Anna Chancellor — Actor (52)

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Private Lives
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Noël Coward genre: theater
other title: 私生活 / 私人生活 / 私人秘史 / 私密生活 director: Jonathan Kent / Maria Aitken … actor: Toby Stephens / Anna Chancellor / Anthony Calf / Anna-Louis Plowman / Maggie McCarthy
Elyot and Amanda, having been divorced for 5 years, now find themselves sharing an adjoining suite at a hotel in Deauville, each on honeymoon with their new spouses (Elyot's young and kittenish wife Sybil, Amanda's husband Victor). The chance reunion re-ignites their passion, upon realising that they still love one another, and both regret having divorced, Elyot and Amanda flee to her Paris flat, where the initial bliss is replaced by the inevitable squabbles and violent rows that had lead to the divorce in the first place. It is a love and hate cycle that repeats itself, and a trap Elyot and Amanda cannot get out of - they cannot live without one another, nor can they live together as they are. The arguments escalate into physical abuse, and at the height of which, Victor and Sybil arrive at the flat. The jilted spouses display their reasonable understandings towards Elyot and Amanda, and a decision is reached that they be given a year in which to consider and confirm their wishes to be together, thence divorces will be granted. Each defending their respective spouses, Victor and Sybil start to quarrel. It is becoming clear to Amanda and Elyot that the two are just suited to each other as they are themselves. So the ex-husband and wife decide to forgive one another and tiptoe out of view, leaving Victor and Sybil to their now out-of-hand and soon-to-be violent fights.

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The Importance of Being Oscar (2019)
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other title: 成为奥斯卡的重要性
A star-studded BBC film of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. Highlights from Oscar’s brilliant comedies such as The Importance of Being Earnest and stories such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost are adapted and performed by a cast including Freddie Fox, Claire Skinner, Anna Chancellor and James Fleet. Wilde enthusiasts and experts, including Stephen Fry, Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and his latest biographers, provide revelatory accounts of how his own life informed his work. His Irish roots, his early career, his marriage and the importance of women as well as men in his life all combine in a complex and compelling characterisation and celebration that adds flesh to the bones of a man who is too often caricatured.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
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other title: 贝克街小分队
The rag-tag group of street kids known as the Irregulars first appeared in the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet in 1887. This time, the Irregulars find themselves having to solve the mysterious disappearance of two of their own gang, while Holmes himself is accused of murder and put under house arrest. Only by the combination of all their skills can they hope to free Holmes and the kidnap victims, solve the murders and prevent an audacious heist.

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Inspector Morse: Cherubim & Seraphim (1992)
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丹尼·博伊尔 actor: 约翰·肖 / 凯文·沃特利 …
other title: 摩斯探长:智天使与炽天使
Personal tragedy strikes as Morse's niece, Marilyn Garrett, commits suicide. Morse was very fond of her and had hopes that she would accomplish many of the things he had not done in his life. While Morse is away on personal leave, Lewis is studying for his inspector's exams and is temporarily assigned to Chief Inspector Holroyd, a by-the-book type of officer. They investigate the death of a young man who had been walking in a tunnel and was struck and killed by a train. When Morse and Lewis are reteamed, they see similarities in the cases and look into the possibility of drug use at all-night dance parties in the area.

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Lewis: The Gift of Promise (2011)
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other title: 刘易斯探案:天赋异禀
Andrea De Ritter, founder of an organization that supports gifted children, is murdered after making a presentation to Zoe Suskin, only fifteen but an Oxford student. That night Andrea had resisted the advances of young student Elmo Woodeson as well as sending a copy of the autobiography of former spy mistress Dame Grace Orde to Zoe's publisher father Leon. She had added inside the book "Who Killed Mary? See Chapter 8." Both Leon and Elmo are killed shortly after and Zoe's tutor Donald Voss is poisoned though not fatally. Suskin had punched Liam Cullen, Andrea's lover, wrongly believing he was having an affair with his wife Judith following a text message to her and indeed sexual affairs, with Andrea at their hub, would seem to motivate the killings.

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Noël Coward's Private Lives (2014)
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Elyot Chase (Toby Stephens) and Amanda Prynne (Anna Chancellor) are glamorous, rich and reckless divorcees. Five years later, whilst on their second honeymoons with their brand new spouses, their passionate love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled, when they take adjoining suites at a French hotel. They both fling themselves headlong once more, into a new and exciting whirlwind of lust/love, without any thought for their partners present or their past issues. Written by Anonymous

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The Carer (2016)
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亚诺什·埃代莱尼 actor: 布莱恩·考克斯 / 珂珂柯尼希 …
other title: 禁斷看護 / 老人看护 …
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.

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The Secret Life Of Mrs Beeton (2006)
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other title: 比顿夫人的秘密生活 / 米顿夫人秘史
The name Mrs Beeton may conjure up the image of a starchy, middle-aged matron, but Isabella Beeton was in fact an accomplished business woman who died at 28. The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton traces Isabella's transformation from young wife, to magazine journalist, to publishing phenomenon. Find out how a woman who couldn't cook ended up producing the world's most famous recipe book, and discover the dark secret which led to her early death.

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Crush (2002)
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John McKay actor: 安迪·麦克道威尔 / 安娜·钱斯勒 …
other title: 轻言密语 / 寻找MR. Right …
凯特(Andie MacDowell 饰)是英国小镇上一所女子学校的女校长,年届40岁、事业有成、受人尊敬,却始终独守空闺。每周一她都会和她两个同样叱吒职场的成功女性密友:莫莉(Anna Chancellor 饰)和詹宁(Imelda Staunton 饰),一起喝琴酒、吃巧克力、聊哪里有好男人,决定谁是他们Sad Fuckers Club当周的「No.1苦情花」(Saddest of the Week)。 某天凯特意外邂逅年方25岁的男子小杰(Kenny Doughty 饰),并与他发生关系。她正困惑著究竟该如何告诉她的姐妹淘们,一旦莫莉和詹宁知道她和年纪如此不相称的男人展开姐弟恋,真不晓得她们会作何反应,她们会否觉得她将自此挥别苦情,而离她远去呢? 纸包不住火,终于莫莉和詹宁还是知道了,她俩怒火中烧地不停揶揄:「老牛吃嫩草」、「简直自取其辱」之类的话语,并对凯特展开激烈的抗拒,不料一切无情的话语和攻击,反而让凯特与阿杰两人爱得更加无悔无惧。直到后来,当这对恋人喜孜孜地宣布他们即将结婚的计画时,凯特竟意外撞见莫莉和阿杰,顷刻间凯特不禁鼻酸,满地都是心碎的声音…

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Testament of Youth (2015)
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★ 6.5 22 ratings
other title: 青春誓言 / 青春作证 …
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 classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

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The Real Jane Austen (2002)
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★ 8.2 12 ratings
other title: 真实的简·奥斯汀
Jane Austen remains one of the greatest writers of all time. Almost two hundred years after her death, her novels such as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Mansfield Park” continue to entrance generations of readers the world over. This film shatters any assumption that Austen herself lived the elegant Regency life of her financially comfortable heroines who ultimately find their true love. Instead it reveals the real Jane Austen as part of strata of Regency society much crueller in its treatment of women and harsher in its economic realities than her novels and their current television adaptations convey. And it discovers a woman more tragic in her own personal love life who does not enjoy the “happy ending” that she bestows upon her own female characters. Through readings and dramatic reconstructions, The Real Jane Austen pieces together the reality of Austen’s existence her modest upbringing in Hampshire as one of seven children of a clergyman; her disappointment in love; and the family’s poverty following the death of her father. Through her writing Jane found financial independence without having to marry. Tragically only four years later in July 1817 while writing “Persuasion” Jane Austen died. Filmed in locations associated with Austen including Jane’s birth place of Steventon and her later home in Chawton, and illustrated with extracts from film and television adaptations of Austen’s work, The Real Austen paints a vivid portrait of one of the greatest talents in English literature.