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Rachel Roberts
Rachel Roberts was a Welsh actress known for her roles in films such as "This Sporting Life" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock". She won a BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in 1965 for her role in "This Sporting Life". Throughout her career, Roberts struggled with alcoholism and depression, and tragically died by suicide in 1980.
Titles credited to Rachel Roberts
O Lucky Man!
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.
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Back of Beyond
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rach...
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
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This Sporting Life
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scen...
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Yanks
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it c...
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S1m0ne
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simon...
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Existence
Trapped behind the Boundary Fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a dangerous outsider who can free her.
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Dragon Fury
A group of soldiers are taken to the mountains of Wales to investigate a strange looking monster.
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