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Miranda Richardson
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Miranda Richardson - what members say
review by A customer from London
Excellent acting, shame about Spielberg's sentimentality 25 October 2008
review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, England
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 24 November 2005
review by Songfulfish from Ramsgate, England
A Great Royal Love Story 11 March 2009
Miranda Richardson - filmography
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Parade's End
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Miranda Richardson
Director: Susanna White
Certificate: 
Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall star in this five-part drama series set towards the end of the Edwardian era. The programme follows aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch) as he marries the destructive Sylvia (Hall) despite being uncertain about whether the child she is pregnant with is ..read more »

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from 323 members
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Turtle - The Incredible Journey - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Miranda Richardson
Director: Nick Stringer
Certificate: 
TURTLE: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY is the story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world.
Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire ..read more »

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from 11 members
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Turtle - The Incredible Journey
(2011)
Starring: Miranda Richardson
Director: Nick Stringer
Certificate: 
TURTLE: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY is the story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world.
Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire ..read more »

61%
from 27 members
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Made in Dagenham - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough
Director: Nigel Cole
Certificate: 
Acclaimed British drama portraying the 1968 strike at Ford's Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination and unequal pay. Like many local women, Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins) works at the Ford assembly plant stitching seat covers. Although it is ..read more »

72%
from 155 members
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Made in Dagenham
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough
Director: Nigel Cole
Certificate: 
Acclaimed British drama portraying the 1968 strike at Ford's Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination and unequal pay. Like many local women, Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins) works at the Ford assembly plant stitching seat covers. Although it is ..read more »

76%
from 29,361 members
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The Young Victoria
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
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From Academy Award winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese comes the story of Queen Victoria's early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle in to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria.

75%
from 38,367 members
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Puffball
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Rita Tushingham
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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A young ambitious architect buys a ruined cottage to transform. But, the building, in an isolated Irish valley, has a history. And, when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant the neighboring farmers turn against her and her unborn child and try to change the course of nature. A drama with ..read more »

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from 1,292 member
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Fred Claus - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: John Michael Higgins, Vince Vaughn, Trevor Peacock
Director: David Dobkin
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Santa's brother is coming to town in this seasonal family comedy. Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) has spent the best part of his life living under his younger brother Nicholas (Paul Giamatti)'s shadow. When your sibling happens to be Santa, it's not easy living up to his example. While Nicholas became a ..read more »

60%
from 1,247 member
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Spinning Into Butter
(2007)
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Miranda Richardson, Beau Bridges
Director: Mark Brokaw
Certificate: 
A vicious hate crime at an elite New England college thrusts the new dean of students into the investigation. When charged with maintaining order on campus, she is forced to examine her own feelings about race. Based on the critically acclaimed play, "Spinning into Butter" is a compelling movie ..read more »

56%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Provoked
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews
Director: Jag Mundhra
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Domestic violence drama based on a true story. Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, battered Punjabi housewife and mother of two Kiranjit Ahluwalia (Aishwarya Rai) sets fire to her abusive husband and kills him unintentionally. Charged with murder, she is ..read more »

62%
from 3,119 members
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Wah-Wah
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Julie Walters
Director: Richard E. Grant
Certificate: 
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Heart-warming comedy-drama from director Richard E. Grant. In Swaziland in 1969, the British ex-pat community is thrown into turmoil by the impending arrival of Independence, signalling the end of their pampered decadent lifestyles. Meanwhile, Ralph Compton (Zac Fox/Nicholas Holt) is stuck in the ..read more »

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from 9,004 members
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Michael G, Clemence Po, Daniel Radcliffe
Director: Mike Newell
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Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment of the hugely popular 'Harry Potter' series sees Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) board the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he will attend his fourth year of magical education. Shortly after his reunion with his best friends, Ron (..read more »

72%
from 78,711 members
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The Phantom Of The Opera - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum
Director: Joel Schumacher
Certificate: 
Film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical. Gerard Butler plays a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. But when he falls in love with Christine (Emmy Rossum), the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera.

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from 1,198 member
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The Phantom Of The Opera
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum
Director: Joel Schumacher
Certificate: 
Based on the hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the tale tells the story of a disfigured musical genius that haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with the lovely Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a ..read more »

62%
from 30,023 members
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The Prince and Me
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Julia Stiles, Eliza Bennett, Miranda Richardson
Director: Martha Coolidge
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Romantic comedy starring Julia Stiles as Paige, a determined college student from the Midwest who meets and falls for Eddie (Luke Mably), a Danish foreign-exchange student. What Paige doesn't know is that Eddie is the son of the King (James Fox) and Queen (Miranda Richardson) of Denmark and has ..read more »

59%
from 14,311 members
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The Rage In Placid Lake
(2003)
Starring: Jordan Brooking, Miranda Richardson, Ben Lee
Director: Tony McNamara
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Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake, finishes high school and decides to do the one thing that will annoy his new age parents the most--go straight! With a few weeks spent reading a library of self-help manuals, Placid has it all sorted out--and he has the haircut and the cheap suit to prove ..read more »

57%
from 1,241 member
Not available for rental
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The Actors
(2003)
Starring: Lena Headey, Miranda Richardson, Dylan Moran
Director: Conor McPherson
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Two struggling thespians - O'Malley (Michael Caine) and his young castmate Tom (Dylan Moran) - decide to try to rip off small-town crook Barreller (Michael Gambon) by using their acting skills. Everything goes according to plan until Barreller's daughter falls in love with Tom.

52%
from 2,275 members
Currently unavailable
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Spider
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: John Neville, Miranda Richardson, Ralph Fiennes
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Spider is set in the East End London in the 1960s and '80's. A deeply disturbed boy, Spider, 'sees' his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute, Yvonne. Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan, which he carries through to tragic effect. ..read more »

57%
from 4,357 members
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Snow White
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Tom Irwin, Vincent Schiavelli
Director: Caroline Thompson
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Live-action adaptation of the famous Brothers Grimm fairytale. Granted three wishes by an evil spirit, woodsman John asks for nourishment for his young daughter Snow White, a kingdom in which to live, and a Queen to take as his wife. The spirit ensures that all these wishes come true, but true to ..read more »

56%
from 424 members
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Chicken Run
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: John Sharian, Imelda Staunton, Julia Sawalha
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
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'Wallace and Gromit' progenitor Nick Park's first big screen outing is an animated pastiche of 'The Great Escape'. Life on Tweedy's Chicken Farm is far from pleasant for the inmates; they are badly treated by Mr Tweedy and his domineering wife, and kept alive only as long as they keep producing ..read more »

67%
from 12,749 members
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Get Carter
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ala, Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson
Director: Stephen Kay
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Sylvester Stallone takes over one of Michael Caine's most famous roles in this Hollywood remake of the 1970s British gangster classic. Las Vegas mob hardman Jack Carter (Stallone) travels back to his hometown Seattle for the funeral of his brother. When he arrives he realises that the death was no ..read more »

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from 2,205 members
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All For Love
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Miranda Richardson, Tim Dutton
Director: Harry Hook
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Period drama based on an unfinished short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film stars Jean-Marc Barr as Captain Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar who is captured and sent to a prison camp in Scotland, commanded by Major Chevening (Richard E. Grant). Both St. Ives and ..read more »

62%
from 143 members
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Sleepy Hollow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Martin Landau, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's gothic detective story is steeped in the traditions of American myth and the style of Hammer Horror. At the beginning of the 19th Century, New York pathologist Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the gruesome deaths of a number of the ..read more »

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from 29,045 members
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Sleepy Hollow - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Martin Landau, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
Tim Burton's gothic detective story is steeped in the traditions of American myth and the style of Hammer Horror. At the beginning of the 19th Century, New York pathologist Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the gruesome deaths of a number of the ..read more »

72%
from 1,687 member
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Alice In Wonderland
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Gene Wilder, Peter Ustinov
Director: Nick Willing
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Star-studded adaptation of the Lewis Carroll fantasy. When she slips down a rabbit hole, young Alice (Tina Majorino) finds herself in the bizarre kingdom of Wonderland. After an encounter with the ever-grinning Cheshire Cat (Whoopi Goldberg), Alice accompanies the White Rabbit to the tea party of ..read more »

59%
from 724 members
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The Big Brass Ring
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Gregg Henry, Jefferson Mays
Director: George Hickenlooper
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Blake Pellarin is in the midst of campaigning to become governor of the state of Missouri. While making a stop in St. Louis, a coincidental encounter brings his past back to haunt him. Will the truth ruin his chances or can he still land the "Big Brass Ring"?

43%
from 118 members
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Merlin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Lena Headey, Sam Neill
Director: Steve Barron
Certificate: 
Many years ago, in a time when the Old Ways of magic were waning, evil sorceress Mab (Miranda Richardson) summoned mighty wizard Merlin (Sam Neill) into existence, giving him the power of her dark enchantments. When Merlin fell in love with the innocent Nimue (Isabella Rossellini), Mab allowed them ..read more »

67%
from 2,247 members
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A Dance To The Music Of Time
(2 discs)
(1997)
Starring: Paul Rhys, Edward Fox, Lucy Flemming
Director: Christopher Morahan
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James Purefoy stars, along with several British household names, in this television adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12 novels. The story revolves around friendship, murder, adultery, ambition and failure and is set against a backdrop of social, political and artistic life during the pivotal years of ..read more »

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from 554 members
Not currently released
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Swann
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: David Cubitt, Miranda Richardson, Brenda Fricker
Director: Anna Benson Gyles
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Sarah Maloney (Miranda Richardson) is researching a book on the poet Mary Swann, who was murdered by her lover. Rose Hindmarch (Brenda Fricker) was Mary's friend and the custodian of her work, but after meeting Rose, Sarah discovers discrepancies between Mary's original manuscripts and her printed ..read more »

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from 89 members
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The Evening Star
(1996)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis
Director: Robert Harling
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The indomitable Aurora Greenway's struggles with her family and her love life continue in this long-awaited sequel to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. In her own inimitable style, she continues to struggle with her family, neigbors, and her decidedly unconventional love life.

55%
from 24 members
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Kansas City
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Harry Belafonte, Miranda Richardson
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman drama, set in the Golden Age of jazz. In Kansas, 1934, Blondie O'Hara's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) husband, Johnny, is being held to ransom by the Mob, led by Seldom Seem (Harry Belafonte). She sets out to kidnap the wife (Miranda Richardson) of a Presidential advisor on the night of a ..read more »

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from 190 members
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The Crying Game
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Stephen Rea, Jim Broadbent
Director: Neil Jordan
Certificate: 
In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA volunteer who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (..read more »

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from 13,539 members
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Damage
(1992)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Jeremy Irons, Ian Bannen
Director: Louis Malle
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Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of ..read more »

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from 2,047 members
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The Crying Game - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Stephen Rea, Jim Broadbent
Director: Neil Jordan
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Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA member, is standing guard over a British soldier (Forest Whitaker) who the IRA have taken hostage. Against the orders of his superiors, he engages in conversation with the man, who tells him about his lover Dil (Jaye Davidson), who lives in London. Moved by his captive'..read more »

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from 51 members
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Enchanted April
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence
Director: Mike Newell
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In the London of 1922, downtrodden housewife Lottie Wilkins (Josie Lawrence) feels the sudden need to get away from things, and invites her neighbour Rose (Miranda Richardson) - to whom she has never even spoken before - to share a holiday in an Italian villa. In order to save their finances, they ..read more »

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from 2,124 members
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Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage
(1989)
Starring: Jack Shepherd, Zoë Wanamaker, Miranda Richardson
Director: Jack Gold
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Joe and Sarah Marriot is a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the "perfect" Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from ..read more »

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from 1 member
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The Mad Monkey
(1989)
Starring: Anémone, Jeff Goldblum, Miranda Richardson
Director: Fernando Trueba
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Dan Gillis, an American screenwriter living in Paris, recently abandoned by his wife, and getting used to his new life as a bachelor while trying to take care of his son, Danny - is commissioned to write a script. The offer comes from Legrand, a successful producer with whom he has worked in the ..read more »

44%
from 27 members
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Pauline Melville, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson
Director: Richard Boden
Certificate: 
Charles Dickens' famous 'Christmas Carol' story told in the celebrated 'Blackadder' style. Ebeneezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is the loveliest, kindest man in all of Christendom, until the Ghost of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane) pays him a visit and shows him the wicked ways of his ancestors. Among ..read more »

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from 13,082 members
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Blackadder - Special
(1988)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Richard Boden
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Christmas Eve, 1850. In the reign of good Queen Vic, there stood, in Dumpling Lane in old London town, the Moustache Shoppe of one Ebenezer Blackadder - the kindest and loveliest man in all England. That is until the Spirit of Christmas shows up and introduces him to the ways of his loathsome ..read more »

83%
from 202 members
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Blackadder - Series 3
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Ben Elton, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson
Director: Mandie Fletcher
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Entire third series of the historic sitcom, which finds a Regency Edmund Blackadder employed as butler to the Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie), who is thicker than a whale omelette. In 'Dish and Dishonesty', Blackadder enters the world of politics while his master teeters on the brink of bankrupcy. 'Ink ..read more »

80%
from 25,399 members
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Empire of the Sun
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
Director: Steven Spielberg
Certificate: 
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Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich, ..read more »

76%
from 9,934 members
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Blackadder - S02 E04 - Money
(1986)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry
Director: Mandie Fletcher
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Blackadder owes £1000 to the Bank of the Black Monks of St. Herod. If he doesn't repay it by evensong, the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells will brutally murder him with the aid of a poker. The boys try various money-making schemes, but sadly all their efforts are in vain. Then at the eleventh ..read more »

88%
from 351 members
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Blackadder - Series 2
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson
Director: Mandie Fletcher
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The entire second series of hit TV show 'Blackadder'. Written and devised by Richard Curtis ('Four Weddings and a Funeral') and Ben Elton, it stars Rowan Atkinson as the slimy courtier who - with the help and hindrance of his witless sidekick Baldrick (Tony Robinson) - tries to wheedle his way into ..read more »

81%
from 28,916 members
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Dance With A Stranger
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Matthew Carroll, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
Director: Mike Newell
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The true story of Ruth Ellis, the ex-prostitute and mother of two who became the last person to be hanged for murder in England. Working as a hostess in a Soho nightclub, Ellis (Miranda Richardson) finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed with her upper-class lover David Blakely (Rupert Everett)..read more »

64%
from 764 members
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Underworld
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Miranda Richardson, Art Malik
Director: George Pavlou
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A kidnapped woman has to be rescued from the clutches of a group of mutants in this horror from the pen of Clive Barker. When his favourite call girl Nicole (Nicola Cowper) is kidnapped, gangland boss Hugo Motherskille (Steven Berkoff) calls in former hitman Roy Bain (Larry Lamb) to track her down. ..read more »

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from 494 members
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