Miriam Margolyes — Actor (41)
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Stalin (1992)
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Ivan Passer actor: Robert Duvall / Julia Ormond …
other title: Staline
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film traces the rise of the Bolshevik tyrant from Lenin’s return from exile to his brutal struggle with Trotsky, the creation of his feared secret police and the merciless inner workings of his regime. As Anna recounts her grandfather’s life, viewers gain an intimate, personal perspective on the paranoia and purges that left even his closest circles living in constant fear.
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Being Julia (2004)
Being Julia
István Szabó actor: Annette Bening / Jeremy Irons …
other title: La diva Julia / As Paixões de Júlia …
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.
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
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Tony Tilse actor: Essie Davis / Nathan Page …
other title: Miss Fisher e la cripta delle lacrime / Mord med miss Fisher: Tårernes krypt …
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
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John Schlesinger actor: Eileen Atkins / Kate Beckinsale …
other title: La hija de Robert Poste (Cold Comfort Farm) / La hija de Robert Poste …
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
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Demonella (1993)
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Paul Bartel actor: Robbie Coltrane / Jennifer Saunders …
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called 'Demonella' he is anxious to fulfill his part of the deal, to give the Devil his mother's secret recipe for chicken soup to serve her celebrity guests in Hell.
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Ladies in Lavender (2004)
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Charles Dance actor: Judi Dench / Maggie Smith …
other title: O Violinista Que Veio do Mar / Der Duft von Lavendel …
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
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Scrubbers (1982)
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Mai Zetterling actor: Amanda York / Chrissie Cotterill …
other title: Blackout im Höllenparadies / Black-Out im Höllen-Paradies …
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
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Crystal Gazing (1982)
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Peter Wollen / Laura Mulvey actor: Gavin Richards / Lora Logic …
Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock musician; Vermilion, an analyst of satellite photography; and Julian, an old friend of the illustrator who has just finished his Ph.D thesis on the fairy-tales of Charles Perrault. Their four lives are closely interlinked as events happen to each of them.
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The Apple (1980)
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Menahem Golan actor: Catherine Mary Stewart / George Gilmour …
other title: Star Rock / BIM Stars …
In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subsequently a maze of drugs, sex, and temptation.
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Modigliani (2004)
Modigliani
Mick Davis actor: Andy Garcia / Elsa Zylberstein …
other title: I colori dell'anima / Modigliani - Ein Leben in Leidenschaft …
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
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A Friend of Dorothy (2025)
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Lee Knight actor: Miriam Margolyes / Alistair Nwachukwu …
Dorothy is a lonely widow whose body is failing, but her mind remains as bright as ever. When 17-year-old JJ accidentally kicks his football into her garden, he upends Dorothy's daily routine of pills, prunes, and crosswords, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. Despite being worlds apart in every way, the two come to find they have more in common than they could ever imagine.
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Immortal Beloved (1994)
Immortal Beloved
Bernard Rose actor: Gary Oldman / Jeroen Krabbé …
other title: Amata immortale / Kvinden han elskede …
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
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Stephen Hopkins actor: Geoffrey Rush / Charlize Theron …
other title: Tu chiamami Peter / Eu, Peter Sellers …
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
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Monkey (1978)
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actor: Masaaki Sakai / Masako Natsume …
other title: Monkey Magic / 西遊記
Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They have been sent by Buddha, and getting these scriptures will bring peace to the people of the world.
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Doctor Who: The Star Beast (2023)
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Rachel Talalay actor: David Tennant / Catherine Tate …
other title: Doctor Who: La Créature stellaire
Alors que le Docteur retrouve Donna Noble après des années de séparation, une créature extraterrestre connue sous le nom de Beep the Meep s’écrase sur Terre, poursuivie par des agents intergalactiques. Tandis que les souvenirs de Donna refont surface, le Docteur doit protéger la planète… sans déclencher une catastrophe.