Christopher Lee stars in this weak occult melodrama as Father Michael Rayner, an excommunicated priest who decides to save...
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George de Grass
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1976
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1973
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives is a feature film based upon the 1971 BBC miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Keith Michell...
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1972
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In the uncertain days following the end of World War II, disillusioned German soldiers wander aimlessly over the charred...
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1972
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Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac's tragic novel about an old man who sacrificed all for the sake of a place in society, was...
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Pere Goriot
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1971
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This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard...
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1970
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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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Two brothers looking to avoid becoming pawns of the establishment come up with a better way of making a living -- through...
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1967
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Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery...
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1967
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Originally telecast in England on March 5, 1966, this was one of the first Avengers episodes to show up on home video (albeit...
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1966
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Von Ryan's Express is a fast-paced, well-acted World War II drama, featuring a squadron of Allied soldiers trying to escape a...
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1965
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1964
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In this drama, William Holden plays Ferris, an American soldier who led troops in Malaya during World War II. After the end...
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Trumphey
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1964
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A small German town falls prey to an unseen monster that turns its victims into lifeless statues in this mid-'60s outing from...
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Prof. Heitz
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1964
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This World War II drama is based on an actual incident. Two Nazi soldiers desert and help a Canadian cook when the unit takes...
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1964
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1964
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1964
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Based on Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair, this WW II-era crime drama is set in India and chronicles the attempts of...
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1964
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In this British melodrama based on a French novel by Catherine Arley, Sean Connery plays Anthony Richmond, a money-hungry...
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1964
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20,000 Pound Kiss was the 45th of 47 British second features based on the works of Edgar Wallace, all released between 1960...
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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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Clifford Preston
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1963
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1963
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Based on a tale by Edgar Wallace, this taut crime drama centers on the exploits of an heiress who finds herself the intended...
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1962
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Jigsaw was based on Hilary Waugh's play Sleep Long My Love. The scene is Brighton: A woman's body is found in an isolated...
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Clyde Burchard
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1961
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Despite its come-on title, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an intelligent, disturbing piece of speculative fiction. Through...
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Night editor
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1961
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1960
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Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his career when it was first...
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1960
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Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's...
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1960
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Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a...
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1960
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Lilli Palmer stars as a nun in a World War 2-era Italian convent. At the risk of her own life and those of her cloistered...
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1960
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In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then...
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1960
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The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. This film traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching...
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1960
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1960
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1959
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In this tragic drama, an imprisoned war hero worries about his wife who is just about to give birth to their first child. An...
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1959
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The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British...
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1958
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This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter...
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1958
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This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role...
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1958
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While running an experiment in his lab, young British scientist Peter Brady is exposed to a radition leak--and rendered...
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1958
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Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an...
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1958
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For some reason, this Hammer Studios war melodrama was singled out for constant ridicule by the Monty Python troupe. The...
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Father Anjou
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1958
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Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins) is an honest, decent man, dedicated to his job as an insurance claims assessor -- until he...
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1957
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The title character in this fact-based POW drama is Franz von Werra, played by Hardy Kruger. Shot down early in the war,...
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RAF Interrogator
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1957
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Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the...
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1956
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The Way Out was originally released in Great Britain as Dial 999. The eponymous telephone number is the emergency line to...
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John Moffat
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1956
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Wicked as They Come stars Arlene Dahl as Kathy Allen, whose sour attitude on life has been formed by a sexual assault in her...
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Larry Buckhan
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1956
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Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was...
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Smythe
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1955
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Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in...
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1955
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In this newsroom drama, a workaholic editor refuses to take a vacation with his wife. Instead he remains in his office and...
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Kennedy
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1954
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Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea was none too faithfully adapted for the screen as Sea Devils. The hero is Guernsey-Island...
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Ragan
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1953
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The rousing adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott was adapted for this swashbuckler. Richard Todd stars as Robert Roy...
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1953
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1952
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1951
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This deliberately paced British film about a black rural priest and a white landowner whose paths cross in 1940s South...
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1951
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Based on a true story (believe it or don't!), The Wooden Horse is set in a wartime German prison camp. It being the duty for...
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1950
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Stop Press Girl is admittedly a one-joke film, though that joke is a good one. Sally Ann Howes plays a winsome British lass...
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1949
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In 1948, "The Archers" -- the writing and directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- had completed The Red...
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1949
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