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Actors: Emilia Fox, Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton, Richard Griffiths, Victoria Wood
Synopsis: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, and Lucy Boynton headline director Sandra Goldbacher's made-for-television adaptation of author Noel Streatfield's classic novel of the same name. The setting is 1930s London. Orphans Pauline (Watson), Petrova (Paige), and Posy Fossil (Boynton) have all been adopted by Read More
Actors: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner
Synopsis: Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows star in director Roger Donaldson's cinematic account of the true-life 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the authorities and fascinated the public. Terry Leather (Statham) was a small-time car dealer who was trying to leave his shady past behind and start a Read More
Actors: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Terence Rigby
Synopsis: In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact that Conway was openly gay, bore no physical resemblance to Kubrick, and knew little about the director's work. Read More
Actors: Callum Blue, Barbora Bobulova, Peter Bowles
Synopsis: War turns two strangers into lovers at a most inopportune moment in this made-for-TV drama based on a true story. Eric Newby (Callum Blue) is a British soldier, who, while on a mission behind enemy lines during World War II, is captured by Axis troops and taken to a makeshift P.O.W. camp located Read More
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Actors: Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows
Synopsis: A portrait of a cold-blooded young gangster living and loathing in 1960s London, this drama features Malcolm McDowell in a major role in his first British picture in years. McDowell opens the film as the present day Gangster 55, who learns that an old associate, gangster Freddie Mays (David Thewlis Read More
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, Ángela Molina, Christopher Fulford, Antonio Valero
Synopsis: The troubled career of blacklisted director Herbert Biberman, who endured a considerable struggle to make the 1954 pro-Labor film Salt of the Earth, provides the centerpiece for this historical drama. The film opens at the 1937 Academy Awards, where Biberman's wife, Gale Sondergaard (Greta Read More
Actors: Tara Fitzgerald
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Elizabeth McGregor, the two-part British miniseries Little White Lies starred Tara Fitzgerald as Beth Marsh, who was left in a state of numb despair when her beloved husband David (Martin Wenner) died in a car crash. Turning to her neighbors Julia (Cherie Lunghi) and Oliver (Peter Bowles Read More
Actors: Alfred Molina, Helen Slater, Peter Bowles, Dinsdale Landen, Heathcote Williams
Synopsis: In this comic British caper film, an LA computer whiz finds herself recruited by an eccentric British lawyer who wants her to use her skills to defraud a powerful London bank that has been using its money to exploit a Third World country for tourism. She accepts his offer and mayhem ensues. Read More
Actors: Peter Bowles, Michael Byrne, Roshan Seth
Synopsis: In this comedy, George Grant (Peter Bowles) is a successful television personality. He has shaken hands with the Queen, and has even met Elizabeth Taylor - and he has the photos which prove it prominently displayed in his office. One day, after obnoxiously humiliating yet another spineless guest Read More
Synopsis: While vacationing in Paris, Park Avenue socialite Helen Hollander (Connie Sellecca) cannot shake the feeling that she is being watched. Helen's instincts aren't failing her: Ever since disembarking from her plane, sinister-looking characters have been monitoring her every move. Flippant private Read More
Actors: Michael Brandon, David Carradine, Arielle Dombasle, Guy Marchand, Mario Adorf
Synopsis: In this spy spoof and thriller, director Guy Hamilton seeks to renew the success he had with the James Bond thriller Goldfinger. The story (based on a novel by James Hadley Chase) concerns the efforts of the genial and deceptively tentative Lepski (Michael Brandon), an insurance company Read More
Actors: Stefanie Powers
Synopsis: Beryl Markham: Shadow on the Sun was a two-part TV movie originally telecast in May of 1988. Stefanie Powers is right in her element as the real-life Beryl Markham, an Englishwoman living in Kenya with her family. Bucking the male-dominated Kenyan social structure, Beryl becomes the first woman in Read More
Actors: Peter Bowles
Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, the Yeates have a carriage accident, and unfortunately for them, one of the injured victims is none other than the aptly named Oweneen the Sprat, one of the nasty "mountainy" men living in the hills. On Christmas Day, the Major's household receives a threatening note from the Read More
Actors: Leo McKern, Peggy Bates-Thorpe, Peter Bowles, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge
Synopsis: After a three-year hiatus, the internationally popular British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey returns for a third season of six hour-long episodes, which originally aired in the U.K. from October 11 through November 15, 1983. Leo McKern likewise returns as the equisitely slovenly barrister Read More
Synopsis: Season Two of the British legal comedy-drama series Rumpole of the Bailey serves up six new episodes, initially telecast by ITV1 from May 29 through July 3, 1979. First on the docket is "Rumpole and the Man of God", in which gloriously irreverent barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) defends a Read More
Synopsis: Three years after the property was introduced as a one-shot on BBC's Play for Today, the seriocomic British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey officially launched its first season of six weekly episodes on April 3, 1978. In the opener "Rumpole and the Younger Generation", iconoclastic barrister Read More
Actors: Patsy Garrett, Cynthia Smith, Allen Fiuzat, Ed Nelson, Art Vasil
Synopsis: In this outing, Benji finds himself on the loose in Athens. An international spy (Ed Nelson) places a secret oil formula within the folds of Benji's paw, and before the poor dog knows what's happening, he's being pursued through the ancient metropolis by a daunting variety of villains. Read More
Actors: Donald Sutherland
Synopsis: Following up 1975's Golden Bear-winning Overlord, director Stuart Cooper delivered this 1977 psychological thriller starring Donald Sutherland as contract killer Jay Mallory. When his wife goes missing, Mallory finds that his distress is starting to affect his work. The plot thickens when he Read More
Actors: Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver
Synopsis: Richard Matheson adapted the screenplay of The Legend of Hell House from his own novel. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, four people with alleged extrasensory powers are called upon to spend a weekend in a supposedly haunted house, to either prove or disprove the Read More
Actors: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Derek Newark
Synopsis: In The Offence, Sean Connery plays Johnson, a normally unflappable British police inspector who is emotionally shaken by a case of child molestation. For reasons he cannot explain, he is driven to kill the suspect while interrogating him and is suspended from the force. The incident leads to a Read More
Actors: Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Joan Hickson
Synopsis: The plight of an English couple struggling to raise a disabled child is given a darkly humorous treatment in this English comedy. Based on the successful stage play by Peter Nichols, the film centers on the parents of Jo, nicknamed "Joe Egg," a mentally challenged invalid subject to violent Read More
Synopsis: This mystery, adapted from an Agatha Christie story, tells the tale of an ambitious British chauffeur who marries his American employer, one of the richest women in the US and persuades her to buy a palatial country estate. She literally loves it to death and that is where all the real trouble Read More
Actors: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Jeremy Kemp
Synopsis: Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy who cried wolf, Ziggy has been known to stretch the truth and exaggerate. He is unable to convince the adults that he witnessed the killing. The murderous cops are soon on Read More
Actors: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret
Synopsis: The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl reporter Sonya Winter (Diana Rigg) tries to get the goods on shady businessman Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed). Ivan is in charge of a wide-reaching organization which, for a price Read More
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a painter finds himself entangled in a murder plot when he gets involved with a pretty girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Nicol Williamson, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Drouchet, Sheila Burrell, Sian Phillips
Synopsis: Set in London and the Riviera, Laughter in the Dark stars Nicol Williamson as Edward, a wealthy, knighted art dealer who falls hard for tartish usherette Margot (Anna Karina). She is kept by a glorified pimp (Jean-Claude Drouot), who conspires with the girl to take Edward for everything he's got. Read More
Synopsis: Several enemy agents escape from a top-security prison, determined to wreak vengeance against the persons responsible for their arrest. When two of Steed's friends are murdered by the escapees, he decides it is time to end the reign of terror once and for all. But the still-imprisoned leader of Read More
Synopsis: In this episode of the British television series The Prisoner, medical researchers at the Village have discovered a way to tap into the human mind and observe a person's dreams and sub-conscious thoughts. Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) becomes a test subject, and as he is unconscious, his Read More
Actors: Diana Rigg
Synopsis: Several notorious criminals have disappeared without a trace. Assigned to get to the bottom of this mystery, Steed and Emma discover that the miscreants have escaped capture with the aid of a time machine. This is the episode in which Emma, dressed in the "latest" 17th century garb, finds herself Read More
Actors: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Peter Bowles, John Castle
Synopsis: Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language production was also his only box office hit, widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his Read More
Actors: Vivian Pickles, Ken Russell
Synopsis: Not to be confused with the lavish 1968 biopic Isadora, the black-and-white Isadora Duncan was produced in 1966 for BBC television. Vivian Pickles stars as the free-spirited British ballet artiste of the post-World War I era, while an anonymous double handles the dance sequences. This 65-minute Read More
Actors: Diana Rigg, Jan Holden
Synopsis: Another classic "Emma Peel" installment, this episode was first telecast in England on December 4, 1965. A series of mysterious deaths in the upper circles of International Finance have caused a great deal of panic among investors. Hoping to locate the source of all the trouble, Steed and Emma go Read More
Actors: Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy, Sidney James, Una Stubbs, Peter Bowles
Synopsis: In this musical, two youngsters are thrilled to meet their favorite Italian movie star and end up spending a day squiring her about London. The star is a little eccentric and asks them to steal some hats for her collection. The star-struck youths agree until they learn that she wants a bobby's Read More
Synopsis: The British Dead Man's Chest comes to us from Merton Park Productions, the folks responsible for the long-running "Edgar Wallace" B-series. The story bears a striking resemblance to Fritz Lang's 1956 thriller Beyond Reasonable Doubt. To prove the fallability of circumstantial evidence, reporter Read More
Synopsis: Steed is assigned to transport a shipment of live corneas to Switzerland to be used in a delicate eye-graft operation. But when one of the surgeons involved is murdered, Steed and Cathy uncover a sinister plot involving a sightless millionaire (John Carson). Also figuring in on the proceedings is Read More
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