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The Encyclopaedist (1961)
Character: Sally Louth
A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London.
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The Queen's Guards (1961)
Character: N/A
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
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Mustard Bath (1993)
Character: Matthew's Mom
Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on receiving a letter from his mother three months after her death. Prompted by his surroundings to sort through the idealized memories of his childhood, Matthew reaches the horrifying realization that he has returned to a world which he was never a part of. Contemporary Guyanese reality highlights the white colonialist privilege his family had enjoyed.
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Love (1982)
Character: Mrs. Wiseman ("Julia")
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
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Spoiled (1968)
Character: Joanna Howarth
A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.
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The First Night of 'Pygmalion' (1975)
Character: Mrs. Patrick Campbell
A new play by George Bernard Shaw is always an event - but will the egotism of the leading actress lead to disaster?
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The Cuckoo Bird (1985)
Character: Kate
A drama focusing on the suffering experiences by a middle-aged couple due to the husband's persistent unfaithfulness.
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Time to Say Goodbye? (1997)
Character: Teresa Rodriguez
A doctor suffering from Alzheimer's wishes to end his life, causing a severe rift in the family, with each side convinced they have the father's best interests at heart.
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Desire (2000)
Character: Mrs. Waterson
An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing.
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1997)
Character: Grace Hoover
A female prosecutor notices a woman in a plastic surgeon's waiting room who looks strikingly like a girl who was murdered more than ten years earlier. An investigation into the plastic surgeon grows more bizarre by the minute, as the prosecutor unravels a ten year old mystery involving betrayal and murder.
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Amelia (2009)
Character: Frances Putnam
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
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Damien - Omen II (1978)
Character: Joan Hart
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
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Criminal Law (1989)
Character: Dr. Thiel
Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile murder case. Martin Thiel is the wealthy young man on trial for a particularly brutal murder. The verdict sets Thiel free. Within 24 hours another grizzly and all-too-familiar murder has taken place with striking similarities to the first crime. Chase inexplicably agrees to act as his defense attorney; but this time it will be to gather evidence that will put away his client for good.
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The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Character: Joan Scott
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.
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Blind Corner (1964)
Character: Joan Marshall
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
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Hell Boats (1970)
Character: Alison
A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
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Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell (2024)
Character: Joan Thorn
Set in a bleak future in which the world suffocates under the iron fist of a tyrannical regime. Driven by unyielding determination, Ken Shiro sets out on a perilous mission to find the gate to Hell and save his daughter from the Inferno.
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Double Negative (1980)
Character: Frances
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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Love and Treason (2001)
Character: Betty Timmons
Kate is a Naval officer whose married to a Marine. When she learns her husband is committing treason she turns him in. He's sent to prison and she divorces him and would have to deal with the stigma of being married to a traitor. A few years later, her husband escapes from prison and the consensus is that he's going after her. And he approaches her but doesn't do anything to her. She thinks he's up to something and tries to find out what it is.
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The White Raven (1998)
Character: Hannah Rothschild
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. Somehow, the story that the journalist originally wrote about a camp survivor is believed to have leads to the diamond.
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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Character: Lady Rowena Trevanion / Lady Ligeia
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
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Spreading Ground (2000)
Character: Mayor Hackett
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
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End of Summer (1997)
Character: Vera
An unmarried aristocrat resists the advances of the adventurous man whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward and a young maid.
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Head Office (1985)
Character: Mrs. Issel
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.
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