Peter Jackson takes cues from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings to expand New Line Cinema's Hobbit adaptation with...
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2014
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2013
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Old Bilbo
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2012
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Alternating between the unique vantage points of the Jews, the Arabs, and the British, director Elie Chouraqui's historical...
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2007
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A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy...
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Skinner
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2007
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2007
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In the labyrinthine streets of 21st century Paris, where every move is monitored and ever action recorded, a mysterious...
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Dr. Jonas Muller
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2006
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The cult-favorite television series which offered a fun-house version of '70s "after-school specials" returns in this...
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2006
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A man and a woman are faced with an unusual "fifth wheel" in their relationship -- his analyst -- in this offbeat independent...
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Dr. Morales
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2006
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One man demonstrates how to get rich selling warring nations the tools of their deadly trade in this dark comedy drama. Yuri...
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Simeon Weisz
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2005
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2005
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Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful...
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2004
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In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing,...
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Gideon Largeman
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2004
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Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international...
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Terry Rapson
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2004
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2003
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Kurt Gerron was an actor, filmmaker, and musician who rose to acclaim and stardom in Germany in the late '20s and early '30s....
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Narrator
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2003
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A fanciful retelling of the story of Napoleon Bonaparte (played by heralded actor Ian Holm, this British costume comedy...
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Napoleon Bonaparte/Eugene Lenormand
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2002
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Bilbo Baggins
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2001
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The true-life horror story of Jack the Ripper gets a new spin in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by...
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Sir William Gull
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2001
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In this supernatural horror story, Jenna (Angela Bettis), an unstable young woman, gives birth to a girl named Cody who...
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2000
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This historical comedy-drama is based on the true story of Joe Gould, a bohemian eccentric who was a fixture in New York's...
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Joe Gould
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2000
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Director of award-winning short films Ben Hopkins embarked on this ambitious feature project with Robert Jones, the producer...
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2000
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A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer in this dark comedy from the U.K. Joe...
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2000
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A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the...
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Patrick
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2000
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This film adaptation of Michael Lesy's 1973 book takes a look at the sordid and disturbing underside of life in a small...
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Narrator
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2000
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The English-language debut of French director Arnaud Desplechin, Esther Kahn charts the ascension of a lower-class Jewish...
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Nathan Quellen
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2000
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American Deborah Lipstadt brought a lawsuit against British historian David Irving in 1999. Though the case was based on...
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2000
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Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, who has long been fascinated by the ways new technology shapes and manipulates the human...
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Kiri Vinokur
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1999
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Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy about a young girl's adventures in a strange, alternate reality comes to the screen once...
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The White Knight
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1999
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A boy-and-his-horse tale loosely based on the IRA's unsolved 1983 horsenapping of a Derby winner, this adventure film opens...
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Joseph
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1999
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Narrator
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1999
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George Orwell's political fable about corruption and betrayal in post-revolutionary Russia gets a new look in this version...
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Squealer
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1999
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Narrator
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1999
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The first film by Mick Davis, The Match is a contemporary romantic comedy set in the idyllic village of Inverdoune nestling...
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1998
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Good and evil battle for the future of 23rd century Earth in this visually striking big-budget science fiction epic. In the...
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Victor Cornelius
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1997
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A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by...
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Liam Casey
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1997
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Naville
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1997
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Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful...
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Mitchell Stephens
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1997
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European locations (UK, France, Netherlands) highlight this romantic thriller set in the art world. In New York, top forger...
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1997
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Ian Holm delivers an Emmy-nominated performance in this filmed adaptation of the classic Shakespearean tragedy King Lear....
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King Lear
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1997
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Narrator
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1996
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In this witty drama, a pair of brothers debate integrity versus compromise as they try to succeed in the restaurant business....
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Pascal
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1996
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A scientist finds himself walking a fine line between reason and fantasy in this family-oriented drama. Dr. Jonathan Dempsey...
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The Water Bailiff
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1995
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Director Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel stars Robert DeNiro as a terrifying monster...
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1994
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Based on the famous children's novels by Mary Norton, this BBC production stars the diminutive Ian Holm as the...
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Pod
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1994
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Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at...
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Dr. Willis
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1994
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The secrets of the maligned and misunderstood tarantula are brought to light in the Discovery Channel's Predators of the...
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1993
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In France in 1452, the dark superstition of the Medieval era was beginning to give way to the more enlightened attitudes of...
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Albertus
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1993
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First telecast by the BBC on November 14, 1993, the two-part British TV movie The Return of the Borrowers is a sequel to the...
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Pod Clock
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1993
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Released in the US on cable television, Blue Ice stars Michael Caine as an older, tireder version of his 1960s "Harry Palmer"...
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Sir Hector
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1992
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Elizabeth R.: A Year in the Life documents the day-to-day routine of Queen Elizabeth II. Following a year of unprecedented,...
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1992
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This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of...
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Tom Frost
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1991
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Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable...
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Dr. Murnau
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1991
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Astrov
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1991
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In 1985, a group of black workers instituted a railway strike in a township near Johannesburg, and the response of the...
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1991
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Season of Giants succeeds more in ambition than in execution. This 195-minute TV movie proposes that a great professional...
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1991
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Polonius
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1990
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Fluellen
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1989
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John Michael Phillips directs this British live-action musical, based on the children's story by Beatrix Potter. A tailor...
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The Tailor
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1989
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The "endless game" is espionage, which goes on and on despite government upheavals and changing international attitudes....
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1989
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Grad-school administrative head Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is in the midst of writing a book. The walls are thin in the...
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Ken Post
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1988
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1988
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In this interesting mystery, famed novelist Agatha Christie has just decided to kill off her popular character, the Belgian...
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1986
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Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second...
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1985
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In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that...
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Stanley Pilborough
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1985
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Irreverent British writer Dennis Potter speaks aloud what many literary historians have only postulated in whispers in...
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Rev. Charles Dodgson
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1985
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This darkly haunting slightly fictionalized film is a retelling of the life and death of Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson), the...
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Desmond Cussen
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1985
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a reverent retelling of the Edgar Rice Burroughs original, with a...
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Capt. Phillippe D'Arnot
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1984
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Singleton (Ian Holm) is a determined British farmer with a gaggle of holiday geese ready for market. It should be a simple...
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1984
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The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical...
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Dr. Joseph Goebbels
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1982
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The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock--not even...
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Dr. Gilbert Anderson
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1982
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1982
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A special-effects laden medieval fantasy adventure, Dragonslayer centers on the attempts of a young sorcerer's apprentice to...
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1981
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Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two very different men who...
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Sam
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1981
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A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python...
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Napolean
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1981
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"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien...
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Ash
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1979
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Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more...
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Himmelstoss
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1979
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Ian Holm starred in this three-part British miniseries as James M. Barrie, the author of such whimsical works as The...
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James Barrie
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1979
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An Anglo-American co-production, S.O.S. Titanic is a costly, 150-minute reenactment of the infamous sea disaster of 1912....
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1979
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The 1979 TV movie Les Miserables was advertised as the 12th feature film to be based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel (and that...
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1978
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The now-legendary miniseries Holocaust first aired as a presentation in NBC's Big Event series. Written by Gerald Green, the...
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1978
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This made-for-TV fantasy is a tale from the well-known Arabian Nights fable featuring a flying carpet, a prince, a pretty...
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The Gatekeeper
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1978
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Dick Richards directed this French Foreign Legion adventure that's at once parodies and pays tribute to the venerable...
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El Krim
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1977
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The made-for-television The Man in the Iron Mask was, at the very least, the twelfth film version of Alexandre Dumas' novel...
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1977
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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1977
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Though the story told in Robin and Marian is unfamiliar to most audiences, it is actually quite faithful to several of the...
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1976
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Mohammed
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1976
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1974
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As indicated by its title, this obscure British miniseries focused on the romantic travails of Napoleon Bonaparte (Ian Holm)....
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1974
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Lenny
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1973
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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George E. Buckle
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1972
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This sophisticated black comedy sex romp is based on the novel by Iris Murdoch, which she also turned into a stage play (with...
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Martin Lynch-Gibbon
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1971
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Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas...
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1971
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1971
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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President Poincare
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1969
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John McGrath's television play The Bofors Gun was expanded (if not improved) by this film adaptation. The time is 1954: a...
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Flynn
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1968
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This is a made-for-British-TV retelling of Mary Shelley's story of a scientist who creates a living man from pieces of dead...
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Frankenstein
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1968
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John Frankenheimer directed this intense film adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel. During the days of Czarist Russia, a...
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1968
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British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the...
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1968
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1962
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