A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal of a poor Captain in the...
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1949
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Not a film about scientific research, The Guinea Pig (US title: The Outsider) is the story of an incipient "affirmative...
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1948
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A gambler receives the legendarily troublesome magical monkey's paw and is told that he can have three wishes. Not knowing...
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1948
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1948
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In postwar London, Chicago-raised fashion reporter Linda Medbury, working for a British newspaper, runs across a crime story...
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1948
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Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from...
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1948
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In this musical, a chimeny-sweep is bequeathed an aging hotel and decides to staff it with his former army buddies. Trouble...
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1946
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The French Revolution provides the setting for the British musical. The story centers on the notorious rebel Robespierre who...
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1946
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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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If nothing else, the British melodrama Night Boat to Dublin had topicality going for it. As Captain David Grant, Robert...
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1946
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When blind veteran Whiley realizes that the love of his life, Brook, is in love with Griffith, Whiley bows out gracefully in...
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1945
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In this crime drama two brothers in the IRA become rivals when they fall in love with the same woman--their adopted...
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1945
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In this British costume musical, Carol Raye plays Empress Maria, a young woman of noble blood who has fallen in love with...
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1945
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1944
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Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of...
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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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In this espionage film, a Danish double-agent is assigned by the Nazis to sneak into to England and abscond with the secret...
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1943
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This fascinating, fact-based docudrama chronicles the patriotic efforts of the London Philharmonic to overcome numerous...
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1943
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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 supernatural drama, a college student finds himself fixated upon thoughts of his late lover. Unable to forget her,...
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1941
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Cottage to Let is a taut British wartime spy thriller, laced with moments of genuinely hilarious comedy. The "maguffin" in...
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1941
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This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and...
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1941
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Wings and the Woman was a reverent (read: dull) British biopic about pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson. Anna Neagle portrays Amy,...
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1941
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When the bagpipes play, death will follow in this spooky comedy set in a dank and creepy Scottish castle during WW II. It...
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1941
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Filmed in England at Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios facilities, This Was Paris stars American actors (and current British...
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1941
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In this comedy, a groom's constant jealousy creates domestic turmoil for his devoted bride. More trouble comes when he buys...
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Drunk
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1941
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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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In this WW II propaganda film, a German doctor, highly praised by his Nazi employers, finds it increasingly difficult to...
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1941
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The old reliable plot device known as premarital hanky-panky was the basis of the Esther McCracken stage play Quiet Wedding....
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1941
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In this patriotic drama, the courage of a German pastor is presented as he makes a public stand against Nazi philosophies...
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1940
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Clive Brook heads the cast of this low-key British war film. Brook plays the skipper of a tiny English cruiser, performing...
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1940
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In this suspense film, a tormented young man plots his revenge against his abuser. He decides that he will murder the fellow...
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Old Dan
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1940
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The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is...
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Axel Skold/Erik Skold
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1940
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Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted...
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John Aloysius Evan
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1940
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In ancient Bagdad, Abu, a good-natured young thief (Sabu), befriends the deposed king Ahmad (John Justin) as both are...
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1940
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In this lively British WW II comedy, the Nazis kidnap a hapless farmhand after they mistakenly identify him as one of their...
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1939
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The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover...
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1939
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This was the first sound production of A.E.W. Mason's classic adventure novel, which was brought to the screen three times in...
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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 courtroom drama, a remake of a 1931 film, a woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in...
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1939
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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Groom
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1939
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So since when have crimes been committed in a house with all the lights on? This chop-licking British melodrama stars the...
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1939
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This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand...
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1939
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British musical comedy star Gracie Fields made a bid for stardom in the U. S. with this lighthearted story. Music hall...
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1938
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In this romantic adventure, set during the Spanish Civil War, a journalist falls in love with a young woman and begs her to...
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1938
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The Loves of Mme. DuBarry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The...
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1938
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In this crime drama, an insurance detective goes undercover to try to bring in a jewel thief. He poses as a gangster and...
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Brainie
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1938
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The WW1 melodrama I Married a Spy was originally released in England in 1937 under the title Secret Lives (the title of the...
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1937
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1937
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A clergyman is deeply dismayed to discover that his parishioners are more interested in investigating his past than to...
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1936
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A "silly ass" saves the day in this adventure set in an old English house. The trouble begins when the ass, a mild-mannered...
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1936
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In this anti-war drama, set in England during its Depression, a demobilized major from WW I, tries to a veteran's reunion...
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1936
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The Alexander and Zoltan Korda production Forget Me Not serves as a splendid showcase for that matchless Italian tenor...
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1936
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This period drama is based on the relationship between 18th-century British stage stars Peg Woffington and David Garrick....
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1936
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This interesting early docu-drama offers a complete chronicle of the history of aviation from prehistoric times through the...
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1936
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Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer...
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Spy
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1936
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Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred...
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1935
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Lilian Harvey, the toast of two continents, is her usual radiant self in Invitation to the Waltz. Harvey plays Jenny Peachey...
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1935
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In this musical, set in the mythical country of Ruritania, a princess finds herself exiled by revolutionaries before she can...
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1935
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Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens' The Old...
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Quilp
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1935
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1934
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1934
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In this costume drama, Colonel Blood, a notorious Irish patriot/outlaw, tries to steal the British Crown Jewels. He is...
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1934
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In this romance, a jilted soccer player decides to heal his broken heart by going on a vacation to France. There he and a...
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1933
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In this drama a farmer wins a sheepdog competition and gets to keep his land. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted,...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, a popular German performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister innocent of murder....
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1933
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1933
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1933
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In this British farce, set during a big Christmas party, someone breaks into a save and steals a valuable necklace. This...
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1932
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This is an early British version of Bizet's classic opera about the doomed love between a gypsy and a soldier. It is one of...
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1931
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In this teary drama, a married couple remember their lives together. Heart-wrenching flashbacks ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1931
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There were so many anti-war films in the early 1930s that a reviewer for the British Suspense complained that the genre was...
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Scruffy
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1930
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That notorious criminal "Flash Jack" is at large in London, striking terror in the hearts of everyone (though just why is...
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1930
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