The famous Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is not interviewed in this documentary on his life and work, but the film...
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1984
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Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States....
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1973
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A priceless religious relic is transported from Mexico to LA under armed guard. As an added precaution, the case which...
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1972
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In director Peter Brook's King Lear, Paul Scofield portrays the title character, a senile old ruler, whose susceptibility to...
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Fool
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1971
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In this Hong Kong-set spoof of Asian spy movies, a CIA agent is assigned to return a purloined set of plans for a...
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1971
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Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and...
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1970
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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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Oscar
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1969
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James Mason is Bradley Morahan, an Australian artist far away from home and trying to prod his muse in the bowels of New York...
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Nat Kelly
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1969
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Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a...
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Juniper
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1967
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A pair of bumbling vampire-hunters attempts to destroy an undead nobleman and his cronies and rescue a buxom maiden in...
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Prof. Abronsius
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1967
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A spoof of the superhero craze of the late 1960s, this episode gets under way when several businessmen are found clawed to...
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1967
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The fact that there isn't a single likeable character in Cul de Sac does not diminish its artistic value in the least....
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Albert
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1966
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the...
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1965
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Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer...
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1965
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Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a...
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1965
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Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies...
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1963
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Actor Lawrence Harvey made his debut as a writer and director with this downbeat drama. Sean McKenna (Harvey) is awaiting...
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1963
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In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the swamps of a small seaside...
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1962
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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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In this romantic comedy, a free-wheeling member of the U.S. Air Force goes AWOL. While traveling, the man and his girlfriend...
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1962
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Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty...
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1959
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1959
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Baby boomers who may not remember the plot particulars of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People nonetheless retain...
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1959
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A perennial of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit of the 1950s, The British The Giant Behemoth owes a great deal to the earlier...
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Dr. Sampson
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1959
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The Boy and the Bridge is a very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate...
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1959
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Rooney (John Gregson) is a handsome but unambitious Irish sanitation worker. Rooney's landladies would love to see him...
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1958
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In this gently humorous farce, an unwed Irish mother who has six children by some of the town's finest fathers finds herself...
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1958
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To make the Rising of the Moon, American filmmaker John Ford returned to his Irish roots. An obscure and highly personal film...
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1957
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Released in the US as Stowaway Girl, Manuela top-bills Trevor Howard as Prothero, the stalwart middle-aged skipper of a tramp...
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1957
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Sailor Beware was originally released in England as Panic in the Parlour. The panic begins when a sailor named Albert...
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1956
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Jacqueline, played by Jacqueline Ryan, is the daughter of a Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil, played by John Gregson. The...
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1956
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The first Ealing Studios comedy shot in color, Titfield Thunderbolt takes place in a tiny British village serviced by a...
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1953
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet...
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1952
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During the Irish "troubles", an IRA gunman (John Mills) wearies of the constant violence. He begins to preach a philosophy of...
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1952
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The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place. Filmed on...
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1951
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Richard Dreyfuss stars in this story about an Irish tenement in the 1920's that suffers a stir when a soft spoken poet who...
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