The British town of Warlock is scandalized by Hazell's cottage-turned-tearoom with the local inspector found in a...
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1964
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This microcosmic comedy/drama is set in the kitchen of a swank London restaurant. The kitchen's unofficial father-figure is...
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1961
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This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a...
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1959
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Three Men in a Boat is the second film version of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. The titular trio is played by popular...
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1957
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This not-so-subtle variation on Val Lewton's classic Cat People (1942) is enlivened by the presence of exotic...
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1957
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1957
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Off-his-trolley concert pianist Stephen Murray craves both money and publicity. He hopes to attain both by kidnapping...
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1957
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In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery,...
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1957
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The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own...
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1956
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In this suspense film, a woman journeys home to Great Britain to attend the funeral of her parents, who according to the...
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1956
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Wicked as They Come stars Arlene Dahl as Kathy Allen, whose sour attitude on life has been formed by a sexual assault in her...
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1956
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In this crime drama, the trouble begins when a crook cheats his buddies at a dog track, stuffs his loot into a suitcase, and...
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1956
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The British The Black Rider was inevitably listed as a "mystery" or "drama" in TV Guide back in the 1950s and 1960s. Don't...
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1954
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Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen...
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1954
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In this actioner, a Yankee charter pilot finds himself entangled with art thieves who have just stolen the priceless object...
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1954
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The first Ealing Studios comedy shot in color, Titfield Thunderbolt takes place in a tiny British village serviced by a...
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1953
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In this crime drama an American is assigned to guard a US art exhibit in London to protect one of da Vinci's most priceless...
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1953
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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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Released in the U.S. as Terror on a Train, the British MGM production Time Bomb is brief, to the point, and so suspenseful it...
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1953
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Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist...
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1951
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1948
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Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British...
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1946
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This 1949 British film told a very plausible story about a triangle between a woman, her soldier husband, and her new lover....
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1945
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In this British comedy, set in Tangleton, a small English village, a handyman finds himself in trouble when he inadvertently...
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1944
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In this romance, a young woman gets into a real mess when her mother begins meddling in her romantic life by conning her...
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1944
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The Caryl Brahams-S. J. Simon novel The Elephant is White is the basis for the British Give us the Moon. Comic actor Vic...
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1944
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Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of...
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1943
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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The tumultuous life of 18th-century composer Handel is chronicled in this dramatic biography. The story begins when the...
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1942
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In this drama, an amiable steel worker suddenly changes when he becomes a foreman. Suddenly Mr. Nice Guy becomes Mr. Hard...
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1941
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1930s British radio show hits with its music acts are the focus of a rivalry between manufacturers who would like to sponsor...
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1939
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A. J. Cronin's novel was brought to the screen by director Carol Reed. The film is set in a northern England mining town (far...
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1939
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Rex Harrison plays a young Englishman who suffers periodic bouts of amnesia. When the plane he is riding in crashes, Harrison...
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1939
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In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for...
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1938
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In this comedy, a man becomes the owner of a race horse, at least he thought it was a race horse. As he watches the beast...
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1938
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1938
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This British musical comedy was designed as a vehicle for popular 1930s bandleader Ambrose, here cast as "himself". The plot,...
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1938
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Visiting barber Nelson Keys becomes entangled in a revolution in the land of Ruritania in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1937
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As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as...
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1937
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The enigmatic Charles Frank, who wrote and directed several fascinating British productions before seemingly falling off the...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Romance in Flanders is the American title of the British Lost on the Western Front. Set during WWI, the first part of the...
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1937
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Dave Connor (Robert Newton) is a fixer for the London mob, who goes against his boss Terrell (Charles Oliver) for a big...
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1937
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With a plot that twists like a plumber's snake, this is more a story of family secrets than anything else, in which the...
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1937
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In this remake of the 1931 film, an informer is plagued by the three ex-cons he was responsible for sending to prison. They...
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1936
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Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife...
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1936
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1936
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In this musical melodrama, a young man's ascent from humble sailor to ship captain is chronicled. His career is going...
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1936
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In this comedy, two Cockney sanitation workers get an unexpected bonus when they encounter a rare book that was accidentally...
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1936
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Rival competition and a father's disapproval cause little interference with the romance of race car designer Robert Douglas...
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1935
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In this racy comedy, a harem girl desiring to escape her life, stows away on the boat of a wealthy archaeologist as it sails...
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1935
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In this drama, a retired clerk finds it difficult to escape his nattering bad-tempered wife. Just to get away, the fellow...
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1935
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Not to be confused with the prominent British film Never Too Late to Mend, which was released in the U.S. in 1937 as Never...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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In this satire, two mythical countries decide to bolster their flagging economies by declaring war on each other. The...
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1934
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Director Dick Lester does an astute job of orchestrating several rock 'n roll and jazz performers in this musical drama...
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1934
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Freedom of the Seas is sometimes listed as French stage director Marcel Varnel's first film; it's actually his first British...
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1934
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1934
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In this crime drama, two gangs of criminals compete to find a cache of purloined jewels. Both gangs really want them and use...
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1934
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Matheson Lang stars as a brilliant British barrister, about to retire due to ill health. He reluctantly agrees to take on the...
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1934
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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While U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan (James Dunn) is on leave in San Pedro, he unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek...
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1932
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The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor...
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1932
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In this African action-adventure film, an explorer becomes an avaricious murderer after he learns of an invaluable cache of...
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1932
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The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn...
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1932
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Beautiful composer Laura Ramsey (Elissa Landi) is the principal suspect when her lover, philandering singer Victor Legrand...
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1932
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1931
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Bill Harper (Will Rogers), a cattle baron turned diplomat, is assigned to the middle European country of Sylvania, which is...
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1931
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Before he settled down to a long career as a jovial character actor, Lloyd Corrigan functioned as screenwriter and director...
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1931
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A businessman and his partner rush off to Paris in hopes of stopping their children from getting married. Unfortunately, the...
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1928
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Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the...
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1928
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Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a...
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1928
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1928
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Runaway Girls was the first directorial credit for Mark Sandrich, who would still have to serve a long apprenticeship in...
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1928
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