Helen Baxendale — Actor (9)

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dead by monday (2002)
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other title: 绝望心灵 / Gemeinsam stirbt sich's besser …
Dead by Monday is a darkly comic tale of love and death... but not necessarily in that order. Julie is a sweet, vulnerable young woman who lacks confidence and is obsessed with the memory of her dead husband whom she idealizes. Alex is an angry writer. Talented but unable to repeat the success of his first novel, he has nothing left to say. Or live for. He just wants to die. Fate introduces these two lost souls at the edge of a cliff. While picking flowers Julie accidentally falls off. Alex, who has come to blow his brains out, is interrupted by her cry for help, just before he pulls the trigger.

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Truth or Dare (1996)
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other title: 同窗噩梦
A smart young female lawyer Lorna Johnston is suddenly contacted by some old university mates. Lorna finds it a relief to go out and enjoy some nightlife but it soon becomes apparent that the so called mates are actually playing a sadistic game with her and one that could end up in murder.

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Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)
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★ 4.7 6 ratings
乔·斯蒂文森 actor: 海伦·巴克森代尔 / 埃利斯戴尔·皮特里 …
other title: 阿加莎与午夜谋杀案 / Agatha and the Death of X …
Set during the Blitz in 1940s London. After writing twelve Poirot novels in six years, Agatha Christie should be a rich woman. Instead she’s struggling to make ends meet. As the money runs out, Agatha concocts a plan to kill off her most famous creation and sell the manuscript to a superfan. When Agatha’s would-be-buyer suffers a heart attack, it seems unfortunate but benign. When her manuscript is stolen, a wider conspiracy begins to take shape. As the bombs fall and she investigates, the danger of her situation becomes apparent; Agatha herself is the killer’s next target.

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Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
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★ 6.6 10 ratings
other title: 王牌罪犯
有人说马丁·卡西尔是个十恶不赦的罪犯,也有人说他是个劫富济贫的好汉,有人因为出庭指证他而遭到炸弹袭击,也有人因为他的帮助而免于流落街头。这位80年叱咤风云的爱尔兰教父1994年8月18日走完了他传奇般的一生:一名爱尔兰共和军枪手在马丁回家途中近距离向他连轰数枪……四年后多家英国及爱尔兰的影片公司不约而同地拍摄了根据马丁生平改编的影视作品,其中以奥斯卡影帝凯文·斯派西领衔主演的《王牌罪犯》最为引人注目。 凯文曾经在《非常嫌疑犯》中扮演过一名假扮跛子深藏不露的罪犯形象,并因为该片而获得当年度的奥斯卡最佳男配角金像奖。这次凯文一改猥琐形象,出演一名魅力非凡的黑帮头子迈克·林奇。这位教父热爱自己的两个妻子,孩子,自己的家庭,也乐于帮助那些穷人,不过他目无法纪,公然与法律对抗,警察、国际刑警、甚至其他犯罪团伙都对他恨之入骨,但又无可奈何。不过迈克的一次错误决定让一心想将迈克绳之于法的警察诺艾尔看到了一丝希望,这时迈克也意识到了自己的困境,并想出了应对之策......

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The Investigator (1997)
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★ 8.5 15 ratings
other title: 调查者 / 皇家军警
卡洛琳(海伦·巴克森代尔 Helen Baxendale 饰)是一名在北爱尔兰驻扎的英国皇家宪兵队中士,她加入军队已经有十二年之久了。一天,卡洛琳忽然被别人举报是一名同性恋者,军方因此拘捕了卡洛琳,对她进行了长达四天的审讯,在当时,同性恋甚至被视作是一种犯罪,如果卡洛琳被坐实了这一身份,她有可能因此被送上军事法庭。 在审问期间,卡洛琳的思绪渐渐飘回了十二年前,曾经的自己是一个对军旅生涯充满了激情的女孩,曾经亦接手过调查同性恋者的任务,也正是在此过程中,卡洛琳对这一群体有了逐渐的了解,她的性取向也在潜移默化之中被改变着。

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帷幕:波洛的最后一案 (2013)
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★ 9.0 23 ratings
希提·麦克唐纳 actor: 大卫·苏切 / 休·弗拉瑟 …
other title: Curtain: Poirot's Last Case / 幕 …
黑斯廷斯上尉应波洛之邀,在事隔多年后回到了现已是乡间旅馆的斯泰尔斯庄园——这对老朋友初次相遇并共同经历第一桩谋杀案件的地方。然而,令满心憧憬着与波洛及女儿朱迪斯相聚的上尉始料未及的是,比上次更加凶险的谋杀正等待着他的到来。原来,波洛追寻一个手法高超的谋杀犯来到此地,希望阻止罪行的发生。身体每况愈下的他要求黑斯廷斯的协助。但波洛拒绝透露凶手,只断定凶手就是旅馆中的某一个人……

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Dirk Gently Pilot (2010)
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★ 8.4 9 ratings
Howard Overman / 汤姆·森兰 actor: 史蒂芬·曼甘 / 海伦·巴克森代尔 …
other title: 全能侦探(试播集) / Dirk Gently S1E00
Eccentric private eye Dirk Gently uses 'holistic' methods,believing everything in the universe to be connected. When hired to trace elderly Ruth's missing cat,Dirk,with down-trodden sidekick MacDuff,investigates a warehouse,which houses a strange contraption,which blows up. A connection is made to a missing billionaire,Gordon Way,who has been besotted with MacDuff's girlfriend Susan for over a decade. Dirk connects the dates when Ruth acquired her cat and when Susan threw over Way to solve a puzzle involving time travel and homicide,accounting for the missing cat and billionaire as well as the disappearance of Ruth's husband.