The rise of teen culture in 1950s Britain provides the backdrop for Julien Temple's unconventional rock musical Absolute...
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1986
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This made-for-TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel is an account of a novelist, still smarting from a failed...
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1986
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Let Malcolm McLaren show you how to achieve fame and fortune by making your pop group the most despised band in the world!...
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1980
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The concept behind the 1977 Hound of the Baskervilles involved having "underground" director Paul Morrissey bring an...
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1978
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This is a motorcycle stunt man showdown where the finest cycler stunt riders compete to show who's the best. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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Britain's Confessions series, like the Carry On films, were episodic slapstickfests with emphasis on questionable taste....
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1977
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In this comedy, two soldiers stationed in Singapore set off in pursuit of the fairer sex instead of carrying out their...
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1977
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1977
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Beau Geste, the classic adventure story of a young man's dangerous journeys as part of the French Foreign Legion, becomes the...
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1977
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The British "Adventures Of..." series can be described as a dirtier "Carry On" (if such a thing is possible)....
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1977
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This theatrically-released feature represents a spinoff of the popular British television series of the same name, which...
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Ada Bingley
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1972
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Mrs. Hudson
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1970
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Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this...
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1970
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1970
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Mrs. Dailey
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1970
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The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career...
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1969
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This wickedly hilarious British comedy series was a dead-on spoof of World in Action, a popular BBC investigative-reporting...
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Mme. Astoria
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1969
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Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) is a professor who specializes in the behavior and collecting of butterflies. One day, he...
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1969
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In this youthful musical adventure, three lonesome, lovestruck teens decide to kidnap the men they idolize. One is the...
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1968
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When a lion escapes from a circus, it is protected by a young boy in this children's film. ~ Rovi...
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1968
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Mrs. Gimble
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1967
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A classic 1960's cult film in the British "angry young man" tradition, the hero of this film from Czech director Karel Reisz...
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Mrs. Delt
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1966
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Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys....
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1966
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Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of...
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Rene Smith
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1963
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British teens struggle to win the right to vote in this swinging musical from England. When the established political parties...
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1963
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Able-bodied seaman Albert Tufnell (John Meillon) plans to marry Shirley Hornett (Vera Day), and the ceremony is about to take...
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1961
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Ma
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1961
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In this British farce, an impoverished lord teams up with the plumber he mistook for a burglar. Together they conspire to...
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1961
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One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s,...
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Miss Gale
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1961
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Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal...
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1961
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A battered houseboat on the Thames provides the setting for this romantic British comedy. Two newlyweds rent the leaky...
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1961
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In another standard British comedy of the absurd with the usual eccentric characters who play off each other like tennis...
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Florence Proudfoot
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1961
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The "Carry On" gang take on law enforcement in this rude and crude slapstick comedy. When a flu epidemic leaves a British...
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1960
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A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for...
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1960
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1960
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Terry-Thomas plays the military-officer head of an amiable gang of amateur British thieves. He is recruited for this task by...
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1960
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Based on a British TV comedy, this is the tale of a London couple who inherit a pub in the country, only to find that their...
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1960
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This is the fourth in a series of "doctor" films that began in 1953 with Doctor in the House. Unlike its predecessors, the...
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1960
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Flush on the heels of their success with the comedy I'm All Right Jack, the twin Boulting brothers (Roy, director and John...
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1960
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This is one of the rare comedies by director Gerald Thomas that does not have the words "Carry On...." in the title, and that...
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Mrs. Spicer
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1960
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In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get...
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1960
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The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce....
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1959
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This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a...
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1959
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The "crowning touch" of the title is a fancy woman's hat. It has been specially set aside at a posh British headwear shoppe,...
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1959
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In this British comedy, two look-a-likes, an airman and a secret agent, find double trouble when they are assigned a...
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1959
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Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features...
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1959
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This is an uneven though occasionally hilarious comedy about a remote British colony and diplomatic blunders. Terry-Thomas as...
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1959
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Perhaps in an earlier era or in some remote village, this comedy would work, but this story about two mixed-up identities...
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1959
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A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
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1958
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Eastern Bloc seaman Stephan Vasa (Stephan Vasa) is being held prisoner by the Communists. A man claiming to represent a...
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1958
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1958
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1958
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In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films....
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1958
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The British Brothers in Law is a characteristically enjoyable Boulting-brother farce, again extracting humor out of the...
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1957
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In this British comedy, a young man resorts to spying, extortion and just plain begging after he learns that he is to be...
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1957
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1956
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Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual...
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1956
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Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who...
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1956
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In this sentimental comedy, Carol Reed tries for a bit of neo-realist whimsy that takes place in the London slums of...
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1955
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In this thriller, shot on location in Rhodesia, an American insurance investigator looks into the strange death of a diamond...
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1954
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1954
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Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the...
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1954
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Mad About Men is the delightful sequel to the saucy British comedy-fantasy Miranda. Glynis Johns returns in the dual role of...
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1954
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The British quickie Burnt Evidence began life as a short story by Percy Hoskins. Duncan Lamont plays the jealous husband of...
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1954
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A fair stab at yet another World War II comedy, this film by Michael Relph features the humorous antics of an ENSA troupe...
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1954
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Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway...
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1953
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This romantic and tuneful war drama tells the story the singer who captured the hearts of Allied soldiers during WW II. It...
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1953
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Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by...
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1953
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Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the...
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1952
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This comedy is set in an Irish mansion and centers on its enigmatic owner. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1952
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Two of the British film industry's most potent comic talents appear in One Wild Oat. Robertson Hare heads the cast as...
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1951
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Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre...
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1950
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1949
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H. G. Wells' non-fantasy efforts have, with the exception of Kipps, proven traditionally difficult to transfer to film....
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1949
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Veteran British music hall favorite Sid Field made his second and last film appearance in Cardboard Cavalier. Set during the...
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1949
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In this crime melodrama, a young couple moves into a charming rural cottage. There the wife becomes fixated upon the...
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1949
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In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects...
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1949
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A confirmed bachelor and a reclusive movie star tangle in this lively French comedy. The trouble begins when the bachelor...
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1949
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Outrageously sexist, The Perfect Woman is also very funny if you're in a politically incorrect mood. A dotty scientist...
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Mrs. Butter Housekeeper
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1949
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Roland Pertwee and his son Michael Pertwee penned the stage play The Paragon, and then Michael adapted the play for film....
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1949
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In this romantic comedy, a man returns to his wife after the war, but is disturbed by his continuing fixation upon the woman...
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1948
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In this British crime drama, an honest railroad signalman finds himself sorely tempted when he witnesses a murder and later...
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Mrs. Gowshall
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1947
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Originally released in 1945 as Shop at Sly Corner, Code of Scotland Yard is an effective British imitation of the Hollywood...
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1947
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In this drama, a popular singer tires of the fast lane and decides to leave fame and fortune in favor of marriage. After the...
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1947
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American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the...
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1946
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In this musical, a woman finds herself the apex in a triangle of love. On one side is her devoted husband, an ex-fighter...
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1946
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1945
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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 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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A proud but aging WW I war-horse is deeply offended when his offer to lead during WW II is rejected by the government that...
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1944
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The Caryl Brahams-S. J. Simon novel The Elephant is White is the basis for the British Give us the Moon. Comic actor Vic...
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1944
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Like the better-known (and more popular) A Canterbury Tale, Welcome Mr. Washington is a sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant...
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1944
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English without Tears is a gentle satire of the temporary relaxation of class barriers in wartime England. Michael Wilding...
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1944
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Though a top-billed British stage star, Feliz Aylmer seldom rose above the supporting cast in films: Mr. Emmanuel is a rare...
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1944
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In this patriotic but romantic musical comedy, a young teacher runs a day school for the workers at a munitions factory. As...
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1943
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Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays...
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1943
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Mechanic Formby bests a neighboring rival at a Home Guard exercise and when others obtain an army weapon, Formby converts a...
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1943
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Released in the US as The Randolph Family, Dear Octopus was based on the internationally popular play by Dodie Smith. The...
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1943
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The Flemish Farm is based on a true story. Clifford Evnas plays Duclos, a Belgian airman who joins the British air corps at...
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1943
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1943
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In this melodrama, two lovers plan to marry when the man returns from his stint in the war. The woman's life is shattered...
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1943
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Frau von Koerner
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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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In this family comedy, the life of a suburban clan is disrupted when they learn that two old friends are coming to call. The...
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1940
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The popular British troupe The Crazy Gang do their zany thing in this fast-paced comedy adventure. The story begins as the...
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1940
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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1940
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Boozy doctor O'Dowd gets into deep trouble after he is accused of operating under the influence and causing the death of his...
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1940
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Also known as Girl in the Case, this early Carol Reed effort tended to be dismissed or ignored by its director in later...
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1940
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In this British drawing room mystery, a detective begins looking into the strange deaths of two members of a psychic club....
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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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1939
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In this detective drama, a secret service agent is assigned to investigate the death of a bag lady who was discovered to be...
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1938
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1937
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