Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright

Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929), better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English actress, whose career has spanned over sixty years. Throughout her career she has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two BAFTA Awards. Joan Plowright is also one of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.

  • Title: Joan Plowright
  • Popularity: 16.211
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-10-28
  • Place of Birth: Brigg, Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier, Joan Ann Olivier, Dame Joan Plowright
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Joan Plowright Movies

  • 1990
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    I Love You to Death

    I Love You to Death

    6.417 1990 HD

    Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been...

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  • 1990
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    Avalon

    Avalon

    6.6 1990 HD

    A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a...

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  • 1995
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    A Pyromaniac's Love Story

    A Pyromaniac's Love Story

    4.909 1995 HD

    A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for...

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  • 2000
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    Dinosaur

    Dinosaur

    6.544 2000 HD

    An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

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  • 1999
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    Tea with Mussolini

    Tea with Mussolini

    6.4 1999 HD

    In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate...

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  • 2003
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    Bringing Down the House

    Bringing Down the House

    5.986 2003 HD

    Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating...

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  • 2004
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    George and the Dragon

    George and the Dragon

    5.3 2004 HD

    In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to follow his dream of a peaceful life on his own piece...

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  • 1996
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    101 Dalmatians

    101 Dalmatians

    5.926 1996 HD

    An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

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  • 2008
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    The Spiderwick Chronicles

    The Spiderwick Chronicles

    6.6 2008 HD

    Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find...

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  • 1993
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    Dennis the Menace

    Dennis the Menace

    5.8 1993 HD

    Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of...

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  • 1994
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    Widows' Peak

    Widows' Peak

    6.2 1994 HD

    Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the...

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  • 1991
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    Enchanted April

    Enchanted April

    6.6 1991 HD

    Four English women, unhappy with their lives, rent an Italian villa on holiday.

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  • 1993
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    Last Action Hero

    Last Action Hero

    6.466 1993 HD

    After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is...

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  • 1982
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    Britannia Hospital

    Britannia Hospital

    6.3 1982 HD

    Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

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  • 1985
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    Revolution

    Revolution

    5.3 1985 HD

    New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous...

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  • 1988
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    Drowning by Numbers

    Drowning by Numbers

    7.1 1988 HD

    Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

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  • 2009
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    Knife Edge

    Knife Edge

    4.5 2009 HD

    A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare...

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  • 2000
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    Back to the Secret Garden

    Back to the Secret Garden

    6.1 2000 HD

    A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the...

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  • 1977
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    Equus

    Equus

    7 1977 HD

    A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was...

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  • 1957
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    Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity

    6.6 1957 HD

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...

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  • 2003
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    I Am David

    I Am David

    6.8 2003 HD

    Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a...

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  • 2002
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    Global Heresy

    Global Heresy

    5.3 2002 HD

    A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.

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  • 1996
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    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    6.9 1996 HD

    Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns...

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  • 2005
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    Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

    Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

    6.7 2005 HD

    All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

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  • 2002
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    Callas Forever

    Callas Forever

    6.3 2002 HD

    Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."

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  • 1998
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    Dance with Me

    Dance with Me

    6.9 1998 HD

    Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't...

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  • 2001
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    Scrooge and Marley

    Scrooge and Marley

    10 2001 HD

    Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The ill-tempered miser is played by skilled Christian actor Dean...

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  • 1960
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    The Entertainer

    The Entertainer

    6.1 1960 HD

    Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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  • 1982
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    Brimstone & Treacle

    Brimstone & Treacle

    6 1982 HD

    A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

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  • 1995
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    Hotel Sorrento

    Hotel Sorrento

    7 1995 HD

    Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just...

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  • 1980
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    The Diary of Anne Frank

    The Diary of Anne Frank

    5.5 1980 HD

    The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.

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  • 1992
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    Stalin

    Stalin

    5.3 1992 HD

    The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

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  • 1994
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    A Place for Annie

    A Place for Annie

    6 1994 HD

    Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just...

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  • 1988
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    The Dressmaker

    The Dressmaker

    4 1988 HD

    In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional...

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  • 1993
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    The Summer House

    The Summer House

    5.4 1993 HD

    Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David...

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  • 2006
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    Goose on the Loose

    Goose on the Loose

    5.4 2006 HD

    Grieving young Will Donnelly looks to protect his new best friend, a talking goose, from school Principal Congreve Maddox, who's fattening up the...

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  • 1998
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    Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

    Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

    5.7 1998 HD

    Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in US history

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  • 1973
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    The Merchant of Venice

    The Merchant of Venice

    7 1973 HD

    An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

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  • 1970
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    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night

    6.4 1970 HD

    Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John...

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  • 1995
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    A Pin for the Butterfly

    A Pin for the Butterfly

    6 1995 HD

    Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppressive government .

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  • 1970
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    Three Sisters

    Three Sisters

    3.7 1970 HD

    Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support...

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  • 1996
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    Mr. Wrong

    Mr. Wrong

    4 1996 HD

    A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and...

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  • 2001
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    Bailey's Mistake

    Bailey's Mistake

    5 2001 HD

    "Bailey's Mistake" is the name of a cold, dreary island that a bitter widow finds herself stuck on. Seems Liz Donovan got cut out of her husband's...

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  • 1995
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    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    6.037 1995 HD

    Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend....

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  • 1989
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    And a Nightingale Sang

    And a Nightingale Sang

    4.5 1989 HD

    Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over...

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  • 1991
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    The House of Bernarda Alba

    The House of Bernarda Alba

    1 1991 HD

    A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have...

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  • 1994
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    The Return of the Native

    The Return of the Native

    6.367 1994 HD

    Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to...

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  • 1996
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    Surviving Picasso

    Surviving Picasso

    5.8 1996 HD

    The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his...

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  • 1978
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    Daphne Laureola

    Daphne Laureola

    6 1978 HD

    A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.

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  • 2000
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    Frankie & Hazel

    Frankie & Hazel

    5.3 2000 HD

    Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton...

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  • 1999
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    Tom's Midnight Garden

    Tom's Midnight Garden

    5.9 1999 HD

    When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs...

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  • 2006
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    Curious George

    Curious George

    6.4 2006 HD

    When The Man in the Yellow Hat befriends Curious George in the jungle, they set off on a non-stop, fun-filled journey through the wonders of the big...

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  • 1978
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    Saturday, Sunday, Monday

    Saturday, Sunday, Monday

    1 1978 HD

    One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage...

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  • 2018
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    Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame

    6.9 2018 HD

    BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...

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  • 1994
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    On Promised Land

    On Promised Land

    6 1994 HD

    In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowners, the Appletree family, use the promise of the...

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  • 1987
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    The Birthday Party

    The Birthday Party

    6.7 1987 HD

    It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production broadcast on the Theatre Night series.]

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  • 1988
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    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    4.7 1988 HD

    Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary...

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  • 1963
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    Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya

    1 1963 HD

    Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

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  • 1982
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    A Dedicated Man

    A Dedicated Man

    1 1982 HD

    Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes...

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  • 2018
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    Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life

    Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life

    1 2018 HD

    Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how Zeffirelli's sense of drama was born out of his own experience...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1998
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    Encore! Encore!

    Encore! Encore!

    1 1998 HD

    Encore! Encore! is an American sitcom starring Nathan Lane as an opera singer. On the verge of becoming "The Fourth Tenor", Lane's character injures...

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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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  • 1976
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    Laurence Olivier Presents

    Laurence Olivier Presents

    7 1976 HD

    Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of...

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  • 1976
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    Laurence Olivier Presents

    Laurence Olivier Presents

    7 1976 HD

    Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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  • 1944
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    Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

    6.8 1944 HD

    An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...

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