Empty-nest syndrome confronts some harried parents in this BBC made-for-television movie. When two sets of parents go off to...
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1996
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1995
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A mute American working on a low-budget movie runs afoul of the Russian mafia in this internationally produced thriller....
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The Reaper
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1994
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In this sentimental comedy, two British World War II veterans (played by English stage and screen veterans Sir Alec Guinness...
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Amos
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1993
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Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable...
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1991
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Father Quixote
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1991
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William Dorrit
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1988
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Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton...
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Mr. Todd
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1988
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Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are...
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1987
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From the 28-tape biography series The Hollywood Collection comes a comprehensive account of a real-life fairy tale, the story...
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1987
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Technical flaws abound in this "punk" movie about an imaginary, 21st-century ghetto in Melbourne, Australia created by...
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1984
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Though we never see him, Edwin is the pivotal character in this British comedy. Alec Guinness stars as a retired British...
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Sir Fennimore Truscott
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1984
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A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground...
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Godbole
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1984
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Sigmund Freud
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1983
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In the final episode of the Star Wars saga, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) emerges intact from the carbonite casing in which he'd...
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1983
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1983
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A sequel to 1980's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, this BBC miniseries once again focuses on British spy George Smiley (Sir...
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George Smiley
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1982
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This box-office bomb is about some schemers' hell-bent efforts to raise the fated vessel from its murky grave when they...
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John Bigalow
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1980
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The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the...
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Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi
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1980
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Earl of Dorincourt
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1980
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Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly...
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George Smiley
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1979
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George Lucas' mythological popcorn movie is a two-hour roller-coaster ride that has passed into movie legend. The story, for...
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1977
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This humorous video is a compilation of a multitude of comedic clips from various British films spanning from 1930 to 1970....
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1977
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Discover the technical magic that makes the technology of Star Wars and the workings of the Force seem real. ~ Rovi...
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1977
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1976
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As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the...
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Jamessir Bensonmum, the Butler
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1976
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Adolf Hitler
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1973
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St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was...
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Pope Innocent III
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1972
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This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard...
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Charles I
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1970
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Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The...
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Marley's Ghost
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1970
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This televised adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, originally screened on Britain's ITV in 1969, stars Alec...
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1969
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The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story...
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Maj. Jones
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1967
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While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot...
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Benedict Boniface
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1966
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This spy saga differs from the usual Bond-styled fare that was popular at the time. There are plenty of gadgets but the hero...
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Pol
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1966
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A pair of American Allied fliers (Michael Connor and Robert Redford in his second feature film appearance) are shot down in a...
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1965
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the...
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Yevgraf
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1965
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Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer...
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Marcus Aurelius
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1964
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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the...
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Prince Feisal
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1962
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Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but...
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Capt. Crawford
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1962
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This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing...
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Koichi Asano
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1961
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Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against...
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Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair
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1960
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Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling...
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Jim Wormald
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1960
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In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He...
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John Barrett
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1959
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The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to...
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Screenwriter, Gully Jimson
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1958
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The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between...
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Col. Nicholson
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1957
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In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest...
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William Horatio Ambrose
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1957
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Prince Albert
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1956
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In this lively British romantic comedy, a baronet decides that his son needs to experience life outside of his blue-blooded...
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Col. Sir Edgar Fraser
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1955
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The Cardinal
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1955
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Professor Marcus
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1955
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Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character...
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Father Brown
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1954
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In this bright British comedy, we meet Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) as he stands before a firing squad and then...
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Capt. Henry St. James
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1953
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The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents...
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Capt. Ross
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1953
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young...
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E.H. Machin
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1952
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The Oracle stars Robert Beatty as a weary British reporter sent on assignment to Ireland. While in a remote village, Beatty...
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1952
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Henry Holland
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1951
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Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist...
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Sidney Stratton
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1951
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The mudlark is Andrew Ray, an illiterate London street urchin of the mid-19th century. Having seen a picture of Queen...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
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1950
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Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He...
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1950
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Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and...
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Admiral d'Ascoyne,Ascoyne d'Ascoyne,Canon d'Ascoyne,Duke of Chalfont,Gen. d'Ascoyne,Henry d'Ascoyne,Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne,Lord d'Ascoyne
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1949
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In this comedy, two brothers, both of them Welsh coal-miners, win a contest and get to go on a day trip to London. Upon...
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Whimple
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1949
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver...
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Fagin
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1948
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Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British...
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Herbert Pocket
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1946
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Evensong is based on the teary novel by Beverly Nichols, which had previously spawned a lachrymose (and enormously...
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1934
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