Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by...
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1999
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In this unusual period drama from 1999, classical music expert and filmmaker Tony Palmer delves into the final years of...
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1999
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Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton...
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1999
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This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well...
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1997
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Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the...
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1995
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Previously and brilliantly filmed by director Jack Clayton as The Innocents in 1961, Henry James' classic...
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1995
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Sophie Ward and Kerry Fox star in this adaptation of Joanna Trollope's best-selling book about the scandalous affair between...
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1994
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This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the...
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1994
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Julia (Kate Beckinsale) has been busy about her job, doing painstaking restoration work on a fifteenth-century painting. As...
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1994
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Derek Jarman directed this witty, stylish biography of the life of the eccentric 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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Bertrand Russell
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1993
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1993
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In France in 1452, the dark superstition of the Medieval era was beginning to give way to the more enlightened attitudes of...
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1993
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In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the...
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Alfred Pennyworth
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1992
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The Derek Bentley Case has been an uneasy blight on the British legal system since the early 1950s. Two young, frightened...
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1991
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This four-part British miniseries took place just after the fall of the Soviet Union. Going through Kremlin files, a team of...
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Andrei Zorin
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1991
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As she enters middle age, expatriate American M.D. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) ends a long-term relationship with her actor...
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Douglas Brodie
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1990
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Director Derek Jarman takes the viewer for a walk around his own garden in rural England for this non-narrative film. Many of...
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1990
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In this intricately layered, dark story, a woman whose guardian sexually abused her tells her story. It seems that her...
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Morris Kingsley
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1990
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Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who...
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1989
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1989
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This long-running TV series features John Thaw as the morose but shrewd detective of the title, who along with his partner...
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1989
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The made-for-TV The Shell Seekers was based on the best-selling novel by Rosamunde Pincher. Heading the cast is...
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1989
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Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of...
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1989
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Horror maven Wes Craven attempted a slight change of pace from his usual slasher movie milieu with this chiller loosely based...
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1988
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Mike Jittlov, a master of special effects who's strutted his stuff in several short films, is both the director and star of...
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1988
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Scripted by Frederick Forsyth from his own novel, The Fourth Protocol is a fact-based spy thriller. The titular protocol is a...
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1987
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The romantic drama Maschenka is a loose adaptation of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov done in a style reminiscent of a...
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1986
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Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da...
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1986
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Originally filmed in 1982, Arthur the King wasn't able to secure a network-TV berth until April 26, 1985. Malcolm McDowell...
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1985
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Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events...
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1985
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In this sequel to the original miniseries, Lili (Phoebe Cates), having discovered the true identity of her mother, now begins...
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1985
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1984
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Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale of one man learning the true meaning of Christmas is brought to the screen once again...
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1984
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The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork...
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1984
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In the conclusion of the four-part story "Arc of Infinity," the anti-matter creature that has bonded with the Doctor...
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1983
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This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful...
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1983
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The complicated relationship of two men who have given their lives to the theater forms the basis for this acclaimed drama....
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1983
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Like the Virginia Woolf novel which it interprets, this 1983 BBC production has three parts: "The Window," "Time Passes," and...
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1983
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On January 3, 1983, Doctor Who launched its 20th season with episode one of the four-part "Arc of Infinity." The titular Arc...
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1983
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In the third episode of the four-part story "Arc of Infinity," a renegade anti-matter creature (Ian Collier) has passed over...
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1983
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In the second episode of the four-part story "Arc of Infinity," the renegade anti-matter creature (Ian Collier) has overtaken...
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1983
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From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a...
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1982
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A big black mamba snake that has gotten loose in a townhouse slithers through a kidnapping plot in this film. Based on a...
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1982
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Avon (Paul Darrow) chooses the peace-loving planet Obsidian for his new headquarters. Dayna (Josette Simon) and Tarrant...
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1980
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This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated...
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1978
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Michael Gough once more goes the horror-movie route in the British Satan's Slave. Gough plays the head of a coven of witches....
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Uncle Alexander
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1976
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1975
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This gory British horror satire features a hammy Michael Gough as Doctor Storm, the demented overseer of a bizarre health...
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Dr. Storm
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1973
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Richard Matheson adapted the screenplay of The Legend of Hell House from his own novel. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's...
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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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Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great...
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Mons. Gaudier
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1972
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The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues...
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Mr. Maudsley
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1971
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Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama....
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Sam Murdock
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1970
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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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1970
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This tepid thriller features a sullen Michael Gough as an overbearing, sadistic banker whose favorite hobby appears to be...
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Eastwood
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1969
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Heron of Foix (Assaf Dayan) hears the call of the ocean and leaves his school in Paris to walk to the sea. He meets the fair...
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1969
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1969
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In this spooky thriller, an evil sorcerer invites an innocent young man and his girl friend to his dark and scary mansion....
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Elder
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1968
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Mathias (Yves Montand) is a Flemish professor who takes a vacation when the university students go on strike. He decides he...
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1968
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Steed is accused of masterminding the murders of several enemy agents. Calling a truce with the "other side," Steed tries to...
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1967
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The third of the many British TV miniseries adaptations of Jane Austen's slyly satirical 19th century novel Pride and...
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Mr. Bennet
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1967
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In this sci-fi drama, an alien spaceship breaks down and crashes on the moon. These creatures need help to make repairs and...
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Monj
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1967
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One of the lower points of Joan Crawford's latter-day career curve (though nothing to compare with the later embarrassment of...
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Dorando
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1967
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This suspenseful crime drama finds a jealous husband hiring a killer to murder his supposedly unfaithful wife. Donald Edwards...
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Donald Edwards
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1966
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The Toymaker
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1966
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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 Toymaker
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1966
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Veteran horror film habitue Michael Gough guest stars as the Toymaker in this four-part Doctor Who adventure. The TARDIS is...
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The Toymaker
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1966
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The Toymaker
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1966
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1965
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A classic Avengers entry, this episode originally aired in England on October 16, 1965. Several industrialists are murdered...
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1965
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Adapted from the Robert Bloch short story "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade," this inventive gothic chiller from Amicus stars...
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1965
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In this political thriller, the trouble begins when a prominent politician finds himself entangled with some shady dealings...
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1965
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In this confused parody, a lovely South Seas island girl travels to England following her father's death and becomes the...
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1964
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This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper,...
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Michael Conrad
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1963
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This Gothic melodrama from Hammer Studios is in color, but the plot is basically the same as the two previous efforts....
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Lord Ambrose d'Arcy
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1962
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The original British title for No Place Like Homicide was What a Carve-Up. This level of sophistication was maintained for...
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1962
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1961
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A British botanist goes bananas after he discovers a serum that turns his cuddly chimpanzee subject into a ferocious...
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Dr. Charles Decker
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1961
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If you don't expect Casablanca, you'll derive some pleasure from Model for Murder. This British programmer stars American...
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1960
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1959
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The power of hypnotism provides the basis of this film that was released in "Hypnovision" (yet another promotional gimmick) A...
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Edmond Bancroft
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1959
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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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1958
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This Hammer Studios classic is far closer to the letter (and spirit) of the Bram Stoker novel than the Bela Lugosi version of...
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Arthur Holmwood
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1958
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Eschewing the Shakespearean original title (it's a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream), the British Ill Met by Moonlight...
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1957
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In this drama, a writer and his wife rent a small country cottage where he plans on doing some work. Unfortunately, he soon...
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1957
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One of the many inspirational true stories told about WWII, this is the story of Douglas Bader, an undauntable character who...
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1956
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1955
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1955
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1954
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Duke of Buckingham
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1953
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This comedy is essentially a prototype of Disney's 1961 film Parent Trap and tells the tale of twin girls, separated after...
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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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Duke of Montrose
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1953
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Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist...
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Michael Corland
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1951
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This British psychological melodrama stars Michael Gough as a man who is lost in the Brazilian jungles and presumed dead. He...
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1951
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Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a...
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Maurice Edwards
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1951
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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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Alec Kyle
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1951
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In this drama, a soldier comes back to his home village. There he is disturbed to find that the town has fallen upon hard...
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1950
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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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Stuart
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1949
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Blanche Fury combined two elements that were surefire moneymakers in postwar Britain: a brooding, Gothic-novel storyline and...
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Lawrence Fury
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1948
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This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing...
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1948
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1948
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