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Shove Tuesday (1976)
Character: Mrs. Sparrow
A supermarket offers free groceries to the winner of a Shrove Tuesday pancake race. The kids, after messy experiments with pancake batter, enter Susie in the race; she wins, despite the efforts of the unscrupulous "Mrs. Shove".
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Last Wishes (1978)
Character: Miss Bell
An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live in her house - now it seems they will be homeless.
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The Winter Ladies (1979)
Character: Miss Curlew
When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.
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Travelling Light (1967)
Character: Mrs. Thorp
Salesman shares a bedsit with a part-time waiter with mystical beliefs. The house is owned by an eccentric old lady. When the salesman girfriend comes around for a visit, they do not get privacy they crave.
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976)
Character: Village Gossip (uncredited)
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
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Arthur? Arthur! (1969)
Character: Miss Bonnamie
The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.
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The Operation (1973)
Character: Cleaner
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
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The Stretch (1973)
Character: Customer
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.
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Lace 2 (1985)
Character: Bank Secretary
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
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The Chain (1984)
Character: Old Lady
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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Claws (1987)
Character: Mrs Truforth
A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit and the power struggles between them.
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The Caves of Steel (1964)
Character: Customer
In the future New York City, the Deputy Commissioner of Police is assisted by a robot detective in solving the murder of a scientist.
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Cymbeline (1983)
Character: Helen
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
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Great Expectations (1974)
Character: Mrs. Wopsle
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Character: Preston's Housekeeper
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
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The Elephant Man (1980)
Character: Distraught Woman
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
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The Raging Moon (1971)
Character: Bruce's Mother
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
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Electric Dreams (1984)
Character: Lady in Ticket Line
Miles Harding buys a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing conscious thought and emotion after an interaction with spilled champagne. Things begin getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with beautiful neighbor Madeline Robistat.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Character: Mrs Japonica
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Tess (1979)
Character: Housekeeper
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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Blake's 7: Duel (1986)
Character: Giroc
Supreme Commander Servalan assigns the task to the deadly Travis-his orders simply to seek, locate and destroy Blake's 7! Travis and his Mutoid crew clash with Blake in a crucial struggle over the Federation's secret cypher machine and again in desperate hand-to-hand combat on a mysterious dead planet. Finally, they confront each other on a barren ice world as Blake attempts to rescue the resistance leader, Avalon. This time, however, Travis is expecting him, and a terrible trap awaits. . .
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The Legacy (1978)
Character: Cook
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
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Exposé (1976)
Character: Mrs. Aston
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
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Baffled! (1973)
Character: Cleaning Woman
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
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Steptoe & Son (1972)
Character: Mrs Hobbs
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
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O Lucky Man! (1973)
Character: N/A
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
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Sons and Lovers (1960)
Character: Emma
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
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Leo the Last (1970)
Character: Mrs Kowalksi
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
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Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977)
Character: Ghoul
Death stalks the fogbound streets of Victorian London: young women are going missing, horribly mutilated bodies are found floating in the Thames and criminal gangs terrorize the innocent. At the heart of this tangled web sits the mysterious Li H'sen Chang, sorcerer and hypnotist, and his grotesque sidekick Mister Sin. The Doctor dons deerstalker hat and cape to seek out the sinister force lurking in the shadows of the metropolis, for the Talons of Weng-Chiang are reaching out to shred the human race.
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