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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This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet...
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1984
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Not Tonight Darling runs the gamut from soft-core silliness to turgid melodrama. Luan Peters plays a beautiful suburbanite,...
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1972
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Roger Corman's New World Pictures took a stab at the tale of the nefarious real-life graverobbers -- and filled it with the...
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1971
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In this children's adventure, an addled inventor develops a flying bicycle and endeavors to enter it in a contest that...
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1967
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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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Steed and Tara investigate when the directors of Project Cupid, a top-secret construction project, are being systematically...
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1965
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The British town of Warlock is scandalized by Hazell's cottage-turned-tearoom with the local inspector found in a...
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1964
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A battered houseboat on the Thames provides the setting for this romantic British comedy. Two newlyweds rent the leaky...
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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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1960
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Suspenseful, interesting, and macabre, this period piece by Robert S. Baker overcomes a weakness in characterization by sheer...
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1959
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This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a...
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1959
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A man is forced to prove who he really is -- and discovers that it isn't as easy as one might think -- in this drama. Sir...
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1959
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The Boy and the Bridge is a very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate...
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1959
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A stellar cast redeems the tawdry European-filmed melodrama 3DThe Man Inside3D. Nigel Patrick plays Sam Carter, a...
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1958
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The Diplomatic Corpse has been rendered lifeless by a couple of foreign diplomats. London reporter Robin Phillips suspects...
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1958
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In this drama, a writer and his wife rent a small country cottage where he plans on doing some work. Unfortunately, he soon...
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1957
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In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery,...
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1957
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In this comedy, a remake of the 1936 comedy, two sanitation workers get an unexpected bonus when they encounter a rare book...
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Though his Hollywood career had petered out, Tom Conway continued to star in British films throughout the 1950s. In Last Man...
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1956
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Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in...
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1955
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1955
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British actor Kenneth More's screen charisma helps smooth over the rough spots of Raising a Riot. More plays Tony, a young...
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1955
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1955
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In this corny British comedy, a Cockney family inherits a rundown Devon farm. Not everyone is pleased by the prospect of...
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1955
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In this thriller, shot on location in Rhodesia, an American insurance investigator looks into the strange death of a diamond...
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1954
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Rene Clement's Monsieur Ripois was released in English-speaking countries as The Knave of Hearts and Lovers, Happy Lovers....
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1954
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David Niven plays the new squire in a small Irish community. As snooty and restrictive as the old squire was warmhearted and...
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1954
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This adventure, targeted for children, follows the exploits of two children on the Rock of Gibraltar who save the island's...
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1953
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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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Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat...
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1953
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In this drama, a man journeys to the posh British estate of a friend for a weekend soiree. There he learns that the real...
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1952
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The blarney is as thick as the characters' brogues in You Can't Beat the Irish. Jack Warner stars as lazy but enterprising...
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1952
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1952
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A group of provincial actors are fond of their boss, less fond of his jealous wife. To keep wifey out of their hair, and...
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1952
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This romantic mystery involves a young lawyer whose old flame is accused of murdering his mistress. She takes his case and...
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1952
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In this horror movie an Irish char woman must stop an insane inventor who is planning to take over the world with a...
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1952
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In this British crime drama, a petty crook teams up with a gangster to steal some jewels, but somehow the robbery goes awry...
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1951
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Once again comedian Arthur Lucan dons an old woman's togs to become the tart-tongued Irish washerwoman. This time Mother...
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1951
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In this comedy, a street artist has successfully conned his wife and family into believing that he is a well-to-do...
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1950
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The title is a reference to the mental state of leading lady Phyllis Calvert. Ms. Calvert plays an amnesiac, a victim of the...
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1950
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1949
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Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character....
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1949
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Passport to Pimlico is one of the most charmingly whimsical Ealing Studios comedies of the late 1940s-early 1950s. As a...
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1949
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Peter Ustinov co-produced, wrote and co-directed the quietly effective Private Angelo. Set during
WW II, the film stars...
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1949
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By 1949, British stage and film star A.E. Matthews was more widely celebrated for his advanced age (eighty) than his...
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1949
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The Small Voice is a tense British character study utilizing an old plot device with a modicum of freshness. American actor...
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1948
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1948
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Written and directed by Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is a one-joke fantasy comedy which manages to hold up almost to the very...
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1947
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A couple's wartime separation provides an unexpected tonic for their romance in this drama. Robert and Catherine Wilson...
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1945
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When blind veteran Whiley realizes that the love of his life, Brook, is in love with Griffith, Whiley bows out gracefully in...
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1945
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1944
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In this comedy, a groom's constant jealousy creates domestic turmoil for his devoted bride. More trouble comes when he buys...
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1941
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One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and...
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1941
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1940
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Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby...
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1940
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As with any film featuring the outrageously operatic antics of early horror star Tod Slaughter, this slow, stagebound...
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1939
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1938
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In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for...
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1938
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In this comedy a young woman weasels out of a vacation with her parents and away from the young man they want her to date by...
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1938
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As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as...
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1937
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In this British adventure, a shipwrecked fellow is saved by the captain of another ship. While aboard, the survivor falls in...
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1937
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Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour...
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1937
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In this comedy, a street artist has successfully conned his wife and family into believing that he is a well-to-do...
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1937
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this actioner, a prisoner must break out in time to keep his wife, who has involved herself with a creepy gang, from...
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1936
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Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who...
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1936
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In this drama, a cub reporter from the Daily Gazette attempts to catch a bank robber. He is assisted by a woman who wants to...
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1935
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After spending time working as dialogue director on a number of films, Carol Reed made his directorial debut as co-director...
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1935
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Its title inspired by Albert Chevalier's world-famous music-hall ballad, My Old Dutch is a treacly tale of mother love....
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1934
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1934
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In this romance, two people who have never met will inherit a million dollars if they marry each other. Neither is thrilled...
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1933
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In this adventure, a ship's captain attempts to return some diamonds to their original owner. Unfortunately, some mutinous...
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1932
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In this romantic comedy, an impoverished gambler falls in love with a coquette playing hard-to-get. The fellow's luck...
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1932
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In this British drama, a colonel is upset to learn that his daughter is planning to leave her dishwater-dull husband in...
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1931
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In this teary drama, a married couple remember their lives together. Heart-wrenching flashbacks ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1931
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One of the first talkie adaptations of an Edgar Wallace story, The Yellow Mask is set in motion by the skullduggery of...
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1930
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1930
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The Greenwood Tree was based on a novel by Thomas Hardy -- though given the film's 60-minute running time, the original text...
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1930
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In this drama set in the English countryside, a town squire causes quite a ruckus when he decides to buck tradition and...
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1929
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Originally released as a silent film, this movie follows engineer Bob White (Moore Marriott) in his last run with the train...
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1929
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