An ageing alcoholic falls off the wagon as her children watch in agony in this family drama from first-time writer/director...
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Dermot
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2012
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Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and...
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2004
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The classic tale of swashbuckling adventure by the senior Alexandre Dumas comes to the screen in its umpteenth incarnation,...
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2002
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Based on the best-selling novel by Irish comedian Spike Milligan, Puckoon is a political satire about a town cut in half by...
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2002
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A local bingo emporium finds itself competing against the big boys in this easygoing comedy. The La Scala is a theater in...
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2000
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Hot on the heels of the BBC's multipart 1999 adaptation of Charles Dickens' semiautobiographical novel David Copperfield came...
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2000
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Based on a true story, this two-part British miniseries chronicled the sorry career of Victorian-era doctor -- and...
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1998
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Keith Allen stars as notorious Victorian Era serial killer Dr. William Palmer, an outwardly upright physician and racehorse...
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1998
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In this comedy about human foibles, taxi driver Malcolm has been happily married to two women, Natalie and Norma, for nine...
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1998
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Like Tchaikovsky and other classical geniuses, Franz Schubert buried a dark and somewhat disturbing lifestyle beneath a...
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1997
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Originally aired in 1996, NeverWhere is a six-part BBC fantasy miniseries written by comic book author Neil Gaiman (The...
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1996
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Stella Gibbons' popular novel was published in 1932, and it has been adapted twice for British television, first as a...
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1995
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Young Bastian again seeks refuge from the problems of the real world in the mystical land of Fantasia in this second,...
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Mr. Coreander (librarian)
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1994
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This European historical saga presents the true tale of intrigue, regicide, incest, and insanity on which Shakespeare based...
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1994
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Dr. Haggard
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1994
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Hotel Room is a made-for-cable anthology, featuring three separate stories that are all set in the same New York hotel room...
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1993
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This drama is adapted from Dicken's unfinished novel and centers upon a choirmaster who is insanely jealous of his fiancee....
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1993
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Written by George Eliot (of Silas Marner fame), the 1859 novel Adam Bede trenchantly addresses the issues of ingrained social...
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1992
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Karl Rheinberg
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1991
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Inspector Morse (John Thaw) and Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately) dig up another mystery in this episode of the popular British...
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1991
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1990
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In this British drama, the sorts of Britons who live in colonial encampments outside of Britain tend to be the most...
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The official
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1990
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The three-part British-Australian TV production The Paper Man could be described as the miniseries equivalent of...
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1990
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An unusually principled young Viking becomes increasing uncomfortable with all the killing and plundering that goes with the...
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1989
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A British production created by Monty Python alumni, this film concerns an inept chocolate-factory executive...
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Graham Chumley
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1988
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A group of former CIA agents team up to ransom the entire world by staging an international crisis in the Orient. Only one...
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1988
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The romantic drama Maschenka is a loose adaptation of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov done in a style reminiscent of a...
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Podtyagin
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1986
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Set in the 1830s, this historical drama stars Robin Soans as George Loveless, a Methodist minister whose flock is a group of...
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1986
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Walt Disney Pictures produced this ambitious, animated tale of sorcery and swordfighting. Taran (voice of Grant Bardsley), is...
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Dallben
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1985
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Also released under the title Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear, this film follows the adventures of young John...
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1985
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Based on a novel by Molly Keane, this literary drama focuses on the mutually antagonistic lives of three aging Irish sisters...
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1985
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This TV adaptation of George Elliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner was one of the rare single-episode presentations of PBS'...
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Squire Cass
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1985
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Diminutive Webster star Emmanuel Lewis is virtually the whole show in this made-for-TV update of Oliver Twist. Upset when his...
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1985
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1984
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Firestarter is based on a bone-chilling novel by Steven King. Drew Barrymore plays Charlie McGee the young daughter of Andrew...
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1984
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This made-for-TV children's film (from the Faerie Tale Theatre) concerns five princesses who wear out the soles of their...
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1984
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This evocative look at a 1914 ocean voyage to scatter the ashes of a world-famous opera singer (Janet Suzman) is by turns...
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Orlando
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1983
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Meant to be a whimsical sword-and-sorcery film about a prince out to save his princess from the jaws of the Beast, Krull has...
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Ynyr
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1983
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Jean Stapleton stars as Eleanor Roosevelt in this made-for-TV biography, first telecast May 12, 1982. The film recounts Mrs....
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1982
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Producer/director/star Clint Eastwood takes his sweet time getting Firefox started. Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a...
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Kenneth Aubrey
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1982
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1981
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John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a...
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1980
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This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege...
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1979
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Originally airing in England in 1977, the haunting mini-series Children of the Stones takes place in an British village...
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1977
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Appointment with a Killer began life as a British TV movie, then took up residence in the US as part of ABC's...
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1975
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When a killer leaves the body of an actress under a tree, a private detective's wife sets out to identify the killer. ~ Rovi...
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1975
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This horrendous horror spoof stars David Niven, who manages to keep a stiff upper lip as the title character. The Count, by...
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1975
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1974
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This feature-length dramatization of James Herriot's best-seller was issued by EMI as a big-screen theatrical release in...
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1974
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1974
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Sarah Sutton stars as Alice in this adaptation (produced for British television) of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy of a...
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Humpty Dumpty
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1974
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You never heard of this one? It might be because Romance with a Double Bass isn't a feature film at all, but a 40-minute...
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Maestro Lakeyich
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1974
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The final installment in Hammer Studios' Dracula series is also the least interesting of the lot. A fairly direct follow-up...
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Prof. Keeley
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1973
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Charleton Heston directed, wrote, and starred in this adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama...
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1972
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1972
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Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing...
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1971
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1970
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Two 20 year old twins have a bizarre incestuous relationship. Julian (Martin Potter) and his sister Jacki (Judy Geeson) carry...
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1970
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1970
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1970
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Someone is sexually assaulting and (usually) killing the students of a girls' school. There are entirely too many suspects to...
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1970
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The key image of this film occurs early on, as a hideous monster removes its face, only to reveal itself as Baron...
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Prof. Richter
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1969
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Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a British secret agent called in to investigate the murder of a suspected influence...
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1969
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom stars Shirley MacLaine as Harriet Blossom, the wife of a moderately successful British brassiere...
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Detective Sgt. Dylan
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1968
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This 1967 version of Thomas Hardy's novel should have done better at the box office than it did, given the star power of...
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1967
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The Avengers' fifth season came to a rousing finale with this episode. Steed and Emma are impersonated by a pair of enemy...
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1967
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The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is...
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1967
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Adapted from his own Royal Shakespeare Company production of Peter Weiss' play entitled The Persecution and Assassination of...
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Cucurucu
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1966
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