Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rita Tushingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Rita Tushingham
  • Popularity: 7.739
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1942-03-14
  • Place of Birth: Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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Rita Tushingham Movies

  • 2023
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    Elicit

    Elicit

    1 2023 HD

    About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.

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  • 1995
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    An Awfully Big Adventure

    An Awfully Big Adventure

    6.7 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    The Human Factor

    The Human Factor

    5.6 1975 HD

    After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

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  • 1961
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    A Taste of Honey

    A Taste of Honey

    7 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    Puffball

    Puffball

    3.7 2007 HD

    Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.

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  • 1969
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    The Bed Sitting Room

    The Bed Sitting Room

    5.9 1969 HD

    In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...

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  • 1972
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    Straight On Till Morning

    Straight On Till Morning

    5.7 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    The Hideout

    The Hideout

    6.1 2007 HD

    A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years...

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  • 1965
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    The Knack... and How to Get It

    The Knack... and How to Get It

    5.9 1965 HD

    A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men...

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  • 1986
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    Flying

    Flying

    5.9 1986 HD

    Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives...

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  • 1964
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    Girl with Green Eyes

    Girl with Green Eyes

    6.6 1964 HD

    A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

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  • 1965
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    Moscow in Madrid

    Moscow in Madrid

    1 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    The Trap

    The Trap

    7 1966 HD

    A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

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  • 1986
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    A Judgment in Stone

    A Judgment in Stone

    3 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Under the Skin

    Under the Skin

    6.2 1997 HD

    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....

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  • 2013
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    The Wee Man

    The Wee Man

    5.7 2013 HD

    The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.

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  • 1964
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    The Leather Boys

    The Leather Boys

    6.6 1964 HD

    An immature, brassy teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband's close...

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  • 1967
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    Smashing Time

    Smashing Time

    6.2 1967 HD

    Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

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  • 1969
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    The Guru

    The Guru

    5 1969 HD

    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.

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  • 1978
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    Mysteries

    Mysteries

    5.7 1978 HD

    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,...

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  • 1974
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    Fischia Il Sesso

    Fischia Il Sesso

    6 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    A Place to Go

    A Place to Go

    6.2 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Pane, burro e marmellata

    Pane, burro e marmellata

    3.8 1977 HD

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  • 2023
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    Boudica

    Boudica

    5.916 2023 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    The Calling

    The Calling

    1 2010 HD

    Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.

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  • 2023
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    The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

    The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

    6.8 2023 HD

    Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A...

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  • 1996
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    The Boy from Mercury

    The Boy from Mercury

    6 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Resurrected

    Resurrected

    5.6 1989 HD

    A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

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  • 1982
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    Spaghetti House

    Spaghetti House

    6.2 1982 HD

    Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

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  • 1968
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    Diamonds for Breakfast

    Diamonds for Breakfast

    5.6 1968 HD

    Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns...

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  • 1976
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    Rachel's Man

    Rachel's Man

    1 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

    Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

    1 1965 HD

    In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

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  • 1970
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    The Athena Syndrome

    The Athena Syndrome

    1 1970 HD

    Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They are both about to be...

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  • 1994
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    Gospel According to Harry

    Gospel According to Harry

    5.2 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

    The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

    1 1988 HD

    Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his...

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  • 1999
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    Swing

    Swing

    5.5 1999 HD

    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....

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  • 1998
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    Spending Nights with Joan

    Spending Nights with Joan

    2 1998 HD

    A drama directed by Horst Königstein.

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  • 1990
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    Hard Days, Hard Nights

    Hard Days, Hard Nights

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1965
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    Doctor Zhivago

    Doctor Zhivago

    7.5 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Green Eyes

    Green Eyes

    1 1977 HD

    Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.

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  • 2011
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    Seamonsters

    Seamonsters

    3 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Being Julia

    Being Julia

    6.458 2004 HD

    Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her...

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  • 2006
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    Angel Cake

    Angel Cake

    1 2006 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Outside Bet

    Outside Bet

    5.6 2012 HD

    A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.

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  • 2000
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    Out of Depth

    Out of Depth

    6 2000 HD

    Based on a true story and in the same mould as Get Carter and Nil by Mouth, Out of Depth is a hard hitting, contemporary character based thriller. A...

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  • 1977
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    Black Journal

    Black Journal

    5.3 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    Sunday Pursuit

    Sunday Pursuit

    4 1990 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

    Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

    5.6 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Red Riding Hood

    Red Riding Hood

    8 1973 HD

    A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might...

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  • 2017
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    My Name Is Lenny

    My Name Is Lenny

    5.8 2017 HD

    The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".

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  • 1992
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    Paper Marriage

    Paper Marriage

    4 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Last Night in Soho

    Last Night in Soho

    7.3 2021 HD

    A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But...

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  • 1972
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    Slaughter Day

    Slaughter Day

    1 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1992
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    The Rapture of Deceit

    The Rapture of Deceit

    1 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    The Owners

    The Owners

    5.623 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Ragazzo di borgata

    Ragazzo di borgata

    1 1976 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Stretford Wives

    The Stretford Wives

    1 2002 HD

    The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in...

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  • 2024
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    The American Backyard

    The American Backyard

    6 2024 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.571 1962 HD

    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,...

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  • 2004
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    New Tricks

    New Tricks

    7.4 2004 HD

    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....

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  • 1974
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    No Strings

    No Strings

    1 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Vera

    Vera

    7.372 2011 HD

    A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder,...

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  • 2021
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    Ridley Road

    Ridley Road

    6.4 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 1992
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    Love at First Sight

    Love at First Sight

    3 1992 HD

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  • 2022
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    The Responder

    The Responder

    7 2022 HD

    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?

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  • 2016
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    Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

    Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

    6.2 2016 HD

    A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by...

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  • 1963
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1963 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

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  • 2004
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    Agatha Christie's Marple

    Agatha Christie's Marple

    7.7 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

    1 1993 HD

    Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.

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  • 1986
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    Bread

    Bread

    7.1 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Still Open All Hours

    Still Open All Hours

    5.9 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    The Marlow Murder Club

    The Marlow Murder Club

    7.3 2024 HD

    Retired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the...

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  • 2020
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    The Pale Horse

    The Pale Horse

    5.9 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    Lady Killers

    Lady Killers

    5 1980 HD

    Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the...

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  • 2023
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    The Famous Five

    The Famous Five

    6.3 2023 HD

    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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