Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first...
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1979
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Written by the prolific John Mortimer, the British drama series Will Shakespeare focused on the Bard of Avon's formative...
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1978
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This handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed -- who,...
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1976
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Filmed in Austria, this British-made musical retells the story of Cinderella as it is found in books of fairy tales. The...
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1976
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With ornate imagery reminiscent of paintings from the story's 18th century period, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of William...
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1975
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Which will be victorious; commonsense which seems sound during the day or the unsettling effects of the night? This story is...
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1975
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Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo...
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1972
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10 Rillington Place is the true story of British mass murderer John Reginald Christie, played with chilling "normality" by...
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1971
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Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells...
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1970
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Curry (Rod Taylor) is a veteran soldier-of-fortune hired by the president of the Congo for a three day mission. He and native...
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1968
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Killikrates (John Richardson) is the ruler of the city of Kuma, an idyllic civilization seemingly frozen in another time. In...
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1968
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Nigel Kneale's Quatermass TV series spawned a brief film series produced over an eleven-year period; 1967's Quatermass and...
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1967
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A murderous mummy is on the loose and it's got the Hammer Films stamp on it, but this tame terror flick never gets the...
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Sir Basil Walden
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1967
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Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys....
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1966
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A wonderfully atmospheric outing from Hammer Films, who diverged from their often successful variations on Universal's...
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Sir James Forbes
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1966
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Emma goes undercover as a department store clerk when a sales receipt is found on the body of a murdered agent. She is backed...
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1965
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Hammer Films co-produced this lavishly mounted adventure, the fourth adaptation of the novel by H. Rider Haggard. In...
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1965
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A woman seeks justice for herself, her family, and her people in this emotional drama. Judith (Sophia Loren) is a survivor of...
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1965
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Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as...
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1964
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In this British melodrama based on a French novel by Catherine Arley, Sean Connery plays Anthony Richmond, a money-hungry...
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1964
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The "batman" referred to in the title was not of the Caped Crusader variety, but instead the former valet to John Steed. When...
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1963
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A ruthless crook abducts the wife and child of a bank manager and then masquerades as an insurance company detective while...
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1962
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Placed in command of France's Chateau de la Marre district in 1944, sadistic Nazi general Guenther Hautmann (Andrew Morell)...
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1961
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A normally placid pussy turns into a ferocious feline hell-bent for revenge against the treacherous trio who murdered her...
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Walter Venable
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1961
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Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet....
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1960
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King Rashid (Vivan Matalon), a Middle Eastern potentate, is murdered by his treacherous military advisor General Shafari...
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1959
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In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's...
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Dr. Watson
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1959
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to...
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1959
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A perennial of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit of the 1950s, The British The Giant Behemoth owes a great deal to the earlier...
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1959
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In this crime drama, an American gumshoe goes to Johannesburg, South Africa to prove the innocence of a native accused of...
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1958
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The original 1958 BBC television production of the last of Nigel Kneale's classic Quatermass scripts -- which is best known...
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Professor Bernard Quatermass
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1958
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For some reason, this Hammer Studios war melodrama was singled out for constant ridicule by the Monty Python troupe. The...
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Colonel Lambert
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1958
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Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris...
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1957
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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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1957
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Victor Mature stars in this European-based crime thriller. Mature is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug smuggling operation,...
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Breckner
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1957
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Adapted from the book of the same name by Ewen Montagu and based on fact, The Man Who Never Was stars Clifton Webb as...
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1956
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Anthony Steel stars in this fanciful wartime drama. Stationed in Libya, British soldier Steel is wounded, then nursed back to...
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Sheik Salem
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1956
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In this desert adventure, a bandit chieftain roams the northwest deserts of India. Wherever he goes, he leaves a trail of...
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1956
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1956
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In this British espionage drama, a murderer hopes to escape his fateful appointment on death row by identifying the leaders...
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1955
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Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane...
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1955
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In this crime drama, an American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a...
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Inspector Lake
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1955
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The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first...
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1955
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The Golden Link gets off to a spectacularly violent start when a woman's body plummets into the hallway of an apartment...
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1954
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Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result...
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1954
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Captain David O'Keefe is a character based on the real-life 18th-century American who introduced modern agricultural methods...
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Alfred Tetens
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1953
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A novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop was the source for the grim British drama Tall Headlines. The son of a middle-class family...
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George Rackham
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1952
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Brilliant plastic surgeon Philip Ritter (Paul Henreid) loses the love of his life, concert pianist Alice Brent...
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David
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1952
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Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly...
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Dr. Marshall
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1951
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High Treason is a British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street....
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Sup. Folland
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1951
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So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now...
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1950
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David Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th...
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1950
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Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of...
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Supt. Folland
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1950
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The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war,...
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1950
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Set in World War II times, this drama involves a highly trained bunch of British soldiers who must parachute into Nazi-held...
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1948
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Bassanio
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1947
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Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He...
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1942
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In this crime drama, a peace-loving surgeon must operate upon the man who invented a catastrophic new weapon. The trouble...
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1940
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Rex Harrison plays a young Englishman who suffers periodic bouts of amnesia. When the plane he is riding in crashes, Harrison...
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1939
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When the Russians find and destroy the hidden artillery, the 13 man Austrian gun crew is suspected of harboring a traitor in...
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1938
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In this British farce, a soldier invents a tank supercharger that he is most eager to try. When the Germans hear about the...
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1938
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