A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted"...
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2007
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The Marquis de Sade was a man who liked to stir up trouble, at a time when his native France was in a state of tremendous...
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Madame LeClerc
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2000
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A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the...
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2000
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1999
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This four-hour fantasy miniseries, elaborating on the Arthurian legend and filmed in England and Wales, offers a portrait of...
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1998
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Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's...
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1996
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This film offers a glimpse into the abuse of disabled people in residential homes while also offering a look into the human...
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1994
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A disturbed woman starts getting friendly advice from some of the great murderers of history in this black comedy from Great...
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1994
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Messina
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1992
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The made-for-TV Duel of Hearts is based on a novel by Barbara Cartland. It is difficult to believe that there's a...
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Dorcas
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1992
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A middle-aged divorcee has the foundation of her life rocked when she discovers that her ex-husband has created young clones...
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1991
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A murder investigation at a cloistered boy's school is the subject of this British made-for-television adaptation of...
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1991
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Peter Medak directed this fact-based drama, chronicling the lives of the infamous Kray Brothers, notorious celebrities in 60s...
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Violet Kray
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1990
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This British version of Lorna Doone is one of the more rewarding film adaptations of the venerable R. D. Blackmore novel. The...
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Sarah Ridd
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1990
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The story of a poor man who falls in love with a well-to-do woman is told in this British made-for-television movie....
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1989
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Mary (Patricia Kerrigan) is a battered wife with two small children, living in a grim section of Dublin. Unable to stand the...
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Tammy
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1989
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The brilliant young British actress Jane Horrocks made her film debut in The Dressmaker. She plays Rita, the 17-year-old...
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Aunt Margo
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1988
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Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual love. Maurice is...
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1987
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This surreal British black comedy tells the tale of poor Oliver Shadey, a mechanic who longs to become a woman but lacks the...
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Dr. Cloud
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1987
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1987
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An Englishwoman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her native land after losing her meager fortune in America, but finds that a serial...
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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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Mrs. Andreos
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1985
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The famous Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is not interviewed in this documentary on his life and work, but the film...
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1984
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Alexandre Dumas fis first dramatized his own novel La Dame aux Camelias in 1852. Before the century was out, the work had...
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1984
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In this undistinguished crime drama, Peter Coyote plays a thief on the run after an attempt to rob an armored car in upstate...
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Madge
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1984
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1983
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A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of the Tangier Straits who...
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1982
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Jim Henson ventures into Tolkien territory in his all-Muppet fantasy feature The Dark Crystal. The titular Crystal maintains...
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1982
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After the suicide of her friend and employer, who has been teaching her to be a detective, Cordelia Gray (Pippa Guard) takes...
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Elizabeth
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1982
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Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this...
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1980
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Lionel Jeffries directed Water Babies, a children's fantasy based on the story by Charles Kingsley that incorporates...
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Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby
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1979
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The Harlequin Romance Publishing company produced this weeper about an English lass (Susan Penhaligon) who falls for a...
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1978
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Satan's son has arrived on Earth and He's not about to let human parents get in the way. When his wife Katherine's...
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Mrs. Baylock
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1976
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As indicated by its title, this obscure British miniseries focused on the romantic travails of Napoleon Bonaparte (Ian Holm)....
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1974
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Night Watch a suspenseful, under-rated thriller tells the story of a lonely, unhappily married woman who believes that she...
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Sarah Cooke
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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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1972
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Television veteran Fielder Cook brings a TV-like intimacy to his direction of Eagle in a Cage. This underrated film stars...
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1971
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Part spoof and part "straight," Gumshoe comes off as an affectionate tribute to the hard-boiled detective films of yore....
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Ellen
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1971
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Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and...
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Marie Antoinette
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1970
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Prince Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the exiled ruler from an unnamed country living on the edge of a London ghetto with his...
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Margaret
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1970
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This satirical fantasy is based upon an Elmer Rice play from 1923. A hard-working office employee is rewarded for his years...
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Daisy Devore
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1969
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In this made-for-television version of Stevenson's classic tale of terror and suspense, a crazy doctor develops a formula...
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1968
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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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Joan Harper
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1968
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Albert Finney both directs and stars in the "alienation" comedy-drama Charlie Bubbles. The eponymous Bubbles (Finney) is a...
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Lottie
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1967
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Judy
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1964
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Billie Whitelaw dominates this crime melodrama, not as a criminal but as vengeful bystander Jackie Parker. Parker's husband,...
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Jackie Parker
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1962
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The Devil's Agent is Peter Van Eyck in this economical espionager. A Viennese wine merchant, Van Eyck becomes the unwilling...
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1962
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1961
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Terry-Thomas plays the military-officer head of an amiable gang of amateur British thieves. He is recruited for this task by...
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Lily
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1960
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With an award-winning screenplay by director Val Guest, this is a first-rate cops-and-robbers crime drama about a dangerous...
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Chloe Hawkins
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1960
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1960
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Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's...
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Mary
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1960
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Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the...
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1959
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Lydia
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1959
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The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British...
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1958
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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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1958
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In this British comedy, a young man resorts to spying, extortion and just plain begging after he learns that he is to be...
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1957
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London's colorful but rundown Soho district is the setting for this thinnish romantic comedy. John Gregson plays a Soho...
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1957
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In this comedy, a widow tries living with each of her three sons. She becomes quite upset when her favorite son heads for...
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1955
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The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudonym for the blacklisted...
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1954
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This film consists of two episodes from the "Inspector Stryker" series of mysteries. In the first, Stryker enlists the help...
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1954
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In this crime drama an American is assigned to guard a US art exhibit in London to protect one of da Vinci's most priceless...
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1953
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