Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including...
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Screenwriter
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1992
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The "endless game" is espionage, which goes on and on despite government upheavals and changing international attitudes....
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Book Author, Director
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1989
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In this Scottish comedy, two young fellows disguise themselves as a clown and a wolf-man and begin robbing tourist buses....
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1986
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In this fast-paced, often complex murder mystery, a psychiatrist's patient and later his secretary are killed, yet the police...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1984
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The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1983
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Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each...
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Director
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1980
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Director
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1980
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Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the...
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Screenwriter
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1980
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1978
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Filmed in Austria, this British-made musical retells the story of Cinderella as it is found in books of fairy tales. The...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1976
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Director
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1975
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Director
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1972
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Director, Screenwriter
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1971
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Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final...
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Director
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1969
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In this clunky suspense film, straining to be Hitchcockian, Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic Henry Clarke, who finds...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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The Whisperers stars Dame Edith Evans as a lonely old woman whose imagination is getting the better of her sanity. She...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1967
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Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys....
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Director, Producer
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1966
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This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule,...
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Screenwriter
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1966
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James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1965
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Director, Screenwriter
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1964
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American audiences were disappointed when the nude scenes featuring sexy Baby Doll (1956) star Carroll Baker were excised...
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Screenwriter
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1964
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A murder has been committed at the palatial Parisian residence of Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders). All the evidence points...
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1964
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Kim Stanley plays a crooked medium who has become slightly unhinged since the death of her son. Craving money and publicity,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1964
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Screenwriter
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1962
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Bryan Forbes' first directorial effort is set in a rugged Lancashire farm community. Three impressionable children, played by...
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Director
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1962
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Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1962
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer...
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1961
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A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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An engrossing suspenser with dashes of comedy, League of Gentlemen is about a daring group of highly trained army men, turned...
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Screenwriter, Martin Porthill
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1960
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Richard Attenborough stars in this British drama as Tom Curtis, an ordinary man with a job in a factory. A new employee,...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1960
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Kenneth More was beginning to segue into comedy roles when he took on the character of William in this standard sci-fi parody...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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The scene is Burma during World War II. A small British brigade led by Stanley Baker comes upon a Burmese village controlled...
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1959
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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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Screenwriter
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1959
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If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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1958
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Originally titled Quatermass II, Enemy from Space was the sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment (US title: The Creeping...
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Marsh
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1957
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The Extra Day is a portmanteau film in the tradition of the earlier Derby Day. The ball gets rolling when Joe Blake...
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1956
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Anthony Steel stars in this fanciful wartime drama. Stationed in Libya, British soldier Steel is wounded, then nursed back to...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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Screenwriter, Professor
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1956
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Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon...
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1956
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The topicality of Satellite in the Sky enabled the British-based Danzinger Bros. to release the film through Warner Bros.,...
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Jimmy
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1956
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It's Great to Be Young stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome...
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1956
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In this suspenseful crime drama, a decent British sailor stationed in France is forced to smuggle gold when one of the gang...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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During World War II, the impenetrable Colditz castle in Germany was selected as the site for a POW camp. The Germans reason...
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Jimmy Winslow
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1955
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A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard...
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1955
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Jose Ferrer was both star and director of the British WW2 drama Cockleshell Heroes. Ferrer is cast as Major Stringer, the...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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In this remake of Jack Ahoy! (1934) a sailor is left alone on a South Sea island to guard supplies by the British Royal Navy....
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1954
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Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by...
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1954
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The comfortable complacency of the British Birling family is upset when Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) comes calling. An...
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Eric Birling
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1954
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Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea was none too faithfully adapted for the screen as Sea Devils. The hero is Guernsey-Island...
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1953
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Set in 1943, Appointment in London stars Dirk Bogarde as Wing Commander Tim Mason. It is Mason's hope to complete 90 bombing...
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Pilot Officer Greene
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1953
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Two step-brothers who co-own a garage have a violent falling out when the wild one's girl falls for the more responsible...
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1953
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In this boxing drama, a deaf-mute prizefighter whose career is on the rise falls in love with a gold digging singer who only...
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1952
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Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian...
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1952
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Though Green Grow the Rushes has the look and feel of an Ealing comedy, the film was actually produced through the auspices...
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1951
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Based on a true story (believe it or don't!), The Wooden Horse is set in a wartime German prison camp. It being the duty for...
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1950
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Trumble
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1949
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In 1948, "The Archers" -- the writing and directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- had completed The Red...
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1949
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1949
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When a young lady is called to her Aunt's estate to help her recuperate from illness, she finds that the real problem is not...
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