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The Life Story of Baal (1978)
Character: Woodcutter
An adaptation of the first play written by Bertolt Brecht, charting the decline and fall of Baal, a young poet who rejects the norms of society and destroys the lives of the people with whom he comes into contact.
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Wednesday's Child (1979)
Character: Dr. Jennings
When their infant son is brain-damaged during surgery, Jane and Phillip Elliot seek information on how it happened and meet resistance from those unable or unwilling to help. Finding themselves helpless, they turn to the law.
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Sakharov (1984)
Character: N/A
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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Sitting Targets (1989)
Character: Caretaker
Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look hopeless. But the tenants begin to fight back...
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Giving Tongue (1996)
Character: Lord Belvoir
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she hunted as a teenager with friend Barb Gale. Matters are complicated when she rekindles her friendship with Barb, who still works for a hunt. The plot thickens further when it becomes aparent that the House of Lords is likely break with convention and block the bill, an event which the Prime Minister hopes to use for his own ends.
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Ca$hino (2001)
Character: Johnny Niagra
They're bringing Las Vegas closer than you ever imagined.
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Hotel Splendide (2000)
Character: Bellboy
A chef seeks reconciliation with her brother by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa.
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A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
Character: Meadows
In a desperate bid to cover his debts, compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley stakes his estate and his daughter's hand on a game of chance. Serena Staverley soon finds herself bound to a mysterious victor and trapped in a cliff-top manor.
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Lady Killer (1973)
Character: Old Man
A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
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Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Character: Very Old Man 2
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Character: Goldstein
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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Joan of Arc (1999)
Character: Old Priest
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
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Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
Character: Don 2
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
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Casanova (1987)
Character: N/A
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
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The Wind in the Willows (1996)
Character: The Elderly Gentleman
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
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The Statement (2003)
Character: Father Léo
An ambitious Judge and an exacting Colonel re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard, an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church, Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men, determined to kill him before he's arrested.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Character: Wyvern
Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.
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3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)
Character: Barrow
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important women in their lives.
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Poldark (1996)
Character: Cary Warleggan
The Cornish military captain, now a member of Parliament, is drawn into the war with France while his son falls in with smugglers. Historical drama, starring John Bowe and Mel Martin, and featuring a young Ioan Gruffudd in one of his earliest roles.
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