Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of...
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1974
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This horror movie, the third and final entry in "The Fly" series, features a failed teleportation device, a mad scientist, a...
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1965
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Based on a whimsical novel by Paul Gallico, Disney's Three Lives of Thomasina is an imaginative tale of a resourceful cat....
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1963
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Going undercover, Cathy Gale joins the board of directors of a highly suspicious munitions firm. It's all part of a master...
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1962
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Suffering under the tyranny of his nasty boss, Sylvester Tupper (Wendell Holmes), investment broker Herbert J. Wiggam...
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1962
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In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to...
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1960
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This religious epic chronicles the rise to power of a humble but courageous shepherd boy who usurps a ruler and becomes king...
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1960
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Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a...
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1960
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Breaking with their usual videotape tradition, the producers of NBC television's Hallmark Hall of Fame decided to commit its...
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1960
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1959
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Let's Be Happy is an updated remake of Jeannie (1941), one of the most likable British comedies of the 1940s. The premise is...
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1957
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Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who...
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1956
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One of the many inspirational true stories told about WWII, this is the story of Douglas Bader, an undauntable character who...
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1956
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The British The Dam Busters is the story of the development and utilization of the "bouncing bombs" in World War II....
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1955
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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1954
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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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1953
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Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records...
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1952
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This deliberately paced British film about a black rural priest and a white landowner whose paths cross in 1940s South...
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James Jarvis
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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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If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then...
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1946
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The title is whimsical, but the storyline isn't. Googie Withers plays the frustrated wife of a 1880s Brighton tavern keeper,...
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1945
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In this weird crime drama the murder of a ventriloquist is solved by a midget who goes undercover as a dummy. ~ Sandra...
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1943
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This fascinating, fact-based docudrama chronicles the patriotic efforts of the London Philharmonic to overcome numerous...
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1943
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Wings and the Woman was a reverent (read: dull) British biopic about pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson. Anna Neagle portrays Amy,...
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1941
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Penn of Pennsylvania was the original British title of the economical biopic The Courageous Mr. Penn. Clifford Evans stars as...
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1941
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In this socially conscious drama, an eccentric, wealthy young man impersonates a hobo in order to save a flophouse that is...
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1941
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The old reliable plot device known as premarital hanky-panky was the basis of the Esther McCracken stage play Quiet Wedding....
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1941
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In this British WW II comedy, a brave member of the Police War Reserve eventually becomes a hero when he exposes a conspiracy...
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1940
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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1940
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An innocent country maiden living in the early 19th century is forcibly betrothed to a gambling louse after her father gets...
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1940
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1939
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In an unusual move for a mere program picture, RKO Radio filmed A Saint in London on location in England, using a largely...
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1939
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In this complicated comedy chronicles a caper involving jewel thieves and an unlucky parking lot jockey whom they mistake...
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1938
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Following a string of mysterious robberies, Scotland Yard assigns its best detective, Inspector Elk, to bring the crooks to...
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1938
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In this comedy, a scientist endeavors to turn into a caveman after drinking a secret formula. Instead he becomes a child. In...
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1938
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This musical features many popular ballads from the 1880s as it tells the tale of a cabaret singer and her boozy husband who...
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1938
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Sir Robert Peel
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1938
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In this melodrama, a crooner becomes pals with a gangster and saves him from his own vindictive moll (she is also the...
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1937
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April Blossoms is based loosely on incidents in the life of composer Franz Schubert, here portrayed by legendary tenor...
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1937
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The WW1 melodrama I Married a Spy was originally released in England in 1937 under the title Secret Lives (the title of the...
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Henri
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1937
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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1937
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In this Paris-set comedy, a clerk gets a chance of a lifetime when he is unable to deposit his firm's receipts before the...
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1937
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This is the first entry in what became a long-running British comedy series. It is the story of a wealthy match maker who...
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1937
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1937
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Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and...
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1937
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The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the...
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1937
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In this crime drama, an actress must give up her lover, the son of a prominent banker, because she has a scandalous past....
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1937
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In this drama, set in an office, two veterans are hired after the war by the father of a friend who was killed in battle....
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1936
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In this drama, a deliciously nasty villain endeavors to steal a successful shipping firm from an honest man. To get the...
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Lord Dymchurch
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1936
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1936
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In this tuneful and sentimental romance, a young architect from France falls in love with his employer's daughter....
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1936
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H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future...
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1936
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Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer...
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1936
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The Alexander and Zoltan Korda production Forget Me Not serves as a splendid showcase for that matchless Italian tenor...
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Arnold
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1936
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Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along...
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1936
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Starring Seymour Hicks as the title character, Scrooge is a faithful adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel...
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1935
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Originally released in 1932, Men of Tomorrow represented the film debut of Robert Donat. The story follows a young,...
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1935
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Lilian Harvey, the toast of two continents, is her usual radiant self in Invitation to the Waltz. Harvey plays Jenny Peachey...
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1935
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Based on the book by Edgar Wallace and produced by London Film Productions, the adventure drama Sanders of the River is an...
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1935
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1934
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In this thriller, the co-owner of a rubber plantation finds himself in trouble after he rejects the advances of his...
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1934
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It's difficult to believe that Sigmund Romberg's treacly operetta Blossom Time was ever produced anywhere outside of a high...
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1934
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In this drama, a clerk and another get involved in an easy-money scam. Unfortunately things go horribly awry and the clerk...
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1934
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In this interesting drama, an opera singer, falsely convicted of murdering his wife's lover, must escape from Devil's...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, a young woman rebels against her betrothal and runs away to Paris. While on the train she meets and falls...
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Mons. Marquand
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1933
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In this lively romance, an aristocratic agent from the Foreign Office finds himself falling for an enigmatic woman during...
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1932
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In this drama a Chinese mandarin admits that he stole a secret treaty. He does this to protect the true thief who is his...
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1932
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Muller becomes the housekeeper of the man she loves, a member of Berlin society, in this romantic comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1932
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1932
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The notorious Dreyfus case that sent tremors throughout France in the late 1800s is the subject of this early British sound...
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1931
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Col. Picquart
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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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