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2010
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2000
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This British-made historical drama depicts the rise of young Elizabeth Tudor to Queen of England, a reign of intrigue and...
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1998
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This four-hour fantasy miniseries, elaborating on the Arthurian legend and filmed in England and Wales, offers a portrait of...
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1998
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David Yates directed this $4 million fact-based British period drama, set in Victorian England and reminiscent of...
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Cockburn
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1998
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1998
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Author Anthony Powell's wildly popular series tomes are translated for the small screen in this sweeping miniseries starring...
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1997
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A boy and his dragon unite to fight evil in this fantasy. Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a Knight of The Old Code in Medieval times,...
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1996
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Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and...
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1996
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At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film...
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1996
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A workshop of William Shakespeare's Richard III inspires actor-director Al Pacino's breezy documentary, which aims to make...
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1996
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Narrator
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1996
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1996
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The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor...
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Prof. Cecil Parks
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1996
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Adapted from the novel by James Herbert, this subtle, melancholy British chiller owes a great deal to Henry James's The Turn...
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Dr. Doyle
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1995
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The tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is always ripe for retelling. In this rendition, the sexy...
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1995
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1995
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1994
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Headmaster St. John
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1992
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Sunflower
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1992
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Svetlovidov
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1992
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Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books...
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Prospero
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1991
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Narrator
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1991
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1991
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Ingrid Bergman was both one of Hollywood's most sought after stars and a controversial public figure. Her bright and...
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1991
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Sydney Cockerell
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1991
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Ian Bertram (Robert Lindsay) is a mathematical genius who works as an accountant for a multinational firm based in England....
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Herbert Dreuther
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1990
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1989
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Haverford Downs
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1989
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1989
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In this sequel to the 1981 hit comedy Arthur, the story picks up where it left off with the bibulous millionaire hero...
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Hobson
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1988
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In this mystery, Peter Ustinov reprises the role of Hercule Poirot, the fussy and flower-tending detective from Belgium...
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Col. Carbury
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1988
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Originally telecast in December of 1988, A Man for All Seasons was the first made-for-TV film produced on behalf of the TNT...
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Thomas Cardinal Wolesey, Archbishop of York
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1988
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1988
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Virgil
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1988
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Superpatriotic Briton Michael Caine learns from his son Nigel Havers, a Russian translator with Government Communications...
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Sir Adrian Chapple
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1987
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Five different marriages have left a legacy of families and children and provide plenty of fodder for conflict and confusion...
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1987
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Each installment of An Evening With presents a performer, band, group, or other public figure in a setting aimed to please...
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1987
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Sir Simon de Canterville
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1986
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Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan...
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Sir Leonard Darwin
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1985
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Based on a novel by Molly Keane, this literary drama focuses on the mutually antagonistic lives of three aging Irish sisters...
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Jasper Swift
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1985
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A man meets a woman who is the image of his late wife, which leads him to make many of the same mistakes over again in this...
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John Middleton Murry
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1985
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En route to a business meeting in Paris, newly promoted American magazine editor Lily Conrad (Cheryl Ladd) boards the...
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1985
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This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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The lavishly produced three-part telemovie The Far Pavilions was adapted from the best-selling novel by M.M. Kaye. Set in...
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1984
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Featuring an all-star cast, this episode from the cable-television series Faerie Tale Theatre tells the tale of how a vain...
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1984
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1984
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Alexandre Dumas fis first dramatized his own novel La Dame aux Camelias in 1852. Before the century was out, the work had...
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Duke de Charles
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1984
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In this superficial interpretation of an intended suspense story and comedy, Robert Hays plays a TV anchor man on a flight to...
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Uncle Willie
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1984
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This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British...
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Cornelius Cardew
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1984
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It was not unusual in the 1980s for a British TV miniseries to resurface in America in the form of a re-edited feature-length...
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1984
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Hogarth
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1983
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Gregory Peck had made scattered television appearances before, but the 3-hour Scarlet and the Black was his first starring...
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1983
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Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken...
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Pfistermeister
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1983
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Reverend Clyde Ormiston
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1983
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While most people are familiar only with the Lon Chaney Sr. and Charles Laughton versions of Victor Hugo's...
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Charmolue
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1982
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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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Albert Speer Sr.
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1982
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Made for British television, this adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is doggedly faithful to its source. Dr....
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1982
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It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi...
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Lord Irwin
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1982
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Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary...
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Doge
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1982
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1981
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The poet Hoffmann tells of his three uniquely doomed love affairs in this performance of Offenbach's opera, Les Contes...
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1981
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The ads for Arthur suggested that this was an obnoxious film about an obnoxious man, an eternally drunken millionaire...
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Mr. Hobson
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1981
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Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally...
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1981
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1981
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Abdu Hamdi
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1981
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Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian...
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Sharif El Gariani
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1981
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The later years of the life of author D.H. Lawrence are dramatized in this screen biography. Following the controversial...
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1981
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1981
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This lighthearted Agatha Christie whodunit concerns a group of friends who spend the weekend at The Chimney's, a gorgeous old...
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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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Master of Trinity
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1981
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In this made-for-television mystery (adapted from a novel by Agatha Christie) a man dying on a beach utters the question "Why...
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1980
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John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a...
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Carr Gomm
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1980
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Dr. Esau
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1980
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Producer/director Joseph Strick continues his long cinematic love affair with the works of Irish author James Joyce in...
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Preacher
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1979
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A quarrel erupts between the Duke of Hereford, Henry Bolingbroke (Jon Finch), and the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray...
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John of Gaunt
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1979
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This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza....
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Nerva
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1979
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The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the attention of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer),...
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1979
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Polish director Andrzej Wajda had a habit of switching gears between socially conscious films and pure box-office...
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1979
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This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a...
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Brigadier Tomlinson
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1979
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Chorus
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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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Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel....
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1977
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The first English-language film from Alain Resnais, this drama about a spiteful, alcoholic novelist contains the French...
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Clive
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1977
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The 1977 BBC feature adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1919 theatrical opus Heartbreak House can be relished again and...
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1977
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1977
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Himself
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1976
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Malcolm McDowell plays a World War I air ace, in charge of an elite squadron. Outwardly a bastion of courage, McDowell dies a...
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Headmaster
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1976
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1975
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Peter Hunt directed this old fashioned -- if not reactionary -- action film about gold-mining in South Africa. The story...
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Farrell
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1974
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Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the...
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1974
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Based on the novel by Gerald A. Browne, 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 heist spoof with an all-star cast. The story concerns...
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Meecham
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1974
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This made-for-TV adaptation of the Leon Uris epic stars Anthony Hopkins as a Polish doctor accused by an American writer...
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1974
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1974
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James Hilton's beloved fantasy novel about the land of Shangri-La was given an awkward musical treatment in this...
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1973
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Per its title, Jack Smight's Frankenstein: The True Story, strives for greater faithfulness to Mary Shelley's novel than...
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1973
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Taped in London and originally telecast by the BBC, this ABC Afternoon Special combines comedy, drama, and song to introduce...
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1973
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1972
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This pilot for the TV adventure series Search stars Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood, a secret agent implanted with a electronic...
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1972
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Television veteran Fielder Cook brings a TV-like intimacy to his direction of Eagle in a Cage. This underrated film stars...
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1971
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Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells...
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Julius Caesar
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1970
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The Ghost
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1970
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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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1969
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A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international...
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1968
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During the ill-fated charge of British troops at Balaclava in the Crimean War, loyal soldiers who blindly followed orders...
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Lord Raglan
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1968
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Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some ships owned by wealthy...
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Curt Valayan
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1968
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Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British government....
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Head of Intelligence
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1968
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You've seen the Disney classic, now experience the tale of Alice in Wonderland as never before in this live-action adaptation...
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1966
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The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the...
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Henry IV of England
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1966
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This unique stage production toplines the eminent actor Sir John Gielgud. Working from an adaptation of an anthology by...
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1966
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The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on...
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1965
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A high-class costume drama with a substantive historical basis, Becket is the true story of the friendship between King Henry...
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Louis VII
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1964
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This 199-minute Broadway production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy was directed for the stage by John Gielgud, who also...
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1964
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All of French documentary director Frederic Rossif's compilation films are models of the genre, some even more than that (as...
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1963
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1962
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After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to...
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Earl of Warwick
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1957
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Edward Moulton-Barrett
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1957
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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George, Duke of Clarence
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1955
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Generally forgotten today, Romeo and Juliet is a satisfactory, if perfunctory, adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy....
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Chorus
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1954
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Cassius
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1953
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's...
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1948
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In June, 1940, the Times of London published a letter written by a British bomber pilot to his mother. It created a sensation...
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1941
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Produced by Britain's Teddington Studios on behalf of Hollywood's Warner Bros., the morale-boosting The Prime Minister...
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Benjamin Disraeli
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1941
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Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along...
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Richard Ashenden
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1936
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Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes...
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Inigo Jolifant
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1933
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In this actioner, a half-Arab member of the Foreign Legion, previously court-martialed for insubordination, cannot earn his...
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1932
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1929
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1924
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