The acclaimed Tony Palmer helmed this 1984 biopic on 19th and early 20th century Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, here...
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1984
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The first installment of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Body in the...
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1984
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Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken...
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1983
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Murder Most Foul represented Margaret Rutherford's third appearance as Agatha Christie's spinsterish sleuth Miss Marple. The...
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Justice Crosby
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1964
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The lives and loves of a trio of airline hostesses is the whole story in this piece of fluff from MGM. Each of these perky...
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1963
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This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this...
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1962
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1962
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When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo...
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1961
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Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and...
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Lord Provost
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1961
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Loosely based on a cult of assassins in early 19th-century India known as "thaga" (pronounced "tahg"), the villains in this...
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Col. Henderson
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1960
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Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson....
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1960
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In this British comedy, an amiable demolitions expert finds himself entangled with a band of criminals masquerading as...
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McKillup
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1960
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1959
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1958
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In this drama, a couple experiences marital turmoil because the husband is a hot-tempered race-car driver with a jealous...
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1958
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Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll...
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1957
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A fine upstanding wife finds it difficult to keep her sordid past as a criminal a secret from her husband and neighbors. The...
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1956
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Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the...
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1956
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Scads of color stock footage from the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth was strategically deployed in John and Julie. The...
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1955
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1955
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The life of the founder of modern Methodism is dramatized in John Wesley. Originally intended for church assembly showings,...
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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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1953
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Anthony Steel plays a humane British game warden who sets up an African wildlife preserve. Ivory poachers sign up for the...
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1951
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The Reluctant Widow in this muted British comedy is young 19th-century governess Elinor, played by Jean Kent. Inadvertently...
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1951
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1950
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A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered...
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1949
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Sir Adrian Horth, K.C.
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1949
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In this drama, a medicine seller falls for an ice cream vendor. Unfortunately, his wife won't grant him a divorce. In order...
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1949
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The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film...
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Prince Nicholas
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1948
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In this costume drama, a woman finds herself the prize in a battle between two jealous brothers. Eventually she marries the...
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1947
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1937
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