
Sue Jones-Davies
Actor · b. 1949 · Wales, UK
Sue Jones-Davies is a Welsh actress, singer and politician. She has appeared on stage, screen and television. She met her former husband, the actor and writer Chris Langham, when they both studied at Bristol University. After graduation they moved to London but later separated, when she moved to Aberystwyth with her three sons. She became the Plaid Cymru Mayor of Aberystwyth in 2008, and now serves as town councillor there. The town of Aberystwyth had banned the showing of the film "The Life of Brian", in which she played Judith Iscariot, since its release in 1979.
Movies11
Movie7.8ComedyBrian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
Life of Brian
1979 · 5.1K votes
Movie6.3DramaComedyRichard is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to meet Jane, a young woman dying of motor neuron disease. After they strike up a friendship, Jane asks Richard to help fulfill her deepest wish: to lose her virginity before her death.
The Theory of Flight
1999 · 46 votes
Movie5.9DramaMysteryA London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
Radio On
1979 · 28 votes
MovieDramaHistoryThe Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Movie5.7AnimationFantasyWhilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic
Movie5.9DramaRomanceA young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.
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Echo goes looking for her one-time lover and comrade-in-arms, only to fall into a passionate relationship with his son. But sexual abandon triggers the unravelling of a trauma she has long buried for the sake of her children, which now threatens to tear their lives apart. Can eros bring a healing of trauma, or merely its repetition?
Delight
2013 · 2 votes
MovieIn a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead.
Movie10.0Science FictionMusicIn a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite "numbers" and the destitute "names" who escape the hardships of the their lives at a magic cabaret run by Zax. When Zax falls for a slumming-it "number" he builds a robot replica of her.
Facelift
1984 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaTV MovieA girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home.
Morphine and Dolly Mixtures
1991 · 1 votes
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Tv Movie directed by Barbara Derkow
In the Pink
1982
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TV7.1DramaSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985 · 7 votes
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The Bench is an English-language legal drama series set in a Welsh magistrate's court, produced by BBC Wales, initially broadcast on BBC One Wales and later repeated across the BBC network in an afternoon slot. The series won three BAFTA Cymru awards in 2003, with Eiry Thomas winning Best Actress, Bill Broomfield winning Best Director of Photography - Drama and William Oswald winning Best Editor.
The Bench
2001 · 1 votes
TV6.7DramaHow Green Was My Valley is a six-part television miniseries adapted by Elaine Morgan, based on Richard Llewellyn's eponymous 1939 novel. The serial is produced by the BBC and 20th Century Fox Television for BBC Two—the latter's involvement is due to their ownership of the rights to the novel and its subsequent Oscar-winning 1941 film. Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
How Green Was My Valley
1975 · 3 votes
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Everyday tales of the lives and loves of the residents of the South Wales mining village of Taff Acre.
Taff Acre
1981