Birthday:
03-14-1942
(82 years)
Birthplace:
Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Biography
Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942) is an English actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), and Being Julia (2004).
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Elicit
Act like Felicity
event2023
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About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
An Awfully Big Adventure
Act like Aunt Lily
event1995 star_border 6.7
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Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
The Human Factor
Act like Janice
event1975 star_border 5.7
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After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
A Taste of Honey
Act like Jo
event1961 star_border 7
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While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Puffball
Act like Molly
event2007 star_border 3.7
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Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.
The Bed Sitting Room
Act like Penelope
event1969 star_border 5.9
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In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
Straight On Till Morning
Act like Brenda Thompson
event1972 star_border 5.9
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Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.
The Hideout
Act like Paula Hardyn
event2007 star_border 6.1
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A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
The Knack... and How to Get It
Act like Nancy Jones
event1965 star_border 5.9
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A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
Flying
Act like Jean Stoller
event1986 star_border 5.9
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Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives with her mother and bad step-father. Robin is accepted to the school athlethics team but is not accepted by some other girls, so she works out at a friends house. Eventually Robin and her team compete in the national scholastic meet.
Girl with Green Eyes
Act like Kathleen "Kate" Brady
event1964 star_border 6.6
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A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
Moscow in Madrid
Act like Self
event1965
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When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a location on the plains outside Madrid, Spain and built a set to look like the Russian capital. This promotional film gives viewers a short look at the set under construction.
The Trap
Act like Eve
event1966 star_border 7.1
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A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
A Judgment in Stone
Act like Eunice
event1986 star_border 3
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An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Soon her severe psychosis and her attempts to keep her sexuality from asserting itself combine to cause trouble for all concerned.
Under the Skin
Act like Mum
event1997 star_border 6.2
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Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating, Iris spirals out of control and copes by losing herself in sexual oblivion.
The Wee Man
Act like Rita Thompson
event2013 star_border 5.6
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The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
The Leather Boys
Act like Dot
event1964 star_border 6.6
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Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to drift apart. Dot seems content to pursue her own interests, until Reggie meets Pete, a fellow cyclist, and begins to explore his own identity.
Smashing Time
Act like Brenda
event1967 star_border 6.2
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Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
The Guru
Act like Jenny
event1969 star_border 5
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Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.
Mysteries
Act like Martha Gude
event1978 star_border 5.1
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In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Fischia Il Sesso
Act like Carol Houston
event1974 star_border 6
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A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant clandestine.
A Place to Go
Act like Catherine Donovan
event1963 star_border 6.2
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Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Boudica
Act like Green Druid
event2023 star_border 5.9
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Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.
The Calling
Act like Sister Gertrude
event2010
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Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2023 star_border 6.8
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Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
The Boy from Mercury
Act like May Cronin
event1996 star_border 6
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Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
Resurrected
Act like Mrs. Deakin
event1989 star_border 5.6
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A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
Spaghetti House
Act like Kathy Ceccacci
event1982 star_border 6.2
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Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
Diamonds for Breakfast
Act like Bridget Rafferty
event1968 star_border 5.6
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Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
Rachel's Man
Act like Leah
event1976
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The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fate intervenes as Rachel's sister sleeps with Jacob and bears him a child.
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Act like Self
event1965
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In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles in the movie.
The Athena Syndrome
Act like Vivian
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Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They are both about to be tested in the field against a ruthless underworld army. How will they hold up? Will they survive?
Gospel According to Harry
Act like Myrna
event1994 star_border 5.2
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Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart.
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Act like Alice Toklas
event1988
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Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
Swing
Act like Mags Luxford
event1999 star_border 5
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When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.
Spending Nights with Joan
Act like Bette Davis
event1998 star_border 2
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A drama directed by Horst Königstein.
Doctor Zhivago
Act like The Girl
event1965 star_border 7.5
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The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Green Eyes
Act like Margaret Sheen
event1977
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Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
Seamonsters
Act like Rose
event2011 star_border 3
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Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl comes between them the friendship is torn apart and their lives are changed forever.
Being Julia
Act like Aunt Carrie
event2004 star_border 6.5
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Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.
Angel Cake
Act like Millie
event2006
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A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially miraculous consequences follow for her family and friends. Her arthritic mother Millie is suddenly able to move freely, her irresponsible son Todd falls in love, and both she and her husband Ed are offered the chance of other relationships. But miracles are not all they seem.
Outside Bet
Act like Martha
event2012 star_border 5.6
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A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
Out of Depth
Act like Margaret Nixon
event2000 star_border 6
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Seeking to avenge an attack on his mother, Paul decides to hire a local villain, Lenny, to give the attacker a beating. Lenny however has also been contracted to kill the same man and soon Paul is thrown into an impossible situation involving corrupt police chiefs, violence and intimidation.
Black Journal
Act like Maria
event1977 star_border 5.4
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A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
Sunday Pursuit
Act like Alice Fletcher
event1990 star_border 4
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Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new ideas. Thomas advertise under "Lonely Hearts" and receives an answer.
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Act like Medium
event2008 star_border 5.6
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Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
Red Riding Hood
Act like Grace
event1973 star_border 8
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A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.
My Name Is Lenny
Act like Reenie Joyce
event2017 star_border 5.8
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The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".
Paper Marriage
Act like Lou, gospodyni Alicji
event1992 star_border 4
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Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in need of citizenship in Britain.
Last Night in Soho
Act like Peggy Turner
event2021 star_border 7.3
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A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Slaughter Day
Act like Rita
event1972
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Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part of his plan. In the background Michael pulls the strings and mercilessly plays the actors on his stage against each other. This strategy also poses unsolvable problems for the police until something goes wrong and the house of cards collapses.
The Rapture of Deceit
event1992
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Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with the daughter of an influential businessman. Jutka moves in with a female friend, Dóra likewise has to face a difficult choice.
The Owners
Act like Ellen Huggins
event2020 star_border 5.6
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A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
The Stretford Wives
Act like Marilyn Massey
event2002
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The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford, Greater Manchester, England.
The American Backyard
Act like La madre di Barbara
new_releases Release: March 06, 2025
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary's elderly mother's house, separated by a grim garden.
Broken Lines
Act like Rae
event2008 star_border 6
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After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
Act like Miss Clutterbuck
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The Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen the murder of visiting jazz singer Cab Vee, and it is up to the Five to uncover just who is plotting to kill him.
The Merv Griffin Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 5.6
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The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
New Tricks
(1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.4
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New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
No Strings
(7 ep.)
event1974
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In BBC sitcom No Strings mismatched Leonara (Rita Tushingham) and Derek (Keith Barron) share a flat. This early Carla Lane series began life as a Comedy Playhouse entry.
Guest stars included Michael Staniforth, Jessica Benton, Robert Gillespie and Tommy Godfrey.
Cast: Rita Tushingham as Leonora; Keith Barron as Derek
Writer: Carla Lane / Producer: John Howard Davies
UK / BBC One / 7×30 minute episodes / Pilot: 16 April 1974 Season: 4 October – 8 November 1974 Fridays at 7.45pm
Vera
Act like Audrey Latham (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.4
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A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
Ridley Road
Act like Nettie Jones (4 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.5
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During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.
The Responder
Act like June Carson (2 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7
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Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
(1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6.2
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A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.
The Human Jungle
Act like Joy (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 8.2
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The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
Agatha Christie's Marple
Act like Miss Elizabeth Percehouse (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.6
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The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event1993
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Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.
Bread
Act like Celia Higgins (10 ep.)
event1986 star_border 7.1
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Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991.
The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related.
Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
Still Open All Hours
Act like Annie (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 6
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Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
The Marlow Murder Club
Act like Mrs. Eddingham (2 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.4
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Retired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the local paper. During one of her regular wild swims in the Thames, Judith hears a gunshot coming from a neighbour's garden and believes a brutal murder has taken place.
The Pale Horse
Act like Bella Webb (2 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5.9
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After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.
Lady Killers
Act like Charlotte Bryant (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 5
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Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
The Famous Five
Act like Miss Clutterbuck (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.5
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There's adventure around every corner with The Famous Five! Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy as they uncover mystery and excitement.
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