A Ghost in Monte Carlo is based on one of the millions of romance novels penned by Barbara Cartland. True to the Cartland...
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1990
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Originally made for British television, Dunroamin' Rising is graced with a topnotch veteran cast and a solid premise. The...
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1988
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Elizabeth Sellars starred in this four-part British "middle-aged angst" miniseries. No sooner had the story gotten under way...
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1984
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John Mortimer's autobiographical play Voyage 'Round My Father was given a class-A TV adaptation in 1984. Mortimer, best known...
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1984
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Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class...
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Mother
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1973
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Steed pays a visit to some friends at their country estate, only to discover that the house has been taken over by enemy...
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1969
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A murderous mummy is on the loose and it's got the Hammer Films stamp on it, but this tame terror flick never gets the...
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Barbara Preston
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1967
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This film adaptation of Edith Bagnold's play stars Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, the secretive new governess of British...
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Olivia
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1964
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1963
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The Webster Boy is a case of a weak script and strong actors combining for a mediocre tale about a love triangle....
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Margaret Webster
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1962
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Future "Phantom of the Opera" star Michael Crawford) appears in this episode as Tony Hudson, a young medical student who...
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1961
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This crime caper based on a legendary robbery stars Aldo Ray as Norgate, the ringleader of the thieves out to steal a bundle...
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Iris Muldoon
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1960
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This shockingly violent yet engaging crime drama is about a bitter battle for survival in the lingering poverty of post-World...
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Anne Cummings
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1960
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In this airborne disaster movie, a has-been brilliant scientist plants a bomb on a transatlantic jet to exact revenge upon a...
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1959
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Flood Tide can be described as The Children's Hour gone ballistic. Michel Ray is David Gordon a sweet-faced little boy who...
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1958
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A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
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Gina Lasalle
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1958
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Based on a best-selling Australian novel by D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee stars Peter Finch as an Aussie "swagman," or poacher,...
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Marge Macauley
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1957
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Inspired in part by David Lean'sThe Sound Barrier, Decision Against Time stars Jack Hawkins as a bold but cautious test...
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Mary Mitchell
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1957
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Though his Hollywood career had petered out, Tom Conway continued to star in British films throughout the 1950s. In Last Man...
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Daphne Strood
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1956
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The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first...
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1955
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1955
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The Barefoot Contessa begins at the funeral of Ava Gardner, a former Spanish peasant, cabaret dancer and movie star, who at...
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1954
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1954
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Nigel Patrick plays a suave but dead-serious British narcotics agent in this sporadically exciting crime melodrama. Patrick...
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Rita Compton
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1954
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Robert Beatty stars in this rapid-fire British programmer as an innocent bystander mixed up with drug smugglers. When things...
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1953
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1953
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John Mills followed his successful Gentle Gunman with the tensioned-filled meller The Long Memory. Convicted for a murder he...
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Fay Lowther
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1953
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During the Irish "troubles", an IRA gunman (John Mills) wearies of the constant violence. He begins to preach a philosophy of...
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Maureen Fagan
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1952
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Magda Lloyd
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1952
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In this action-filled crime drama, a young woman goes out to bring the criminals who robbed and murdered her father, a...
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1952
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Teeny-tiny Hammer pictures built its reputation on second-feature melodramas before graduating to gore-encrusted horror...
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Carol Graham
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1951
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This British psychological melodrama stars Michael Gough as a man who is lost in the Brazilian jungles and presumed dead. He...
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1951
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David Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th...
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1950
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Linda (Elizabeth Sellars) is driven to the breaking point by her no-good husband. One day, he pushes her too far, and she...
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Linda
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1950
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The all-purpose title Floodtide was trotted out once more for this 1949 British drama. Gordon Jackson plays a lowly shipyard...
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1949
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