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2011
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Actress and fan Miriam Margolyes leads this ten part documentary on the journey of legendary author Charles Dickens to the...
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2011
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2010
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2008
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2008
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Director David Moore collaborates with screenwriter Sarah Williams to explore the forbidden love that ultimately drove King...
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Aunt Bessie
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2007
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In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of...
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2006
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A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an...
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2006
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Directed by Nick Hurran, Undertaking Betty revolves around the competitive world of undertaking in the Welsh countryside. One...
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2005
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Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. It's 1936, and...
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Dorcas
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2004
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A woman scorned unleashes her fury in this droll comedy based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Julia Lambert...
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Dolly de Vries
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2004
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Television director Andy Cadiff turns toward feature films to direct the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty, which appears to be...
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2004
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The often-troubled life of one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British cinema provides the basis for this...
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Peg Sellers
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2004
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Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular...
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2002
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This talking-animal action comedy from Lawrence Guterman, the co-director of Antz (1998), follows on the heels of the Babe...
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Sophie
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2001
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The difficult birth of the nation of Israel is the subject of this documentary feature, the first in a projected three-part...
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2001
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The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama,...
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2000
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A local bingo emporium finds itself competing against the big boys in this easygoing comedy. The La Scala is a theater in...
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2000
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1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under...
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1999
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This drama takes place in Somerset, England in 1958. Eva is a twenty-year-old woman who fantasizes about travel, painting,...
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Signora Caldoni
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1999
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Inspired by a familiar Chinese folk tale, this $90 million animated Disney drama follows the adventures of a young woman in...
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1998
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Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972...
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1998
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Previously adapted for British television in 1976, Edith Nesbit's 1904 children's novel The Phoenix and the Carpet was again...
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1997
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This 37-minute 3-D Imax film adaptation from E.T.A. Hoffman's story is a straight narrative fantasy rather than a ballet....
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Sugar Plum
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1997
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The struggles of European Jews during WWII have been well documented, but this film (produced with the cooperation of the...
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1997
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Balto is an animated trifle, based loosely on a true story from the 1920s, that may offer some amusement for young children....
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1996
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A young boy's discovery of a gigantic peach triggers an eventful journey across the sea in this strikingly designed and...
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Aunt Sponge/Glowworm
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1996
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The off-beat love story between Paul and Kim provides the framework of this quirky British melodrama. The two meet after the...
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Pamela
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1996
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The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are...
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1996
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A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog -- or, rather, sheep pig -- in this charming Australian family film,...
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Fly
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1995
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Stella Gibbons' popular novel was published in 1932, and it has been adapted twice for British television, first as a...
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1995
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This documentary effectively focuses on the Allied war effort and in particular how it related to the liberation of Jews...
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1994
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This biography of Ludwig von Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) builds its narrative around an actual letter found after...
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Nanette Streicher
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1994
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Mabel Chilton
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1993
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Mrs. Mingott
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1993
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This is a modern-dress rendition of Shakespeare's famous "comedy," a semi-serious drama with a story featuring mistaken...
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Audrey
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1992
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The made-for-cable film Stalin relates the story of the ruthless Soviet dictator and his tyrannical rule. Robert Duvall gives...
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1992
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As a clairvoyant, Demi Moore awaits signs from beyond that her true love, whomever he may be, is waiting for her, somewhere....
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1991
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Set in contemporary Los Angeles as well as the Los Angeles of the 1940s, Dead Again explores a romance between two...
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1991
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This made-for-cable adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play documents the romance between a lonely Southern belle...
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1991
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John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer...
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1990
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Lawrence Kasdan's black comedy about a wife's ultimate revenge against her womanizing husband is based on a true story about...
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Joey's Mother
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1990
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Flora Finching
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1988
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The cast and crew of the satirical British comedy series Blackadder reunited for this perverse one-hour spin on Dickens' A...
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1988
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1988
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1987
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Originally shown in two parts, this massive TV movie adaptation of C. David Heymann's biography stars Farrah Fawcett as...
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1987
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Sara embodies all the hopes and fears of young girls in this adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic A Little...
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1987
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It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with...
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1986
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Ever anxious to one-up his fellow man, Lord Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) enters a beer-drinking contest. On the same...
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1986
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In this partially successful Brit sci-fi comedy, four invading aliens cannot really think their way out of a paper bag, much...
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1985
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David Suchet (Poirot) stars as famed Austrian physician Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, in this biopic...
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1984
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Dweebish architect Miles Harding (Lenny Von Dohlen) is hopelessly in love with neighboring musician Madeline...
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1984
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It is now the year 1492: Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) is still jockeying to become King of England, while the actual monarch,...
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1983
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Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, Yentl, is a musical adaptation of a story by the beloved Jewish writer...
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1983
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A grim British reform school for girls provides the backdrop for this gritty drama that focuses on two young inmates. One is...
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1982
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1982
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Unleashed just as the disco phenomenon had peaked and was slipping out of public favor, this one-of-a-kind pop musical is set...
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1980
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English archaeologist Matthew Corbeck (played by the emphatically-American Charlton Heston) undertakes an expedition to find...
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1980
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In this comedy, two soldiers stationed in Singapore set off in pursuit of the fairer sex instead of carrying out their...
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1977
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