This sci-fi fantasy film was supposedly inspired by a line from an Edgar Allen Poe poem. It is also the last film made by...
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1965
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The last of Margaret Rutherford's "Miss Marple" films, Murder Ahoy is the only one of the series not based on an...
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1964
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In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind...
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1963
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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the...
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1962
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1960
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Albert Lieven plays German general Erwin Rommel in this British war drama set in Libya and Egypt. A spy working on behalf of...
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1960
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Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the...
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1960
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Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose...
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1959
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The eponymous Spaniard--actually a Britisher of Spanish heritage--is Basil Dignam, falsely convicted of murder. As he is led...
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1958
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In this crime drama, a Yankee rocket scientist stationed in Great Britain becomes an undercover investigator when he...
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1958
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1956
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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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Postmark for Danger was filmed in England, where it was released as Portrait of Alison. Terry Moore stars as an American...
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1956
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In this drama, a construction contractor gets into trouble when he inadvertently receives some stolen property. This makes...
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1956
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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1954
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Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt, blacklisted during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s, was able to find occasional work in...
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1954
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Guy Rolfe is top-billed in the British Prelude to Fame, but the critics' attention was directed at young newcomer...
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Signor Bondini
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1950
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Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars,...
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1950
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1949
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George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in...
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1949
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In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his...
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1948
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The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film...
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1948
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This early film treatment of the tale of Burke and Hare stars the notoriously flamboyant Tod Slaughter as the title...
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1948
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The "Soho" invoked in the title is not the New York City artistic colony but a seedy section of London. What happened was a...
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1948
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In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The...
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1948
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1948
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1947
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Set in 1783, this romance chronicles the doomed relationship between a prince regent and a Catholic widow. The prince falls...
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1947
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Erich Kohler (Eric Portman) is a decorated Luftwaffe pilot recruited for a daring propaganda mission in Belgium -- to drop...
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1943
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Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign...
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1942
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Penn of Pennsylvania was the original British title of the economical biopic The Courageous Mr. Penn. Clifford Evans stars as...
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1941
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Emeric Pressburger was one of the scenarists on the big-budget British seafaring saga Atlantic Ferry. The film is a...
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1941
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Paramount Pictures' British division was responsible for this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's novel Hatter's Castle....
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Grierson
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1941
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Filmed in England, Flying Squad was the final effort of veteran silent-film director Herbert (Peter Pan) Brenon. The script...
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1940
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The Two For Danger in this British comedy-mystery are lawyer Tony Grigson (Barry K. Barnes) and art museum curator Diana...
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1940
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In this British drawing room comedy, a wealthy socialite falls in love with the a young woman from the lower class. Her...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1928, the old Edgar Wallace novel The Terror was dusted off for another cinematic go-round ten years...
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Connor
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1939
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A case of mistaken identity is the basis for this drama. The trouble begins when a rich entrepreneur is accused of being the...
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1939
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In this British thriller, a barber must steal to fund his wife's addiction to spending money. She uses the cash he took to...
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Pilleger
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1939
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Filmed in 1935, the British Hell's Cargo finally received a US release in 1939, capitalizing on the recent outbreak of war in...
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1939
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North Sea Patrol is a remake of the 1927 film of the same name; both were adapted from Luck of the Navy, a stage play by Mrs....
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1939
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The success of the British Q Planes spawned a brief cycle in airborne espionage pictures--at least until all British aircraft...
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1939
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In an unusual move for a mere program picture, RKO Radio filmed A Saint in London on location in England, using a largely...
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Bruno Lang
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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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A once-popular stage melodrama by Gordon Sherry was the source for the 1938 British film Black Limelight. Raymond Massey...
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Inspector Tanner
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1938
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Tom Burke essays the title role in the Irish-made Father O'Flynn. Like many Hibernian films of the era, the story is...
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Westmacott
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1938
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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1937
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1937
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This mystery is set within a synthetic rubber factory. The trouble begins when the senior business partner is murdered. Just...
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Woolrich
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1937
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The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape...
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1937
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1937
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In this little thriller, an innocent wager nearly results in death. The trouble begins when a novelist bets that he can hide...
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Cyril Anstey
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1936
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Based upon The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle, The Man Behind the Mask was the last film Michael Powell made...
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1936
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Gunrunners who even kill their enemies through the use of train wrecks are being trailed by Yankee detective Lowe and...
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1936
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Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who...
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1936
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Hollywood star Richard Barthelmess, who's about as French as a hot dog with mustard, plays the title character in the British...
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1936
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Axel Hoyte
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1936
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Dishonor Bright draws upon the talents of two master farceurs from Britain's Aldwych Theatre, Tom Walls (star-director) and...
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1936
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When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In...
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1936
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In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1935
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Henry Oscar plays Gabriel Perry in this rusty-dusty British courtroom drama. Perry is the local justice-of-the peace; his...
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1935
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In this British comedy, the owner of a country pub finds her wedding night ruined when a man comes up and offers her husband...
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1935
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Transatlantic Tunnel is the English-language version of the 1932 French-German speculative drama The Tunnel. Set sometime in...
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1935
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One of the best of Michael Powell's low-budget "quota quickies" -- essentially British B-movies made on ultra-low budgets...
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1934
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The first film version of The Man Who Knew too Much proved to be the international "breakthrough" film for British director...
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1934
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Mancini
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1934
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Filmed in Great Britain, Brides to Be was distributed worldwide by Paramount. Leading lady Betty Stockfield is a humble shop...
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1934
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