A young American mathematician visiting the United Kingdom is drawn into a complex murder mystery when his landlady is...
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2010
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Author Thomas Hardy's infamous novel is translated to the screen courtesy of director David Blair. Driven by poverty to...
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2008
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Sarah Waters' 1999 novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for director Tim Fywell and screenwriter Andrew Davies'...
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2008
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Per its title, director Richard Bracewell's low-key, über-British dramedy The Gigolos concerns itself with two male employees...
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2007
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As directed by Coky Giedroyc and originally screened on the BBC, this epic adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel, the...
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2007
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2006
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An elderly widow and a young would-be author strike up an unlikely friendship in this comedy drama. Mrs. Palfrey...
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Mrs. Arbuthnot
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2005
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2004
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2004
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When Louis and Emily Trevalyan exchanged wedding vows on a day that seemed to mark the beginning of a blissful union, little...
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2004
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2002
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A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious...
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2002
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Directed by Harley Cokliss, An Angel for May follows a modern boy (Matthew Beard) living in Yorkshire, England, and his dog,...
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2002
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The friendship of two men is tested by war, political upheaval, and romantic rivalry in this drama from Czech filmmaker Jan...
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2001
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One man's pursuit of life, liberty, and a green card sets the stage for this comedy-drama. Ali (Said Taghmaoui) was born in...
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Sarah Stevenson
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2000
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Based on the novel by Philippa Gregory, the British miniseries A Respectable Trade was what is known in the business as a...
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1998
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Mad Cows is a slapstick comedy about sex and the singles scene. Single and confused Maddy has just had a baby. The first day...
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Dwina Phelps
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1998
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Los Angeles store owner Dana (Victoria Foyt) is shopping in Israel where a meeting with a mysterious woman leads her to Paris...
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1997
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A woman who skirts the edges of madness finds love, but under deceptive circumstances, in this drama from Ireland. Sarah...
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1997
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Screenwriter and director John Byrne transformed his own 1983 off-Broadway play into this coming-of-age comedy-drama that is...
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1997
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Set in the wild forests of Nova Scotia, this Canadian psychodrama deals with the tragic travails of a young Englishman who...
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1996
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A 19th-century British naturalist falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, but he soon discovers...
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1995
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Narrated by Ian Redford, this award-winning documentary profiles the modernist British author, essayist, and critic Virginia...
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1995
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The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion, aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an...
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1995
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Adapted from the novel by James Herbert, this subtle, melancholy British chiller owes a great deal to Henry James's The Turn...
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Nanny Tess
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1995
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Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known in the literary world as George Sand, not only took a man's name, but trotted...
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1991
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Masterpiece Theatre's 1991 production of A Tale of Two Cities is a faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic French...
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1991
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Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) is an actor who spends his nights on-stage in London's West End as a comedic punching bag for...
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1990
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Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film...
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1990
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1990
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When a father attempts to return to his abandoned family after 23 years his grown son tries to murder his drunk, unemployed...
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Edith
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1989
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In this fact-based drama, a British man accused of his wife's murder becomes the target of his friends' and neighbors'...
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Julia Wallace
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1989
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1989
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The romantic melodrama tells the story of an American beauty who romantic journeys to England in obedience to her late...
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Lady Emily
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1988
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Louise (Elizabeth Bourgine) is a young woman working at a publishing house who develops an unusual affection for submitted...
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1988
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Hazard of Hearts was adapted for television from a 1948 bodice-ripper by Barbara Cartland. Set (where else?) in 1810 England,...
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1987
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Day After the Fair is a two-part TV adaptation of Thomas Hardy's On the Western Circuit. The unhappy wife (Hannah Gordon) of...
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1987
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Victor Banerjee, the India-born star of David Lean's A Passage to India, is the central figure of director Ronald L. Neame's...
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1986
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This made-for-TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel is an account of a novelist, still smarting from a failed...
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1986
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The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters,...
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1985
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1985
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In this standard suspense thriller, Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way,...
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1985
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A pair of British lads, one gay and one socialist, chafe at the restrictions of boarding school life in this period piece,...
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1984
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1984
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Sacred Hearts in one of the more trenchant of the "nun- bashing" films of the 1980s. Anna Massey plays the unbalanced Mother...
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Sister Thomas
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1984
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1984
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Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen, the British miniseries Mansfield Park starred Sylvestra La Touzel as Fanny Price, a...
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1983
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Fred Zinnemann's final film is a meditative examination of an illicit May-December romance, set in the mountain expanse of...
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1982
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Kenneth Colley stars in this four-part miniseries (originally produced for British television) which dramatizes the life and...
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1982
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A single woman still living with her boring parents secretly dreams of sexual passion in this erotic drama. ~ Sandra...
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1980
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A British-American production, Sweet William is an R-rated movie about sexual relationships that focuses on the flings of an...
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Edna
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1979
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The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman...
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1979
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Miss Ronberry
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1978
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This historical dramatic series, produced by the BBC, explores political and social intrigue among England's privileged...
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1974
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Henrik Ibsen's oft-filmed play A Doll's House was adapted for the screen in this Anglo-Canadian production. Claire Bloom...
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Kristine Linde
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1973
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Vault of Horror is the first sequel to 1972's horror hit Tales from the Crypt. It is also known as Tales from the Crypt, Part...
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1973
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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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Barbara "Babs" Milligan
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1972
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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1970
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Keir Dullea dives into a bevy of babes with an open wine bottle as the notorious Marquis de Sade in this low-budget debauch...
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Renee De Montreuil
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1969
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In this Cold War espionage-thriller, adapted from the novel of John Le Carre, two veteran British intelligence operatives,...
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1969
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1965
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Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his career when it was first...
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Helen Stephens
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1960
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Director John Ford traveled to England to film this adaptation of the novel by J.J. Maraca, which details a typical day in...
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Sally Gideon
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1958
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