A small group of British retirees learn that the life they want to live might not be the life they need to live after pooling...
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2012
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2011
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The animated tale Gnomeo & Juliet knowingly follows the quintessential star-crossed lovers tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with the...
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Lady Bluebury
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2011
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A struggling mother receives some much-needed assistance tending to the family farm and raising a group of spirited children...
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Mrs. Docherty
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2010
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
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2010
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Adolescent wizard-in-training Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling and learns more about the dark...
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2009
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A boy spending time with his family makes some very unusual friends in this comic fantasy from director Julian Fellowes. It's...
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2009
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Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year of studies, only to find that...
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2007
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Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that...
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Lady Gresham
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2007
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Mary Gilbert
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2007
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Niall Johnson's comedy Keeping Mum concerns the family of a vicar who are beset by a variety of problems. Reverend Walter...
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Grace Hawkins
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2005
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2005
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Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and...
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Janet
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2004
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2004
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Mrs. Emily Delahunty
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2003
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Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular...
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2002
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Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author...
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Caro
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2002
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Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this...
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Constance, Countess of Trentham
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2001
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The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film...
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Minerva McGonagall
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2001
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Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In 1920, Ireland is...
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Lady Myra
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2000
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Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a...
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Hester
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1999
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Originally produced for the BBC and broadcast in the U.S. as part of the PBS series Masterpiece Theatre, this drama tells the...
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Queen Alexandra
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1999
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A distinguished cast highlights this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved novels. Young David...
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Aunt Betsey Trotwood
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1999
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In this romantic comedy with supernatural touches, Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) works for a large publishing house, editing...
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Lily Marlowe
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1998
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This film is the second effort to bring to the screen the 1880 Henry James novel of the same title (the first was...
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Aunt Lavinia Penniman
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1997
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Three women plot revenge on their two-timing husbands in this comedy. Brenda (Bette Midler), Elise (Goldie Hawn), and Annie...
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1996
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1995
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In the sequel to the hit comedy Sister Act, Whoopie Goldberg reprises her role of Deloris Van Cartier, a Las Vegas...
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1993
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The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden is a rendition of the classic Frances Hodgon Burnett novel about a young girl (Kate...
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Mrs. Medlock
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1993
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A sleeper hit that received a lukewarm reception from critics but was a success with audiences, Sister Act (1992) was star...
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Mother Superior
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1992
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Violet Venable
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1992
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Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew
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1992
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Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter...
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Granny Wendy Darling
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1991
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Despite the use in this film of voices dubbed by greats of English theater, the casting of long-haired cats to play the roles...
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1990
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Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith) is a middle-aged "maiden lady" piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. Timid and self-deprecating,...
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Judith Hearne
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1987
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Charlotte Bartlet
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1986
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Lily Wynn
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1985
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In this romance Mrs. Silly is still grieving over the loss of her husband--who left her for another woman -when suddenly her...
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1985
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A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this...
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Joyce Chilvers
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1984
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The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably...
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Anderson
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1983
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Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to...
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Lady Ames
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1982
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No relation to the 1949 Somerset Maugham "omnibus" film of the same name, 1981's Quartet is based on the roman a clef by Jean...
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Lois
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1981
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The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects...
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Thetis
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1981
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Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular...
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1981
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Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to...
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Diana Barrie
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1978
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1978
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As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the...
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Dora Charleston
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1976
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Filmed in 1971 under the title The Widower, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing finally reached the screen in 1973. Set in...
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LIla Fisher
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1973
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In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish...
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Aunt Augusta
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1972
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Epifania
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1972
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Portia
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1972
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Jean Brodie
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1969
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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1969
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This comedy finds a veteran crook turning to modern computer technology to steal money from various companies. Even before he...
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Patty
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1968
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The victorious Don Pedro is returning to Messina after his latest successful skirmish. His troops include his wicked brother...
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1967
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Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) summons his three former mistresses to his deathbed for a final visit in this engaging crime comedy....
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1967
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Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a...
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1965
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The 1965 Othello is literally a photographed stage play: a filmed record of the National Theatre Production of 1964, as...
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Desdemona
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1965
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Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling...
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1964
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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Miss Mead
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1963
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Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director...
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1962
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Maggie Smith makes her film debut in this outing as an aristocrat whose sheltered existence is shattered by the arrival of...
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Bridget Howard
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1958
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