The second British TV miniseries based on the semi-autobiographical stories of H.E. Bates, My Uncle Silas 2 was, like its...
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2001
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The ninth feature-length episode in the British mystery series Dalziel and Pascoe, "Child's Play" is set, as usual, in...
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1998
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The British series Wokenwell had something in common with the whimsical small-town saga Ballykissangel, albeit with a more...
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1997
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Once upon a time, pursuing wolves frighten horses drawing a carriage, and it tumbles down a hill. Dying, the pregnant woman...
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1997
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In this comic British caper film, an LA computer whiz finds herself recruited by an eccentric British lawyer who wants her...
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1995
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Monty Python's Michael Palin plays an Oxford don with acute female trouble in American Friends. While on holiday in the Swiss...
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1993
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Helen Mirren delivers a standout performance in this TV miniseries as Jane Tennison, a London police detective. Tennison is...
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1993
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Emile Ardolino directed this treacly sequel to Three Men and a Baby. The middle-aged trio of doting fathers -- Peter the...
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1990
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In this British drama, the sorts of Britons who live in colonial encampments outside of Britain tend to be the most...
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1990
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1989
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A British production created by Monty Python alumni, this film concerns an inept chocolate-factory executive...
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1988
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Peter Greenaway wrote and directed this typically surreal and iconoclastic black comedy. Three generations of women who share...
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1988
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Gene Wilder directed and wrote (along with Terence Marsh) this mild farce which is a pale reminder of Wilder's glory days in...
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1986
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Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second...
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1985
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1984
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Part of a television series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this episode depicts one of England's most beloved Kings....
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1980
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1979
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An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular...
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1977
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The musical Mr. Quilp was based on one of Dickens' grimmest works, The Old Curiosity Shop, which has as its highlight the...
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1975
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The Boy Friend began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was...
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Percy Parkhill
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1971
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A Lancashire lass refuses to eat the meal her mother has prepared for her. Her thick-eared father (James Mason) insists that...
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1970
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This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard...
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1970
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Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director...
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1968
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Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a...
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1967
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One of the lower points of Joan Crawford's latter-day career curve (though nothing to compare with the later embarrassment of...
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1967
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In this lively British satire, a plucky milkman who works for an independent family-run dairy fights to keep a large trust...
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Austin
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1965
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Pere Ubu
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1965
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Ken Russell's first feature film is a slight comedy about a stodgy British resort. Gormleigh-by-the-Sea is a holiday...
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The Mayor
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1964
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1962
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Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but...
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1962
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"All I want is a good time. The rest is propaganda." That's the philosophy of archetypal British "angry young man" Arthur...
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1961
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1960
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