Two friends chart a daring path to freedom in this drama from Walt Disney Pictures. Peter Strelzyk (John Hurt) and Guenter...
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1981
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An institutionalized schizophrenic with a Messiah complex inherits the position of an English Earl in this cutting satire of...
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1972
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This melodrama explores the relationship between tenants in a boarding house. Included are a street musician, an ex-school...
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1971
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1970
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Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The...
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1970
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In this crime drama, a painter finds himself entangled in a murder plot when he gets involved with a pretty girl. ~ Sandra...
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1969
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Americans in 1968 seemed to prefer long, campy film titles. Thus it was that the British Taste of Excitement was rechristened...
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1968
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Tom Bell stars in this tight little British thriller as a mercurial cat burglar. So long as things are going his way, Bell is...
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Mrs. Woodley
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1966
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This film was a pet project of Joan Fontaine, based on a novel by Peter Curtis. It was her last feature film. Fontaine stars...
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Stephanie Bax
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1966
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In A Study in Terror the ever popular Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson search for the Victorian serial killerJack...
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1966
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The Beauty Jungle can hardly be considered an expose of the beauty-contest business, since most of what happens in the film...
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1966
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Mission to Paradise is a British equivalent to those frolicsome female skinfests often seen on the USA network's...
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1965
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Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for...
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1964
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This Disney drama, originally broadcast as a three-part TV episode, tells the story of a vicar's double life. Outwardly, he...
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1964
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John Rae's novel The Custard Boys became this World War II drama from British documentary filmmaker Philip Leacock....
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Wife
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1963
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British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of...
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1963
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Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl....
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1962
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Nothing goes right when a junior executive organizes a romantic encounter with a designer. ~ Rovi...
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1962
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Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and...
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Mrs. Brown
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1961
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1961
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Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against...
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1960
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The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to...
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Coker
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1958
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Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon...
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Miss Muir
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1956
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Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his...
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Charlotte Young
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1955
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Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred...
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Barbara Crain
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1954
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Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen...
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Vera Thorne
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1954
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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Mrs. Ashley
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1953
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Mrs. Sykes
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1952
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Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production...
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Lily Pepper [Red Peppers]
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1952
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The producers of Quartet and Trio concluded their cycle with this omnibus film, which features three stories based, as in the...
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Miss Reid [Winter Cruise]
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1951
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He...
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Mrs. Poole
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1950
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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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Nellie Goode
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1950
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This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows...
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Mrs. Brent
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1950
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Adapted by Eric Ambler from his own novel, The October Man centers around Jim Ackland (played by John Mills), who has been...
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Molly Newman
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1948
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver...
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Nancy Sikes
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1948
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Written and directed by Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is a one-joke fantasy comedy which manages to hold up almost to the very...
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1947
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Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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With This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd...
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Queenie Gibbons
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1944
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Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which...
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1942
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Will Fyffe makes another appearance as Mr. Reeder, the seemingly absent-minded Scotland Yard sleuth created by Edgar Wallace....
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Peggy Gillette
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1940
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This is a remake of Chinese Bungalow, which came out in 1930. A Chinese banker gets revenge when his wife, an Englishwoman,...
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1940
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In this rather theatrical comedy, a millionaire and a starving author exchange places. The beleaguered millionaire does this...
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Angela Windel-Todd
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1940
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Sadie Merivale
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1940
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When a factory worker is sent off to deliver a message, he inadvertently gets enrolled in the navy. His bumblings take him...
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1939
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Originally released in England by British Consolidated, Sons of the Sea was the last film to be distributed in America by...
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Alison Devar
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1939
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In this comedy, a battleship captain has a large party to celebrate their next voyage and is dismayed to find that two...
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1939
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Long after the company went out of business in the US, Grand National Pictures thrived in England, turning out such...
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Peggy Gillette
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1939
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In 1954 there was Godzilla, the lizard transformed by radiation, and in 1959, the British gave us Behemoth, the Sea Monster,...
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1938
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Toothy, ukelele-plucking British comedian dominates the proceedings in I See Ice. The nonsensical story concerns the...
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Judy Gaye
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1938
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Eileen O'Donnel
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1937
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In this comedy, a scrawny barber must compete with a muscle bound thug for the love of a manicurist. Naturally the...
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1937
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In this British adventure, a shipwrecked fellow is saved by the captain of another ship. While aboard, the survivor falls in...
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1937
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In this actioner, two guards lose their jobs after they start a fight with a lascivious Arab prince who tries to seduce one...
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Diana
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1936
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When a socialist barber inherits a royal title, he adapts his political opinions in this political and social satire. ~ Rovi...
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1934
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