The violent rise of gangland power in New York City at a time of massive political corruption and the city's evolution into a...
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2002
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Hot on the heels of the BBC's multipart 1999 adaptation of Charles Dickens' semiautobiographical novel David Copperfield came...
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2000
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Written by British TV screenwriter, Malcolm McKay, this is the second of three movies that revolve around the concept of...
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Eugene McCarthy
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1993
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Sillerton Jackson
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1993
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1989
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Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling...
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1987
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This comedy was inspired by the true story of Cynthia Payne, a former waitress who gained fame as England's best-known (and...
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Morten
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1987
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When a workaholic businessman needs to be married to maintain a good image, he asks a woman to pose as his wife. The film is...
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1986
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An embittered, lonely old widow reluctantly tends her late husband's garden and discovers that more than flowers can bloom...
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Mr. Philpott
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1985
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1984
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J.M. Barrie
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1984
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Two men who had been partners 20 years earlier reunite and rekindle old animosities in this routine, low-budget drama by...
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Father Vincent
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1984
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The title of the 1983 James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again is a self-mocking reference to star Sean Connery's...
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1983
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In this drama set in London during the 1920s, two amateur detectives try to find an important document before the enemy...
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1980
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Part of the TV series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is one of the subtlest and most enjoyable of the Shakespearian...
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Malvolio
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1980
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In this WWII romance, Harrison Ford (face-to-face with superstardom from his involvement in Star Wars) is cast as David...
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Maj. Trumbo
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1979
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Stevie is not a he but a she--famed British poet Stevie Smith. As portrayed by Glenda Jackson, Stevie escapes her dull...
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Freddy
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1978
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Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation virtually in tatters, a far cry from his stature at the...
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Chief Inspector Oxford
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1972
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In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish...
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Henry
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1972
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The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener....
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Micah Hale
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1970
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This film was a pet project of Joan Fontaine, based on a novel by Peter Curtis. It was her last feature film. Fontaine stars...
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Alan Bax
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1966
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Adapted by Philip Dunne from the novel by Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstacy is the story of the 16th century war of...
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1965
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Alexander Graham Bell
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1965
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1964
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This 1961 adaptation of Shakespeare's magical comedy of errors was performed entirely by puppets. Let's qualify that: the...
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1963
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In this drama of romantic intrigue and infidelity, Sam and Christine Bonner (Arthur Hill and Jane Fonda) are a married couple...
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1963
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One of the key "angry young man" films which helped define the British "Kitchen Sink Drama" style of the late 1950's and...
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Brown
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1962
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The Silent Enemy is based on Commander Crabb, a book by Marshall Pugh. This is the true story of young Lieutenant Crabb...
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1958
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This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter...
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1958
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This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers...
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1958
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Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted...
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Alan Graham
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1957
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Town on Trial! begins with the murder of a good-time girl in a small suburb of London. Scotland Yard inspector John Mills is...
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Peter Crowley
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1957
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The title character in this fact-based POW drama is Franz von Werra, played by Hardy Kruger. Shot down early in the war,...
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1957
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1957's The Good Companions was the second film version of the well-known J. B. Priestly play. The story revolves around the...
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1957
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Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through...
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1956
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1955
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Based on a true story, The Divided Heart is an effective, high-gloss British soap opera. Cornell Borchers stars as Inga, a...
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1954
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In this seagoing military drama set in World War II, Lt. Comdr. Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is made captain of a British corvette,...
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Director
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1953
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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