As she enters middle age, expatriate American M.D. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) ends a long-term relationship with her actor...
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1990
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A novice knight and his unlikely allies lead a crusade against evil in this adventure set in 12th century France. Robert...
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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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Flame to the Phoenix manages to transcend its skintight budget and variable English-language dubbing. The time is the eve of...
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1985
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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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1984
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Swordplay, secret messages, and the rustle of ballroom finery make this 1982 adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel a gala bash....
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1982
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Francesca Annis, previously seen on the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Madame Bovary, plays the title role in the...
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1979
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Set in present-day London, this uneven children's film from director Christine Edzard is divided into three different...
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The Mother
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1979
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Ignoring the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," producer Carlo Ponti mounted a TV remake of the 1945 British...
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Melanie Harvey
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1975
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Four short stories by master of macabre Robert Bloch are related by the inmates of a mental institution. In the first story,...
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1972
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Adapted from Jane Austen's final novel, the five-part British drama series Persuasion starred Anne Firbank as Anne Elliot, a...
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Anne Elliot
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1971
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This British film examines the choices individuals must make when confronted with a romantic relationship which is rewarding...
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1971
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This sophisticated black comedy sex romp is based on the novel by Iris Murdoch, which she also turned into a stage play (with...
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1971
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The young girl who witnessed the auto plant manager's hit-and-run accident doesn't quite blackmail him into giving her a...
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1971
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The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is...
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1967
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This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the...
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1966
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The British Dead Man's Chest comes to us from Merton Park Productions, the folks responsible for the long-running "Edgar...
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1965
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Julie Christie won an Oscar for her portrayal of a bored, amoral fashion model in this cynical melodrama from director John...
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1965
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Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than...
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1963
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In this British farce, an impoverished lord teams up with the plumber he mistook for a burglar. Together they conspire to...
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1961
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The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce....
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1959
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Distinguished British actress Vanessa Redgrave makes her feature film debut in this hospital-set drama that chronicles the...
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1958
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