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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An emotive drama in which a dairy farmer (Anthony Hopkins) is faced with ruin, brought on by the vagaries of European law and...
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1989
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Adapted from true events, a high-level government official is threatened by his past escapades, so a crack team gets on the...
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1989
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Part of the long-running British mystery series based on the stories by Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: Last Seen Wearing was...
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1988
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In the conclusion of the two-part story "The Awakening," the citizens of Little Holcombe seem to be taking their reenactment...
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1984
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1984
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Set in India during World War II, this fair action drama relies heavily on the good acting talent gathered to convey its...
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1981
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As adapted from R.F. Delderfield's bestselling novel of the same title, the thirteen-part, 11-hour BBC miniseries A...
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1979
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In the third episode of the four-part story "The Hand of Fear," the newly regenerated Kastrian criminal Eldrad (Judith Paris)...
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Prof. Owen Watson
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1976
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In the second episode of the four-part story "The Hand of Fear," the fossilized hand which was found by Sarah...
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Prof. Owen Watson
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1976
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In this upbeat children's film, an enterprising pack of children decide to run the newspaper of an ailing father. Mayhem...
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1968
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In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London...
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1966
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Britain's Merton Park Productions briefly put its Edgar Wallace series on the back burner for the 1965 sci-fier Invasion. Per...
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1965
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In this British crime drama a small-town detective gets tired of Scotland Yard's constant meddling and takes a...
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1965
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This farcical British comedy follows the eccentric misadventures of a family who have their own rather unusual way of doing...
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1965
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This British adventure is set in mid-19th century India where a half-caste officer is court-martialed for cowardice. After...
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1965
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This British WWII adventure film concerns a woman trapped in a prisoner of war camp and hidden by her fellow POWs from their...
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1965
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1963
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In this drama, a sick little girl with a rare blood type desperately needs a blood transfusion to live. The search begins...
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1962
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In this confusing drama, the IRA, intrigue, psychiatric analysis, and a young man framed for murder are thrown together in a...
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1962
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Billie Whitelaw dominates this crime melodrama, not as a criminal but as vengeful bystander Jackie Parker. Parker's husband,...
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1962
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In this fast-paced actioner, an aging race-car driver finds that he is losing his competitive edge. He tries racing under...
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1961
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Versatile director Roy Baker tackles the question of racial bias in this dated but effective drama, a working-class version...
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1961
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In this crime drama a teenager gets in over his head when he joins a violent street gang that beats a black person to death....
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1961
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The weak story in The Bulldog Breed is an excuse to tie together a long series of funny episodes, slapstick incidents, and...
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1960
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One of a small cluster of creepy films to come from England's Amalgamated Studios in the late '60s, this lesser entry details...
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1960
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In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then...
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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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Max Bygraves, a popular British comedian who once in a while entertained thoughts of a dramatic career, is costarred with...
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1958
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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 title character in this fact-based POW drama is Franz von Werra, played by Hardy Kruger. Shot down early in the war,...
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1957
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The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...
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1956
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Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through...
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1956
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A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard...
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1955
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An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are...
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1955
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them is our candidate for the most dramatic title of any British World War II film. Happily, the film...
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1954
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Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred...
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1954
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Postman Evans helps 3 women who wish for better lives after throwing coins into a wishing well in this drama. ~ Rovi...
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1954
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The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudonym for the blacklisted...
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1954
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Hell Below Zero was one of several 1950s films made in Britain by Hollywood's Alan Ladd. The star plays Duncan Craig, who...
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1954
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Based on a novel by John Brophy, Turn the Key Softly takes place within a single day. The film follows the exploits of three...
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1953
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James Hayter plays the chairman of a British football club. Hayter's fondness for gambling results in his involvement with...
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1953
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In this seagoing military drama set in World War II, Lt. Comdr. Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is made captain of a British corvette,...
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1953
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When Lippert Pictures first released the British River Beat in 1954, the ad campaign made a big deal over the fact that its...
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1953
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Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in...
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1952
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In this crime drama, a small-time thief steals so he can provide his material girl with the luxuries she craves. One day he...
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1952
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In this comedy, a funeral director, thinking himself quite clever, hides his cash in his wife's girdle. Trouble ensues when...
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1952
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Rona Anderson plays a wealthy young Englishwoman, long estranged from her father. She returns home when papa dies,...
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1951
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1950
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Ian Carmichael returns as upper-crust sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey in this made-for-TV mystery based on the novel by Dorothy L....
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