely. Willed on by his desperate parents, he gradually grows in strength - but as Sadie develops a unique bond with her son, her relationship with Richie begins to suffer.
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The Final Frame (1990)
Character: Miss Gibson
When the notorious rock star, East, is murdered on stage at an Animal Rights benefit gig, young filmmaker Hadi captures vital evidence on videotape. He finds he has possession of the most sought-after footage in the TV industry - and the most lethal.
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Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
Character: Black Bride
Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying...
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Gholam (2017)
Character: Mrs. Green
An Iranian expat living in London has a shady past and an enigmatic present.
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In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)
Character: Faye, One Son's wife
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
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Hidden Fears (1993)
Character: Mrs. Katz
A widowed woman is being stalked by her husband's murderers.
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Pressure (1976)
Character: Tony's Aunt
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
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Burning an Illusion (1981)
Character: Pat's Mother
A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
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Babymother (1998)
Character: Edith - Mother
A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a housing estate with little support, the odds are obviously against her. Emotionally she struggles too as she learns at her mother's death that her actual mother is the woman she had thought was her older sister. With the help of a female agent, the group starts to get some exposure and rises above their setting.
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Flame in the Streets (1961)
Character: Mrs. Jackson
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
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Dreaming Rivers (1989)
Character: Miss T.
A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the Caribbean, lives alone in her one-room apartment, her children and husband having left her to pursue new dreams. When she dies her family and friends gather at her wake. The tapestry of words that interweave the drama convey the fragments of a life lived, but only partly remembered.
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Sitting in Limbo (2020)
Character: Lucille
Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.
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The Godsend (1980)
Character: Hospital Doctor
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.
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Man About the House (1974)
Character: Housewife
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.
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