In 1994, the British Film Institute commissioned a set of films to mark the centenary of the movies. They would trace the...
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1995
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Director Christian Blackwood has brought forth more than 40 documentaries in 25 years, most of them specializing in artists'...
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1986
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In this comedy, an even-tempered fireman with a happily tepid life, finds his peaceful world disrupted when he becomes...
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1965
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This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling...
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1959
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Douglas Sirk directed this doomed World War II love story, seen from the German side of the war, as filtered through a...
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1958
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1957
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Like many of his best works, filmmaker Douglas Sirk's Interlude is a remake of an earlier Universal soap opera. In this case,...
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1957
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Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson....
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1956
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1956
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There's Always Tomorrow is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife...
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1956
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This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby...
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1956
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One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated...
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1955
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Rock Hudson stars as Michael Martin, a naive and impetuous young would-be rebel in 1815 Ireland, who turns to robbery in his...
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1955
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1954
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1954
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the...
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1954
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An outdoor adventure musical comedy, Take Me to Town features Ann Sheridan as Vermilion O'Toole, a barroom singer with a...
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1953
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All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband...
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1953
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Pity poor ex-GI Alvah Morrell (Tony Curtis). While on his honeymoon with perky Lee Kingshead (Piper Laurie), he comes down...
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1952
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Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat...
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Since its lapse into public domain in 1978, First Legion has joined Love Affair and Algiers as the most readily available of...
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1951
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Charlotte Hastings' West End stage hit Bonaventure was adroitly translated to the American screen as Thunder on the Hill. The...
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1951
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1951
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The trendy elegance of director Douglas Sirk's later big-budget soap operas is nowhere to be found in Sirk's Atomic-Age...
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1950
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1949
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Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a...
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1949
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1948
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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1947
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A Scandal in Paris is a liberal adaptation of the life story of Eugène François Vidocq, who was French prefect of police...
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1946
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Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as...
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1944
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in...
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1943
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Lil Dagover, appointed Germany's "Actress of the State" in 1937, upholds her lofty title in the romantic melodrama Dreiklang....
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1938
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1935
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1935
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