Emily Watson

Emily Watson

Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). For her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult and was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard.

  • Popularity : 25.713
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1967-01-14
  • Place of Birth : Islington, London, England, UK
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Emily Watson Movies

  • 1996
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    Breaking the Waves

    Breaking the Waves

    7.5 1996 HD

    In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it...

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  • 2006
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    Crusade in Jeans

    Crusade in Jeans

    5.8 2006 HD

    Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part...

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  • 2004
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    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

    6.58 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes

    7.3 1999 HD

    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...

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  • 2005
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    Corpse Bride

    Corpse Bride

    7.6 2005 HD

    In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his...

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  • 2001
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    Gosford Park

    Gosford Park

    6.9 2001 HD

    In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs,...

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  • 2008
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    Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    7.6 2008 HD

    A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as...

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  • 2009
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    Cold Souls

    Cold Souls

    6 2009 HD

    Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a...

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  • 2002
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    Equilibrium

    Equilibrium

    7.044 2002 HD

    In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A...

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  • 2008
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    Fireflies in the Garden

    Fireflies in the Garden

    6.2 2008 HD

    The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.

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  • 2002
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    Punch-Drunk Love

    Punch-Drunk Love

    7.13 2002 HD

    A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

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  • 2000
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    Trixie

    Trixie

    5 2000 HD

    Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront...

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  • 1997
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    Metroland

    Metroland

    5.9 1997 HD

    In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an...

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  • 1999
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    Cradle Will Rock

    Cradle Will Rock

    6.5 1999 HD

    A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

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  • 2002
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    Red Dragon

    Red Dragon

    7.025 2002 HD

    Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it...

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  • 2025
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    The Legend of Ochi

    The Legend of Ochi

    1 2025 HD

    In a remote northern village, a young girl, Yuri, is raised to never go outside after dark and to fear the reclusive forest creatures known as the...

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  • 2021
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    Monster Family 2

    Monster Family 2

    6.7 2021 HD

    To free Baba Yaga and Renfield from the clutches of Monster Hunter Mila Starr, the Wishbone Family once more transforms into a Vampire,...

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  • 2006
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    Miss Potter

    Miss Potter

    6.628 2006 HD

    Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

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  • 2024
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    Small Things Like These

    Small Things Like These

    7.1 2024 HD

    While working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of...

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  • 2010
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    Cemetery Junction

    Cemetery Junction

    6.5 2010 HD

    In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class...

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  • 2008
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    The Memory Keeper's Daughter

    The Memory Keeper's Daughter

    6.417 2008 HD

    During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a...

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  • 2005
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    Wah-Wah

    Wah-Wah

    6.1 2005 HD

    Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12,...

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  • 2024
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    Midas Man

    Midas Man

    6.917 2024 HD

    When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of...

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  • 2005
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    Separate Lies

    Separate Lies

    5.669 2005 HD

    Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.

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  • 2005
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    The Proposition

    The Proposition

    7.013 2005 HD

    In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must...

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  • 1997
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    The Boxer

    The Boxer

    6.7 1997 HD

    Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old...

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  • 1998
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    Hilary and Jackie

    Hilary and Jackie

    6.677 1998 HD

    The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du...

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  • 1997
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    Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

    Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

    6.7 1997 HD

    A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his...

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  • 1994
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    A Summer Day's Dream

    A Summer Day's Dream

    1 1994 HD

    Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in...

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  • 2000
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    The Luzhin Defence

    The Luzhin Defence

    6.2 2000 HD

    Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.

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  • 2010
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    Oranges and Sunshine

    Oranges and Sunshine

    6.9 2010 HD

    The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times –...

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  • 2007
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    The Water Horse

    The Water Horse

    6.5 2007 HD

    A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

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  • 2011
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    Meerkats 3D

    Meerkats 3D

    4.2 2011 HD

    Narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Emily Watson, MEERKATS 3D takes audiences on a journey with a family of meerkats as they cope with the twists and...

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  • 2011
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    War Horse

    War Horse

    7.307 2011 HD

    On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey...

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  • 2009
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    Within the Whirlwind

    Within the Whirlwind

    5.1 2009 HD

    During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost...

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  • 2012
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    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    6.722 2012 HD

    In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer...

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  • 1997
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    The Mill on the Floss

    The Mill on the Floss

    6 1997 HD

    Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of...

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  • 2013
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    Belle

    Belle

    7.2 2013 HD

    Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in...

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  • 2013
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    The Book Thief

    The Book Thief

    7.488 2013 HD

    While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her...

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  • 2013
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    Some Girl(s)

    Some Girl(s)

    5.2 2013 HD

    On the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels around the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for his wrongdoings.

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  • 2015
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    Little Boy

    Little Boy

    7.2 2015 HD

    An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable...

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  • 2014
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    The Theory of Everything

    The Theory of Everything

    7.85 2014 HD

    The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking,...

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  • 2003
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    A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

    A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

    8 2003 HD

    This documentary follows director Brett Ratner through nearly every stage of production for the film Red Dragon (2002).

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  • 2014
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    Testament of Youth

    Testament of Youth

    7.3 2014 HD

    Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the...

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  • 2015
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    A Royal Night Out

    A Royal Night Out

    6.5 2015 HD

    The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in...

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  • 2015
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    Everest

    Everest

    6.82 2015 HD

    Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the...

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  • 1970
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    Quicksand

    Quicksand

    1 1970 HD

    Couple Dan and Sarah, living out their dream in paradisal Spain, come to grief when their visiting son is accidentally killed. A stranger offers to...

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  • 2015
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    A Song for Jenny

    A Song for Jenny

    6.4 2015 HD

    A Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube...

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  • 2015
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    Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

    Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

    5.3 2015 HD

    An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.

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  • 2015
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    The Dresser

    The Dresser

    6.206 2015 HD

    One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear....

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  • 2018
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    On Chesil Beach

    On Chesil Beach

    6.143 2018 HD

    In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and...

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  • 1970
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    Hamnet

    Hamnet

    1 1970 HD

    Agnes Shakespeare – the wife of the world's most famous writer – struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet.

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  • 2017
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    Monster Family

    Monster Family

    5.935 2017 HD

    The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are...

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  • 2018
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    The Happy Prince

    The Happy Prince

    6.351 2018 HD

    In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his...

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  • 2018
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    5.9 2018 HD

    An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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  • 2018
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    Weinstein

    Weinstein

    6.5 2018 HD

    Harvey Weinstein was once one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history, but beneath the glitz and glamour, there was a dark story of...

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  • 2002
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    Ballchewer

    Ballchewer

    4.8 2002 HD

    A short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Part of Adam Sandler's 'Meatball Series'. Shot during the filming of 'Punch-Drunk Love'.

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  • 2017
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    Kingsman: The Golden Circle

    Kingsman: The Golden Circle

    6.967 2017 HD

    When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American...

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  • 2002
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    The Making of 'Gosford Park'

    The Making of 'Gosford Park'

    5 2002 HD

    A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes...

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  • 1970
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    33 Liberty Lane

    33 Liberty Lane

    1 1970 HD

    A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.

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  • 2022
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    God's Creatures

    God's Creatures

    6 2022 HD

    In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him...

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  • 1970
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    Late in Summer

    Late in Summer

    1 1970 HD

    Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to...

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  • 1970
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    Fado!

    Fado!

    1 1970 HD

    The film follows Linda (Watson), a crossword enthusiast, choral society member, wife and mother of two, and her music lecturer husband, Jim (Grant),...

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  • 1999
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    The Early Show

    The Early Show

    5.7 1999 HD

    The Early Show is an American morning television show which was broadcast by CBS from New York City from 1999 to 2012. The program aired live from 7...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 2011
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    Appropriate Adult

    Appropriate Adult

    6.7 2011 HD

    The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.

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  • 2013
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    The Politician's Husband

    The Politician's Husband

    6.8 2013 HD

    A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.

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  • 2023
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    Fired on Mars

    Fired on Mars

    6.8 2023 HD

    After taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet, graphic designer Jeff Cooper finds himself adrift when his bosses unceremoniously eliminate his role.

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  • 1991
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    Performance

    Performance

    6 1991 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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  • 2017
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    Apple Tree Yard

    Apple Tree Yard

    6.396 2017 HD

    What starts out as a simple, reckless mid-life affair between a genetic scientist named Yvonne and a Westminster paper pusher takes an intriguing...

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  • 2017
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    Genius

    Genius

    7.773 2017 HD

    The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships,...

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  • 2017
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    Little Women

    Little Women

    7.1 2017 HD

    Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to...

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  • 2015
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    The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

    The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

    6.8 2015 HD

    A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets.

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  • 2019
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    Chernobyl

    Chernobyl

    8.7 2019 HD

    The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and...

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  • 2024
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    Dune: Prophecy

    Dune: Prophecy

    7.9 2024 HD

    Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would...

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  • 2021
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    Too Close

    Too Close

    5.9 2021 HD

    A dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, is assigned to assess the sanity of Connie Mortensen, a “yummy mummy” accused of a...

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  • 2020
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    The Third Day

    The Third Day

    6.5 2020 HD

    A unique story told over two distinct halves, "Summer" follows Sam, a man drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast where he encounters a...

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  • 1970
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    The Third Day

    The Third Day

    5.9 1970 HD

    A dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, is assigned to assess the sanity of Connie Mortensen, a “yummy mummy” accused of a...

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