Blackballed by his peers, crackpot conservationist Zacardi (Vladek Sheybal) intends to get even with his highly trained...
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1976
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Peter Sellers stays busy in this comedy playing Hitler, Prince Kyoto, and four others in this tale of an anti-Nazi French...
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1975
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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1972
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Widely regarded as the first "true" detective novel, Wilkie Collins' gothic thriller The Moonstone has undergone numerous...
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Sgt. Cuff
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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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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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Sir Walter Elliot
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1971
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Not to be confused with the 1966 Diabolique rip-off Games, 1970's The Games is set during the Rome Olympics. The film zeroes...
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1970
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1970
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Although the characters' names were changed, The Great White Hope was a thinly veiled account of the trials and tribulations...
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1970
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In a disturbing movie about psychosis, Hayley Mills plays Susan Harper, a young student who tries to help a rich, emotionally...
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1968
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Originally written as the second episode of The Prisoner, "Checkmate" was then slated to be shown as episode #11. Instead, it...
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1967
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This lugubrious spy yarn finds Philip Scott (Stephen Boyd) posing as a toy manufacturer to hide his real purpose in life. He...
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1967
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The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising...
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1967
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Two brothers looking to avoid becoming pawns of the establishment come up with a better way of making a living -- through...
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1967
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A witch doctor is blamed for a series of murders in this thriller. The detective investigating the deaths discovers that the...
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1966
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In this British wartime comedy, a group of captured con-artists must choose between jail terms or military service....
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1965
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Dr. Love (David Niven) is a suave British secret agent sent to Lebanon to investigate the murder of his colleague Parkington...
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1965
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Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This...
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1965
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Freddie and the Dreamers--remember them?--star in the British musical quickie Cuckoo Patrol. Apparently hoping to cash in on...
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1965
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England's famed comedy brothers John Boulting and Roy Boulting created this caper about a trio of crooks plotting to retrieve...
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1965
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A horse stable turns out to be the headquarters of a highly sophisticated murder-for-hire service. Hoping to beard the crooks...
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1964
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Bernard Lee plays an irresponsible British warrant officer who loses his post in Warsaw. Lee is reassigned to a navy...
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1964
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Montgomery Tully, that phenomenally fast British directing machine, whipped up another espionage programmer with 1964's...
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1964
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Set during the time of the brilliant Queen Elizabeth I of England, this adventure tale is loosely based on the exploits of...
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Sir Francis Walsingham
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1963
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Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of...
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1963
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British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of...
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1963
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Religion and medical ethics clash in this provocative drama that tells the story of a man prosecuted by the system because he...
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1962
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Fate Takes a Hand is a throwback to the British "portmanteau" films of the 1950s. One solitary incident leads to...
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1962
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The British The Court Martial of Major Keller is similar in theme if not in outcome to the American film Time Limit. Major...
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1961
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1961
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The Risk is a mild melodrama concerning the political aspects of germ warfare. A group of British scientists led by...
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1961
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Gorgo is an attempt to make a Japanese-style "giant reptile" flick in an English setting. The story begins when underwater...
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1961
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One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s,...
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1961
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Based on an Edgar Wallace mystery, this suspenseful drama centers on an attorney who is determined to prove that his client...
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1961
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This mystery is based on a 1954 play by Agatha Christie. It tells the story of an ambassador's wife who must hide the corpse...
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1960
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In this crime drama, an engineer is falsely accused of selling secret information to enemy spies and receives a life...
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1960
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Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire...
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1959
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Under his cloak of invisibility, Peter Brady quietly investigates the possibility that Uranium-235 is being smuggled into...
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1959
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This enjoyably twisted British thriller was shot back-to-back with the equally warped Haunted Strangler and is one of the...
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1959
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This is an uneven though occasionally hilarious comedy about a remote British colony and diplomatic blunders. Terry-Thomas as...
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1959
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Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features...
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1959
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In this British comedy, an American falls in love with a British woman whose father hates all Yankees. The soldier's best...
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1958
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This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role...
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1958
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Max Bygraves, a popular British comedian who once in a while entertained thoughts of a dramatic career, is costarred with...
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1958
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The eponymous Spaniard--actually a Britisher of Spanish heritage--is Basil Dignam, falsely convicted of murder. As he is led...
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1958
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1958
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This first entry in the long-running (some would say interminable) British "Carry On" series is at base a collection of...
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1958
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Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an...
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1958
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Who's "depraved" in the British Depraved? Just about everyone, it seems. Married to drunken, abusive lout Basil Dignam, Anne...
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1957
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The Yangtse Incident is the saga of the Amethyst, a British vessel left stranded in China during the Communist takeover. The...
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1957
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None of the characters in this grim little British drama are particularly likable. It is especially true of the protagonist,...
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1957
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The British Brothers in Law is a characteristically enjoyable Boulting-brother farce, again extracting humor out of the...
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1957
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The Weapon is a loose grouping of elements first seen in the 1951 British melodrama The Yellow Balloon. Jon Whitely plays a...
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1957
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After a former dance band leader is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Desperate to prove his innocence,...
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1957
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In this crime drama, the trouble begins when Arabs kidnap a young wife and hold her hostage for a pair of rare books. Mayhem...
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1957
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In this suspenseful, convoluted crime drama, the wife of a wrongly-condemned murderer begins looking for the real killer. ~...
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1957
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A noted expatriate filmmaker's hard work to reestablish himself in Britain is nearly undone when a woman who claims to be...
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1956
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The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...
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1956
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Despite its provocative name, Britain's Eros Films was a small company set up for second-feature melodramas and murder...
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1956
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1955
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In this crime drama, two WW II veterans become fugitives from the police after one of them kills a man during a fight. A...
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1955
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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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Dorothy and Campbell Christie's witty courtroom comedy/drama Carrington V.C. was given a classy screen treatment by director...
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1954
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In this comedy, a diamond merchant's secretary gets fired by her new boss for being too efficient. She ends up kidnapped by...
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1953
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In this British drama a veteran laborer rises above the turmoil of unionization to become the governor of Artista, an...
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1952
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In this detective story, based on a novel by John Creasey, a smooth-talking detective helps a young woman solve her uncle's...
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1952
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Don't be misled by the title, and by the presence of Glynis Johns in the cast. The "Venus" in Appointment with Venus is a...
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1951
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British film-favorite Anna Neagle, having previously played such great historical personages as Queen Victoria and Edith...
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1951
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