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Glorious 39 (2009) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Glorious 39
director: Stephen Poliakoff actor: Romola Garai / Bill Nighy
other title: Lady Keyes : Celle qui en savait trop / 1939
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.
Shooting the Past (1999) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Shooting the Past
A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.
Gideon's Daughter (2005) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gideon's Daughter
other title: La hija de Gideon / Gideon’s Daughter
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.
Runners (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Runners
director: Charles Sturridge actor: James Fox / Jane Asher
other title: Runners – Ausgerissen
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
Close My Eyes (1991) [Movie] Douban NeoDB
Close My Eyes
other title: 闭上我的眼睛
After some years of tension, Richard (Clive Owen) begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves). Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional. Their private intensity (& working class origins) contrast with the middle-class, inhibited, stuffy public scenes we see in the Richmond world into which Natalie has moved with her marriage. As the guilt and intensity of the siblings increases we seem to be heading for disaster, a forboding which increases when Natalie's husband Sinclair finds out.