Described by one critic as an inspired update of The Thin Man, the lighthearted British comedy-mystery series The...
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1985
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Based on a true story, the three-part British miniseries Operation Julie detailed a massive drug "sting" conducted by British...
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1985
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Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in...
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1984
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Presented in a series of ostensibly farcical or irreverent episodes without any particular connection to each other, and...
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Stalin
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1983
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1982
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This caper film stars Martin Sheen as Stephen Booker, an unemployed American architect in London who needs to jump-start his...
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Gardner
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1981
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North
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1981
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Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular...
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Sir Horace Blatt
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1981
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Perhaps inspired by the success of PBS' Shakespeare Plays series, Bard Productions Ltd. Came out with this diverting if not...
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1981
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Jim Bishop's minute-by-minute account of the events leading up to the Crucifixion was the basis for the three-hour TV movie...
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1980
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1980
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The deeper, broader issues behind the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest ballet dancers and choreographers, Vaslav...
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1980
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Peter Brook, one of the pioneers of the experimental theatre movement of the 1950s and 1960s, was the director of Meetings...
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1979
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1978
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Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In...
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Frank Strang
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1977
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Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback"...
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Alec Drummond
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1976
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James Herriot wrote several well-loved books about his experiences as a small-town veterinarian in the Yorkshire countryside...
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Siegfried Farnon
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1976
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Made for television, Love Among the Ruins was a precious one-time-only collaboration between stars Katharine Hepburn and...
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1975
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Priuli
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1975
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Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the...
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1974
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National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair is an antic filmization of Peter Nichols' play, originally staged by Britain's...
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1973
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1973
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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1972
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Also released under the title Something to Hide, this film follows the slow disintegration of a man's (Peter Finch) life due...
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1972
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Dr. John H. Watson
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1970
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While Olde England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred (David Hemmings) is commencing to join the...
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Asher
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1969
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Killikrates (John Richardson) is the ruler of the city of Kuma, an idyllic civilization seemingly frozen in another time. In...
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George
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1968
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Philbrick
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1968
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A motor excursion with a childhood friend turns deadly for Emma when she arrives at the remote community of Little Storping...
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Mickle
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1967
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Life on a remote Greek resort island is forever changed when two atomic bombs are accidentally dropped there when a NATO...
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Pilot
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1967
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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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Smokey
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1967
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1966
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In this French comedy, one little white lie leads to a series of whoppers as a Frenchman visiting London soon discovers. The...
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1966
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When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea...
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1966
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The Informers of the title are a loose grouping of underworld types, upon whom Scotland Yard inspector Nigel Patrick depends...
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Charlie Ruskin
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1965
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Pat Boone plays Stephen Cole, a young Irish man who believes himself to be worthy of a promotion from his employer. Believing...
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1964
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In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind...
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1963
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Maurice Braithwaite
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1963
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In this western-style film, set in South Africa, circa the late 1900s, a local police sergeant finds himself pursued by the...
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1962
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Based on the true story of Sergeant-Major Charlie Coward (played by Dirk Bogarde) during World War II, this conventional...
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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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